We’ll be celebrating the end of the season with our vendors, volunteers and IFM Board Members… Please share in our celebration and don’t let the threat of rain scare you away (you’ll be kicking yourself all through October)!  This is the time to buy your last case of peaches or berries to can or make into pies!!!

Harvest of fruits and veggies from local farms include: corn, green beans, broccoli, cabbage, chard, squash, potatoes, onions, blackberries, kale, basil, peaches, nectarines, strawberries, blueberries, watermelons, cantaloupes, lettuce, chard, zucchini, mushrooms and more are available this week from our farmers. 

Cheesecake, honey, buffalo (and other meats), pesto, gluten-free pastries, toast bread and bagels, salmon and more are available from our vendors who have come to the 2008 market all season.  Also, come enjoy pizza, tamales, barbeque and vegetable curry from our prepared foods vendors.

As the season winds down, we will be planning for 2009.  Please send me your suggestions for how to make the market better and get involved!

This weeks’ entertainment:
Kate Mann
Strong acoustic guitar arrangements with slide guitar, harmonica, rumbling drums, accordion and classical guitar sounds to conjure images of gypsy caravans and moonlit nights. A southwestern journey of the nighttime world with snapshots of love lost and dangerous encounters.

http://katemann.com

Volunteers feed the market…
We need help to make this market come to the community each week.  Volunteers work 2-3 hour shifts between 3:00 - 8:00 pm and we could really use a few people to help with set-up from 12:00 - 3:00 pm and breakdown from 6:30 - 8:00 pm.

Please check out the volunteer shifts below and contact me today!

Cheesecake, honey, buffalo (and other meats), pesto, gluten-free pastries, toast bread and bagels, salmon and more are available from our vendors who have come to the 2008 market all season.

Also, come enjoy pizza, tamales, barbeque and vegetable curry from our prepared foods vendors.  We’ll have music and shade under the trees to enjoy the lovely Wednesday afternoon.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to share the harvest time with your friends, neighbors and family.  The IFM Season ends with the Sept. 24 market, so don’t miss out on buying some of the freshest, most delicious foods you can get in your neighborhood!

As the season winds down, we will be planning for 2009.  Please send me your suggestions for how to make the market better and get involved!

This weeks’ entertainment:
Steve Cheseborough
“Steve brings to life the acoustic country blues of the 1920s and ’30s in the tradition of Blind Boy Fuller, Memphis Minnie, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and Bo Carter - by re-creating the music and recounting the lives, legends and lore of the fascinating men and women who created the blues, and the land they came from.”

-from www.stevecheseborough.com

Volunteers feed the market…
We need help to make this market come to the community each week.  Volunteers work 2-3 hour shifts between 3:00 - 8:00 pm and we could really use a few people to help with set-up from 12:00 - 3:00 pm and breakdown from 6:30 - 8:00 pm.

Please check out the volunteer shifts below and contact me today!

To get involved with the Interstate Farmers’ Market - as a volunteer, vendor or supporter - please contact me by phone or email.

Vendor updates
Rick’s Mushrooms will be joining the market today.  Look for freshly picked fungi close to the Info Booth.

The Brownie Farm and Mocha Roma (coffee truck) will not be at the market for rest of IFM season.  See the vendor list below for more information about the vendors and check out our website for full descriptions.

See you this Wednesday!
Bob New, IFM Manager
contact [at] interstatefarmersmarket.com
971-344-0115

Photo credits: Pictures in this email taken by Bob New, IFM Manager.

Peaches are still so delicious and filled with dripping sweet goodness!  This is my favorite time of year for many of the vegetables harvested at local farms: corn, tomatoes, green beans, broccoli, cabbage, chard, squash, potatoes, onions and kale are just a sampling of how you can fill up your bucket!

As the season winds down, we will be planning for 2009.  Please send me your suggestions for how to make the market better and get involved!

Volunteers feed the market…
We need help to make this market come to the community each week.  Volunteers work 2-3 hour shifts between 3:00 - 8:00 pm and we could really use a few people to help with set-up from 12:00 - 3:00 pm and breakdown from 6:30 - 8:00 pm.

Please check out the volunteer shifts below and contact me today!

To get involved with the Interstate Farmers’ Market - as a volunteer, vendor or supporter - please contact me by phone or email.

Vendor updates
Rick’s Mushrooms will be joining the market today.  Look for freshly picked fungi close to the Info Booth.

The Brownie Farm and Mocha Roma (coffee truck) will not be at the market for rest of IFM season.  See the vendor list below for more information about the vendors and check out our website for full descriptions.

This weeks’ entertainment:
Curly (aka Alan Ames)
Alan will be joining the market again this week.  Playing acoustic 6-string lap steel guitars since 1972, Alan writes primarily instrumental music in a style called Trip-grass Blues-fusion. The music is drenched in the blues, and touched with bluegrass, jazz, rock, classical, and folk music.

http://alanamesmusic.com

See you this Wednesday!
Bob New, IFM Manager
contact [at] interstatefarmersmarket.com
971-344-0115

Photo credits: Pictures in this email taken by Bob New, IFM Manager.

Come to the Information Booth for more information about using your Debit card or Oregon Trail card to receive IFM wooden tokens at the market!  Farmers also accept WIC/Senior Coupons (look for the yellow WIC/Senior Coupon signs at vendor booths). 

This week at the market:
See the IFM website for more information about the following vendors (Interstate Farmers’ Market).

Baird Family Orchards (peaches)
Boyco Food (honey)
Brownie Farm (not returning rest of season)
Carol’s Nuts and Candies (nuts, licorice, spicy treats and more)
Dante’s Garden Pesto
Deep Roots Farm (fruits and veggies)
Heavenly Bites (cheesecake)
Herr’s Family Farm (flowers)
Hot Mama Salsa (home made chips and salsa)
Krakow Koffeehouse (smoothies, sodas, sandwiches and ice cream)

Micro-Mercantes (tamales)
- see photo to right

We are always looking for support to run this market, so please check by the Info Booth to see how you can help TODAY!

Also, as the season winds down, we will be planning for 2009.  Please send me your suggestions for how to make the market better and get involved!

Volunteers feed the market…
We need help to make this market come to the community each week.  Volunteers work 2-3 hour shifts between 3:00 - 8:00 pm and we could really use a few people to help with set-up from 12:00 - 3:00 pm and breakdown from 6:30 - 8:00 pm.

Please check out the volunteer shifts below and contact me today!

To get involved with the Interstate Farmers’ Market - as a volunteer, vendor or supporter - please contact me by phone or email.

Vendor updates
Rick’s Mushrooms will be joining the market today.  Look for freshly picked fungi close to the Info Booth.

The Brownie Farm and Mocha Roma (coffee truck) will not be at the market for rest of IFM season.  See the vendor list below for more information about the vendors and check out our website for full descriptions.

This weeks’ entertainment:
Liza Jane and Curly
Many childreen were dancing in the streets during the last time these two lovely musicians graced the IFM stage.  Come join us for some fun music!

A-sangin’ and a-twangin’. Classic country songs of love and woe, with a smidgeon of blues, jazz, ragtime, modern miscellany and a few originals thrown in for good measure.

See you this Wednesday!
Bob New, IFM Manager
contact [at] interstatefarmersmarket.com
971-344-0115

Photo credits: Pictures in this email taken by Bob New, IFM Manager and Nikki Guerrero.