BLOOMING SINCE 1752
Saturdays 9am - 1pm
Centre Square, Easton, PA
EBT ACCEPTED - RAIN OR SHINE - DOG FRIENDLY
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Strawberry Day is one of our favorite days of the season. Come celebrate Spring's sweetest gift with us this Saturday. Our vendors are pulling out all the stops with everything from shortcake and smoothies, to strawberry balsamic sausage! And of course you'll find plenty of just-picked berries! Don't miss our pick-a-berry-discount at the EFM Merchandise Tent, the Merchants Bank Strawberry Selfie Station, Free Face Painting with SmARTivities, a Strawberry Chef Demo, Live Music, Local Libations and More. It's gonna be a berrylicious day in the circle!
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Strawberries Three Ways
Featuring
Chef Amanda Cox
10:30 am
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When it comes to cooking seasonally and celebrating local ingredients, Chef Chef Amanda Cox is one of the best. Join her as she works her culinary magic, preparing strawberries, three ways:
Appetizer: Pan seared Foxtail Feta from Valley Milkhouse with Stagecoach Apiaries knotweed honey, roasted strawberries and herbs with warmed sourdough bread from Apple Ridge Farm
Cocktail: Weyerbacher 'Rico Guave' sour ale beer cocktail with muddled strawberries, gin from Social Still and mint
Dessert: OWOWCOW Strawberry Basil ice cream (Basil ice cream with Trauger's Farm Strawberry balsamic swirl) and housemade Shortcake (flavor available in all Owowcow shops starting June 8!) and vanilla whipped cream
Enjoy samples while they last!
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Join us this Saturday, for our Strawberry Day event:
Hands-on Strawberry Salsa with Chef Ada Chandler
― learning new recipes with seasonal fruits! Plus other fun activities celebrating Springtime's favorite fruit!
Who: Children Ages 4-12
What: Fun & Educational Market Activities
Where: Easton Farmers’ Market POP Tent
When: Saturday Mornings 9am-1pm
For More Information,
Email: Jenna@eastonpartnership org
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Local Loyalty
VENDOR OF THE WEEK:
Cabbage Throw Farm
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Last week shoppers voted Cabbage Throw Farm their favorite vendor of the week. Emily Stocker and Dean Buttacavoli are new farmers who are quickly making their mark at EFM. They are always surrounded by their super-supportive family (their groupies) who proudly peruse the market clad in Cabbage Throw t-shirts. And about that name... it turns out Buttacavoli actually means "cabbage thrower" in Italian!
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. And don't forget to vote for your favorite vendor!
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Roasted Strawberry
Sheet Cake
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Loaded with 4 lbs. of luscious strawberries and complimented with almond extract, this award-winning cake may be your new summertime favorite!
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Phillips Farm
Strawberry Central!
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Join in the Strawberry Day excitement this weekend with delicious local strawberries from Phillips Farms. Strawberries are now in peak season, which means the juicy ripe berries are at their
best. Don’t miss out, they won’t be around much longer.
Also available at Phillips Farms this weekend are those rare items only found at local farmers markets: fresh Spring Garlic and Garlic Scapes! And an Easton Farmers' Market first... tender English shelling peas (already shelled)! Top these with a pat of cultured butter from Valley Milkhouse and you'll be in veggie heaven!
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Veggies are picking up steam at Scholl Orchard as their tables become more abundant each week. Look for beautiful heads of cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower, sugar snap and snow peas and the asparagus continues... get it while you still can!
Cherries are coming soon, but for now there are still plenty of apples and pears.
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In case you missed it last week, Cabbage Throw Farm will have broccoli and broccoli rabe for the last time this season (until fall)!
New arrivals to the table this week include escarole, frisée and romaine.
In celebration of Strawberry Day, Cabbage Throw Farm has tossed together a delicious Strawberry salad recipe using their spring mix. The spring salad mix is made up of 5 of their favorite lettuce heads. Make sure to stop over at their neighboring tent, Comeback Orchard for a pint or two of Organic Strawberries. Top off your salad with a delicious cheese from Valley Milkhouse and a quick red wine vinaigrette!
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Comeback Orchards
Organic Strawberries
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Strawberry Fest wouldn't be Strawberry Fest without strawberries, right? ( Farmer Pete still dreams of Brussels Sprouts fest). Organic strawberries are in at Comeback Orchards and tasting great. Peter is still picking Earliglo, the farm favorite. It's a replants year for the strawberry beds at Comeback, so the crop is small and a little late, get there early, these sold out super early last week.
NOTE: Farmer Pete planted 4,000 strawberry plants last fall and the Voles ate 3,500 this winter. He replanted 3,500 this spring. :-(
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Jenn & Bryan will have the last of their big, beautiful Spring foxglove this week and the start of the Asiatic Lilies. Summery flowers are on the horizon very soon and that means a "build-your-own-bouquet" station at EFM!
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The new items this week will include: canna, perennial salvia (rose colored flowers), and gaura (white flowers).
Gaura is a native of the western gulf coast, mainly Texas. It produces strings of white flowers (blooming from the bottom up) on thin stems that tend to wave in the breeze. As a result, gaura is sometimes called wandflower. It grows best in well drained soil (doesn't like to be wet) in full sun, and oddly, does better in poor soil than in rich soil. It is drought tolerant and more importantly, deer resistant!
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Pheasant Hill Farm will have some pretty calla lily bouquets this week, along with Asiatic lily bouquets with regular and chantilly snapdragons, alliums and more.
Don’s PorTch Tea offerings will feature the gems of the season.
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Tomblers Bakery
The Market's Exclusive Source for PIES!
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Tomblers is your GO TO spot at the market for Strawberry Pies. They're
made from fresh local strawberries from Mikes Produce, and oh sooo delicious! Look for plenty of Strawberry Rhubarb pies too.
This weeks Pastie Special is Chicken Spinach Cheese.. all white meat chicken, spinach, potatoes, onion and creamy Cooper cheese. All in the "Mini" size. Great for lunch or a quick snack.
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Doughnut Love
Doughnut Strawberry Shortcake
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The Doughnut Love family was busy this week picking fresh berries at Seiple Farms - for their Strawberry Day Doughnut creations!
You'll find several berrylicious doughnuts this week including... Doughnut Strawberry Shortcake: their vanilla cake doughnut, bursting with fresh strawberries, topped with a homemade strawberry compote & cinnamon whipped cream!
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Strawberry-Cheese danish, strawberry pistachio tarts are just a few of the berry sweet treats you'll find at the market this Saturday. :)
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Sycamore Grille
Hello Shortcake
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It's no secret that a lot of folks come to Strawberry Day just to indulge in Sycamore Grille's famous Strawberry Shortcake! Made with their house-made shortcake, loads of fresh-picked berries, and mounds of whipped creme - it's hard to beat! Wash it down with a strawberry lemonade and your day will be complete!
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Valley Milkhouse
Butter's BACK!
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Butter, Foxtail Feta and raw aged goat cheese at VMH!
This Saturday, VMH will have its own, slow-churned, grass fed organic CULTURED BUTTER! You can email
valleymilkhouse@gmail.com to place your advance order to pick up on Saturday. Butter is $10/lb and comes in 1-lb portions which can be frozen for several months. (The next butter churn will be in about a month's time, so this is a good chance to stock up). VMH is also bring back its Foxtail Feta, a raw milk, Bulgarian style feta that is extra tangy and creamy - a perfect pairing for the season's strawberries. Dove Song Dairy's raw milk aged goat cheese will also be making an appearance - come by for a sample!
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Breakaway Farms
Whoa - Beer Brats, Keto Bacon and Strawberry Balsamic Sausage!
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This week Breakaway Farms rolls out the latest & greatest as they feature
BEER BRATS made with Fest Beer from
Two Rivers Brewing Co... also look for their all new
KETO BACON... this one is sugar free & uncured! Calling all “keto-ers”!!
Also
BLACK N’ BLEU SAUSAGE has been ramped up this week with more black pepper, more blue cheese, & sautéed onions for a sweeter finish.
And last but not least...
In celebration of Strawberry Day, Farmer Nate made a batch of
STRAWBERRY BALSAMIC SAUSAGE with homegrown strawberries from Dad’s garden! It doesn’t get much better than this! Come see your farmers at market this week for meat you can trust!
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Farmstand Recipes
*VEGETARIAN
NEW PRODUCT ALERT! Strawberry Day is finally here and boy does the Farmstand have some treats in store! Chef Ada has worked her kitchen magic to create a new Sweet and Sassy Strawberry Salsa! This salsa features fresh local strawberries from Phillips Farms with a spicy kick of jalapeños. Pair it with Chef Ada's house-made cinnamon churro chips and you'll be on your way to tastebud heaven!
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This week Lobynn Cha is featuring a special bokchoy kimchi using Cabbage Throw Farm's organic bok choy!
The dumpling flavors of the week are:
- spinach & kale (limited supply)
- Chicken
- Veggie & Egg
- Beef & Kimchi
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Aladdin
Middle Eastern Specialties
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It only makes an appearance once a year... Aladdin's strawberry baklava! And back by popular demand this week, Syrian Coleslaw.
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Fieldstone Coffee Roasters
& Tea Leaf
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Fieldstone is in Strawberry heaven! Here’s their lineup: Rasta Nitro Tea on tap (made with Kiwi and Strawberry), Strawberry Bubble Tea with Blueberry Boba, Organic Strawberry Green Tea, and tons of loose leaf Organic Green Strawberry tea.
On tap they will be pouring their Coconut Nitro, Flat Coconut and House Cold Brew Coffee - Pick up a growler!
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Teel's Hill Soapworks
You will not find strawberry soap at Teels Hill Soapworks but Susan does have a smorgasbord of soaps. Choose from Absolutely Vanilla, Bacon, Beer, Cocoa Fudge, Coconut Chamomile, Creamsicle, Espresso, Ginger Snap, Green Tea, Lemon Lime, Milk and Honey, and Peppermint Stick. Also Cocoa Fudge Soap Pops!
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Aaliyah Octavia Kee
ACE Artist on Call: Aaliyah Octavia Kee will offer an acrylic painting project featuring an adorable strawberry for just $5. Come join her and view her incredible work.
All materials you need are there and no previous experience necessary! All ages too. 100% Sponsored by the Arts Community of Easton - ACE.
PLUS FREE FACE PAINTING WITH SMARTIVITIES!
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Look for Jesse's Mobele Knife Sharpening Serviceparked in front of the Crayola Experience. He'll be ready and waiting to sharpen your garden tools, mower blades, scissors and more!
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Mud & Maker
Fun, Funky and Functional Handcrafted Pottery
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LOCAL LIBATIONS
Welcome Weyerbacher AND Social Still!
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On June 15th, 4-9pm Weyerbacher Brewing is celebrating 24 years of crafting beers! Join them for a Latin-flavored fiesta, special release beers, firkins, bull rides, body art, live Latin music, amazing food & fun vendors!!
This Saturday at the market they'll be featuring Riserva,Merry Monks, Mellow Monks,
Last Chance, Warborn, and Sexy MotherPucker. Stop by for sample or grab some beer for the weekend. Don't forget, Father's Day is next weekend - hint, hint!
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This will be Social Still's first time at the Market! Stop by and give them a warm welcome and sample their PA-made spirits.
They'll be featuring:
- Smooch (Strawberry Kiwi Vodka)
- Vodka
- Gin
- The Vault (Straight Bourbon)
- Sasquatch (Vanilla Maple Bourbon)
- Deep Cut (Rye Whiskey)
Visit their micro distillery and kitchen is Bethlehem for dining, tours, tasting and more!
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Bob Keel hails from West Virginia and plays venues in the DC area, Virginia , Maryland and Pennsylvania. He has become an EFM Music Tent favorite since his debut performance in 2017. Bob also has many fans in our local area and will be playing this weekend at our Local Libation friends: ShawneeCraft Brewing in the Poconos on Saturday night, and Weyerbacher Brewing Co. in Easton on Sunday. Bob's original music is influenced by a broad range of music genres, from classical, to hip hop, to folk. So pull up a chair on the north lawn of the Circle from 10 am – 12 noon and have a listen to Bob's 'West Virginy' sound!
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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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