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Collingswood MAY 17, 2014
Hello, Collingswood Marketeers!
After what will certainly be a rainy Friday, Saturday’s (Marketday’s!) weather will be mostly sunny with a high of 73 degrees. Great outdoor shopping weather!
EVERYBODY IN PLACE FOR NOW
Nobody has to move at all this week.
MAYFAIR IS COMING
Next week, SAT MAY 24, is Mayfair in Collingswood. This week, SAT MAY 17, I’ll come around with an Irvin Avenue site plan. As we did last year, we’ll assign not just spaces but arrival times. Last year worked smoothly. This year will too.
CHEF DEMO
Whole Foods is a Market sponsor this year. As such, they’re permitted to make Sponsor appearances. Lucky for us, they’ve elected to use the opportunity to provide us a valuable Market experience. This week, on site, they’ll whip up a fresh pasta salad using asparagus and other local produce. The demo is scheduled for 10am in Space 24 by the new north entrance.
MUSIC ON TWO STAGES
Market favorite Dave Kelly will grace the East Stage, while to the West, the one-man band Little Stevie will work his mojo.
NONPROFITS AND FUNDRAISERS
The academic high achievers of the Collingswood Recreation Department’s Odyssey of the Mind team will make an appearance in Space 25.
CREDIT CARDS
Vendors who accept credit cards are identified on the site plan by cc. Please let me know if you’ve decided to accept credit payments this year. I’ll note so on the next plan.
BID VENDORS
Mike DiBartolo, not David Hodges, is your contact for all questions regarding your appearance. Mike DiBartolo, dibartolobakery@comcast.net or (609) 949-3424.
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.
Voorhees Twilight Market THU MAY 15
Hello, Voorhees Marketeers!
General Notes
Thursday’s weather will be perfectly seasonable: mostly cloudy with a high of 82. Winds could be as high as 18 MPH, so be prepared to secure your tents, please.
Lisa Milideo has prepared several festive activities to kick off our 2014 season! Follow this link for details about music, balloons, cupcakes, and more!
Vendor Notes
- Duffield Farm will be back this year to anchor the west end of the Market as before. Expect their wide range of quality produce and bakery items.
- Anchoring the east end, newcomer to our Market (but a seasoned professional of other farmers’ markets!) the A.T. Buzby farm will debut tomorrow with their excellent produce, hanging strawberry baskets, Jersey Fresh hydroponic tomatoes, and more!
- Davidson’s Mushrooms will be traveling all the way from Kennett Square to bring us shitakes, criminis, and other exotic mushrooms.
- Alex Gassner has renamed her Sweet Pea CSA as Taproots Farm. She’ll be back with her unique offerings including, we presume, herbs and vegetable seedlings.
- Another newcomer Far Wind Farm, will provide extraordinary pastured eggs from the very contented laying hens at their Williamstown farm.
- We’re also proud and lucky to have attracted Wild Flour Bakery, whose artisan breads, baguettes, flatbreads and other baked goods have been pleasing Marketgoers all around the region for years.
- 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 will bring their popped product provided they get their certificate of occupancy paperwork approved in time to do the popping. We’re hoping.
- Hank Sauce will be back too this season. Tomorrow may be a little soon to get them back, but we have a space for them if they can make it.
- We’re also hoping La Pooch Patisserie will join us. Erin has a massive following at the Collingswood Market, and she’s certain to build another here in Voorhees if she can produce enough biscuits and pet treats to handle both.
- 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 will provide 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.
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 MAY 10, 2014
Hello, Collingswood Marketeers!
MAYFAIR IS COMING
Already, after just a week in the new season, we need to start preparing for Mayfair. Next week, MAY 17, I’ll come around with an Irvin Avenue site plan. As we did last year, we’ll assign not just spaces but arrival times. Last year worked smoothly. This year will too.
NEW VENDORS
Weckerly’s Ice Cream is a brand new Guest Vendor. They’ll be bringing local-sourced and organic-ingredient ice cream and sorbets, small batch, hand packed, sophisticated flavors. Just as sophisticated, John & Kira’s Chocolates will be back too.
LIVE ANIMALS
Windy Farm will be back with live alpacas.
MUSIC ON TWO STAGES
Annual favorites She Hates Me! will grace the East Stage, while to the West, market veteran John Rossi will keep things lively at his end.
NONPROFITS AND FUNDRAISERS
Camden County Animal Shelter will bring adoptable pets and fundraiser items to the Market Headquarters.
CREDIT CARDS
Vendors who accept credit cards are identified on the site plan by cc. Please let me know if you’ve decided to accept credit payments this year. I’ll note so on the next plan.
BID VENDORS
Mike DiBartolo, not David Hodges, is your contact for all questions regarding your appearance. Mike DiBartolo, dibartolobakery@comcast.net or (609) 949-3424.
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.
Collingswood MAY 03, 2014
Hello, Collingswood Marketeers!
Welcome back to South Jersey’s favorite Farmers’ Market! We’re as excited as you to be back for another wonderful season (maybe more so!).
Ribbon-cutting will occur promptly at 8AM! Mike DiBartolo of DiBartolo Bakery will be providing yummy treats.
SITE PLAN CHANGES
We’ve added an entrance to the Market along the north side (the sunny side) and relocated our volunteer tent (Friends of the Farmers’ Market—FOFM), the Veggie Valet tent, and the other weekly Market Activities venues (Sponsor, Nonprofit Fundraiser, and Artist of the Week) to the new Market Headquarters, spaces 21-26.
Look for the spiffy new blue-top tents with bold tomato graphics near the festive balloon arch where space 23 would be if there were still a space 23.
MOVED
Savoie Organic graciously accepted a relocation over the winter and will take up their new location in spaces 68 and 69, beneath the Speedline alongside the south entrance pedestrian walkway.
Cymron Cottage is also not where you might expect them. They’re in a familiar spot though: at the west end of the Market where the corn truck parks during corn season. Visit them for spring perennials and beautiful landscaping plants.
Davidson Mushrooms will be found much nearer the center of the Market.
Far Wind Farm’s pastured eggs have jumped across the new north entrance to take their place in space 16.
We’re grateful to all our vendors for their flexibility when site plan changes force us to make relocations.
NEW HEAD VOLUNTEER—TRICIA BURROUGH
After years of tireless service, Anne O’Donnell (now Anne Vogelmann) will no longer serve as the go-to Volunteer in Charge of the Friends of the Farmers’ Market, a job she did beautifully with the help of long-time volunteer scheduler Anne Carroll. This year both the Annes will be spending their Saturday mornings pursuing other parts of their busy lives, perhaps shopping at the Farmers’ Market (we can hope!).
In their place, Tricia Burrough has already begun the job of herding the many thoughtful volunteers who staff the FOFM tent, sell Market merchandise, run the Veggie Valet, and provide a sense of order and calm in a busy atmosphere. Seek her out this week and thank her in advance for the work she’ll do this season.
NEW VENDORS
New Guest Vendor Border Springs Farm will bring fresh or frozen lamb cuts for the first time in Collingswood. Revolution Roasters, who debuted last year as BID vendors, return this year in space 20 with their freshly roasted beans and cold-brew iced coffee.
RETURNING AS GUESTS
Market Day Canele
Green Aisle Grocery
Dee Dee’s Garden Pesto
TEMPORARY CANCELLATION
Fruitwood Farms’ crops are delayed for another week. They will return to their customary spaces near the west entrance next SAT MAY 10.
MUSIC ON TWO STAGES
Annual favorites Trio Nova Duo will christen the New Season on the East Stage, while to the West, market veteran Sam Caruso will keep things lively at his end.
NONPROFITS AND FUNDRAISERS
A walker in the upcoming Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk will be looking for sponsors in space 24. Space 25 is still available for a Market Sponsor appearance.
UPCOMING
The annual Mayfair will be with us before we know it! SAT MAY 24, we’ll be reorganizing ourselves along Irvin Avenue as we have since the Market began long, long ago.
CREDIT CARDS
Vendors who accept credit cards are identified on the site plan by cc. Please let me know if you’ve decided to accept credit payments this year. I’ll note so on the next plan.
BID VENDORS
Mike DiBartolo, not David Hodges, is your contact for all questions regarding your appearance. Mike DiBartolo, dibartolobakery@comcast.net or (609) 949-3424.
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.
Farm Marketeer 