Mid-Town Farmers’ Market – Saturday Preview (for July 13, 2013)

Mid-Town Farmers’ Market fans and customers,

The market continues this Saturday, July 13th (7-11am), and below are the expected vendor highlights:

• McCullar Orchard will have peaches
• Cherry Creek Orchards will also have peaches
• The Original Grit Girl will have grits, corn meal, masa and polenta
• Zion Farms will have chicken, pork, and eggs
• Welcome Valley Farm will have field tomatoes, snap beans, squash, potatoes, onions, and okra
• Cathy Field will have rosemary focaccia, olive with parmesan cheese focaccia and basil pesto with goat cheese and tomato focaccia; and almond and chocolate biscotti
• Brewer Farm will have squash, red potatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, onions, peppers
• Rico Farm will have blueberries, blackberries and peas
• Pontotoc Ridge Blueberry Farm will have blueberries, blackberries, a few figs, jellies, jams, and pies
• Bost Farm will have tomatoes, purple-hull peas, okra, watermelon, cantaloupes, Ambrosia sweet corn, Rattlesnake green beans, squash, cucumbers, potatoes,  eggplant, bell peppers, hot peppers, and zinnias
• Yokna Bottoms Farm will most likely have onions, potatoes, garlic, tomatoes, fresh flowers, herbs and maybe more blackberries
• Sherry @7D Farm will have scones, blueberry bread, peach cobbler, grits pies, monster & cranberry cookies and the following breads: cinnamon, whole wheat, cracked wheat, whole wheat with quinoa, oat, farm house white, focaccia, challah and garlic studded baguettes
• Bryan White will have honey
• Jonathan Jernigan will have shrimp
• Sunlight Springs Certified Organic Produce will have rattlesnake green beans, squash and zucchini, shiitake mushrooms, some cucumbers, tomatoes and yellow wax beans along with other miscellaneous items.

We will have live music this week (from ~8-10 on Saturday) from Paula Miller. If you enjoy the music, please continue showing your support for the musicians with a tip (or some produce), as Mid-Town Farmers’ Market is not the most lucrative gig. 🙂  Check out our full music lineup for the first half of the season here: http://www.mtfarmersmarket.com/

The Wednesday market will continue next week, running 8am to 1pm. Please note that during the Wednesday market hours, our vendors may arrive or depart any time, depending on availability of their product.

You can receive an update similar to this one each week on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/mtmarket), along with additional content such as photos and videos from our vendors and from the market itself.

Did you know that Bost Farm can accept EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfer) for payment?  If you know anyone who receives food benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly the Food Stamp Program), please let them know that they can now use EBT to purchase fresh healthy food at Mid-Town Farmers’ Market.

We need volunteers to help at the market tent this summer.  If you are interested in helping, please contact our volunteer coordinator Betty Crouther (arpate@olemiss.edu).

If you know of a vendor who is interested in selling at Mid-Town, please point them to our website (http://www.mtfarmersmarket.com/) where the application documents can be downloaded, or give us their contact information so we can mail the documents to them.

Directions to the market: From the Oxford Square, drive (or walk or bike!) north on North Lamar about ½ mile, and look for us on the left in the parking lot of the Mid-Town Shopping Plaza. Alternatively you can take the bus, utilizing the Oxford University Transit Red Route, which passes Mid-Town once per hour on Saturday mornings (http://www.oxfordms.net/visitors/transit/bus-routes-a-schedules.html).

See you at the market!

Best Wishes,
Aileen Bost
Mid-Town Farmers’ Market board member