Kingfield Farmers Market returns Sunday, May 20

DavidB — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:44:10 +0000

Our 12th great year is just around the corner! All the market favorites will be back, including 14 produce vendors, Chef Shack, Sun Street Breads, Foxy Falafel, Gai Gai Thai, Love Tree Farms, Bogart Loves bakery, Singing Hills Goat Diary, Crema ice cream and Braucher’s Sunshine Harvest meats. (See the full list at our vendor page!)

What’s new for 2012? We hope to have a larger cafe area (shaded, we think!) plus new knitwear company Barn Swallow Garden and several markets with locally made Bliss Granola.

We’re also proud to be expanding our sustainability and social-justice missions. Our market will introduce composting and we’ll accept EBT (a.k.a. “food stamps”), providing matching money to make fruits and vegetables more affordable regardless of income.

We’re also providing assistance to six south Minneapolis “mini-markets,” helping them get fresh produce into under-served neighborhoods.

Joining our premiere sponsor Nicollet Ace Hardware, we’re thrilled to welcome new event sponsors Erik Brown Homes and EBT sponsors Pats Tap/Bryant Lake Bowl, along with the great businesses who have long supported us: Linden Hills Coop, Jardin Magico, Quality Coaches and Roadrunner Records.

Inquiries? Here are a few key email addresses:

Market manager E.J. Gurley (vendor requests, etc.): manager@kingfieldfarmersmarket.org

Board chair David Brauer: chair@kingfieldfarmersmarket.org

Volunteer: volunteers@kingfieldfarmersmarket.org

Interested in playing music at the market?: music@kingfieldfarmersmarket.org

Want to table for your community non-profit or cause? tabling@kingfieldfarmersmarket.org

Holiday Market: Sunday, Nov. 20

DavidB — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:55:15 +0000

Our final — and biggest — 2011 market of the year takes place indoors at King Park Center, 41st & Nicollet, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 20.

Happening the Sunday before Thanksgiving, it’s a great way to get some holiday shopping done early, while enjoying street food, baked treats and the final veggies of the season. Here’s the vendor line-up:

Produce
Peter’s Pumpkins/Carmen’s Corn
Uproot Farm
Bossy Acres
Cherry Tree House Mushrooms

Street Food
Chef Shack
Foxy Falafel
Gai Gai Thai

Meat/Cheese/Eggs/Fish
Sunshine Harvest Farm
Star Thrower Farm
Wild Run Salmon
Love Tree Farm
Singing Hills Goat Diary

Bakeries
Bogart Loves
Patisserie 46

Apples
Sweetland Orchard
Havlicek’s Orchard

Coffee/Chocolate
Moonshine Coffee
Palmira Coffee
Groveland Confections

Clothes/Jewelry/Crafts/Balms
PixieSpit
Sassy Knitwear
Sew Smiley
Second Chance Jewelry
Sallie Cole Botanicals
Worker B
Gwyn’s Soaps
Scarf Shop
Bright Sun Candles

Honey/Syrup/Canning/Granola
Beez Kneez
Walsh Ridge Farm
Davidson’s Farm
Bliss Granola
Hazelwood Creek Farms
Martha’s Joy

Also, music will be provided by the great Roe Family Singers.

For more information, please email manager@kingfieldfarmersmarket.org.

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The Kingfield Farmers Market (outdoor version) will be back on Sunday, May 20, 2012. You can find some of our 2011 vendor line-up here.

We open at 8:30 a.m. and close at 1 p.m. at our 4310 Nicollet site. The outdoor market goes through the final Sunday in October.

For more information or to volunteer, email manager@kingfieldfarmersmarket.org.

Also, we have a Saturday market in the Fulton neighborhood, 49th & Chowen, also from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The 2012 dates are May 19-Oct. 27. See fultonfarmersmarket.org for info.

And please follow us on Twitter at @kingfieldmarket and @fultonmarketmn, or on Facebook at Kingfield Farmers Market and Fulton Farmers Market.

Of course, this all wouldn’t be possible without our rockin’ neighborhood sponsors, including dozens of you, our premier sponsor Nicollet Ace Hardware and Jardin Magico, France 44 Wine & Spirits, Quality Coaches and Linden Hills Co-op! Thanks to everyone!