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Hello Friends of the Historic Lewes Farmers Market!
Saturday, August 12, 8 am - 12 pm
George H. P. Smith Park
Dupont and Johnson Avenues
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n case of Inclement weather,
the Market will move to Shields Elementary School Parking Lot,
just off the corner of Savannah Road and Sussex Drive.
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This Saturday is Beebe Healthcare and
Seniors Over 55 Day at the Market!
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In conjunction with Beebe Healthcare Day at the Market we are hosting, for the first time ever, "Seniors Over 55" Day. Festivities include a scavenger hunt with all completed entries going into a drawing for gift certificates donated by our vendors. Beebe Healthcare will be offering free health screenings, nutrition discussions and a cooking demo. All activities are free AND fun!
Here's the line-up of Activities:
8:30 am - 11 am Scavenger hunt for Seniors
9:00 am - 10 am Rita Williams Beebe Healthcoach--Nutrition Discussion
at the Demo Tent
9:00 am - 12 am Beebe Healthcare Screenings
10:00am - 11 am Chef Miguel from Beebe Healthcare-Cooking Demo
at the Demo Tent
10:00 am - 12 pm Bocce Lessons with Alicia and Kathy at the Bocce Courts
11:15 am Drawing for Scavenger Hunt Prizes.
(You do not have to
be present to win.)
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Two Historic Lewes Farmers Markets to Shop Locally!
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August 6-12 is National Farmers Market Week, so be sure to shop locally for all your favorite summertime foods and take time to thank the farmers and producers for all the bounty they bring to our farmers markets! Shop Wednesdays and Saturdays at HLFM!
Saturday: 8 am to noon, Historic Lewes Farmers Market at George H.P. Smith Park, Dupont & Johnson Avenues in Downtown Historic Lewes.
Wednesday, 8-11 am, Historic Lewes Farmers Market at Kings Highway, Crooked Hammock Way & Kings Highway (directly across from Crooked Hammock Brewery).
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At 9 am, Jennifer Noonan, the new Children's Librarian from the Lewes Public Library, will read
Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert. This book is ideal for sharing, and features a series of progressively longer tabbed pages that, when viewed together, create a rainbow of garden color to explore. Story Time is for ages 3 to 8, but children of all ages are welcome and encouraged to attend with their parents. This weekly program is a partnership with the Lewes Public Library and the HLFM. Story Time takes place at the tent near the playground at the park.
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Stop by the HLFM Info Tent to pick up our 2017 hot tomato red bag ... and it's just $3!
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FRESH at HLFM's Saturday Market
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- Anchor Nursery: Cut flowers including lilies + herbs + bouquets + onions + tomatoes
- Backyard Jams & Jellies: Ninety flavors of jams, jellies, and mustards. Tomato jam, Tomato Chutney + Tomato Hot Pepper Jelly - awesome on meatloaf!
- Baywater Farm: hydro-soil and soil-grown veggies including rainbow carrots, beets, cabbage, hot peppers, lettuces + heirloom tomatoes + cherry tomatoes
- Bella's Cookies: Natural & Organic Bakery specializing in healthy baked goods, Vegan & Gluten-Free items. Plant-based prepared food items also available
- Bennett Orchards: Not at Market this week
- Black Hog Farmstead: Swiss chard + 7 varieties of garlic + microgreens
- Chapels Country Creamery: Hand-made artisanal cheeses!
- Chinky Salt Oyster Co.: Oysters + clams+ blue crabs!
- Colchester Farm: Red and green cabbage +green and purple peppers + hot peppers + tomatillos + cilantro + potatoes + heirloom tomatoes - no synthetic pesticides or fertilizers
- Davidson's Exotic Mushrooms: Mushrooms galore!
- Earth Harmony Produce: Romaine + arugula + pesto + cut-flowers + tomatoes. pesticide, herbicide, & chemical-free growing practices
- Elysium Farm: pasture-raised, organically-fed pork, grown on a sustainable family farm. Pork chops, sausage, ham steaks, butt roast,
bacon, scrapple, and more
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Evans Farm: Sweet corn + squash + cucumbers + tomatoes + w
atermelon
- Ficner Farm: Sweet corn + broccoli + squash + cucumber + flower bouquets + tomatoes
- Fifer Orchards: Peaches + squash + sweet corn + tomatoes
- Fischers' Farm: Blackberries + apples.
- Fox Briar Farm: Squash + Swiss chard + arugula + tomatoes, grown with no artificial pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, or fertilizers
- Fresh Harvest Hydroponics: Tender head lettuces + arugula + wheatgrass + basil + cilantro + cat grasses and a variety of microgreens.
- Good News Natural Foods: Salads, soups, wraps -your favorite healthy foods to go including quiches, breakfast wraps, vegetarian lasagna, vegetarian bowls, two types chicken salad, carrot cake, black bean brownies and much more!
- Hattie's Garden: Tomatoes - cut-flowers including lisianthus, larkspur, bachelor buttons, and pink and lavender bell flowers. Scallions + patty pan squash + arugula and loose leaf lettuce + fresh-cut basil and parsley + heirloom tomatoes
- Herbs, Spice & Everything Nice: Fresh garlic + cut basil and mints + potted plants and herbs + tomatoes. USDA certified organic.
- Honey Bee Lake Apiary: fresh, local raw honey and beeswax candles and soaps
- Kalmar Farm: Watermelon + cantaloupe + sweet corn + green beans + red potatoes + tomatoes
- Lavender Fields: Lavender and herbs de Provence. Fragrant farm-made body care products from lavender grown on the farm and potted lavender plants
- Masterpiece Flowers: Unique and heirloom cut flowers grown sustainably. Potted succulents, potted herbs, mixed flower bouquets
- Nice Farms Creamery: Cream-line milk, butter, freshly- made yogurt, and really great ice cream from pastured dairy cows
- Oksana's Produce: Leeks + beets + butterhead lettuce + other pesticide-free veggies + fermented foods-sauerkraut & pickles + tomatoes
- Old World Breads: Breads, cookies, pies, crackers and quiches-all hand crafted in Lewes, DE!
- Pasqualini's Bakery: Fresh pastries hand-made in Rehoboth Beach!
- Reid Angus Farm: Dry-aged, natural, premium Angus beef-all cuts, plus Jerky for snackin'!
- Point Coffee House & Bakery: Enjoy your market shopping with a cup of freshly-brewed or iced coffee or iced tea at market.
- Springfield Farms: All cuts of lamb, sheepskins, ostrich feathers and yarns!
- Surf Bagel: Best bagels outside Brooklyn available at the HLFM tent
- Totem Farms: Red okra + cucumbers + leeks+ heirloom tomatoes + cherry tomatoes
- Twin Post Farm: Chicken and duck eggs every week!
For full list of all our farmers and producers visit https://historiclewesfarmersmarket.org/about/our-vendors |
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The Market provides a Veggie Valet service to help customers carry bags and melons (when they are in season) back to their cars. Please go the HLFM Information Tent if you need some help getting your bags to your car.
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Let Us Help You Carry Your Groceries to Your Car
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Win a Classic Cruiser Bike at the Market!
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We continue our tradition of holding an Annual Bike Raffle. This year we are giving away a bike that really celebrates the summer season--a 2017 Sun Revolutions 26" single-speed classic cruiser. This peach-colored bike has a very cushy saddle, and we've added a white basket for all that fresh produce, white streamers, and a classic bugle horn to announce that you have ARRIVED at market.
Tickets for the raffle are free, and the winner is drawn on Labor Day Weekend. In order to enter the contest all you need to do is fill out a ticket (allows you to get this newsletter) at the HLFM Information Tent. You can enter every Saturday you come to the market, so come often and your chances of winning get better.
If you just cannot wait for the drawing you can also purchase this beauty from Seagreen Bicycle, 209 Monroe Avenue, Lewes, DE.
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SNAP AND WIC AT THE MARKET
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The Market offers the SNAP (EBT Food Stamps) program at the Market. To help lower economic barriers to local, healthy food, the HLFM matches up to $20 each participant each week with HLFM Bonus Bucks. SNAP participants are encouraged to come to the SNAP tent at the Market to pick up the bonus $20.
In addition to SNAP, the Historic Lewes Farmers Market welcomes participants in Delaware's Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program. WIC coupons can now be used to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at the Market.
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Time's Running Short to Give Away What Others Might Like!
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The HLFM and the Greater Lewes Community Village (The Village) enjoy a special relationship based on a shared commitment to the well-being of people in the greater Lewes area and active community involvement. The Village members can request a ride to the Saturday HLFM by calling The Village at 302-703-2568 at least 3 days in advance.
We ask that you support the village and its 4th Annual Attic Treasure Sale, a unique and fun fundraiser! Support the Village two ways:
#1: Donate special items (sale donations are tax deductible) that you no longer need by taking items to the new sale location at 830 Kings Highway (the old Rise building) every Wednesday and Saturday 10:30 am to 1:30 pm.
#2: On the Day of the Annual Attic Treasure Sale, Saturday, September 2nd from 8 am to 3 pm, purchase that unique item, while enjoying a food and fun community gathering.
For more information, contact The Village Office at 302-703-2568 from 10 am to 4 pm Monday through Friday. We all need to support The Village, a very special community partner.
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SNAP and WIC at the Market
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The Market offers the SNAP (EBT Food Stamps) program at the Market. To help lower economic barriers to local, healthy food, the HLFM matches up to $20 each participant each week with HLFM Bonus Bucks. SNAP participants are encouraged to come to the SNAP tent at the Market to pick up the bonus $20.
In addition to SNAP, the Historic Lewes Farmers Market welcomes participants in Delaware's Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program. WIC coupons can now be used to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at the Market.
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Market calendar magnets, aprons and re-usable shopping bags
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Available at the Market Information Table. You can also sign up to receive our enews and indicate your interest
in volunteering!
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What's so special about the Historic Lewes Farmers Market!
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Our partnerships with other non-profits-this week it's Beebe Healthcare. Good health = eating local fruits and vegetables. It's a winning combo for our community!
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Throughout the season, look for Market Pairings of different vendor's produce, and watch this newsletter to find out more about the pairings.
Our weekly market e-news will let you know more information about our farmers and producers this season, tell you what new foods are coming to market and share seasonal recipes. Thanks for shopping at HLFM!
Our weekly market e-news will let you know more information about our farmers and producers this season, tell you what new foods are coming to market and share seasonal recipes. Thanks for shopping at HLFM!
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Do you love to shop at the Historic Lewes Farmers Market?
Would
you like to volunteer?
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Do you love to shop at the Historic Lewes Farmers Market? If so, perhaps you would consider joining our volunteer corps as the market could use your help. We treasure our volunteers at HLFM as the market is run almost entirely by volunteers. We could not operate without them. You decide when and how often you wish to volunteer.
For more information please contact
[email protected] and use the subject line: Volunteer. We look forward to hearing from you, if you can share some of your precious time volunteering at the market.
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Our weekly market e-news will let you know more information about our farmers and producers this season, tell you what new foods are coming to market and allow us to share seasonal recipes. Thanks for shopping at HLFM!
HLFM has a very active Facebook page where we post Market photos, activities, events you should know about and much more! Be our friend and share your photos and comments about the Market on our page.
Check out photos of the Market on Instagram or post yours to our page!
HLFM
P.O. Box 185, Nassau, DE 19969
Thank you,
The H
istoric Lewes Farmers Market Team
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