The Local Dirt: Discover Plant Parts at Kids's Day Saturday

September 8, 2017

Vol 12, Issue 30

Kids Activity this Saturday: Plant identification games!

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Join us this Saturday for our last kids activity day of the season with Joanna Sooper of Turnip the Heat Cooking School! We'll have two great games for our "market sprouts": First, the Plant Matching Game, where kids have to match pictures of plants with the fruit or vegetable on the board. And then, the " What Part of the Plant Is This?" game, where they identify produce items as fruits, flowers, leaves, stems, seeds or roots. They'll also be able to taste an example of each plant part. Kids activities will run from 9am to 12 noon.

Vendor News

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E xpect another summer-into-fall market mash-up this Saturday at your neighborhood farmers market. The peaches are at their season's sweetest and juiciest, and are waiting you by the box full at ProFarm Orchards and Maryhill Fruit Company. These are the last weeks to find green beans, cucumbers and berries in canning and pickling volumes as well, so don't miss your chance to stock the larder for the colder and darker months ahead.

And for those that are over summer's heat and all the intensity of fires, smoke and haze it's brought to our region recently you can look toward fall with crisp radish roots from Naked Acres Farm, luscious bunched greens from Winter Green Farm, fantastic fennel fronds at Persephone Farm, huge heads up broccoli and cauliflower from Deep Roots Farm, and roots upon roots upon roots from Sweet Leaf Farm.

Also back for this market are Cardamon Hills Trading Company, More Bees, and Thomas & Sons Distillery.

See you Saturday at the market!

Ecofilm Festival/HFM Fundraiser - September 29th

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Mark your calendars: the Portland Ecofilm Festival is returning to the Hollywood Theatre next month! Hollywood Farmers Market is proud to be the community partner for the Portland premiere of Island Earth . This documentary follows young indigenous scientist's complex journey through the GMO industry and ancient Hawaiian traditions to uncover a way of life that could save our future. The showing is on Friday, September 29th, and will be a fundraiser for our Double Up Food Bucks program. See here for more details on the film and to buy tickets.

Hollywood Farmers Market seeks board members

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Just a couple more weeks to get your application in to join the Hollywood Farmers Market Board of Directors in January 2018! Board membership is a terrific opportunity for farmers market lovers to become involved with this successful nonprofit farmers market. The Board welcomes applications from individuals enthusiastic about the Market, and especially those with backgrounds in the areas of community outreach, agriculture, communications, account/financial planning, human resources and marketing. See our website for more information, and to apply. Applications are due by Sunday, September 24th.

Lloyd Farmers Market - new Instagram account!

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Lloyd Farmers Market, our weekly Tuesday farmers Market in the Lloyd District, now has an Instagram account: @lloydfarmersmarket! Follow us there to see beautiful pictures from market day. To celebrate, we're running a photo contest on Instagram throughout the month of September. Just take a picture at the Lloyd Farmers Market on any Tuesday this month, and tag your photo with #LFMphotocontest to enter. The winning photographer will get $20 in farmers market tokens!

Speaking of photo contests, we had many lovely entries in our Hollywood photo contest last month. See below for the winners!

2017 Photo Contest Winners

Thanks to everyone who entered photographs in our 2017 photo contest, and congratulations to the winners!

1st place, @chantalangot

2nd place, @renovatiolucis