Week 8 of the 2019 Season

THU AUG 01

We finally got a forecast we deserve. Looking forward to a beautiful Market day with mostly sunny skies, low humidity, little chance of rain, and temperatures in the mid-80s. Shopping weather! Spending weather!

SITE PLAN THU AUG 01

Weather Policy

FOR THU JUL 25.  A few changes to last week’s siteplan.

• Boheme Foods has the week off.
• We have a returning artist this week (Amy Eckert)
• We have a returning music act, Glenn McCollum.
• Big Catch has no staff for this week, but will return.

Load In

ARRIVE NO LATER THAN 2PM. THE ONLY ENTRANCE IS FROM HIGH STREET.
15 MINUTE TIME LIMIT FOR UNLOADING IN THE MARKET.

As you can see, the space is tight for the number of vendors, and getting in and out of our spaces will require planning and patience. Unless you have permission to park a vehicle inside the Market, you’ll have to drive carefully to your spot, unload VERY QUICKLY, then EXIT THE MARKET with your vehicle and set up when you return.

Click here for driving directions.

You can use (and tell your new customers to use) 2 High Street Mount Holly NJ
as a destination for mapping programs.

Contracts and Fees

Those of you who have not submitted your Application/Contract paperwork need to comply to remain active at the Market and to take advantage of the Fee Rebate Program.

Download the Application from the Mount Holly Contracts link at the top of this website. Complete the app in Word, in PDF, or on paper, and send it to Sean Kennedy, whose name and address are on the first page of the contract package.

FEE REBATE PROGRAM

Prepay your dates to qualify for Fee Rebates. Earn a full 100% rebate for table fees for every Market you attend. Prepay for 10 dates (for example), attend those 10 dates, and you’ll be refunded 100% of your fees at the end of the season.

DAY PAY VENDORS

Afraid of commitment? You can pay on Market day. The Market Director will have receipts for day-pay vendors who prefer the flexibility of paying when they attend, but no rebates can be earned without prepaid dates.

Facebook Promotion

We were very visible on Facebook last week. Not so much this week. If anybody wants to help keep us in front of the local shopping public, let David know you want to lend a hand. Click the link to see what we’ve been up to.

Website

The Township  produced a sharp-looking website for our shoppers who think facebook is evil.

http://www.MountHollyNJFarmersMarket.com 

Let David know if you want to be on the Featured Vendors’ list for THU JUL 18. We welcome all our vendors to provide us with information about their farms and foods. Shoppers appreciate knowing more about you.

Future Updates

Check back in to this space often. You don’t need to follow a link. Just navigate to http://www.FarmMarketeer.com 

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.

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
Market Day Cell Phone (856) 979-6653

mthollymarket@davidhodges.com

Forecast for SAT JUL 27

More glorious summer weather. Temps in the mid 80’s, low humidity, no chance of rain, very little wind, sunny from load in to break down. Let’s move some food!

Collingswood Section. To emphasize our own community’s food economy, at the west end of the Market, Collingswood food businesses have their own section to promote their contributions to the Borough’s vibrant food scene.

EMPANADAS FROM EL SITIO

Revolution Roasters handles the fresh-roasted beverages, while El Sitio provides fantastic Ecuadoran specialties including empanadas and Pan de Yuca (cassava cheese bread treats). Villa Barone features familiar favorite sauces, tasty zeppolis, sometimes their own fresh mozzarella. Sara’s Produce by special arrangement is the one source for produce NOT grown in New Jersey. Lost Bread Co. of Philadelphia has taken up the familiar bakery space. Because it’s the last Saturday of the month, look for Neil’s Sharpening Service to set up his van in the BID section too.

Guest Vendors and Special Products
SAT JUL 27

SEW BEE IT BEESWAX FOOD WRAPS

Start your Shopping List!

• Indogrow Microgreens
  —Microgreens are all they do, much to the delight of local chefs and foodies. These tiny green powerhouses pack a nutritional and tasteful wallop.
• Red Oak Permaculture
  —In addition to bringing compost, and compost worms!, plus sustainability plans and advice, the guys of Red Oak are the go-to place to lay hands on a compost bin or rain barrel. Costs are subsidized by the Borough for Collingswood residents.
• Green Aisle Grocery.
  —Andrew Erace, of WHYY’s Movers and Makers, brings an eclectic variety of specialty foods (nut butters, pickles, shrubs, syrups, cocktail mixers, etc) all featuring local produce and ingredients.
• Cheese Etc and Gourmet Gifts.
  —We can always tell what’s in season by examining the Cheese Etc table. Ken and Gina pack their spreads and other delectables with Jersey Fresh produce, even local wine, beer, and coffee.
• Sew Bee It.
  —Check out these beautiful and super-functional, reusable, handmade beeswax food wraps.

Official Market Bloggers

Susan Mauer Lynch (Yellow Room Upstairs)
Meat and Potatoes!

Denine Gorniak (the bicycle-chef). The Scoop on the Salsa Contest! We’ve come to depend on Denine’s thorough and loving rundowns of our annual food contests. As always, she gives us the scoop on the SAT JUL 20 showdown complete with photos, commentary, and the names of the winners in three Salsa Categories. PLUS!: A recipe for Morgan Robinson’s winning Peach Salsa!

http://www.thebicycle-chef.com/2019/07/hot-hot-hot-salsa-contest-2019.html 

For the Animal Lovers
AAC the Animal Adoption Center

ADORABLE ADOPTABLE JAY

IN THE DOG TENT

Live Music on Two Stages!
SAT JUL 27

LIVE MUSIC ON TWO STAGES FROM 9AM

MATINEE RELICS on the west stage. Copy to come

THE INCOMPARABLE DAVE KELLY in the Collingswood Music tent. Copy to come.

For the Art Lovers SAT JUL 27

FEATURED ARTIST. Joan Prato  Joan of Art Design. Some of her jewelry is subtle and elegant; some is wild and eclectic. It’s all superbly crafted and affordable. Come see for yourself at the Featured Artist tent, Space 24.

https://www.facebook.com/Joan.of.Art.Designs/

Bag Reduction Program

Small Bills 

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.

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
Market Day Cell Phone (856) 979-6653

Forecast for SAT JUL 20

Sunny again. And hot. And humid. July in New Jersey. ‘Nuff said.

Collingswood Section. To emphasize our own community’s food economy, at the west end of the Market, Collingswood food businesses have their own section to promote their contributions to the Borough’s vibrant food scene.

EMPANADAS FROM EL SITIO

Revolution Roasters handles the fresh-roasted beverages, while El Sitio provides fantastic Ecuadoran specialties including empanadas and Pan de Yuca (cassava cheese bread treats). Villa Barone features familiar favorite sauces, tasty zeppolis, sometimes their own fresh mozzarella. Sara’s Produce by special arrangement is the one source for produce NOT grown in New Jersey. Lost Bread Co. of Philadelphia has taken up the familiar bakery space.

Guest Vendors and Special Products
SAT JUL 20

SUNFLOWERS FROM SIKKING FARM

Start your Shopping List!

• Sikking Flowers.
  —Linda brings cut flowers from her farm every week, but this Saturday she’ll be at a wedding. Go to the Flaim Farm tables to find her beautiful stems and blooms.
• Evergreen Valley Acres Microgreens
  —Though it’s a small part of what they grow, the microgreens from Evergreen Valley Acres pack a nutritional and tasteful wallop.
• Red Oak Permaculture
  —In addition to bringing compost, and compost worms!, plus sustainability plans and advice, the guys of Red Oak are the go-to place to lay hands on a compost bin or rain barrel. Costs are subsidized by the Borough for Collingswood residents.
• Crisp & Co.
  —Tom and his company choose the best of the local produce and pickle it to perfection so you don’t have to. Plenty of samples at the table.
• Headquarters Farm Lamb
  —Roger Byrom (from England’s Lake District) raises lambs on his farm just up the road in Stockton and brings the best cuts to Market. Catch him every 1st and 3rd Saturday.

Official Market Bloggers

Susan Mauer Lynch (Yellow Room Upstairs)
Meat and Potatoes!

Susan Mauer Lynch (Yellow Room Upstairs). Meat and Potatoes! Susan has subscribed to the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) from A. T. Buzby Farm of Woodstown. This week, she paired their vegetables with a Beef Roast from Hillacres Pride and gave her grill a rest. She picks up her CSA box from the Buzby table, so everything for her recipe this week came from last week’s trip to the Market.

https://yellowroomupstairs.wordpress.com/2019/07/16/meat-and-potatoes/

Stef Perna (treatbelly)
Basil Pesto and Squash Blossoms

BASIL PESTO AND SQUASH BLOSSOMS

Stef Perna (treatbelly). Basil Pesto and Squash Blossoms. If you’re an exceptional talent like Stef, you can probably relate to this little anecdote: “I was inspired to make basil pesto and stuffed squash blossoms this past weekend using ingredients from the Collingswood Farmers’ Market. Basil bouquets and squash blossoms are available from Flaim Farms.” For the rest of us, to whom these inspirations do not occur, there are recipes, and beautiful photos, at Stef’s blog.

http://www.treatbelly.com/treatbelly/2019/7/15/basil-pesto-amp-squash-blossoms 

For the Animal Lovers
AWANJ Animal Welfare Association NJ

LOVABLE ADOPTABLE TROOPER

IN THE DOG TENT

Live Music on Two Stages!
SAT JUL 20

LIVE MUSIC ON TWO STAGES FROM 9AM

“NO RELATION BAND” FEATURING SAM AND JACQUIE on the west stage. Live acoustic music old and new rock, pop, blues, and soul from two Market favorites.

LONESOME TURNPIKE RAMBLERS in the Collingswood Music tent. Bluegrass, you bet! But also bluegrass versions of other music styles, including country, western swing, and 60s rock & roll! (I promise we’ll get a picture of them this week inside the Music tent.)

For the Art Lovers SAT JUL 13

FEATURED ARTIST. Maria Cartwright  222 Creations. Jewelry.

Copper Enamel jewelry, flame painted copper jewelry. Words don’t begin to describe the vibrancy and richness of the colors in these stylish pieces. Come see for yourself at the Featured Artist tent, Space 24.

etsy.com/222creations 

Bag Reduction Program

Small Bills 

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.

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
Market Day Cell Phone (856) 979-6653

Forecast for SAT JUL 13

Sun seems likely.

Collingswood Section. To emphasize our own community’s food economy, at the west end of the Market, Collingswood food businesses have their own section to promote their contributions to the Borough’s vibrant food scene.

LOST BREAD’S GENEROUS SAMPLING TECHNIQUE

Revolution Roasters handles the fresh-roasted beverages, while El Sitio provides fantastic Ecuadoran specialties including empanadas and Pan de Yuca (cassava cheese bread treats). Villa Barone features familiar favorite sauces, tasty zeppolis, sometimes their own fresh mozzarella. Sara’s Produce by special arrangement is the one source for produce NOT grown in New Jersey. Lost Bread Co. of Philadelphia has taken up the familiar bakery space.

Guest Vendors and Special Products
SAT JUL 13

REUSABLE BEESWAX FOOD WRAPS

Start your Shopping List!

• SEW BEE IT
  —Julie and Pam make these delightful, attractive, super-functional reusable food wraps from beeswax. A wonderfully sustainable alternative to plastic wrap.
• Knowhere Farm
  —They raise goats, use the milk to make and bring their goats milk soap to the Market, and bring the goats to Market as well, to the delight of every kid and kid-within-us.
• Evergreen Valley Acres Microgreens
  —Though it’s a small part of what they grow, the microgreens from Evergreen Valley Acres pack a nutritional and tasteful wallop.
• Brookeberry Farms Organic Berries
  —It’s time for the familiar red-and-white berry wagon we see for just a few weeks every spring. Line up for your organic blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries.
• Green Aisle Grocery
  —Always seasonal, always locally-sourced (except for the nut butters of course) preserves, pickles, spreads, syrups, cocktail mixers, you name it.
• A G Ammon Nursery
  —They’ve had some tough weather that limited their crop the first two weeks at Market, but find them at the Perkins end for their own-grown plump and delicious heirloom variety blueberries.
• Indogrow Microgreens
  —Through a quirk of scheduling, we’re blessed with an abundance of microgreens this week, including these beauties that have local chefs asking for MORE.

Official Market Bloggers

Susan Mauer Lynch (Yellow Room Upstairs)
Butter Cream Icing

Susan Mauer Lynch (Yellow Room Upstairs). Butter Cream Icing! You’re going to need butter. Susan gets hers from our only Market dairy vendor, Hillacres Pride. Other than that, confectioner’s sugar, milk, and a lot of technique, which Susan provides. (For good measure, she’s also included a recipe for a lovely banana cake!)

https://yellowroomupstairs.wordpress.com/2019/07/08/butter-cream-icing/

For the Animal Lovers
4Paws Animal Rescue NJ

IN THE DOG TENT

Live Music on Two Stages!
SAT JUL 13

LIVE MUSIC ON TWO STAGES FROM 9AM

THE INCOMPARABLE DAVE KELLY will coax music from a variety of stringed things including, perhaps, a mandolin and a lap steel guitar. He’s a master of whatever he puts his hand to.

JOHN ROSSI in the Collingswood Music tent. Everybody’s favorite (or at least everybody’s second favorite) guitarist/singer comes back to the Music Tent this week with his charming blend of popular songs you’re sure to recognize and love.

For the Art Lovers SAT JUL 13

FEATURED ARTIST. Sophy Di Pinto  Book-grrl. Bookbinder.

Yep. She binds books. Fine bookbinding, notebooks, journals, boxes, and electronic device covers made with recycled and vintage materials.

http://www.book-grrl.com/gallery/

Bag Reduction Program

Small Bills 

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.

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
Market Day Cell Phone (856) 979-6653

Forecast for SAT JUL 06

There’s a chance we’ll see our first wet Market of the 2019 season, but so far we’ve been lucky to “beat the forecast” for anything less than 50% likelihood of precipitation.

Collingswood Section. To emphasize our own community’s food economy, at the west end of the Market, Collingswood food businesses have their own section to promote their contributions to the Borough’s vibrant food scene.

LOST BREAD’S GENEROUS SAMPLING TECHNIQUE

Revolution Roasters handles the fresh-roasted beverages, while El Sitio provides fantastic Ecuadoran specialties including empanadas and Pan de Yuca (cassava cheese bread treats). Villa Barone features familiar favorite sauces, tasty zeppolis, sometimes their own fresh mozzarella. Sara’s Produce by special arrangement is the one source for produce NOT grown in New Jersey. Lost Bread Co. of Philadelphia has taken up the familiar bakery space.

Guest Vendors and Special Products
SAT JUL 06

SALINOVA LETTUCE STARTS

Start a shopping list!

• Evergreen Valley Acres Microgreens
  —Though it’s a small part of what they grow, the microgreens from Evergreen Valley Acres pack a nutritional and tasteful wallop.
• Brookeberry Farms Organic Berries
  —It’s time for the familiar red-and-white berry wagon we see for just a few weeks every spring. Line up for your organic blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries.
• Crisp & Co.
  —Tom and his company pickle the best of local produce so you don’t have to. They sample at the table.
• A G Ammon Nursery
  —We met them and their berry bushes at Mayfair. This week they’re back with the berries. Find them at the Perkins end of the Market.
• “The Corn Truck”
  —Not technically a Guest Vendor, the Eckert Farm wagon will be parked at the west end of the Market for everyone who likes to sort through piles in search of perfect ears.
• Headquarters Lamb
  —Roger’s back this week to re-establish his Every-First-and-Third-Saturday schedule for the rest of the season.

Official Market Bloggers

Susan Mauer Lynch (Yellow Room Upstairs)
Moomin’s Vegetable Patch Summer Soup

Susan Mauer Lynch (Yellow Room Upstairs). Moomin’s Vegetable Patch Summer Soup! In this installment of her “Cooking with Kids” collection, Susan takes the grands to the Collingswood Market to reproduce a vegetable soup from their favorite illustrated book series. Specifically, they buy and use Cauliflower and fresh dill from Muth Family Organic Farm, Peas from Springdale Farm (or Viereck), Carrots from her AT Buzby CSA share, Potatoes from Savoie Organic Farm, Spring onion from Formisano Farm, and Fresh herbs from Flaim Farm.

https://yellowroomupstairs.wordpress.com/2019/07/01/moomins-vegetable-patch-summer-soup/

For the Animal Lovers
Saint Francis Peaceful Pause

KITTENS FROM SAINT FRANCIS PEACEFUL PAUSE

IN THE DOG TENT

Live Music on Two Stages!
SAT JUL 06

LIVE MUSIC ON TWO STAGES FROM 9AM

BARRY HOLLANDER self-described jive turkey (to us he’s just a guitar phenomenon) Barry Hollander will pick and strum his way through an eclectic repertoire, perhaps with a guest on bass, on the west stage starting at 9am.

SHANNON MAGILL in the Collingswood Music tent. Shannon’s sultry contralto is just as compelling on an Amy Winehouse torch song as it is honoring popular tunes from the 40s and 50s.

For the Art Lovers SAT JUL 06

FEATURED ARTIST. Carolyn Jones Sleepy Cat Jewelry.

Carolyn makes metal and wire jewelry, handcrafted and inspired by nature.

www.sleepycatjewelry.com

www.facebook.com/sleepycatjewelry

http://sleepycatjewelry.etsy.com 

Bag Reduction Program

Small Bills 

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.

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
Market Day Cell Phone (856) 979-6653

Week 4 of the 2019 Season

THU JUL 04

The cows are celebrating America this week! Looks like typical summer weather for South Jersey. Hot and humid with a thunderstorm somewhere in the distance. (As long as they stay at a distance! 🙂 )

SITE PLAN THU JUL 04

FOR THU JUL 04.  A few changes to last week’s siteplan.

• The wonderful Barn and Stone House Soap will join us this week with their handmade artisan soaps, personal grooming and cleaning products.
• Muth Family Organic Farm of Williamstown is off this week (back on THU JUL 11) so we’ve moved Stellitano’s Farm into their slot for tomorrow.
• Stellitano’s Farm will expand their presence to a two-tent operation this week and will be able to park their truck in the Market space.
• Robin’s Nest the restaurant has been closed for a few days and will take off tomorrow’s Market as well. They’ll return on THU JUL 11.
• We have a new artist this week and a new musician in the Music Tent.
• Big Catch will be adding Super Lump fresh crabmeat to its menu for the Independence Day holiday.

Load In

ARRIVE NO LATER THAN 2PM. THE ONLY ENTRANCE IS FROM HIGH STREET.
15 MINUTE TIME LIMIT FOR UNLOADING IN THE MARKET.

As you can see, the space is tight for the number of vendors, and getting in and out of our spaces will require planning and patience. Unless you have permission to park a vehicle inside the Market, you’ll have to drive carefully to your spot, unload VERY QUICKLY, then EXIT THE MARKET with your vehicle and set up when you return.

Click here for driving directions.

The directions will bring you to the Rowan College campus just across the street from the entrance to the Market.

Contracts and Fees

Those of you who have not submitted your Application/Contract paperwork need to comply to remain active at the Market and to take advantage of the Fee Rebate Program.

Download the Application from the Mount Holly Contracts link at the top of this website. Complete the app in Word, in PDF, or on paper, and send it to Sean Kennedy, whose name and address are on the first page of the contract package.

FEE REBATE PROGRAM

Prepay your dates to qualify for Fee Rebates. Earn a full 100% rebate for table fees for every Market you attend. Prepay for 10 dates (for example), attend those 10 dates, and you’ll be refunded 100% of your fees at the end of the season.

DAY PAY VENDORS

Afraid of commitment? You can pay on Market day. The Market Director will have receipts for day-pay vendors who prefer the flexibility of paying when they attend, but no rebates can be earned without prepaid dates.

Facebook Promotion

We were very visible on Facebook last week. Not so much this week. If anybody wants to help keep us in front of the local shopping public, let David know you want to lend a hand. Click the link to see what we’ve been up to.

New Website

The Township  produced a sharp-looking website for our shoppers who think facebook is evil.

http://www.MountHollyNJFarmersMarket.com 

Let David know if you want to be on the Featured Vendors’ list for THU JUL 11. We welcome all our vendors to provide us with information about their farms and foods. Shoppers appreciate knowing more about you.

Future Updates

Check back in to this space often. You don’t need to follow a link. Just navigate to http://www.FarmMarketeer.com 

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.

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
Market Day Cell Phone (856) 979-6653

mthollymarket@davidhodges.com