As more people want to know our food sources, mass marketers are imitating calls of courtship with words like “all-natural,” “sustainable,” and “artisanal.” How do we know what’s authentic?
On Friday, June 22nd, Community Markets will open the New Rochelle Farmers Market with the promise of an essential word: local. Throughout the season, shoppers can buy directly from farmers and food producers, who are all “local”, meaning they travel “to market and back in a day.”
“Since 1991, when we started our first farmers market in Ossining, New York, the goal has always been to connect people directly with farmers. Even with our artisanal producers, we make sure that they source their ingredients from area farms. We want to keep farms and local businesses healthy and strong,” said Miriam Haas, Founder of Community Markets.
The New Rochelle Farmers Market will kick off its 4th season with a ribbon cutting by community advocates at 10:30 am on opening day. Throughout the season, shoppers can explore a range of activities, including cooking demonstrations, kids’ events, music, and more. Some weeks will also feature the Community Table, a venue for local businesses and organizations to talk about their work in and around New Rochelle. For weekly market updates, stay tuned to Community Markets’ Facebook page or follow on Twitter @farmersmarket5.
Community Markets welcomes these vendors back to New Rochelle for the 2012 market season: Acevedo’s Farm, Alex’s Tomato Farm, Dagele Brothers Produce, Meredith’s Bread, and Tierra Farm.
Who: Community Markets, a farmers market operator based in Ossining, NY
What: The New Rochelle Farmers Market starts its 4th season on Friday, June 22nd
When: The market runs every Friday from June 22nd-November 16th, 2012; 8:00 am – 3:00 pm. Where: On the Library Green at Huguenot and Lawton Streets
Your tax money
Oh this is just great another way for New Rochelle to lose tax money.We have three fruit markets and two grocery stores within three blocks of this market. This market pays no taxes to the city hires no New Rochelle people and only leaves rats behind when it leaves. What about the stores that pay rent taxes and hires New Rochelle people.
The best part of it all is that most of these so called farmers rent a truck go buy the junk they sell from hunts point and come here and sell it.