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:

• Green Aisle Grocery

• Market Day Canele with sweet and savory tarts

• John & Kira’s Chocolates.

• Border Springs Farm Lamb

• 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

Hello, Voorhees Marketeers!

General Notes

• 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.

• Also expect to get groovy. We’ve booked a Caribbean Steel Drum Band to keep our spirits lively.

Vendor Notes

• TWO NEW FARMS are joining us this week!

• Joining us for the first time, Border Springs Farm will bring lamb in several forms: ground, in chops, in other cuts, as sausage . . . .

• Also new this week, Cheyenne’s Farm Market bring beautiful produce, seedlings, and Very Local Honey from their own hives.

• Cherry Grove Farm of Lawrenceville will return to the Market with farmstead cheeses and assorted beef and pork cuts.

• A.T. Buzby farm will return as well, with Jersey Fresh produce from the fields.

• Alex Gassner’s Taproots Farm will be back with herb and vegetable seedlings.

• Far Wind Farm will provide extraordinary pastured eggs from the very contented laying hens at their Williamstown farm.

• Wild Flour Bakery is back with artisan breads, baguettes, flatbreads and other baked goods.

• A 2013 favorite, Hank Sauce will return to Voorhees this week with their cayenne-based hot sauces.

• 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

• 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.

• OR: Follow this link to a live Google map.

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

• TWO NEW FARMS are joining us this week.

• Lone Wolfe Farm of Pemberton will bring annuals, perennials, hanging baskets and other landscape enhancers, plus the first of their spring produce.

• 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).

• 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 back this week.

• 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 third week.

• Fruits d’Heritage will bring just one product: heirloom tomato seedlings in charming, biodegradable paper pots that can be directly planted.

• 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.

• OR: Follow this link to a live Google map.

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.

• OR: Follow this link to a live Google map.

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.

• OR: Follow this link to a live Google map.

This will be our last Site Plan for the 2013 season, Voorhees Marketeers. (And just in time; we’re nearly out of vendors.)

Vendor Notes

• In addition to last week’s departures, we now know Bellview Winery will not be joining us for our final week.
• There’s a spot for Carol Steinhauser of Blueberry Fields who has not confirmed but is welcome to finish out the season with her soaps and specialty products.
• Duncan will set up his Hazlett Organic booth at the Right End this week, with plenty of room to pull his vehicle into the space.
• And Fruitwood Orchards will close out our second season with their terrific range of Jersey Fresh produce for which we’re very grateful.

THANK YOU ALL. It’s been an honor and a pleasure to serve as your Vendor Coordinator this season. We’ve already begun plans to improve and enhance the Market for 2014. Hope to see you all again next year!

Weather will be spectacular for the penultimate (that means the next-to-the-last) Market of the season!

Vendor Notes

• Quite of few of our regular vendors are finished for the season. We’ve lost Kemps Kettle Corn, Hank Sauce, Sweet Pea CSA, and Davidson Mushrooms.
• Carol Steinhauser of Blueberry Fields will be back with her soaps and specialty products.
• Bellview will be back as our our Jersey vineyard/winery this week.
• Duncan will set up his Hazlett Organic booth at the Right End this week, with plenty of room to pull his vehicle into the space.
• We expect Hazlett, and Fruitwood to continue to supply us this week and next with their terrific range of Jersey Fresh produce for which we’re very grateful.

CHEF DEMO SAT SEP 28. Rodizio Grill will do a live chef demo on site this week. The menu could change overnight, but they’ve been planning to create a roasted pineapple toasted coconut coleslaw.

Hello, Voorhees Marketeers!

General Notes

Weather will no longer feel like summer but Hazlett, Fruitwood, and Sweet Pea CSA are reporting plenty of quantity and variety in fresh fall produce.

Vendor Notes

• Jen and John of Kemp’s Kettle Korn say they’ve done “plenty of popping” and will be back with lots of corn.
• Carol Steinhauser of Blueberry Fields got some time off work this weekend and will be at her table at the Market.
• Jalma Beach Plum Preserves is back this week too.
• Woods Edge will hold down our big center space with the much-more-seasonal alpaca wool products, special fall honey, and more . . . .
• Monroeville will be our Jersey vineyard/winery this week.
• We’re happy to welcome Davidson’s Exotic Mushrooms back for the rest of the season. This week, they’re providing mushrooms to complement the menu selections of the Chef Demo.
• Duncan will set up his Hazlett Organic booth at the Right End this week, with plenty of room to pull his vehicle into the space.
• We expect Hazlett, Fruitwood, and Sweet Pea to continue to supply us with Jersey Fresh produce all the way through October 05. The three of them together provide a terrific range of goodies for which we’re very grateful.

CHEF DEMO SAT SEP 14. Catelli Duo will do a live chef demo on site this week. The menu could probably change overnight, but we do know they’ll be using fresh mushrooms from our vendor, Davidson’s Exotic Mushrooms.

Hello, Voorhees Marketeers!

General Notes

Circumstances have combined to give us a lighter Market this weekend but the weather will certainly be pleasant and the prospects for the next few weeks are strong.

Vendor Notes

• Jen and John of Kemp’s Kettle Korn are traveling on the West coast and will not be with us this week.
• Carol Steinhauser of Blueberry Fields is stuck working her fulltime job and cannot attend.
• Hank Sauce also sends its regrets.
• Woods Edge is holding its massive Fiber Fest at their own farm and is not available for our Market.
• Fortunately, Duffield and Fruitwood are back with wide varieties after successful weeks. Fruitwood has been setting out an extra table, so we’re devoting an additional space to them this week to make sure they’ll have room for everything they bring.
• Waldor Orchids is back to command the center space Woods Edge will not be here to fill.
• Monroeville will be our Jersey vineyard/winery this week.
• And John & Kira’s Chocolate will be back for the second week in a row.

CHEF DEMOS. Ask Lindsey for the latest details about upcoming chef demos planned for September.

MORE PRODUCE COMING. Our friend Alex Gassner of Sweet Pea CSA is due back next week with her fall crops. And we’ve invited Kelly Visalli of Visalli Farms to round out the final weeks of our Market with mums and pumpkins, a variety of plantings, and all the wonderful produce she’s harvesting.

Hello, Voorhees Marketeers!

General Notes

We have a good roster of vendors this week, beautiful cool/warm weather, and a Holiday Weekend.

Vendor Notes

• Monroeville Winery is back to take over the wine space.
• Duffield and Fruitwood are back with wide varieties after successful weeks. Fruitwood has been selling out of many products, and Duffield’s breads are gaining momentum, especially the multigrain breads they sample.
• Blueberry Fields is back with handmade soaps and scrubs.
• Waldor Orchids is back to command the center space Woods Edge will not be filling this week.
• Market favorite Momma’s Home Made applesauce will add variety to our specialty food area, nestling in with kettle corn and chocolate.

SEPTEMBER SPECIAL EVENT. Lindsey thinks a bluegrass band would be a better choice for the fall (country, autumn?) than New Orleans boogie. Have an opinion? Share it. We’d like our vendors to be happy.