Labor Day Eats, a Funky Fest and New Vendors!

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Labor Day Eats and a Funky Fest!

We are so psyched for Saturday! Number one, it's a holiday weekend and the market is bursting with every tasty morsel you can possibly fit in a picnic basket. Number two, we've got a ton of guest vendors joining us - literally every singe space on the map is filled! And number three, we're gettin' funky with some amazing foods and experimental beverages (think coffee kombucha), lots of fun activities (a Kraut Mob and Probiotic Petting Zoo to name a few) and cool informative talks and live music. Come kick off September with us - did we mention the weather is going to be spectacular, and we've got new EFM merch coming out?!

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Market Map - September 2nd

Funky Ferments Fest

Funky Talks (on the Hillside)

Delicious Decomposition - cooking, cultivation & nutrition (Matthew Sicher, Primordia Mushroom Farm) 9:30 am

Wild mushroom foraging (Jeff Mertz, Wildspawn Mushrooms) 10:15 am *Wildspawn will also be vending at the market.

Ins and outs of Fermentation (Erik Sink, Untamed Ferments) 11:00 am

Fermented Peppers - Make your Own Hot Sauce (Art Sktzenski, Easton Salsa Co.) 11:45 am

Kraut Mob! (and Kimchi Station)

Presented by Cabbage Throw Farm

Get your hands in the funk! Make your own sauerkraut or kimchi, jar it up and take it home at this fun DIY station.

Organic cabbage provided by Cabbage Throw Farm (but of course)! 9am - 1 pm

Kombucha Contest, Tasting & Talk

with Don Devault of Portch Tea

Considering making your own booch but need a few pointers? Tune in for Don Devault's talk at 10:30 am (adjacent to the Portch Tea stand)

Kombucha Homebrew Contest - 11:00 am

Think you've already got what it takes to rein the Kombucha King or Kween or something in between? Enter your homebrewed booch in our contest. Prizes will be awarded for Judges Choice and People's Choice. Get all the details and sign up here!

Prefer to sample the booch? Stop by and taste the entries and vote for your favorite in the People's Choice contest.

Kids Fermentation Station

Presented by The Cultured Club

What will you find? Let's start with a Probiotic Petting Zoo where families can touch and feel live kombucha scobys! And how about a Yummy for My Tummy Storytime & Tasting featuring - an interactive experience where kids will explore the foods in the book through tasting samples of kombucha, sourdough, milk kefir, beet kvass and pickles! Plus a funky art area for the kids with coloring sheets, dry erase activity placemats and a temp tattoo 'parlor' with eco-friendly veggie themed tats.

FIY Book Table

With Book & Puppet Co.

Book & Puppet Co. is joining us this weekend! Shop their FIY (Ferment-It-Yourself) book-table, and support the Fifth Annual Easton Book Festival, coming October 19-22! Book sales underwrite author visits to Easton schools.

Funky Special Guest Vendors

Pocono Apiaries (try the Hibiscus Honey or the debut of Hibiscus Honey Cold Brew!)

Wildspawn Mushrooms (try the mushroom jerky and check out the Lion's Mane Brain Train serum)

Highpoint Kombucha - Laura Valasakos puts so much love into her kombucha. Stop by and try one of her many inspired flavors. More...

More Funk...

Culture Swap Table - Bring your scobys, sourdough starters and vinegar mothers and swap with other funky friends. Please be sure everything you bring is clearly labeled.

Snap a Selfie with Mr. FunGuy - our happy little mushroom who will be strolling the market!

Looking for Scobys to start your booch? Portch Tea and Highpoint Kombucha will both have scobys available.

Mushroom Stickers at all the INFO tents!

Market Music - Presented by Martin Guitar

This Week: Ceviche

11:00 am - 1:00 pm on Stage

These guys put the FUN in funky and we're pretty sure you're gonna love them! Ceviche plays current and classic cover reimagined under the influence of jazz.

Fresh Picks

From the Fields

Holy Cow Flower Farm

Cabbage Throw Farm

Certified Organic

Cabbage Throw Farm is always ready to get funky! For funky ferments, they will bring loads of both green & Napa cabbage, ready to be fermented into kraut or kimchi. Other veggies that love pickling include green beans, beets, carrots, kohlrabi, red onions, hot peppers and tomatoes! It may be one of the last weeks of big heirloom tomatoes but many plum and san marzano tomatoes continue to ripen. (Please reach out via email if interested in a bulk order of saucing tomatoes.)

Additional produce available includes shishito peppers, sweet & hot peppers, eggplant, melons, shallots, garlic, yellow onions, basil, microgreens, and Comeback Farm's organic fruit.

Phillips Farms

Find all of your Labor Day holiday favorites at Phillips Farms. Delicious green Himrod Grapes will make their appearance this week. Produce available at Phillips this week include: Sugar Cube and regular cantaloupe, seedless watermelon, peaches, nectarines, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, grapes, new crop apples, Jersey tomatoes, corn, zucchini, green beans, cucumbers, eggplant, red bell peppers, carrots, lettuce, kale, beets, onions, garlic, fresh herbs and more.

Salvaterra's Gardens

Certified Organic

This week's highlight is sweet peppers! They are late to ripen this year but boy are they big, beautiful and delicious!! Look at these beauties!

The full line-up features: lettuce mix, spicy European mesclun mix, arugula, tuscan, green kale, and red kale, collards, chard, red and green leaf, scallions, carrots, parsley, dill, cilantro, slicing tomatoes (red and yellow), cherry tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, English cucumbers, yellow and red onions, celery, leeks, eggplant, green beans, basil, cocktail tomatoes, bell peppers, sweet Italian horn peppers, hot peppers (jalapeño and poblano), apples and pears.

Scholl Orchards

It's melon madness at Scholl's this week! Look for tons of watermelon, cantaloupe and canary. How about making a mixed melon salad or colorful melon kebobs or cocktails for your Labor Day get together? Check out this Cantaloupe Cucumber Gin Spritzer!

You'll also find plenty of white abd yellow peaches, white nectarines, plums, Bartlett pears and a nice array of apples including Ludacrisp, Zestar, Gala and Macs.

Primordia Mushroom Farm

Primordia is packing plenty of fungi for Funky Ferments Fest! And don't miss the opportunity to learn about mushroom cooking, cultivation, and nutrition from Matthew Sicher, one of the Northeast's most knowledgeable and respected mushroom growers! Matthew will be presenting on the hillside at 9:30am.

Primordia is Hiring!

Primordia is looking to add a full-time member to their team. Tuesday - Saturday, one day at market, and four days on the farm. $18/hr. After one year, benefits include one week PTO, sick days and an IRA option.

Holy Cow Flower Farm

It's Labor Day weekend! Treat yourself or someone special to the gift of local flowers! This week the market bouquets include lisianthus, cockscomb, zinnias and more! Summer flowers will soon be fading into fall so enjoy the bright beauties while they last.

From the Pasture

Apple Ridge Farm | Breakaway Farms | Raspberry Ridge Sheep Creamery

Raspberry Ridge Sheep Creamery

Stop by Raspberry Ridge for a special cheese tasting this weekend.

And be sure to grab some feta to pair with all that watermelon at the market - makes a great salad!

Breakaway Farms

Fire up that grill!

You know Farmer Nate is never gonna let a good festival theme slide on by. And in true Breakaway form, we bring you Kimchi Burgers! Made with grass-fed beef, kimchi. gochujang, gochujaru garlic, onion and more deliciousness. Grab a pack of these and all your favorite burgers and sausages (fifty to choose from!) for Labor Day grilling. Psst.. If you really want to take your cook-out to the next level, try the

Kalbi Beef Short Ribs

Order online (breakawayfarms.net) for a convenient pick up at the market.

Just Baked

Apple Ridge Farm | Flour Shop Bakery | Mia & Maddie's Bakery | Pie+Tart

Pie + Tart

Our Pie Pause is OVER!! We have been busy bees this week, making lots of things for the last holiday weekend of the summer; our pies are picnic perfect and ready to share. We’ll have quiches, Chicken Pot Pies, a Tomato+Corn Pie w/ Biscuit Crust, Peach Crumb Pies, Cherry+Ricotta Cheesecake Pies, and lots of small sweets and savories. (Shout out to Phillips Farms for the tomatoes, corn, and peaches this week) We had a lovely vacation and are super excited to head back to the kitchen for Peak Pie Season! See you Saturday morning!

- Anne & Lisa

Guest Vendor:

My Little Farmstand - Cannoli

You may know Dominique and Mark from the West Ward Market. They are truly two of our favorite people. But have you ever met their homemade cannoli? Many folks have described them as the best cannoli they've ever eaten! Come judge for yourself - it'll be your tastiest task of the weekend ;-). Grab a dozen to take to your Labor Day picnic! Look for them next to Cuz' Vinny's Pasta.

Specialty Foods

Untamed Ferments | Wild for Salmon Zekraft

Note: Mediterra Olive Oil is back this week - find them across from Cuz Vinny's Pasta

Apple Ridge Farm

Happy Labor Day Weekend!

Are you looking for the perfect picnic hostess gift?

This weekend Apple Ridge is offering $2 off Mustard Gift Sets.

Each pack includes one each of Apple Ridge's farm-inspired mustards: Roasted Garlic, Spicy Mustard, Jalapeno, Honey Mustard, and Cranberry Spice. And of course you'll find LOTS of soudough breads for Funky Ferments Fest!

Untamed Ferments

Come meet Lafayette College grad Erik Sink, owner of Untamed Ferments on Saturday at Funky Ferments Fest! He’ll have Coffee Kombucha (!) and Ginger Switchel on tap, and an array of fermented veggies! Untamed Ferments is located next to Apple Ridge Farm. Interested in learning how to ferment your own veggies or beverages? Check out Erik's talk at 11am on the Hillside.

Zekraft

This week from Zekraft… For crepes they will have Roasted Scholl’s Peached with Mascarpone and Spiced Pecans, and a Roasted Turkey with Cooper Cheese, Bacon and Roasted Tomato (yum)!

For salads you can choose from Thai Peanut Chicken, Roast Salmon, Greek Chicken, and Chicken Peach Blueberry and two vegan choices, Couscous with Dried Cherry & Apricot and a Mexican Vegetable. For Soups they’ll have a Vegan Minestrone and a Chicken Rice.

Dessert offerings include Chocolate Pot de Creme and Banana Pudding. They will have their amazing Chais, healthy snacks and Granola.

Jersey Pickles

Eric and crew have all your holiday picnic pickle (and olive) needs covered! And if you're ready to get funky, do some pickle juice shots and take a pic in Jersey Pickle's fun new photo opp!

Did you know many people drink pickle juice for its health benefits? Jersey Pickles sells their juice by the gallon!

Mattie's Strudel Haus

Saturday's menu is filled with OODLES of STRUDELS! Looking to get your hands on something sweet? How about savory? We have just what you want and need! Our take-and-bake strudels fit perfectly in your freezer and are easy to make. Feed yourself or several people. Enjoy your strudel as a quick weeknight meal with one of our savory strudels; for Sunday brunch with a breakfast strudel or cure a sweet tooth with one of our sweet strudels!

Funny Farm Apiaries

Along with all his honey, Mark will be featuring his infused apple cider vinegars this weekend. Stop by for a vinegar shot!

Beverages & Libations

Portch Tea

Don is bringing it ALL this weekend! The Booch of the Day is “Swell Time” (peach basil). And you'll also find Bleach, StrawPaw, Cheeky Bum-looker, NBF and Blue Hindu. Oh, and the hard stuff too... Blam-O!, Simón Limón, and Redheads.

Welcome New Vendor! Ironbound Farm

Autumn Events Guest Vendor

Ironbound Farm makes unique, farm-centric ciders in a way that honors our company’s commitment to have a positive impact on the environmental, social, and economic well-being of our community. Crafted by acclaimed Napa Valley winemaker, Cameron Stark, our products are made from 100% fresh-pressed apples, sourced from family farms in NJ, NY, and PA, and infused with locally grown and foraged botanicals, including beach plums, dry-harvested cranberries, burdock, and hops.

This week's offering include: Original Hard Cider, Black Tea and Lemon Cider, Cape May rose, Lemon Ginger Seltzer, Sangria, Cherry burdock Imperial Cider, Lemon beebrush, Imperial Cider,

Campalec Imperial Cider, Orange blossom Imperial Cider and Harrison Sparkling Cider.

Roastwell Coffee Roasters

Discover the rich and comforting flavors of autumn with Roastwell's new fall menu! Featured beverages include the classic Pumpkin Spice latte, blending Roastwell's velvety espresso with the warmth of pumpkin and spices, an indulgent Caramel Apple latte and a spicy Mexican chocolate latte. All available hot or iced. Non-caffeinated offerings include a Toasted Marshmallow matcha and Pumpkin pie Chai latte. Don't see what you want? Their baristas can make just about anything, including espressos. And of course, don't forget to grab a bag of their fresh roasted-for-market beans to enjoy all week long!

Arts & Botanicals

The Artist Collective | Teels Hill Soapworks | FD Market

Teels Hill Soapworks

Boo! Halloween soaps are back at Teels Hill. Scary Nights is my Desert Night Soap with patchouli, rosewood, ylang ylang and a touch of cinnamon. Jack-O-Lantern is my Orange Spice - with sweet orange, spice and essential oils. And to celebrate our Funky Ferments Fest, pick up some of my Zit Zap. Organic vinegar, chamomile, tea tree and lavender essentials. Great for blemishes or bug bite itching!

Artist Collective

From Seed and Soil is this week's featured artist. Check out this gorgeous handcrafted wood art - cutting boards, coasters, wood pendants, mallets, charcuterie boards and more!