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Collingswood SAT JUN 21
Hello, Vendors and Friends of the Collingswood Farmers’ Market!
FIRST DAY OF SUMMER! Week 8 of our 2014 Season is the first time we’ll glimpse sweet corn and field-grown tomatoes. Looks like a beauty. Temperatures begin at 70 and warm toward 80 with little chance of rain.
GUEST VENDORS
Just two this week:
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Collingswood’s own Sweet Freedom (Gluten etc free) Bakery
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The very popular Weckerly’s Ice Cream
LIVE MUSIC
She Hates Me plays the east stage. Sam Caruso plays and sings on the west stage.
BID VENDORS
As always, Mike DiBartolo, not David Hodges, is your contact for all questions regarding BID participation at the Market. (609) 949-3424. mikied721@gmail.com.
MARKET ACTIVITY SPACES
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Our sponsor Liberti Church will spread the word about their congregation to our congregation.
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Collingswood Community Garden will brag about their beautiful local venture.
ARTIST OF THE WEEK: Dave and Carol Leader bring their Turned Treasures (turned on a lathe) to the Art space: beautiful and functional items in wood, acrylic, even corian.
SPECIAL SPONSOR EVENT:
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Pottery Seconds! Perkins Art Center will conduct its popular pottery sale on their own front patio at the east end of the Market.
FLEXIBLE SITE PLAN
Changes will continue to occur throughout the season as vendors come and go and as we learn more about how neighbors interact. I remind you no spaces are ever guaranteed and require your cooperation if I have to move your location any given week. Thank you.
David Hodges Market Director Collingswood Farmers’ Market 856 854-8385 Home Office 856 979-6653 Cell Phone on Market Day
Collingswood SAT JUN 14
Hello, Vendors and Friends of the Collingswood Farmers’ Market!
Week 7 of our 2014 Season is the Fathers’ Day Weekend. Looks like a beauty. No chance of rain on Saturday, high of 77. WIND ALERT: 10-15mph. At 15mph, you’ll want tent weights.
GUEST VENDORS
We’re packed with scrumptious specialties:
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Green Aisle Grocery
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Market Day Canele with sweet and savory tarts
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John & Kira’s Chocolates.
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Border Springs Farm Lamb
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Next to them, the very popular Weckerly’s Ice Cream returns.
LIVE MUSIC
Trio Nova Duo play the east stage. John Rossi plays and sings on the west stage.
BID VENDORS
As always, Mike DiBartolo, not David Hodges, is your contact for all questions regarding BID participation at the Market. (609) 949-3424. mikied721@gmail.com.
MARKET ACTIVITY SPACES
BUY TWO, GIVE ONE: Our sponsor, Lourdes Wellness, is partnering with the Oaklyn Food Pantry to collect fresh foods for distribution to local food-insecure families.
ARTIST OF THE WEEK: Brooke Van Derzee brings her personal take on jewelry to our Guest Artist space.
NON-PROFIT FUNDRAISER: Animal Adoption Center of Lindenwold will bring adoptable animals to our Guest Vendor area.
FLEXIBLE SITE PLAN
Changes will continue to occur throughout the season as vendors come and go and as we learn more about how neighbors interact. I remind you no spaces are ever guaranteed and require your cooperation if I have to move your location any given week. Thank you.
David Hodges Market Director Collingswood Farmers’ Market 856 854-8385 Home Office 856 979-6653 Cell Phone on Market Day
Voorhees Twilight Market THU JUN 12
Hello, Voorhees Marketeers!
General Notes
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Expect to get wet today. Forecasters predict scattered thunderstorms for much of the time we’ll be open, temperatures approaching 80 degrees, light wind at 9-11mph.
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Also expect to get groovy. We’ve booked a Caribbean Steel Drum Band to keep our spirits lively.
Vendor Notes
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TWO NEW FARMS are joining us this week!
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Joining us for the first time, Border Springs Farm will bring lamb in several forms: ground, in chops, in other cuts, as sausage . . . .
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Also new this week, Cheyenne’s Farm Market bring beautiful produce, seedlings, and Very Local Honey from their own hives.
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Cherry Grove Farm of Lawrenceville will return to the Market with farmstead cheeses and assorted beef and pork cuts.
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A.T. Buzby farm will return as well, with Jersey Fresh produce from the fields.
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Alex Gassner’s Taproots Farm will be back with herb and vegetable seedlings.
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Far Wind Farm will provide extraordinary pastured eggs from the very contented laying hens at their Williamstown farm.
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Wild Flour Bakery is back with artisan breads, baguettes, flatbreads and other baked goods.
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A 2013 favorite, Hank Sauce will return to Voorhees this week with their cayenne-based hot sauces.
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Davidson’s Mushrooms is iffy today, so they don’t appear on the site plan yet. If they do come, they’ll bring shitakes, criminis, and other exotic mushrooms.
Twilight Market Vendor Mix
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As a Farmers’ Market, we’re as committed as ever to bringing Jersey Fresh produce and agricultural products to our customers directly from the hand of the grower or producer.
-
At the same time, our evening hours suggest we should also blend in carefully selected food artisans, chefs, and prepared food goods using local products. Please don’t hesitate to recommend pasta-makers, sausage-makers, sauce producers, coffee roasters, ice cream churners, butter producers, or any other food preparers you think might enhance our mix.
Space and Product Accommodations
-
Just a reminder that spaces are never guaranteed. We do our best to accommodate requests for ideal locations, but Market needs trump any individual vendor’s personal preference.
-
We also do our best to limit redundancy of products at the Market, with the clear understanding that most farms that grow produce will harvest similar crops at similar times. Still, we welcome your feedback on matters of duplication and excessive competition.
Directions for New Vendors
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The site plan at the top of this post shows the layout of the Market at the “Macy’s entrance” to the Voorhees Town Center (formerly known as the Echelon Mall).
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In this detail below, notice you’ll most likely enter the Mall site by way of Town Center Boulevard (1), curve left between the Macy’s entrance (2) and the Special Activities Plaza (3), then take a left into the Market site (4).
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Stepping back a bit from the near view, see the Town Center Boulevard entrance (at the blue arrow) off of Echelon Road.
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And finally, the Google Map view shows how to approach Echelon Road from Route 295, Exit 32, via Route 561, and then Somerdale Road. (Google calls your destination “A.”)
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To see more of the Google directions, use “Voorhees Town Center, Voorhees NJ” as your destination, as I have done in the map field below.
“Heart of the Garden” WED JUN 18
Heart of the Garden WED JUN 18
Hello Vendors, Participants, and Marketeers!
WEEK 03!
Today, WED JUN 18, marks the 3rd week of the season for the “Heart of the Garden” Farmers’ Market, co-sponsored by the Township of Pemberton and the DEBORAH Heart and Lung Center. We’ve added a new feature, prepared refreshments from Pemberton’s own Hungry Piney.
NEWS FOR THIS WEEK
Hungry Piney. You’ve been asking for on-site refreshments. Today Hungry Piney will set up at the Picnic Grove to make sandwiches with meatballs and sausage-and-peppers. They’ll also have plenty of cold beverages.
PURPOSE OF THIS POST
This post is not for the general public. It’s for the benefit of Market participants. We have a facebook page and are building an email list to communicate with Marketgoers. You’ll get your news here; you’ll receive weekly email with a link to a new post at this blog for announcements and the site plan for the week.
LOCATION
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The address is 500 Pemberton-Browns Mills Road, in the open field alongside the Pemberton Municipal Building.
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An aerial photo below shows the site location across the street from the athletic fields with their baseball diamonds, just down the road from the Burlington County Community College campus (and very near the tall blue water tower).
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A link to Google Maps for driving directions is also provided below.
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Have my cell phone number with you: David Hodges (856) 979-6653
SCHEDULE
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Arrive at 1:30 if you need the time, but no later than 2:00pm, please.
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Be set up and ready to sell when the Market opens at 3:00pm.
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Stay until the Market closes at 7:00pm.
VEHICLES
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An aerial map with arrows showing the entry plan is shown below.
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To exit, follow the arrows backwards.
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Drive in off Pemberton-Browns Mills Road, proceed past parking and beyond the line of cones.
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Turn left just before the green-and-white snow fence into the field.
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Drive directly into the Market, following the site plan, looking for white stripes drawn on the grass.
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Park your vehicle across the back of your area inside your assigned spaces.
TENTS AND GROUNDS
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Set up tents and tables across the front of your assigned space.
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Bring and use tent weights or stakes for everybody’s safety.
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The Market site is a grassy field. It should be dry tomorrow, but consider bringing a mat just in case.
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facebook.com/HeartoftheGardenMarket
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We’ve been blowing up. 179 Likes in our first two weeks.
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You can “Check In” on facebook when you arrive to let your friends (and your boss) know you’re here.
Vendor Entry to the Market:
Link to Google Maps for Driving Directions
QUESTIONS?
Leave a comment in the Reply field below OR
Email David Hodges at davidbdale@comcast.net OR
Phone David Hodges at (856) 854-8385 Home Office OR
Phone David Hodges at (856) 979-6653 Cell Phone for Market Days
Market Director David Hodges, always in a red shirt and Market cap, not always with his beagle/dachshund Shelby.
Collingswood SAT JUN 07
Hello, Vendors and Friends of the Collingswood Farmers’ Market!
For Week 6 of our 2014 Season, it’s starting to feel like summer, mostly sunny with a high of 86, no chance of rain and just a light breeze of 6 mph.
GUEST VENDORS
It’s The Dessert Aisle in the Guest Vendor Area this week:
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Collingswood’s new gluten-free bakery, Sweet Freedom, will debut in Space A.
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Next to them, the very popular Weckerly’s Ice Cream returns.
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And for the second time this season, MECHA Chocolates rounds out the sweet-fest.
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As if that were not enough, the live alpaca are back in their spot beneath the Speedline.
LIVE MUSIC
Little Stevie and his Electric Mojo play the east stage. Close your eyes and declare how many of him there are.
BID VENDORS
As always, Mike DiBartolo, not David Hodges, is your contact for all questions regarding BID participation at the Market. (609) 949-3424. mikied721@gmail.com.
MARKET ACTIVITY SPACE
Collingswood Travel Soccer Club will be selling pretzels near all that sweetness in the Guest Vendor area.
FLEXIBLE SITE PLAN
Changes will continue to occur throughout the season as vendors come and go and as we learn more about how neighbors interact. I remind you no spaces are ever guaranteed and require your cooperation if I have to move your location any given week. Thank you.
David Hodges
Market Director
Collingswood Farmers’ Market
856 854-8385 Home Office
856 979-6653 Cell Phone on Market Day
“Heart of the Garden” WED JUN 04
Working Site Plan for WED JUN 04
Hello Vendors, Participants, and Marketeers!
GRAND OPENING
Tomorrow, WED JUN 04, is the Grand Opening of the “Heart of the Garden” Farmers’ Market, co-sponsored by the Township of Pemberton and the DEBORAH Heart and Lung Center.
PURPOSE OF THIS POST
This post is not for the general public. It’s for the benefit of Market participants. We have a facebook page and are building an email list to communicate with Marketgoers. You’ll get your news here; you’ll receive weekly email with a link to a new post at this blog for announcements and the site plan for the week.
LOCATION
- The address is 500 Pemberton-Browns Mills Road, in the open field alongside the Pemberton Municipal Building.
- An aerial photo below shows the site location across the street from the athletic fields with their baseball diamonds, just down the road from the Burlington County Community College campus (and very near the tall blue water tower).
- A link to Google Maps for driving directions is also provided below.
- Have my cell phone number with you: David Hodges (856) 979-6653
SCHEDULE
- Arrive at 1:30 if you need the time, but no later than 2:00pm, please.
- Be set up and ready to sell when the Market opens at 3:00pm.
- Stay until the Market closes at 7:00pm.
VEHICLES
- An aerial map with arrows showing the entry plan is shown below.
- To exit, follow the arrows backwards.
- Drive in off Pemberton-Browns Mills Road, proceed past parking and beyond the line of cones.
- Turn left just before the green-and-white snow fence into the field.
- Drive directly into the Market, following the site plan, looking for white stripes drawn on the grass.
- Park your vehicle across the back of your area inside your assigned spaces.
TENTS
- Set up tents and tables across the front of your assigned space.
- Bring and use tent weights for everybody’s safety.
- facebook.com/HeartoftheGardenMarket
- We’ve been blowing up. 52 Likes since we launched the page this morning.
Advance promotion flier
Vendor Entry to the Market:
Link to Google Maps for Driving Directions
QUESTIONS?
Leave a comment in the Reply field below OR
Email David Hodges at davidbdale@comcast.net OR
Phone David Hodges at (856) 854-8385 Home Office OR
Phone David Hodges at (856) 979-6653 Cell Phone for Market Days
Market Director David Hodges, always in a red shirt and Market cap, not always with his beagle/dachshund Shelby.
Collingswood SAT MAY 31
Hello, Vendors and Friends of the Collingswood Farmers’ Market!
For Week 5 of our 2014 Season, we’re back to our customary location “under PATCO.”
GUEST VENDORS
Several favorites are returning, and two brand new Guest Vendors will join us this week.
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Neil’s Sharpening Service will visit this week and the last week of every month to sharpen scissors, knives, and garden tools. Arrive dull; leave sharp!
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Very local chocolate-maker MECHA Chocolates will join us for the first time.
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Dee Dee’s Garden, Green Aisle Grocery, Market Day Canele, and Border Springs Lamb will all be in attendance.
LIVE MUSIC ON TWO STAGES
Trio Nova Duo will play the east stage; to the west, John Rossi.
BID VENDORS
As always, Mike DiBartolo, not David Hodges, is your contact for all questions regarding BID participation at the Market. (609) 949-3424. mikied721@gmail.com.
MARKET ACTIVITY SPACE
The Society of Suicide Prevention will be seeking sponsors for an “Out of the Darkness” Walk. And Maria Cartwright, our Artist of the Week, will present her original fire-torched enamel jewelry originals.
FLEXIBLE SITE PLAN
Changes will continue to occur throughout the season as vendors come and go and as we learn more about how neighbors interact. I remind you no spaces are ever guaranteed and require your cooperation if I have to move your location any given week. Thank you.
David Hodges
Market Director
Collingswood Farmers’ Market
856 854-8385 Home Office
856 979-6653 Cell Phone on Market Day
Voorhees Twilight Market THU MAY 29
Hello, Voorhees Marketeers!
General Notes
Thursday’s weather will be dry but cool. Expect partial sun and 68 degrees at 3pm while we’re setting up but a generally cloudy day overall.
Vendor Notes
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TWO NEW FARMS are joining us this week.
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Lone Wolfe Farm of Pemberton will bring annuals, perennials, hanging baskets and other landscape enhancers, plus the first of their spring produce.
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Cherry Grove Farm of Lawrenceville will debut at the Market this week with farmstead cheeses (should pair beautifully with the breads at Wild Flour Bakery and Duffield’s).
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Duffield Farm will be back this week with more strawberries than they had last week.
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A.T. Buzby farm will return as well, with Jersey Fresh hydroponic tomatoes, and more fresh produce from the fields.
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Davidson’s Mushrooms will be traveling from Kennett Square to bring us shitakes, criminis, and other exotic mushrooms.
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Alex Gassner’s Taproots Farm is back this week.
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Far Wind Farm, will provide extraordinary pastured eggs from the very contented laying hens at their Williamstown farm.
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Wild Flour Bakery, whose artisan breads, baguettes, flatbreads and other baked goods have been pleasing Marketgoers all around the region for year, returns to Voorhees for their third week.
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Fruits d’Heritage will bring just one product: heirloom tomato seedlings in charming, biodegradable paper pots that can be directly planted.
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Kemp’s Kettle Corn will attend.
Twilight Market Vendor Mix
-
As a Farmers’ Market, we’re as committed as ever to bringing Jersey Fresh produce and agricultural products to our customers directly from the hand of the grower or producer.
-
At the same time, our evening hours suggest we should also blend in carefully selected food artisans, chefs, and prepared food goods using local products. Please don’t hesitate to recommend pasta-makers, sausage-makers, sauce producers, coffee roasters, ice cream churners, butter producers, or any other food preparers you think might enhance our mix.
Space and Product Accommodations
-
Just a reminder that spaces are never guaranteed. We do our best to accommodate requests for ideal locations, but Market needs trump any individual vendor’s personal preference.
-
We also do our best to limit redundancy of products at the Market, with the clear understanding that most farms that grow produce will harvest similar crops at similar times. Still, we welcome your feedback on matters of duplication and excessive competition.
Directions for New Vendors
-
The site plan at the top of this post shows the layout of the Market at the “Macy’s entrance” to the Voorhees Town Center (formerly known as the Echelon Mall).
-
In this detail below, notice you’ll most likely enter the Mall site by way of Town Center Boulevard (1), curve left between the Macy’s entrance (2) and the Special Activities Plaza (3), then take a left into the Market site (4).
-
Stepping back a bit from the near view, see the Town Center Boulevard entrance (at the blue arrow) off of Echelon Road.
-
And finally, the Google Map view shows how to approach Echelon Road from Route 295, Exit 32, via Route 561, and then Somerdale Road. (Google calls your destination “A.”)
-
To see more of the Google directions, use “Voorhees Town Center, Voorhees NJ” as your destination, as I have done in the map field below.
Collingswood SAT MAY 24
Hello, Vendors and Friends of the Collingswood Farmers’ Market!
Week 4 of our 2014 Season is the very different Mayfair Saturday.
As we do just once every year, we’re relocating to Irvin Avenue this week to accommodate Mayfair. For experienced vendors, this is no surprise; for newcomers, the dislocation will be startling.
VEHICLES ARE PROHIBITED
Vehicles cannot be driven into or parked on Irvin Avenue, which is narrower than our usual spaces. Instead, you’ll be parking in the lot behind the Kitchen Associates building and unloading by foot onto Irvin Avenue. DO NOT DRIVE ONTO IRVIN AVENUE.
SITE PLAN AND PAVEMENT CHALK
The Irvin Avenue Site Plan is attached.
In addition, David will be chalking the pavement squares with your initials to confirm which spaces you’ve been assigned.
GUEST VENDORS
Two guest vendors have elected to join us for this unusual week.
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This unusual week will be the second appearance at the Market for our popular chocolatier, John & Kira’s Chocolates.
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Fruits d’Heritage will appear at the Market just once this season, bringing heirloom tomato seedlings in quickly degradable paper planting cups.
BID VENDORS
Mike DiBartolo will attend with his groaning tables of baked goods. Sara’s Produce will join him near the intersection of Haddon Avenue. They will be the only representatives of our BID contingent this week. As always, Mike DiBartolo, not David Hodges, is your contact for all questions regarding BID participation at the Market. (609) 949-3424. mikied721@gmail.com.
VEGGIE VALET / NONPROFIT FUNDRAISER
There will be no Veggie Valet or dedicated Nonprofits spaces this week. Both will return SAT MAY 31.
FLEXIBLE SITE PLAN
This week especially I will need vendors to be flexible and understanding as you set up your spaces. There is “air” in the site plan, since most smaller vendors are assigned to spaces at least a bit larger than usual. I will be on the site from 6am until 8am to facilitate the load-in, after which I will depart. Remain calm and sell a lot of stuff.
David Hodges
Market Director
Collingswood Farmers’ Market
856 854-8385 Home Office
856 979-6653 Cell Phone on Market Day
Voorhees Twilight Market THU MAY 22
Hello, Voorhees Marketeers!
General Notes
Thursday’s weather will be iffy: Temperatures in the mid-70s, but scattered thunderstorms early, followed by sunny between 6 and 7. Let’s hope those early storms are VERY scattered.
Vendor Notes
- Duffield Farm will be back this week with more strawberries than they had last week.
- A.T. Buzby farm will return as well, with Jersey Fresh hydroponic tomatoes, and more fresh produce from the fields.
- Davidson’s Mushrooms will be traveling from Kennett Square to bring us shitakes, criminis, and other exotic mushrooms.
- Alex Gassner’s Taproots Farm is off this week and next. Rob injured a rib, and next week is the first week of their CSA. Taprooots will be back with fresh produce THU JUN 05.
- Far Wind Farm, will provide extraordinary pastured eggs from the very contented laying hens at their Williamstown farm.
- Wild Flour Bakery, whose artisan breads, baguettes, flatbreads and other baked goods have been pleasing Marketgoers all around the region for year, returns to Voorhees for their second week.
- New vendor (and a temporary addition) Fruits d’Heritage will bring just one product: heirloom tomato seedlings in charming, biodegradable paper pots that can be directly planted.
- Market favorites Kemp’s Kettle Corn have resolved their production and staffing issues and will make their first appearance this week.
- Carol Steinhauser brought her hand soap, sugar scrubs, lotion bars, lip balms, bubble bath and other bath products to Market last year as Blueberry Fields. She’s eager to return and we’re delighted to welcome her back.
- Town Center Boulevard tenant Victorian Savories hasn’t confirmed yet for this week, but last week they provided our coffee service and bakery desserts. We’ve sited them next to the Market Relaxation tent so their customers can idle there with coffee and snacks.
- We’re inviting the Market’s favorite musician, John Rossi, to make a repeat performance this week. With his guitar.
Twilight Market Vendor Mix
- As a Farmers’ Market, we’re as committed as ever to bringing Jersey Fresh produce and agricultural products to our customers directly from the hand of the grower or producer.
- At the same time, our evening hours suggest we should also blend in carefully selected food artisans, chefs, and prepared food goods using local products. Please don’t hesitate to recommend pasta-makers, sausage-makers, sauce producers, coffee roasters, ice cream churners, butter producers, or any other food preparers you think might enhance our mix.
Space and Product Accommodations
- Just a reminder that spaces are never guaranteed. We do our best to accommodate requests for ideal locations, but Market needs trump any individual vendor’s personal preference.
- We also do our best to limit redundancy of products at the Market, with the clear understanding that most farms that grow produce will harvest similar crops at similar times. Still, we welcome your feedback on matters of duplication and excessive competition.
Directions for New Vendors
- The site plan at the top of this post shows the layout of the Market at the “Macy’s entrance” to the Voorhees Town Center (formerly known as the Echelon Mall).
- In this detail below, notice you’ll most likely enter the Mall site by way of Town Center Boulevard (1), curve left between the Macy’s entrance (2) and the Special Activities Plaza (3), then take a left into the Market site (4).
- Stepping back a bit from the near view, see the Town Center Boulevard entrance (at the blue arrow) off of Echelon Road.
- And finally, the Google Map view shows how to approach Echelon Road from Route 295, Exit 32, via Route 561, and then Somerdale Road. (Google calls your destination “A.”)
- To see more of the Google directions, use “Voorhees Town Center, Voorhees NJ” as your destination, as I have done in the map field below.
Farm Marketeer 