Market Day ~ Welcome to Summer!

Here come the farmers!

Join us every Wednesday (3:00-7:00 pm)

p.s. - Use your Debit card or Oregon Trail card to receive IFM wooden tokens at the market!  Come to the Info booth for more information.

Market Day ~ Free Pizza for IFM Volunteers

Did he say free pizza?
Yes, he did…every Wednesday!

Introducing al Forno Feruzza

p.s. - Use your Debit card or Oregon Trail card to receive IFM wooden tokens at the market!  Come to the Info booth for more information.

Market Day ~ This Week at IFM

The Sweetest Market in Town

Delicious, simply delicious…
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Wednesday starts a week-long stretch of warmer and drier weather as farmers and Northwesterners are anticipating the sunny days of summer. We’ll have over 20 vendors this week, including 3 farms sharing their fruits and vegetables.

Sweet Leaf Farm will again be bringing greens, carrots, beets, spanish onions, collards, berries and more. Deep Roots Farm will provide the peas, lettuce, basil, greens and strawberries. Unger Farms is selling strawberries by the pint or 1/2 flat.

Sample the goodies from Carol’s Nuts and Candies and try the oven baked breads from Al Forno Ferruzza (they will be back with pizza next week - tamales and barbeque will be available this week). You have to check out the many flavors of cheesecake from Heavenly Bites (see picture at right with owner Elizabeth Aldez and her daughter, Vanessa). Their cheesecake is amazing and I’m not the only one saying so…

Volunteer opportunities are available every Wednesday to help during the market (especially set up and break down times), so please contact me to get involved - see volunteer list below and send to your friends!

With a sunny smile,
Bob New, IFM Manager

All photos from in this email from May 28, 2008 at the IFM courtesy of Nikki Guerrero (Hot Mama Salsa). Check out more pictures on the IFM website under the “Pictures” section on the menu!

Volunteer Opportunities!

We need your help all season long… Some positions are during the market day while others involve assisting throughout the season. Please contact me for more information or to sign up for the next Wednesday market.

1) Set-up (12:00 noon - 3 pm) Set up canopies, tables, signs and direct vendors to designated parking area. Assist musicians or other community members as needed.Requires some lifting. Do not wear open-toed shoes.

2) Information Booth (Choose one: 3:00 - 5:00 pm, 5:00 - 7:00 pm) Answer questions about the market, sign-up volunteers and assist with demonstrations. Greet people as they enter and exit the market, assist with crowd counts and direction pedestrian traffic. Processes EBT/Debit/Oregon Trial transactions and distributes and monitors wooden tokens.

3) Breakdown (6:30 - 8 pm) - Take down canopies, tables, signs and other equipment. Collect and empty trash and recycle containers. Requires some lifting. Do not wear open-toed shoes.

4) Volunteer Coordinator (2-5 hours per week) - Recruit, retain and celebrate volunteers! Includes market-day presence, internet and phone calls to potential volunteers to help at the market.

5) Vendor Relations (2-5 hours per week) - Communicate with vendors and farmers each week to combile a list of available foods, help with set-up on market day and recruit new local vendors. (Might also include volunteer coordination for farmers)

6) Kids’ Village (2-5 hours per week) - Create an area for kids to play and learn! I’m hoping to create an educational and fun area for kids of all ages.

7) Publicity (2-5 hours per week) - Posters, fliers, internet postings, press releases, media connections. Help get the word out to bring the people in!

The Entertainment…

James Clem will again join us this week.Playing Mississippi Delta Blues, James plays, records and teaches guitar in the Portland area.Take a sneak preview of James’ music at http://www.myspace.com/clemjames orhttp://jamesclem.com/ for more information about this great musician!

Thanks to The Reverb Brothers for the rockin’ entertainment last week. They will be back on the IFM stage next week on June 18!

IFM Contact Information

Join us Wednesdays 3:00 - 7:00 pm (May - Sept)
Location: Interstate Ave/Fremont St (next to Overlook Park)
(Hosted by Kaiser Permanente and sponsored by New Seasons Market)

For all using the internet for location of market: 3550 N Fremont St

For more information:
Bob New, IFM Manager
phone: 971-344-0115
email: contact@interstatefarmersmarket.com
http://interstatefarmersmarket.com

Use your Debit card or Oregon Trail card at IFM! Come to the Info booth…
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Market Day ~ A Community Market…

The 2008 IFM Season has started out a bit slowly and we need your help to pick up the pace a bit. Due to a rainy and cold last couple of weeks, attendance has been much less than we are hoping to support the local businesses that sell at the market.

A local market needs a community to support it through many means - purchasing food, volunteering and sharing the market with friends and family (make it a date!). Check out our expanded list of volunteer opportunities that include more planning for sustaining the market as a community. IFM vendors are providing a great selection of produce, jams, flowers, prepared foods, meats, fish, dog treats and bakery items that are gluten-free as well as sugar-free.

Although most farmers are behind schedule on providing local food to markets due to the lack of sunshine, Sweet Leaf Farms (picture above) has been providing a great selection of produce grown from the southern Willamette Valley (near Eugene) and has been left with much produce at the end of the day… Let’s help them sell out so their trip back home is a lot lighter!

More farmers that have sold at IFM in previous years are coming back in the next few weeks as their crops grow with increasing days of sunshine (Baird Farms, Creative Growers, Deep Roots Farm, Liepold Farm, Unger Farms are some familiar names for IFM customers).

We would really love to have more volunteers help during the market (especially set up and break down times), so please contact me to get involved - see volunteer list below and send to your friends!

Come support the market (even if it’s raining)!

See you at the Market!
Bob New, IFM Manager

All photos from in this email from May 28, 2008 at the market courtesy of one of IFM’s vendors,  Nikki Guerrero (Hot Mama Salsa). Check out more pictures on the IFM website under the “Pictures” section on the menu!

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Volunteer Opportunities!
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We need your help all season!
(Some positions are during the market day while others involve assisting throughout the season…)

1) Set-up (12:00 noon - 3 pm) Set up canopies, tables, signs and direct vendors to designated parking area. Assist musicians or other community members as needed.Requires some lifting. Do not wear open-toed shoes.

2) Information Booth (Choose one: 3:00 - 5:00 pm, 5:00 - 7:00 pm) Answer questions about the market, sign-up volunteers and assist with demonstrations. Greet people as they enter and exit the market, assist with crowd counts and direction pedestrian traffic. Processes EBT/Debit/Oregon Trial transactions and distributes and monitors wooden tokens.
3) Breakdown (6:30 - 8 pm) - Take down canopies, tables, signs and other equipment. Collect and empty trash and recycle containers. Requires some lifting. Do not wear open-toed shoes.

4) Volunteer Coordinator (2-5 hours per week) - Recruit, retain and celebrate volunteers! Includes market-day presence, internet and phone calls to potential volunteers to help at the market.

5) Vendor Relations (2-5 hours per week) - Communicate with vendors and farmers each week to combile a list of available foods, help with set-up on market day and recruit new local vendors. (Might also include volunteer coordination for farmers)

6) Kids’ Village (2-5 hours per week) - Create an area for kids to play and learn! I’m hoping to create an educational and fun area for kids of all ages.

7) Publicity (2-5 hours per week) - Posters, fliers, internet postings, press releases, media connections. Help get the word out to bring the people in!