Hello, Vendors, Artists, Food Artisans, and Friends of the Market!

This Week SAT AUG 29

Spectacular summer weather!

DRY (literally a 0% chance of precipitation), with temperatures climbing from the high-60s to the mid-80s. Lower humidity too this week. Check out this perfect forecast.

Site Plan for SAT AUG 29

AUG 29 Guest Vendors

We’ve kept the Guest Vendor roster light this week since David Hodges will not be at the Market to see to special needs. We do, however, have some regular Guests in attendance.

• NEIL’S SHARPENING SERVICE will take up his usual spot beneath the Speedline on Irvin Avenue.
• DEE DEE’S GARDEN will serve up their signature pestos from the same location.
• Local food producers The CONSTELLATION COLLECTIVE will surprise everyone with new offerings (and old favorites) alongside the Revolution Roasters.
• WOOD SPOON RICE PUDDING will set up inside the Market between DanLynn and Schober.

Guest Artist

Virginia (Ginny) Bernier runs the company she calls Le Vin et La Mer. She creates wine cork (le vin) and sea shell (la mer) creations: cork wreaths, bulletin boards, initials/letters and critters, shell wreaths, angels, mirrors, frames, and trees.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/LeVinetLaMer

http://www.facebook/virginia.bernier

Live Music

JOHN ROSSI

Back despite popular demand (Just kidding) John will pick, sing, and strum on the West Stage this week.

DAVE KELLY

Dave will bring his familiar collection of stringed things to the Music Tent.

Dog Tent

4 PAWS RESCUE OF NEW JERSEY will staff the Dog Tent for us this week, to provide Market Permit Leashes to pet owners who haven’t yet legitimized their dogs.

BID Vendors

Familiar participants include perennial favorites, DiBartolo Bakery, Villa Barone Restaurant, Cheese Etc, and Sara’s Produce.

Mike DiBartolo of DiBartolo Bakery is your contact for all questions regarding BID participation at the Market. (609) 949-3424 cell for voice or text.

No Market Director this week

David Hodges will take his one-Saturday vacation next week. He’ll be traveling in Hungary and Czechoslovakia for a week and will miss the SAT AUG 29 Market. This Saturday, we’ll do our best to set your location for the week he’ll be away so there will be no confusion during his absence.

Green Paint Stripes

On the “sunny side,” where spaces are not always fixed, I have painted a few important stripes with green spray paint to mark the limits of some larger vendors.

There are stripes to mark the ends of Springdale Farms, AT Buzby, Rick Hymer, DanLynn Organic, and Schober Orchards. Everyone else should be able to figure out your locations based on the positions those early arrivers take up.

Joe Williams (who helps out with our Dog Leash Program and who sets up and knocks down the Market tents) will be on the site with site plans to help resolve any confusion.

Not This Week

Small Bills and a Bathroom Key

Many of you know, but for those of you who don’t, I carry small bills for vendors who run out of singles during the Market day. For guest vendors who might not be aware, I also have a key to Perkins Art Center, a Market sponsor, the primary benefit of which, for our vendors is INDOOR PLUMBING!

Vendors Please Enforce: “No Permit, No Purchase”

This won’t be easy, but it’s necessary. If good dog behavior is important to you, you’ll comply in June with the No Permit, No Purchase policy, declining to serve customers who don’t choose to cooperate with the Permitting and Behavior Guidelines. David Hodges will distribute a small batch of Dog Behavior Guidelines to all vendors for distribution to anyone who appears at your table attempting to make purchases with a non-permitted dog.

VENDOR PARKING PERMITS

It’s good business to save the best parking spaces for SHOPPERS! Most visitors will tell you it’s tough to find parking at the Market. We make things worse by parking our own vehicles in spaces that could be used and re-used many times by shoppers. Please encourage your table crew to park for free in the Lumberyard Parking Garage (just across Collings Avenue from the west entrance). There are plenty of spaces inside, and the walk back to the Market takes 3 minutes.

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

Home Office (856) 854-8385

Cell Phone (856) 979-6653

Hello, Vendors, Artists, Food Artisans, and Friends of the Market!

This Week SAT AUG 22

Spectacular summer weather!

DRY (literally a 0% chance of precipitation), with temperatures climbing from the high-60s to the mid-80s. Lower humidity too this week. Check out this perfect forecast.

Site Plan for SAT AUG 22

AUG 22 Guest Vendors

We’re back to our regular layout now that the Art Festival is behind us, so we have Guest Vendors at the east entrance near Perkins, and four others in other locations.

• WECKERLY’S ICE CREAM will bring their latest seasonal flavors and old favorites.
• O MADE GRANOLA returns for another rare appearance, so stock up.
• Local food producer Charles Koory return with his CREPE CART to the “Treehouse” space.
• RICH’S MICRO ROAST will set up his roaster alongside the Crepe Cart to provide us a bit of that cafe magic at the west end. Come buy for a custom roast.

Guest Artist

Joy Manning and Samantha Bednarek call themselves League Street Press. This week, they’ll bring their Foodie-Themed Notecards that feature their watercolor paintings and original recipes.

https://www.facebook.com/leaguestreetpress

Live Music

SAM CARUSO

Sam will pick, sing, and strum on the West Stage this week. He also magically backs himself up with harmonizing vocals. You’ve got to hear it to believe it.

KEVIN MONKO

Kevin will bring his uniqueness and considerable skill to the Music Tent this week, though most likely with less makeup than pictured below. Accompanying musicians are a strong possibility.

Dog Tent

4 PAWS RESCUE OF NEW JERSEY will staff the Dog Tent for us this week, to provide Market Permit Leashes to pet owners who haven’t yet legitimized their dogs.

BID Vendors

Familiar participants include perennial favorites, DiBartolo Bakery, Villa Barone Restaurant, Cheese Etc, and Sara’s Produce.

Mike DiBartolo of DiBartolo Bakery is your contact for all questions regarding BID participation at the Market. (609) 949-3424 cell for voice or text.

Next Week SAT AUG 29

—No Market Director

David Hodges will take his one-Saturday vacation next week. He’ll be traveling in Hungary and Czechoslovakia for a week and will miss the SAT AUG 29 Market. This Saturday, we’ll do our best to set your location for the week he’ll be away so there will be no confusion during his absence.

Every Week

Small Bills and a Bathroom Key

Many of you know, but for those of you who don’t, I carry small bills for vendors who run out of singles during the Market day. For guest vendors who might not be aware, I also have a key to Perkins Art Center, a Market sponsor, the primary benefit of which, for our vendors is INDOOR PLUMBING!

Vendors Please Enforce: “No Permit, No Purchase”

This won’t be easy, but it’s necessary. If good dog behavior is important to you, you’ll comply in June with the No Permit, No Purchase policy, declining to serve customers who don’t choose to cooperate with the Permitting and Behavior Guidelines. David Hodges will distribute a small batch of Dog Behavior Guidelines to all vendors for distribution to anyone who appears at your table attempting to make purchases with a non-permitted dog. VENDOR PARKING PERMITS

It’s good business to save the best parking spaces for SHOPPERS! Most visitors will tell you it’s tough to find parking at the Market. We make things worse by parking our own vehicles in spaces that could be used and re-used many times by shoppers. Please encourage your table crew to park for free in the Lumberyard Parking Garage (just across Collings Avenue from the west entrance). There are plenty of spaces inside, and the walk back to the Market takes 3 minutes.

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

Home Office (856) 854-8385

Cell Phone (856) 979-6653

Hello, Vendors, Artists, Food Artisans, and Friends of the Market!

This Week SAT AUG 15

Looks like another weather beauty!

DRY (literally a 0% chance of precipitation), with temperatures climbing to the mid-80s. Check out this perfect forecast.

Site Plan for SAT AUG 15

Multi-Agency Animal Adoptathon

This week, SAT AUG 15

This week, for the first time, FIVE Animal welfare agencies, shelters, and an animal hospital will take over the West End (vacated by Treehouse for their vacation). Come by to see the adoptable animals, pick up some training tips, drop off some shelter supplies, kiss a pooch, have your pet microchipped, and make a donation to the cause.

AUG 15 Guest Vendors

The Craft and Fine Arts Festival takes over Haddon Avenue this weekend, so we lose the Guest Vendor area on Irvin Avenue. As a result, we have few Guest Vendors this Saturday, but they’re beauties.

• WOOD SPOON will bring their by now famous Rice Pudding (and other new delights)
• RED FOX GOURMET will be back to re-stock your artisan snack food needs
• Local food producer Charles Koory will debut his notorious CREPE CART for a two-week trial.

Guest Artist

Karla Heartsfield (Howard Heartsfield Studio/Gallery) is a Fiber Artist specializing in Handcrafted Clothing & Accessories with a loving eye towards the environment. Her work “is a combination of Fashion & Art. The Style is best described as Organic, Tribal, Textural, and Handcrafted.” Customers describe her work as Comfortable, Easy, and Affordable.

http://www.phillyart2wear.etsy.com

Live Music

JOHN ROSSI

John will pick, sing, and strum on the West Stage this week.

RICARDO TUMBAO

Meanwhile, on the East Stage beneath the Music Tent, a brand new act, Ricardo Tumbao, will perform. I don’t have a picture of him yet, but I’ll be sure to get one on Saturday. It’s even possible his name is not Tumbao, since that’s the word for music with a particular Cuban rhythm. Let’s just say we need to get acquainted.

Dog Tent

New Jersey Aid for Animals will staff the Dog Tent for us this week, but that particular duty is overshadowed by their participation in the Adoptathon. They will, however, be available to provide Market Permit Leashes to pet owners who haven’t yet legitimized their dogs.

BID Vendors

Two BID spaces have been taken over by the Adoptathon. The other four will be occupied by perennial favorites, DiBartolo Bakery, Villa Barone Restaurant, Cheese Etc, and Sara’s Produce.

Mike DiBartolo of DiBartolo Bakery is your contact for all questions regarding BID participation at the Market. (609) 949-3424 cell for voice or text.

Next Week SAT AUG 22

—Back to Full Strength

SAT AUG 22, there’s no big downtown Collingswood event, so we’ll have our usual Guest Vendor spaces available for ice cream, granola and delectables from the Constellation Collective.

Every Week

Small Bills and a Bathroom Key

Many of you know, but for those of you who don’t, I carry small bills for vendors who run out of singles during the Market day. For guest vendors who might not be aware, I also have a key to Perkins Art Center, a Market sponsor, the primary benefit of which, for our vendors is INDOOR PLUMBING!

Vendors Please Enforce: “No Permit, No Purchase”

This won’t be easy, but it’s necessary. If good dog behavior is important to you, you’ll comply in June with the No Permit, No Purchase policy, declining to serve customers who don’t choose to cooperate with the Permitting and Behavior Guidelines. David Hodges will distribute a small batch of Dog Behavior Guidelines to all vendors for distribution to anyone who appears at your table attempting to make purchases with a non-permitted dog. VENDOR PARKING PERMITS

It’s good business to save the best parking spaces for SHOPPERS! Most visitors will tell you it’s tough to find parking at the Market. We make things worse by parking our own vehicles in spaces that could be used and re-used many times by shoppers. Please encourage your table crew to park for free in the Lumberyard Parking Garage (just across Collings Avenue from the west entrance). There are plenty of spaces inside, and the walk back to the Market takes 3 minutes.

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 Home Office (856) 854-8385

Hello, Vendors, Artists, and Friends of the Market!

This Week SAT AUG 08

I’m starting to feel spoiled by the weather.

It sure looks like beautiful weather again for Saturday. Forecasts all look very good, including this one, which complies with my favorite prediction of all: DRY!

Site Plan for SAT AUG 08

Peach Pie Contest this week, SAT AUG 08

Pies arrive by 9am and the judging (by way of tasting!) takes place from 10am until the presentation of prizes. Follow the Entry Flags to the middle of the Market and follow your nose to space 22.

Last year’s celebration included a visit from peach royalty, Little Miss New Jersey Peach.

AUG 08 Guest Vendors

Some wonderful Guests join us this week

• Green-Ford will bring their exceptional heirloom berries from Pemberton.
• Collingswood’s own Constellation Collective will set up alongside Collingswood’s own Revolution Roasters.
• Market Day Canele takes a space in the Guest Vendor area
• alongside Weckerly’s Ice Cream and
• O Made Granola

Guest Artist

Selena Braunstein (Creatively Obsessed) makes unique jewelry pieces from antique, vintage, and modern buttons. They’re pieces of “wearable history.”

https://www.facebook.com/CreativelyObsessedDesigns

https://www.etsy.com/shop/CreativelyObsessed

Live Music

SAM CARUSO

Sam Caruso sends and receives the love on the West Stage this week.

KEVIN MONKO

Meanwhile, on the East Stage beneath the Music Tent, Monko will produce some rock and or roll, most likely not with purple hair . . . but who knows?

Dog Tent

The Almost Home Shelter will staff the Dog Tent for us this week, continuing to register dogs that haven’t yet bought their official Market Leash Permits.

BID Vendors

Perennial favorites, DiBartolo Bakery, Villa Barone Restaurant, Cheese Etc, and Sara’s Produce will all attend. We’ll also have a visit from Collingswood Music.

Mike DiBartolo of DiBartolo Bakery is your contact for all questions regarding BID participation at the Market. (609) 949-3424 cell for voice or text.

Next Week SAT AUG 15

—Craft Fair AUG 15

SAT AUG 15 is the annual Collingswood event: The Craft and Fine Arts Festival on Haddon Avenue. This changes traffic patterns in town and means we lose our Guest Vendor area to vehicle traffic.

—Pet Adoptathon AUG 15

Also SAT AUG 15, for the first time, FIVE Animal welfare agencies, shelters, and an animal hospital will take over the West End (vacated by Treehouse for their vacation). Come by to see the adoptable animals, pick up some training tips, and make a donation to the cause.

Every Week

Small Bills and a Bathroom Key

Many of you know, but for those of you who don’t, I carry small bills for vendors who run out of singles during the Market day. For guest vendors who might not be aware, I also have a key to Perkins Art Center, a Market sponsor, the primary benefit of which, for our vendors is INDOOR PLUMBING!

Vendors Please Enforce: “No Permit, No Purchase”

This won’t be easy, but it’s necessary. If good dog behavior is important to you, you’ll comply in June with the No Permit, No Purchase policy, declining to serve customers who don’t choose to cooperate with the Permitting and Behavior Guidelines. David Hodges will distribute a small batch of Dog Behavior Guidelines to all vendors for distribution to anyone who appears at your table attempting to make purchases with a non-permitted dog. VENDOR PARKING PERMITS

It’s good business to save the best parking spaces for SHOPPERS! Most visitors will tell you it’s tough to find parking at the Market. We make things worse by parking our own vehicles in spaces that could be used and re-used many times by shoppers. Please encourage your table crew to park for free in the Lumberyard Parking Garage (just across Collings Avenue from the west entrance). There are plenty of spaces inside, and the walk back to the Market takes 3 minutes.

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 Home Office (856) 854-8385