BLOOMING SINCE 1752
Saturdays 9am - 1pm
Centre Square, Easton, PA
EBT ACCEPTED - RAIN OR SHINE - DOG FRIENDLY
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Weeks like this remind us all of the harsh realities of farming. The shot above captures Farmer Nate Thomas of Breakaway Farms after moving his entire herd to fresh pasture in the midst of Wednesday's violent thunderstorm. Meanwhile, in Emmaus, Pheasant Hill Farm had their high tunnels punctured with golf ball sized hail. Our farmers go to great lengths to grow your food. Come show em' some love this Saturday.
#KnowyourFarmerKnowyourFood
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The Power of Produce (POP) Club is a farmers market-based children’s program, that offers children the opportunity to learn about seasonal, locally grown fruits and vegetables through fun activities. Our weekly activities range from cooking demonstrations to farmers market scavenger hunts, providing nutrition, food, agriculture, and exercise education. Participants are rewarded for each activity by receiving vouchers to spend at the market. This empowers kids by offering them authority to select and buy their own food from farmers and local vendors at the market.
Join POP coordinator Jenna Gavin this Saturday, for our Kickoff event: Produce Picture Journaling―learning to creatively track your daily fruits and vegetables. Log your first seasonal fruit or vegetable with Easton Farmers’ Market, and carry this practice home with your own customized Produce Journal!
Upcoming Club Events
Our upcoming events include interactive cooking demonstrations, fun & active fitness activities, hands-on gardening instructionals, recipe scavenger hunts, arts & crafts, and much more to come!
Who: Children Ages 4-12
What: Fun & Educational Market Activities
Where: Easton Farmers’ Market POP Tent
When: Saturday Mornings 9am-1pm
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Local Loyalty
VENDOR OF THE WEEK:
The Backyard Growers
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Last week shoppers voted The Backyard Growers their favorite vendor of the week! Richard Hafner and Ed Fulmer have been with the EFM for over twenty years. And during that time they've shared with all of us their green thumbs, good humor and immense wisdom for growing everything from rare plants to glorious flowers, and some seriously hot peppers! We've enjoyed their heirloom apples and their famed kiwi berries, and anybody who knows them, knows ya gotta get there early if you expect to get anything. Congrats guys!
Stop by the EFM info tent this week and pick up your free Local Loyalty Shopping List pad. At the end of the day, enter your list in our monthly prize drawing and you could win $50 in Market Tokens!
Congrats to our May Winner: PAM KRESGE!!!
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Spiralized Beetroot Noodle Salad with Orange Vinaigrette
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Beets and Arugula are already a match made in heaven. A zesty orange dressing and some sesame seeds give this dish an extra delicious twist!
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Your favorite organic fruit farmer, Pete Tischler returns to the circle this week. And that can mean only one thing... STRAWBERRIES!
The first picking of organic strawberries has finally started at Comeback Orchards after a few setbacks from weather and wildlife. Earliglo is not a huge berry, but it's huge on flavor, and farmer Pete's favorite. Small first crop, will sell out fast, but more next week.
Organic fruit butters will also be available.
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Fennel and cabbage are new on the table this week at Salvaterra's Gardens. Try this delicious recipe for
Roasted Fennel with Parmesan - from Giada DeLaurentiis.
And of course Matt & Jess will have their usual bounty of greens including Spring mix and head lettuce and arugula. Look for collards and kale, tender spinach, escarole, pak choy, hakurei turnips, scallions (great on the grill), beets, carrots and lots of fresh aromatic herbs - parsley, dill and cilantro.
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Cabbage Throw Farm
Herb Sale!
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Grilling season is officially in full swing and Cabbage Throw Farm is tossing you something new for your barbecue.
Grilled Bok Choy with herbs two ways:
Cut bok choy in half long ways and dress in olive oil and sea salt. Char on high heat and serve with your choice of dressing.
1.) Farm Chimichurri
Finely chop Cilantro, Parsley and Scallions in with olive oil and red wine vinegar. Season to taste with salt, pepper, crushed red pepper.
2.) Dilly Sauce
Finely chop dill into sour cream (or Greek yogurt), lemon juice, mustard, ground black pepper
***Special***
Culinary herb bouquets! Buy a bouquet of all four herbs for $9
The usual salad ingredients and cooking greens will also be available! #seeyouinthecircle
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Phillips Farm
Bring on the Berries!
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Strawberries, strawberries, strawberries! Who can get enough of these local berries? Phillips Farms will continue to have juicy ripe strawberries this week. Rhubarb is also available, so you might want to try your hand at some easy
Strawberry-Rhubarb crisp. Other items available at Phillips Farms: arugula; spring garlic; fennel; spinach; greenhouse tomatoes; apples; cider. This might be their last weekend with asparagus, so grab it while you can.
Pick-Your-Own Strawberries are available at the farm. Visit the Phillips Farms website for more information:
www.phillipsfarms
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New Vendor Debuts this Week
WELCOME
Holy Cow Farm!
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"We are so so excited to be selling our flowers at the Easton Farmers' Market for the first time this Saturday!! Though we live in and love our home town of Bangor, our connection to Easton runs deep. We both graduated with geoscience degrees from Lafayette College (class of 2011!). As students, we loved the community spirit of Easton, and especially the farmers' market. Jenn also has a long family connection to the city, including her grandfather who grew up in Easton and also went to Lafayette (class of 1951!). His love of growing flowers is an inspiration to Jenn everyday. We are so excited to "See you in the circle"!
-Bryan & Jenn McAtee
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This week's perennials include Agastache and Coreopsis. Annuals are Salvia and compact Dahlia. And featured for the first time, an unusual annual (perennial in zones 9 or 10) called Nolana (Chilean bellflower) with sky blue flowers! Nolana tends to creep and cascade,so it perfect for containers and hanging baskets. It's native to desert areas, so it doesn't need much water or care!
Also look for Calla Lillies, and veggie plants including tomato,bell pepper, cucumber and eggplant.
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Pheasant Hill Farm will have floral bouquets with Asiatic lilies, sunflowers, chantilly snaps and more for market this week.
Unfortunately Pheasant Hill got golf-ball sized hail Wednesday, and while all of their high tunnels sustained punctures and will have to be replaced, their flowers, herbs and berries weathered the storm!
PorTch Tea will have the usual favorite offerings of kombucha. And Don’s bound to have a twist on the hail theme.
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JUST BAKED
Sweet & Savory
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Rhubarb pies are still going strong at Tomblers... choose from hubarb crumb, rhubarb custard and strawberry-rhubarb, all made homegrown fresh picked organic rhubarb!
If you're looking for a savory treat, the pastie special this week is Shepards Pie. Homemade shepherd's pie filling and fresh lumpy mashed potatoes with butter and parsley, wrapped in a flaky pastry. All of Tomblers other 9 varieties of pasties will also be available. And don't forget spent-grain pizza crusts, pierogies, shortbread, cookies and more!
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Raspberry Ridge Sheep Farm
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Rob returns this week with a fresh batch of Camembaa cheese which is a soft sheep's milk cheese similar to the famous Camembert from France. He'll also have some hard cheeses and his creamy sheep's milk yogurt - a perfect accompaniment to the sweet local strawberries next door at Phillips Farm!
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This week, Valley Milkhouse is bringing its first spring batch of Blue Bell! This Stilton style raw milk blue is made from 100% grass fed milk and won a blue ribbon at the PA Farm Show for its exceptional flavor, creamy texture and toasty aromas. Stop by for a sample and bring a wedge home to crumble over your spring salad!
VMH will also be bringing a special experimental batch of Brie made with a blend of sheep and cow’s milk! This cheese has peppery notes and floral aromas. Beautifully paired with a drizzle of Pete’s honey!
Also in the lineup is Witchgrass, Thistle and Clover.
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They’re back!! Black n Bleu Grillers at Breakaway Farms! They only make this sausage once a year, folks... blue stilton, black pepper and sea salt... soooo good. Get it while you still can!!
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Farmstand Recipes
*VEGETARIAN
NEW SALAD ALERT! That's right folks, Chef Ada has done it again with the Highmark Farmstand's new Greek Farro Salad! Featuring a mouth-watering medley of cucumbers, roasted red peppers, sun-dried tomatoes and tangy feta cheese combined with herbs, greens, and farro. This light and refreshing salad is sure to become a summertime staple and a Farmstand Favorite. Let them know what you think!
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Fieldstone Coffee Roasters & Tea Leaf
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What a treat this week- Fieldstone is putting their Coconut Nitro Coffee on Tap! No cheating here either, meaning they don’t just add coconut milk or coconut syrup to make a Coconut Nitro. All craft on tap has no sugar added, dairy, or added calories in any way. It’s the good stuff.
Aloha Nitro Tea, House Cold Brew Flat and Coconut Cold Brew Flat growlers fills will also be on Tap!
Your Bubble Tea this week is Lavender with peach boba! Drink up!
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Teel's Hill Soapworks
Looking for a soap that will cool you off as the weather is heating up? Teel's Hill has three minty choices for you...
Summermint (spearmint and peppermint)
Wake Up (spearmint and rosemary)
Peppermint Stick (just peppermint)
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Collage Day with Peche Brown
It's "Collage Day" in the artist tent! Free Demos and your very own Make & Take Collage for $10. All materials you need are there and no previous experience needed. All ages welcome!
Be sure to check out our friends across the street at SmARTivities Showcase. ACE artist Maryann Riker will be at the SmARTivities Artist's Tent @ 60 Centre Square from10 am to 2 pm demoing one-sheet books that are mini-coloring books inspired by the fruits and veggies of the Easton Farmers' Market!
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What started out as an interest, became a hobby/obsession is now a small entrepreneurship. Rhonda Welz started off selling her succulent arrangements through a local gift shop. Now
Be Love Succulents takes private orders, often using other people's items to re-purpose them into unique and personal container gardens. Come check out some beautiful succulent arrangements in unique containers - pottery, cement art, metal art and more!
"It truly has been a gift to discover gardening. I learn something new all the time! It is soothing to my soul to feel the dirt in my hands and so fun to create pretty arrangements." - Rhonda Welz
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Vendor Absences for June 1st:
Doughnut Love
The Little Waffle
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Singer/songwriter Steve Brosky brings his award-winning brand of rock & roll, blues and folk music to EFM this Saturday. You will hear influences from blues, folk, Americana and world music and perhaps a flashback to his youth growing up in Allentown. So pull up a chair on the north lawn of the Circle to listen to Steve's unique musical style. In the Music Tent from 10 am to 12 noon
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Thank You to Our 2019 Sponsors
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Easton Farmers' Market is a program of Greater Easton Development Partnership
Phone: 610-330-9942
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