Two friendly people who are supportive of Oxford Farmers Market Uptown’s mission to “grow farmers.”
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Calamity Rain
All the way from here to a Wisconsin steam train and back, Oxford Farmers Market Uptown sweatshirt cultivated community…
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Ways to Support Local, Healthy Food on Care2:
• Promote the contest to help your farmers market win!
• Try our farmers market cooking show recipes
• Sign the petition to end the overuse of antibiotics on healthy farm animals!
Across America, there’s a revolution afoot – and it’s a delicious one! In rural, suburban and urban communities alike, people are turning to their local farmers markets for fresh, healthy and affordable food. And over 50,000 people have already voted in the “Love Your Farmers Market” contest!
You are helping to build this movement, one vote at a time. Consider yourself a local food revolutionary! Please spread the word about your farmers market to build support and help them win our contest:
http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AFov1/zJJl/bHSZp
Congratulations to the markets that have already won weekly prizes!
• Forsyth Farmers Market in Savannah, GA
• Gurnee Park District Farmers Market in Gurnee, IL
• Belen Farmers Market in Belen, NM
• Pearl Farmers Market in San Antonio, TX
It’s easy to spread the word to help your farmers market win and generate buzz for your market in your community to help your local farmers. Visit your contest promo page to post a link to Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, send a fun eCard, grab web banners to post, download flyers to print and send emails to friends.
Have some fun in the kitchen after the market: Some Care2 employees got together with our friend Jen Dalton, organic home cook and slow food organizer, to produce a fun series of YouTube cooking shows with fresh food from our local farmers market. Six simple and delicious recipes are already up – check them out: http://www.youtube.com/user/FarmFreshCook
Care2 is partnering with LocalHarvest.org, America’s most popular website for finding food grown close to home, to raise awareness of local foods, family farms, and community farmers markets through this fun, summer-long contest. Thank you for voting and for supporting your local farmers market!
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Thanks to patrons of Oxford Farmers Market Uptown, our “Cultivating Community” byline thrives!
EVERYTHING a market could ask for here today:
weather held out till after market, enthusiastic market manager played music to attentive children/crowd and was flanked by an enthusiastic assistant market manager, flowers, vegetables, bedding plants for buying customers, organic produce, security officers occasionally at market…we’ve got it all!
Thanks, Happy 4th and safe travels.
In a creative flurry, Sprouts used the sites and sounds of the market to inspire stories worthy of the Pulitzer.
Caroline Cooks Carrot Cake: by Kiefer
One spring morning, Caroline who is six, planted a little tiny carrot seed. Then the carrot grew bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger, until it was huge and humongous. Then she made carrot stew all day. The other day, she made carrot pie, carrot cake, and carrot enchiladas. The End.
Tasty Goodness: by Alysse
The pretzels at Ghyslains are yummy, cinnamon goodness. They’re good breakfast items and are really good.
Here Comes Wrenchhopper: by Logan, Assistant to the Market Manager.
Wrenchhopper is a metal bug. It was made by Ted Moore. He found it in a scrap pile in a barn. It is not as ferocious as it looks. It is made of a monkey wrench, wrenches, double-boxed wrenches, ball bearings and a wire. Ted Moore starting making metal creations in the 70s. Wrenchhopper took two hours to make and sells for $90.
A Little Pig Tells me what the Cookie is Made Out Of: by Anna
One day, Annie’s cousin Jessie, was in Florida while Annie was feeding the baby pig with a bottle. Then the pig said “There’s a cookie that has sugar, veggie oil, two eggs, cinnamon, and flour!!” Jessie was babysitting Annie when the pig said this. The pig made the cookie himself in the oven. His favorite food was milk and cookies. The pig’s name was Max. Then Annie said “Hey! Pigs don’t talk!” And Jessie said, “Mine does!” Then Annie asked the pig if she could have a bite of the cookie! And he said no. The End
From: greenp1
Karen Baldwin of Tapaahasia Farm and Oxford Farmers Market Uptown manager, Larry Slocum, share a moment of exhaustion after another great Summer Season Saturday morning with 30 farmers/bakers/artists, music, cooking demos, baby chicks, SPROUTS for children, and hundreds of “Friends of Market galore!
Thanks, Oxford and surrounding area for your support of fresh/local/seasonal – and your community.
Gardeners from Oxford Community Arts Center had such a wonderful time at the market this week! Baby chicks, delicious pastries, robust tomato, pepper, and basil plants, and Harv’s lettuce were just a few of the items which caught the attention of our young gardeners. “We thoroughly enjoyed our visit and I would like to thank everyone at the market for making the experience so wonderful,” chimed Mary Keppler, who is making Gardeneering workshops for kids happen at OCAC.