Hello Market Fans! After a long hiatus, the 2013 RPFM approaches. Anyone interested in becoming a vendor at the market this year is invited to download the latest vendor information packet and application, both of which can be found here. We look forward to seeing you!
2012 Market Photos
Hi RPFM fans! After a long wait, the excellent Tom Meyers’ photos of the 2012 RPFM Market can finally be found here.
What’s Going On In 2012?
(Sorry, to regular readers – I realize that some of this is redundant. however! Much of it is new info).
WELCOME TO THE 2012 RIVER PEOPLE FARMERS MARKET SEASON!!!
Updates and Vendor list for the River People Farmers Market on 6/28/12
MARKET #2: The River People Farmers Market is TODAY! Astoria’s ONLY “All Food” Farmers Market! We feature the finest local producers of quality food in a lovely community setting in downtown Astoria at 13th and Duane Street, in the Astoria Indoor Garden Supply parking lot right across from the Astoria Co-op from 3 – 6 PM.
WE ARE A GROWER- SELLER MARKET — Come meet the people who grow your food!
We are an ALL VOLUNTEER RUN market:-) To join this community venture, please stop by our Information Booth at the market.
THE RIVER PEOPLE FARMERS MARKET PROUDLY ACCEPTS:
Oregon Trail Cards, WIC and FDNP (Farm Direct Nutrition Program) Vouchers as well as credit cards – please stop at our information booth and learn about our RPFM alternative currency (tokens)!
SNAP Match Program: Spend $10 on your Oregon Trail Card and the market will give you another $10 in match to spend on more great food at the market! THANK YOU to our generous and wonderful sponsors!!!
WHAT’S NEW AT THE RPFM IN 2012?
Our Delicious Market Cafe will be opening from 1:00 with a fabulous menu:
Meadow Harvest Burgers & Lamb Brats
Skipanon Albacore Tuna sandwiches
Salade Nicoise both with Blue Scorcher bread
Clam Chowder
Grilled Pizza
Shortcake Du Jour
The Cafe has new bistro tables and chairs and will be cordoned off from market set-up until the market’s opening at 3:00! Come enjoy lunch before the market!
We also have a Children’s Booth this year which will be featuring a Gardening and Nutrition lesson plus story time with “Mr. Danny”!. Activities begin at 3:30.
OSU Master Gardeners will be at every market to answer your garden questions!
The City of Astoria has granted us a one lane closure on 13th st. We will have this barricaded off for vendors to more easily load and unload as well as park.
Market Hours this season are from 3:00 to 6:00
As always, brought to you by the North Coast Food Web, “Bringing Local Food To Everyone”, and our Community Partners – The Astoria Co-op; Astoria Indoor Garden Supply; The Blue Scorcher Bakery; Clatsop Community Action Regional Food Bank; Coast Community Radio; and Oregon State Extension Service
WEATHER REPORT FOR THURSDAY, JUNE 28
Follow us on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/pages/River-People-Farmers-Market/145157615561398
Our RPFM Vendors this week:
1. RPFM Market Cafe (Open now at 1:00 and featuring the FABULOUS Merianne Myers and Rod Nichols!)
2. 46 North Farm (North Coast plant starts, kale and chard!)
3. A & B Farms (Oregon strawberries and raspberries are here!)
4. Love Warrior Gardens (medicinal herbs and tinctures)
5. OSU Master Gardeners (answering your gardening questions!)
6. Island’s End Farm (Sauer Kraut, kimchee, jams, jellies and wonderful Puget Island produce)
7. Skipanon Seafood (Salmon, smoked fish, canned fish, cocktail shrimp and crab plus more!)
8. Blue Scorcher Bakery (Hearth baked breads and pastries)
9. Astoria Co-op (Cheese tastings and other great organic goodies)
10. Meadow Harvest Farm (Pasture-raised lamb and beef from Nehalem Valley)
11. Juice Box (Featuring organic “made to order” juices)
12. Lazy Creek Farm — (Potatoes, lettuces, carrots and much more!)
13. Seed and Sow (plant starts and great produce!)
COMMUNITY BOOTH: WIC
RECYCLING BOOTH: THE RPFM strives to be a zero waste market — check our recycling booth out!
MUSIC: Philip Guzman
Information Booth: We’ll have recipes this week to help folks with some ideas about what to do with their fresh veggies, meat, seafood and fruit! Also RPFM t-shirts for sale!
We are looking forward to another fabulous Market! See you at the market!
Island’s End for 6/27 – These seem like some amazing deals!
Greetings!
The Astoria River People Market on Thursday was awesome! The food booth and juice booth are now open at 1 pm and farm booths open at 3 pm. The Kenton market was busy for the first two hours, and we were impressed with the number of people who pulled up their hoods and walked in the rain for the last two hours. We did bring home unsold lettuce mix and have been eating a lot of salads this week.
As you all know, cool rainy weather has continued. Greens and onions are growing well, but not much else! Several items came off our list this week and nothing new is mature enough yet to add on.This may mean we have fewer veggies for the Kenton Market for several weeks, but we will fill pre-orders as best we can. We do have a good supply of ferments for both markets. And by mid-July, there should be plenty of greens and summer squash with beans and cukes not far behind.
Our chickens and those of all our neighbors are really slowing down on egg production, molting their feathers and not laying. We have 25 cute little Freedom Rangers that we will be growing out as pastured meat birds. We are still getting a small surplus of eggs and will fill requests in the order they come in. The bees are working the locust tree blossoms and at least two of our hives look like they will produce surplus. We’re hoping!
Please order by “replying’ to this message, so we have a written record of your order. For Wahkiakum customers, we’ll leave your order on our side porch after noon on Thursday and you can leave your payment there. Please bring exact amount or write a check.
For Astoria Market or Kenton Market customers, please give us an idea of what time you’ll pick up. Just “reply” to this message with your order no later than Wednesday 4pm.
If you’d like to visit the Portland Kenton Farmers Market, you will find us in a corner space on the corner of N McClellan and N Denver Streets, right next to the Kenton Station Pub. Closest access to I-5 is to take the N Interstate Ave exit and turn onto N Denver. The Astoria River People Market is in the Indoor Gardening Center’s parking lot, on 13th between Duane and Exchange, across from the Coop.
Please order no later than Wednesday June 27, 4 pm for pick up at our farm and for the Thursday Astoria Market or at the Kenton Market on Friday. To order, reply to this email and let us know your order.
AVAILABLE for week this week:
Eggs- Our Buckeye chickens, a threatened heavy breed, are free range and on organic feed. $5.00 dozen
Raw Krauts- Our ferments are all-vegetable raw natural ferments (no fish paste in the kim chi) that have not been exposed to heat. A good source of probiotic bacteria. We refund 50 cents for each of our jars that you return.
Sauerkraut -16 ounces, $7.50
Reg Thai Flavored Kim Chi-8 ounce, $5
HOT Thai Flavors Kim Chi-8 ounce, $5
Regular Kim Chi – 16 ounces, $8.50, 8 ounce, $5
HOT Roots Kim Chi-8 ounce, $5
Garlic scape pesto – $6 jar. Use as is or add your own cheese.
Vegetables
Lettuce mix- $4.00 for 1/2 pound bag
Endive/Escarole–$2. 50 for 1/2 pound bag
Carrots-$3 bunch
Beets-$3 bunch
Mixed greens-$3.00 for 3/4 pound bag. A mix of most of the greens below. Great for green smoothies, saute, etc. -Preorder only
Rainbow lacinato kale-$2.50 bunch for this and each below
Pentland semi-curly kale
Vates curly leaf kale
Collards
Mustard Greens
Rainbow chard–$2.50 bunch
Perpetual spinach-$2.50 bunch
Broccolini- $1.50 for 1/3 pound
Baby onions-$1.50 bunch: Specify sweet or regular
Green garlic-$1.50 for bunch of 3
Fava Beans- $3/pound
Snap peas-$2 for 1/2 pound
Culinary sorrel-$2 bunch
Elephant garlic cloves- $1.50 for 1/4 pound
Garlic scapes – $1.50 bunch
Fresh Herbs- lovage, spearmint, garlic chives, rosemary, sage, lemon balm, $1 bunch. Bay leaves-10 cents each–PREORDER only
Jams and Jellies: $6/jar- Blueberry Jam,Raspberry Jam, Blackberry jam, Raspberry-Nectarine Jam, Waldo blackberry jam, Currant jelly, Apple butter (lowest in sugar), Apple jelly, and Quince jelly.
Perennial starts-$2 each in 4 inch pots for a wide assortment of herbs and flowers including: Holy Basil (Tulsi-medicinal, not culinary), Lovage, Korean Licorice Mint, Red-vein sorrel, Catnip, Culinary sorrel, Red-vein sorrel, Irish Eyes Rudbeckia, Indian Summer Rudbeckia, Goldstrum Rudbeckia, Shasta Daisy, Sedum Autumn Joy, Golden yarrow, Scorconera (Salsify) ,Heavenly blue statice.
I am a distributor for Young Living therapeutic grade food quality essential oils and other Young Living products and so can purchase at the reduced rate. Check their website for products descriptions and ask me for a wholesale product price list. You can place an order through me and pay the lower distributor’s cost plus S&H and tax or I can help you sign up to order on your own. Free brochures about the importance and use of essential oils are available-please ask.
Cheers! Carol
Our mission at Island’s End Farm is providing high quality organically grown vegetables, promoting increased use and enjoyment of eating leafy greens, and continually nurturing the soil in which we have grown our vegetables for over 30 years.
Market Season Begins!
WELCOME TO THE 2012 RIVER PEOPLE FARMERS MARKET SEASON!!!
Updates and Vendor list for the River People Farmers Market on 6/21/12
MARKET #1: The River People Farmers Market is TODAY! Astoria’s ONLY “All Food” Farmers Market! We feature the finest local producers of quality food in a lovely community setting in downtown Astoria at 13th and Duane Street, in the Astoria Indoor Garden Supply parking lot right across from the Astoria Co-op from 3 – 6 PM.
WE ARE A GROWER- SELLER MARKET — Come meet the people who grow your food!
We are an ALL VOLUNTEER RUN market:-) To join this community venture, please stop by our Information Booth at the market.
THE RIVER PEOPLE FARMERS MARKET PROUDLY ACCEPTS:
Oregon Trail Cards, WIC and FDNP (Farm Direct Nutrition Program) Vouchers as well as credit cards – please stop at our information booth and learn about our RPFM alternative currency (tokens)!
WHAT’S NEW AT THE RPFM IN 2012?
Our Delicious Market Cafe will be opening from 1:00 with a fabulous menu:
Meadow Harvest Burgers & Lamb Brats
Albacore Tuna sandwiches
Salade Nicoise both with Blue Scorcher bread
Clam Chowder
Grilled Pizza
Shortcake Du Jour
The Cafe has new bistro tables and chairs and will be cordoned off from market set-up until the market’s opening at 3:00! Come enjoy lunch before the market!
We also have a Children’s Booth this year which will be featuring a Gardening and Nutrition lesson plus story time. Activities begin at 3:30.
OSU Master Gardeners will be at every market to answer your garden questions!
The City of Astoria has granted us a one lane closure on 13th st. We will have this barricaded off for vendors to more easily load and unload as well as park.
Market Hours this season are from 3:00 to 6:00
As always, brought to you by the North Coast Food Web, “Bringing Local Food To Everyone”, and our Community Partners – The Astoria Co-op; Astoria Indoor Garden Supply; The Blue Scorcher Bakery; Clatsop Community Action Regional Food Bank; Coast Community Radio; and Oregon State Extension Service
WEATHER REPORT FOR THURSDAY, JUNE 21
Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 69. Calm wind becoming west between 7 and 10 mph.
Thursday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers after 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 53. West wind between 5 and 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Looks like a great North Coast day to hang out, listen to music and shop for good food at the market!
Follow us on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/pages/River-People-Farmers-Market/145157615561398
Our RPFM Vendors this week:
1. RPFM Market Cafe (Open now at 1:00 and featuring the FABULOUS Merianne Myers!)
2. 46 North Farm (North Coast plant starts, kale and chard!)
3. A & B Farms (Oregon strawberries and raspberries are here!)
4. Love Warrior Gardens (medicinal herbs and tinctures)
5. OSU Master Gardeners (answering your gardening questions!)
6. Island’s End Farm (Sauer Kraut, kimchee, jams, jellies and wonderful Puget Island produce)
7. Skipanon Seafood (Salmon, smoked fish, canned fish, cocktail shrimp and crab plus more!)
8. Blue Scorcher Bakery (Hearth baked breads and pastries)
9. Astoria Co-op (Cheese tastings and other great organic goodies)
10. Meadow Harvest Farm (Pasture-raised lamb and beef from Nehalem Valley)
11. Juice Box (Featuring organic “made to order” juices)
12. Lazy Creek Farm — (Potatoes, lettuces, carrots and much more!)
COMMUNITY BOOTH: THE BEE MENTOR and the ASTORIA TIME BANK
RECYCLING BOOTH: THE RPFM strives to be a zero waste market — check our recycling booth out!
MUSIC: Denise Drake
Information Booth: We’ll have recipes this week to help folks with some ideas about what to do with their fresh veggies, meat, seafood and fruit! Also RPFM t-shirts for sale!
We are looking forward to another fabulous Market Season! See you at the market!
RPFM!
Greetings!
The Astoria River People Market begins this Thursday, June 21st!
Thanks to the cool cool weather we’ve been having, everything is at least 3 weeks behind where I had hoped it would be. This may mean we have fewer veggies for the Kenton Market for several weeks, but we will fill pre-orders as best we can. We will have a good supply of ferments for both markets. And by mid-July, there should be plenty of greens and summer squash with beans and cukes not far behind.
Please order by “replying’ to this message, so we have a written record of your order. For Wahkiakum customers, we’ll leave your order on our side porch after noon on Thursday and you can leave your payment there. Please bring exact amount or write a check.
For Astoria Market or Kenton Market customers, please give us an idea of what time you’ll pick up. Just “reply” to this message with your order no later than Wednesday 4pm.
If you’d like to visit the Portland Kenton Farmers Market, you will find us in a corner space on the corner of N McClellan and N Denver Streets, right next to the Kenton Station Pub. Closest access to I-5 is to take the N Interstate Ave exit and turn onto N Denver. The Astoria River People Market is in the Indoor Gardening Center’s parking lot, on 13th between Duane and Exchange, across from the Coop.
Please order no later than Wednesday June 20, 4 pm for pick up at our farm and for the Thursday Astoria Market or at the Kenton Market on Friday. To order, reply to this email and let us know your order.
AVAILABLE for week this week:
Eggs- Our Buckeye chickens, a threatened heavy breed, are free range and on organic feed. $5.00 dozen
Raw Krauts- Our ferments are all-vegetable raw natural ferments (no fish paste in the kim chi) that have not been exposed to heat. A good source of probiotic bacteria. We refund 50 cents for each of our jars that you return.
Sauerkraut -16 ounces, $7.50
Caraway sauerkraut-16 ounces, $7.50
Reg Thai Flavored Kim Chi-8 ounce, $5
HOT Thai Flavors Kim Chi-8 ounce, $5
Regular Kim Chi – 16 ounces, $8.50, 8 ounce, $5
HOT Roots Kim Chi-8 ounce, $5
Garlic scape pesto – $6 jar. Use as is or add your own cheese.
Vegetables
Lettuce mix- $4.00 for 1/2 pound bag
Endive/Escarole–$2. 50 for 1/2 pound bag
Carrots-$3 bunch
Beets-$3 bunch
Mixed greens-$3.00 for 3/4 pound bag. A mix of most of the greens below. Great for green smoothies, saute, etc. -Preorder only
Rainbow lacinato kale-$2.50 bunch for this and each below
Ripbor or Pentland semi-curly kale
Vates curly leaf kale
Collards
Mustard Greens
Rainbow chard–$2.50 bunch
Perpetual spinach-$2.50 bunch
Cauliflower, $2 pound
Broccoli Crowns, $2 pound
Kolhrabi-$2,50 each. Specify green or purple. Eat the leaves too!
Broccolini- $1.50 for 1/3 pound
Baby onions-$1.50 bunch: Specify sweet or pungent
Green garlic-$1.50 for bunch of 3
Fava Beans- $3/pound
Snap peas-$2 for 1/2 pound
Culinary sorrel-$2 bunch
Elephant garlic cloves- $1.50 for 1/4 pound
Garlic scapes – $1.50 bunch
Rhubarb-$3 pound
Fresh Herbs- lovage, spearmint, garlic chives, rosemary, sage, lemon balm, $1 bunch. Bay leaves-10 cents each
Jams and Jellies: $6/jar- Blueberry Jam,Raspberry Jam, Blackberry jam, Raspberry-Nectarine Jam, Waldo blackberry jam, Currant jelly, Apple butter (lowest in sugar), Fig jam ($7), Apple jelly, and Quince jelly.
Perennial starts-$2 each in 4 inch pots for a wide assortment of herbs and flowers including: Holy Basil (Tulsi-medicinal, not culinary), Lovage, Korean Licorice Mint, Red-vein sorrel, Chinese garlic chives.Catnip, Culinary sorrel, Red-vein sorrel, Irish Eyes Rudbeckia, Indian Summer Rudbeckia, Goldstrum Rudbeckia, Shasta Daisy, Sedum Autumn Joy, Golden yarrow, Scorconera (Salsify) ,Heavenly blue statice.
I am a distributor for Young Living therapeutic grade food quality essential oils and other Young Living products and so can purchase at the reduced rate. Check their website for products descriptions and ask me for a wholesale product price list. You can place an order through me and pay the lower distributor’s cost plus S&H and tax or I can help you sign up to order on your own. Free brochures about the importance and use of essential oils are available-please ask.
Cheers! Carol
Our mission at Island’s End Farm is providing high quality organically grown vegetables, promoting increased use and enjoyment of eating leafy greens, and continually nurturing the soil in which we have grown our vegetables for over 30 years.
News! And a call for volunteers -
Dearest RPFM Volunteers,
This coming Thursday, June 21, marks the beginning of the second River People Farmers Market Season. I am hopeful that many of you will be once again joining North Coast Food Web this season to help staff our All Volunteer-Run market that is “Bringing local food to everyone”! We have a great line-up of returning Thursday, June 21, vendors this season, wonderful music and a new children’s booth. We will also be offering our popular “SNAP Match” program at every market along with honoring Farm Direct Nutrition Program vouchers and WIC Fruit and Veggie coupons. This year’s market hours have been shortened to 3 – 6 PM and our fabulous Market Cafe will be opening at 1:00! On September 6, we will be having our first KALE FESTIVAL including the crowning of a Royal Kale Court among many other Kale oriented activities. All this in addition to truly amazing and delicious LOCAL FOOD!!!
Volunteer opportunities include:
1. Set-up
2. At the Market (counters, information booth staffing)
3. Cafe Assistance
4. Take-down
For those of you who’d like to volunteer at one or more markets, I’ve initiated a Doodle Poll at: http://www.doodle.com/wgywvqch3hmqt2kn
If you know of others that would like to volunteer, please pass the poll on to them!
MANY THANKS to all you wonderful volunteers for your help last year and for the year to come!!! This market couldn’t happen without you:-)
Wishing you all A Happy 2012 River People Farmers Market Season!!!
All the Best,
Kristin
(503)351-2212
Vendor Handbook and Application for 2012 Market Available
Are you interested in participating in the 2012 River People Farmers Market? You can find applications and the RPFM handbook for download right here!
An Abundant Season for a New Farmer’s Market
Astoria, Ore.- River People Farmers Market concluded its first season on September 29, 2011 with a resounding ring of success. Over 16,000 people visited the market over its fifteen week season, and twenty vendors–many of them first time farmers–sold produce, fresh seafood, meat, berries, and flowers to an enthusiastic audience of mostly local shoppers.
The River People Farmers Market was one of the first projects undertaken by North Coast Food Web, a new organization dedicated to building a strong local food economy on the North Coast. The market sought to provide a simple path for beginning farmers and fishers to bring their food to market and to provide established vendors a rewarding venue to build a stronger local customer base. NCFW’s board raised over $7400 in donations to launch the market—the only all-food, all-volunteer run farmers market in Astoria. Over 1200 hours contributed by dedicated volunteers and board members of NCFW made the market’s season a success.
Local businesses and organizations providing partnership support for the farmers market included The Blue Scorcher Bakery and Cafe, the Astoria Coop, Clatsop Community Action Regional Food Bank, Astoria Indoor Garden Supply and OSU Extension Clatsop County. The market took place in space made available by Astoria Indoor Garden Supply at their 13th and Duane Street location. Neighboring shops noted a welcome increase in foot traffic on Thursday afternoons as a result of market shoppers in the area. “One way we decided to participate was through a booth offering samples of products available at the Astoria Coop,” said Coop board president Merianne Myers. “I learned to be careful and only sample foods we had a large quantity of. Our sales were definitely up on Thursdays–not just on the sampled items, but across the board.”
The RPFM also featured its own Market Cafe with Chef and NCFW board member Rod Nichols donating his talents to create delicious meals from farm fresh products. Ingredients purchased from vendors at the market were then incorporated into a varied menu that included grilled salmon on salad greens drizzled with pesto aioli, pasture-raised beef burgers on a freshly baked bun with all the trimmings and grilled pizzas with fresh vegetables and herbs.
Market customers enthusiastically embraced the ‘zero waste’ recycling program at the RPFM. The Market Cafe used durable plates, utensils, cups and cloth napkins, all of which were washed and reused throughout the market season. Food scraps from the cafe and customer meals were put into the onsite worm bin or hauled away to local compost piles, keeping non-recyclable trash to a small handful each market. During the fifteen market weeks, RPFM organizers estimated they were able to keep the equivalent of 700 paper plates and bowls; 800 plastic cups and 1000 plastic utensils out of the waste stream.
NCFW board member and regular market volunteer Lori Rutledge echoed the enthusiasm many in the community felt for the market. “I enjoyed seeing so many local people coming out to shop at the market, run into friends, grab a bite to eat at the market cafe and hang out listening to the music for a while. It turned out even better than we hoped it would.”
North Coast Food Web’s vision of creating greater access to locally grown and produced food through the River People Farmers Market was realized by expanding shopping to WIC and senior voucher holders and to SNAP (formerly food stamp) recipients. With their ambitious program of matching the first $10 a SNAP recipient spent at the market with another $10 of market tokens, the RPFM made it possible for SNAP recipients to spend over $3,200 on fresh, nutritious, local food. NCFW is especially grateful to the Astoria Coop, Astoria Indoor Garden Supply and a generous private donor for the matching funds that made the program possible.
“This was an awesome experience for me” said first-time market vendor Fred Johnson of Fred’s Homegrown Produce in Naselle, Washington. “I’ll definitely be back next year.”
Many local musicians provided live music at each market, and the market made free booth space available to many local non-profits including, KMUN, Clatsop County Master Gardeners, PFLAG, Clatsop Community Action Regional Food Bank and North Coast Land Conservancy.
The North Coast Food Web board is developing new projects to strengthen and grow the North Coast’s local food system, and already has ideas for how to improve the River People Farmers Market’s 2012 season. “Although,” laughs Rutledge, “we’re also looking forward to a little bit of a rest now.”
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