Beets, carrots, turnips, watermelon and daikon radishes, butternut squash, garlic, onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cabbage and farm fresh eggs are available at the market.
Sausage and meat can be found at Burnshirt Valley Farm,
Caledonia Farm, Pete & Jen's Backyard Birds West River
Creamery and WindSong Farms.
Fiber artist Gail Callahan spent years as a quiltmaker and weaver before turning to the art of dyeing. Now known as The Kangaroo Dyer, she teaches dyeing workshops throughout the country.
After writing her book, Hand Dyeing Yarn and Fleece, she created
the Color Grid�, a tool to help you 'choose color with confidence'.
She will bring her Poet Seat yarn.
There is still time to sign up for the "Extreme Double-Knitting" workshop with Alasdair Post-Quinn, which takes place from 1 to 4 PM on our third floor. Double-knitting is a unique method of making a fabric with no wrong side and a built-in reversible color work pattern. Sign up
online or Saturday, if space is still available.
Cold weather remedy; Grillo's Pickles new Dill Pickle Chapstick!
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Thea Coleman, wearing her Beekman Tavern sweater made with Cormo wool from Foxhill Farm.
Photo courtesy of The Rhinebeck Sweater Book
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One of the biggest fiber festivals in the country takes place
fiber producers who have made the festival the premier event it has become. Thea Coleman's 'Beekman Tavern' design was knit using Alice Field's Cormo wool from Foxhill Farm in Lee, MA.
We have been honored to have Alice participate in our Farm Fiber Days the last few years, and are pleased to see her recognized.
"Beautiful yarn is visual and tactile and it comes from
somewhere you know, from people who care and animals that thrive", says Alice. "Cormo is exceptionally luxurious, soft and bright but also long stapled which makes it versatile for different styles of yarn. We have five different Cormo yarns ranging from lace weight to Aran. The yarns are full of life, airy and bouncy.
The lace weight drapes beautifully and the heavier ones put
a definitive pop to cables."
Alice told us that someone had finished Thea's sweater,
made with her white Cormo wool, just in time to model it
for her at the first Farm Fiber Day in January!
Laura, The Cookie Lady, will keep us happy with her brownies, homemade marshmallows, petit s'mores, french macarons, sticky buns, hot chocolate, and cookies. Flavors will include shortbread, oatmeal cranberry, triple chocolate chip, chocolate orange, peanut butter chip, Red Velvet, and a gluten free Chocolate Lovers'.
Mark and Dorothy have their hands full taking care of the crowd that gathers at the Red Fire Farm display at the beginning of the market. As things mellow out later on, Mark is liable to appear with a pot of his famous Black Bean Stew (recipes will be available on Saturday) that he shares with anyone who would like some. Speaking of beans, Charley and Carol Baer will be on hand with their in depth collection of Baer's Best heirloom beans.
If you you are a fan of fiber and shopping locally,
wool grown, spun and woven from 34 farms from throughout Massachusetts, the blanket is available in seven sizes,
as well as scarves, bags and hand knit/felted items from
the blanket project yarn.
Sample Massachusetts farm wine from Coastal Vineyards (South Dartmouth), Mill River Winery (Rowley) and Turtle Creek Winery (Lincoln). Wine is available to purchase by the bottle.
Tina Whitney of Buttons, Strings and Things makes unique, handmade buttons from shed antlers and horns.
For those of you looking for them last week, BOLA is back!
Our thanks to Sharon and Bill Kerns from WindSong Farms in Harvard, for sharing their Tunis sheep with us, including recently born offspring. They will be located in the back parking lot of Russell's, near VESTA Mobile Wood-Fired Pizza.
If you would like some hot tea, Soluna Garden Farm can offer
you a dozen different flavors to be brewed on the spot.
Karma Coffee brings Ethiopian Harrar, regular and decaf.
Life Force Juice has juice and smoothies made from
vegetables and fruit.
Louise Walsh emailed to tell us that Evergreen Farm, her angora rabbit farm, will be featured on National Geographic's "Nat Geo Wild" Funny Farms episode at 2 PM this Friday. Her bunnies were a big hit here in January and they return on Saturday. Watch as Louise makes yarn directly from her rabbit to the spinning wheel.
Sarah will be cranking socks for Subito Farm on her
Erlbacher Gearhart knitting machine.
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Soul of India buffet
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