DFM Now Accepts
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The Durham Farmers' Market now proudly accepts SNAP benefits. To use SNAP benefits at the Market, please visit the Market info table at the center of the Pavilion.
We recently launched our Double Bucks Program which allows SNAP customers to receive double the amount of money they spend on tokens for purchases up to $10. We are working to raise $10,000 for this program. This will ensure the future funding of the Double Bucks Program. If you'd like to make make a tax deductible donation to the Double Bucks Program, please CLICK HERE.
The Market is working closely with RAFI as our fiscal sponsor. Read more about the program and our partnership HERE. Thank you to everyone who has already made donations to the Double Bucks program! We couldn't do it without you.
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| DFM's Farmer Foodshare Donation Station |
The Donation Station Program collects donations of fresh food and cash from customers at the Farmers Market. The money is used directly at Market to purchase food from farmers for those who are hungry in our communities. Farmer Foodshare's mission is to connect our local farmers with those who need food!
PLEASE come visit or volunteer at our Durham Farmers Market DONATION STATION! COME SUPPORT YOUR FAMERS.
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| NOW AVAILABLE AT MARKET |
PEPPERS
ASIAN GREENS
GREEN & RED TOMATOES
EGGPLANT
FRESH BAKED GOODS, including GLUTEN FREE
 RADISHES
CARROTS
SAVOY CABBAGE
 LOTS OF LETTUCE
ARUGULA
PASTURE RAISED MEATS COW & GOAT MILK CHEESES
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10% Campaign
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The 10% Campaign is a project of the Center For Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS). The campaign encourages you to spend 10 percent of your existing food dollars to support North Carolina food producers, businesses and communities. Why 10%? In North Carolina, we spend 35 billion dollars on food every year. If we spend 10% of our food dollars on local product, we can infuse over 3.5 billion dollars into the local economy. As avid supporters of the Durham Farmers' Market, you already know the many advantages to shopping locally. So, why join the campaign? It will re-affirm your commitment to shopping locally and it sends a strong message to policy makers about the importance of local foods! For more information visit: www.nc10percent.com
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Happy Halloween! Tomorrow, there may be a vendor or two still in costume, but nothing like last weekend! Thank you to everyone who came out and voted in our first ever Vendor Costume Contest. With your votes and dollars, we raised over $900 for our Double Bucks Program which helps customers using SNAP (formerly known as Food Stamps) benefits stretch their dollars a little further when buying fresh food at the Market.
And now the moment you've been waiting for - the winners of the contest... The common garden pests at Four Leaf Farm came in first place. The pirate at Little Tree Farm was a close second and the sheep running Stoney Mountain Farm's booth came in third! There were so many creative and awesome costumes. I can't wait to see what they come up with next year! Check out our Facebook page to see lots of pictures of vendors in costume.
Did you know that the timing of Halloween, which has all kinds of ancient, pagan roots as a holiday, is actually based on the solar calendar? October 31st is the (approximate) mid point between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. That means we are half way through fall. We've made it this far through the fall without having a frost. Which means the Market is still filled with a great mixture of summer and fall crops! Lush greens, jewel toned root vegetables, ginger and turmeric are right next to the remaining summer squashes, beans, corn, and eggplants. But, that might not last for much longer...
The forecast for this weekend is saying that the temperature may dip down to 32 at night here in Durham. That means that our farmers out in the countryside will likely experience colder nighttime temperatures and probably have the first frost of the fall. While it has felt like an extra warm fall for the past few days, this first threat of frost is pretty much right on target. The average first frost date in Durham County is October 24th with a 10-day deviation. Depending on how low the nighttime temperatures go this week, the market offerings could look quite a bit different next weekend. So, get your summer veggies while you still can!
See you at Market!
Erin, Emily-Kate, and Jenny
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Fresh this Week....
FRUIT: Passionfruit, Late Season Melons, Apples, Muscadine & Scuppernong Grapes, Pears, Raspberries
VEGETABLES: Arugula, Asian Greens, Green Beans, Butter Beans, Beets, Beet Greens, Bitter Gourd, Broccoli, Broccoli Raab, Cauliflower, Carrots, Collards, Corn, Chard, Cream Peas, Cucumbers, Dandelion Greens, Daikon, Eggplant, Fennel, Ginger, Herbs (Basil, Parsley, Sage, Thyme, Mint, Dill, Lemon Verbena, Oregano, Lavender), Garlic, Kale, Kohlrabi, Lemongrass, Leeks, Lettuce, Malabar Spinach, Micro Greens, Mustard Greens, Mushrooms (Oyster, Shiitake, Reishi, Tinderpolypore), Field Peas, Peppers (Sweet & Hot), Pumpkins, Okra, Onions, Pea Shoots, Popcorn, Potatoes, Purple Hull Peas, Radishes, Rutabaga, Savoy Cabbage, Salad Mix, Shallots, Scallions, Spinach, Sweet Potatoes, Summer Squash, Heirloom Tomatoes, Slicing Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes, Turmeric, Turnips, Turnip Greens, Winter Squash (Delicata, Buttercup, Kabocha, Spaghetti, Acorn, Seminole, Butternut) and more
MEATS AND EGGS: Pork, Rabbit, Beef, Lamb & Mutton, Bison, Chicken, Duck, Goat/Chevon/Cabrito, Veal
Duck Eggs & Chicken Eggs
CHEESES: Fresh and aged COW and GOAT milk cheeses.
PLANTS: Fall Mums, House Plants, Fall Vegetable Seedlings, Bedding Plants.
FLOWERS: Dahlia, Tuberrose, Gomphrena, Celosia, Zinnias, Mixed Bouquets
SPECIALTY ITEMS: Nut Butter, Gluten Free Baked Goods, Honey, Pasta, Flour, Cornmeal, Grits, Baked Goods including Pies, Breads, Cookies & Pastries, Fermented Foods, Beer, Wine, Jams, Jellies, Pickles, Preserves, Wool
CRAFTS: Pottery, Woodwork, Photographs, Baskets, Hand-dyed Clothing and other items, Handmade Clothing, Goats Milk Soaps, Body Butters, Lotions, Yarn, Roving, and much more...
Produce availability depends on weather conditions
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Meadow Lane Farm
Mario and I will be at the Market on Saturday with lots of fresh meats and vegetables. Dry-aged Angus Beef, Chevon (goat meat), Lamb, and Pork... all cuts are available.
Vegetables: green and yellow beans (LAST of the Season w/ the freeze coming!), SUNGOLD tomatoes, okra, eggplant, cucumbers, baby yellow squash and zucchini, butternut squash, acorn squash, purple sweet potatoes, BROCCOLI and CAULIFLOWER.
LOTS of heirloom pumpkins for eating and decorating... blues, tan or pie pumpkins, and much winter squash. They make delicious soups and pies.
Thank you for your continued support of our family farm!
Martha L. Mobley
919-495-1305
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Terra Clotha
By market time on Saturday, Halloween will just be memories of goblins and empty candy wrappers, but we still have a variety of colorful skull-themed T-shirts for the Day of the Dead (D�a de Muertos), which is celebrated through Sunday, Nov. 2.
T-shirts from Terra Clotha. Colorful and scary.
We're now on Facebook! Like our page at https://www.facebook.com/TerraClotha#!/TerraClotha and while you're there, find a 10 percent off coupon to use with your next Terra Clotha purchase.
[email protected]
www.terraclotha.etsy.com
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Chapel Hill Creamery
 We will have our mild sausages for sale this Saturday! We should have Polish, Bratwurst, Mild Italian, Breakfast, and ground pork. Our Bratwurst is used at the Little Dipper restaurant in Durham and that is chef Ben's favorite. Our favorite is the Polish unless of course we're making pizza or having breakfast. Come get your favorite along with some ground beef for chili, burgers, or meatloaf. Sausage comes from whey fed pigs and the hams are included in the mix for a heartier sausage.
We're featuring two cheeses Saturday: Danziger which is mildly stinky, good on a cracker or melted into polenta, and our New Moon which is a young, slightly tart Camembert style in a button shape. We are tweaking the recipe and have some that look a little different but taste delicious. One for $5.00 and two for $8.00. Serve as is or in a salad with apples or pears.
We will make Fresh Mozzarella every other week starting Saturday and it will be available along with Smoked Mozzarella,Dairyland Farmers,Carolina Moon, Hickory Grove, Calvander, our 5 month old Swiss, Pheta, and a very few Smoked Farmers this week. Use our cheeses for snacking or cooking with the great fall produce. Bon Apetit.
Portia McKnight & Flo Hawley
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Tiny Farm
PLEASE PRE-ORDER - bad weather possible. Tiny Farms has some beautiful Salanova Lettuces, and bunches of beautiful Kale, Chard and Collards. Spinach, too.
We will have our lettuces, salad mix, and arugula. A bags of spinach and bunches of beets will pop-up in the online store.
If you preorder via TinyFarmMarket.com this week , I will keep your greens orders in coolers, with ice, until you arrive to pick-up.
We have only two remaining memberships for our year-round, weekly box program (only $15/week), get your salads throughout the winter, TinyFarm.com for info. The hoops are full of many new and speciality vegetables.
Boxes will have carrots this weeks!
See you Saturday!
Mark and Chase, Annie is in Shanghai caring for her Mother.
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Fickle Creek Farm
Fresh this week: Grass-finished BEEF. ALL our livestock is raised without confinement on pasture/in woods. If you would like to have an order held for you at market, please click here.
BEEF - Fresh (never frozen), Jersey, grass-finished: ground, steaks (NY strip, ribeye, boneless sirloin, chuckeye, shoulder medallion, flank, flat iron), roasts (London broil, eye of round, chuck, sirloin tip), heart, tongue, soup bones, marrow bones, knuckles.
CHICKEN: whole broiler, half broiler, boneless skinless breast, French breast, leg quarter pairs, wings, livers, hearts, backs, necks, feet, wing tips.
LAMB - 100% grass fed: loin chops, rib chops, leg roast, shoulder roast, ribs.
PORK - pasture raised: ground pork, Boston butt, bulk sausage (chorizo, country, hot extra sage), link sausage (bratwurst, hot Italian), meaty neck bones, liver, kidney, fatback, leaf lard.
SOUP, STEW, STOCK (please pre-order): BEEF soup bones, marrow bones, knuckles; CHICKEN backs, necks, feet, wing tips; LAMB soup bones, riblets; PORK meaty neck bones.
ORGAN MEATS (please pre-order): BEEF heart, liver; CHICKEN hearts, livers; LAMB kidney; PORK liver, kidney.
PRODUCE - no synthetic chemicals - ever! Cabbage, GREENS (Chard, Collards, Kale, Mustard, Turnip), Eggplant, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Peppers (sweet yum-yums, Italian), Radishes, Sweet Potatoes, Cherry Tomatoes.
CHICKEN EGGS: mixed sizes, jumbo.
DUCK EGGS: mixed sizes.
http://home.mebtel.net/~ficklecreek/
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Little Tree Farm
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John of Little Tree Farm will be at the market Saturday with brown eggs fresh from our girls, homemade mustard and Peppers Pottery.
See you there.
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Hurtgen Meadows Farm
We'll have a beautiful new crop of sunflowers this week. Get them before the first frost does!
PRODUCE
Carrots, arugula, cabbage, sweet potatoes, collards, beets, red potatoes, peppers, fall squash, turnips, garlic, watermelon radishes and sweet onions.
FLOWERS
Sunflowers and dahlias
GOODIES
New from the kitchen this week are our apple products - apple jam, apple jelly, and apple butter. We also made a batch of grape jam.
CRAFTS
Ask about our eco-friendly snack bags and sandwich wraps.
All of Hurtgen Meadows produce, plants, and flowers are naturally grown using sustainable practices -no synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers are ever used on our farm.
We'll see you at the market!
Find us on Facebook and Twitter (@HurtgenMeadows)
[email protected]
http://www.hurtgenmeadows.com
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| Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farm
 Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farm will be at DFM on Saturday. Please stop by and check out the selection of delicious and nutritious bison meat available.
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Stoney Mountain Farm
We will be at the market this week-end!
Lamb We will have a cooler full this week-end. Roasting, grilling, ground, stew meat, Legs, shanks, racks...Num, Num, Num. Ask for our fab recipe ideas
Raising an Heirloom Breed of sheep Recognized by SLOW FOOD as a "flavor worth saving!"
Eco Friendly Wool Dryer Balls: A great gift idea! The gift that keeps on giving! Put an end to those chemical laden dryer sheets and softeners....
Yarn● Just In, gorgeous all natural yummy shades of sheep in worsted weights!!
Wool Etc! our gorgeous wool wreaths are appearing again and wool Christmas ornaments and pin cushions of a farm theme no less.
Pelts- a new shipment of beautiful, washable, pelts are here
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Ever Laughter Farm
 Have a fun and safe Halloween. And visit us the morning after for some sweets with nutritiousness: carrots, beets, sweet potatoes, and frost-nipped greens. We will have baby ginger and turmeric, green onions, pumpkins, triple-rinsed spinach, arugula, and salad mix. And we will have lots of sweet peppers! |
Bonlee Grown Farm
Amy's SAUERKRAUT is ready. APPLE BUTTER, FIG JAM, HOT PEPPER RELISH, BANANA BUTTER JAM, AND STRAWBERRY RHUBARB!! SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS, AND OKRA. ALOES, MOSES IN THE CRADLES, AND SUCCULENTS. COME RAIN OR SHINE!!! Thanks,
Amy and Ray Sugg 919-837-2937
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Flat River Nursery
 We will be at the market this weekend with Greenhouse tomatoes, herbs, cold crops, peppers and some field tomatoes.
Charles and Joan Holeman
1548 Holeman Ashley Road
Timberlake, NC. 27583
336-364-2460
flatrivernurseryandfarm.com
[email protected]
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Parking & Street Information
The Market is located at 501 Foster Street in and around the Pavilion at Durham Central Park. During Market hours, Foster Street is closed between Hunt and Corporations Streets.
Parking can be found on the street around the Market, in the Ballpark Parking Lot on Corporation Street and in the Measurement Inc lot, 423 Morris Street (look for the Durham Farmers' Market Parking sign). There is a path at the bottom of that parking lot that leads you to the Market. There are also public parking lots along Foster Street and on Morgan Street near the Carolina Theatre.
Handicap parking is available on Foster Street, right next to the south entrance of the pavilion.
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Durham Farmers' Market Animal Policy
Please note that the Durham Farmers' Market does not allow dogs or other pets in the Market area during Market hours.
Service animals are exempt from this rule.
Leashed pets are welcome elsewhere throughout Durham Central Park.
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