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Vote for your Favorite Farmers Market
American Farmland Trust has launched its annual contest to find America's favorite farmers market. Please take a moment to tell America why you love your local Ag Institute farmers market!
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Eat Local
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blackberries
cherry tomatoes
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heirloom tomatoes nectarines
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Food & Farming News
Defining "Farmers Market" the Devil is in the Details By Brigitte Moran for the Farmers Market Coalition
Marin Artist with Cerebral Palsy Lets Her Vibrant Paintings Speak for Her
Happy Quail Farm's Peppers Selected as
Market Favorite
Five Best Bites From the Farmers Market
Grown in Marin Newsletter
Features Nicasio Valley Cheese Company
Organic Farmers Probed by State Over Free Labor
Deciding Between Organic or Locally Grown Food
Farmed Fish, Food Fish; Wild Fish, Few Fish
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AIM Commercial Goes Live
 What does a Teacher have in common with a Dad, a Firefighter, and a Karate Kid? Stumped? They all shop at their local Ag Institute Farmers Market. You may have seen them at the market, but have you seen them in AIM's new commercials?
The commercials will run on Comcast's Food Network, CNN, Fox News, and Bravo in the North & East Bay. They're a part of AIM's newest educational outreach/advertising campaign designed to challenge the stereotype of who shops at farmers markets and why. Many thanks to our talented farmers market shoppers, Mark Pasternak of Devil's Gulch Ranch, and Atomic Productions.
Speaking of edu-advertising, take a moment to peruse the archives of our farmer profiles that have run in over 2 dozen local publications since 2005. After all, food tastes better when you know the story of the people who grew it. |
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Grand Lake Voted Best of the East Bay!
 Congratulations to the Grand Lake Farmers Market community of farmers, food purveyors & artisans for being named
the Best Farmers Market in the East Bay by the East Bay Express (see pp. 55). Many thanks to you, our loyal customers, for your support and your vote. You all play an integral role in creating a market that is "fresh, vibrant, diverse, laid-back and 100% Oakland."
Join market manager Brad Burger at the Best of the East Bay Launch party, Friday August 6th, at Jack London Square. Stop by AIM's booth to enter a drawing for a Grand Lake tote bag. With three stages, a kid's party zone, and a dance battle it's sure to be a good time for all. |
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Farmers Diversify to Save Farm & Planet
Farmers Diversify Field Trip October 14th, 2010, 9 am - 5 pm Cost: $125 Register now, as space is limited Bioneers is a premiere environmental conference that features social and scientific innovators sharing new ideas and tools that enable people to create positive change in their own communities. The conference takes place October 15th-17th at the Marin Center in San Rafael - check out their line-up for 2010. |
 Thursday Marin:County Line Harvest is back on Thursdays at the Civic Center. Try their varieties of organic greens grown just West of Petaluma.
Thursdays 8am - 1pm |
 Sunday Marin: Sweet, mild, hot or bell... Happy Quail Farms brings a colorful array of peppers to the market, summer through fall. Get 'em while you can.
Sundays 8am - 1pm |
 Stonestown: Try EGB Farm's delicious stonefruit. Farmer Eddie Chavez brings a variety of apricots, peaches, and nectarines to Stonestown every week.
Sundays 9am - 1pm |
 Novato: Since late June, the Indian Valley Organic Farm & Garden has been selling a variety of greens, veggies, flowers and herbs at the market. This Novato farm began a year and a half ago as a partnership between the College of Marin, UC Cooperative Extension, and the Conservation Corps North Bay. Sign up for classes on organic farming through the College of Marin. Tuesdays 4pm - 8pm |
 Newark: Twin Girls Farm brings organic stonefruit to the market every Sunday. Stop by their booth to sample all the varieties they grow, be sure to taste the pluots (plum + apricot = pluot)!
Sundays 9am - 1pm |
 Marin City: The Williamson family has been farming in San Diego since the 1960s. They supply our markets with fresh avocados and strawberries nearly year round. Once you try one of their smooth avocados, there's no going back.
Sundays 8am - 1pm |
 Hayward: Palomino Family Farm grows a variety of fruit trees out of Modesto. Try their mouth-watering figs, in the height of their season.
Saturdays 9am - 1pm |
 Grand Lake-Oakland: Try Rainbow Orchards' plump and juicy blueberries. Their farm is located in the Sierras, and the high altitude lends itself to a late blueberry season.
Saturdays 9am - 2pm |
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 Fairfax: If you've ever had strawberry ice cream at the Fairfax Scoop, then you've gotten a taste of Sartori Farm's strawberries. But have you had one straight from the field? They're grown just down the road in Tomales and picked ripe the same day as the market. Talk about local!
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