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Goochland Farmers Market, Saturday, July 31, 2010
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Dear Goochland Farmers Market Customers,Hope to see everyone decked out in their best overalls for our overall themed Kids Day this Saturday, July 31 from 8 am until noon! The Goochland Farmers Market is sponsored by the Center for Rural Culture. As always, the market will be held at Grace Episcopal Church, 2955 River Road West in Goochland Courthouse. Please do not bring dogs to the market, but do bring cloth bags for your purchases. We happily accept Visa, MasterCard and Discover for all of our vendors at the Center for Rural Culture booth and also have gift certificates available. If you are unable to make it to the market this week, this is a great time to sign up for our food co-op since the registration fee has been reduced! Please read on to learn more about the market and our co-op. As with all of our correspondence, you have the option to forward our e-mails to a friend or share them on Facebook or Twitter at the bottom left of the e-mail. Overall, I think it is going to be a great day!Jane ConnerMarket Manager
P.s. Check out this inspiring story that one of our vendors shared with me about a fourteen year old who started her own C.S.A.! |
Harper Speagle-Price, now twelve years old,
started playing mandolin when she was seven. Her band Harper & Co. has
played the Virginia State Fair, Ashland Coffee and Tea, and the VCU and Other
Strings Series. Harper also opened for Wil Maring and Robert Bowlin at a JAMinc
concert at In Your Ear Music and Recording and recently attended Tristan and
Tashina Clarridge's Mt. Shasta Music Camp in Mt. Shasta, California. She is the
2009 and 2010 Fiddler's Grove Junior Mandolin Champion. Harper also
enjoys playing basketball and hanging out with friends.
 It's Overall Day for our third Kids Day this Saturday. We encourage kids of all ages to come out dressed in their favorite
overalls. You'll be glad you have them on when you're Mutton
Bustin with Carney Man Productions, LLC. (trying to hang onto an ornery sheep is no easy thing) and
participating in the Greased Pig Catching
Contest! You'll also need them as you help Goochland Fire-Rescue put out the fire in their burning house. And sometimes
the seeds from the Watermelon Spitting
Contest don't go exactly where they should, so it's best to be
covered up. Another good reason for overalls is when you're exploring compost
layering, flat painting and seed starting with Backyard Farmer (they'll have some info for the grown-ups, too).
After all of that
activity, it'll be nice to head over to Storyland, where local dentist Dr. Peter Murchie presents Read Aloud Virginia's Storyland to
kick off his Children's Book Drive and promote
children's literacy. There will be literary characters, story time, and a table set up for children to color their favorite books. These
drawings will be sent to CBS Channel 6 and they may be chosen to air in their morning
news program "Virginia This Morning"! At
10:15 am Dr. Murchie will entertain children with a special Smiles for Life Story Time. Parents are
encouraged to drop off their gently used children's books to kick start the
August book drive. For more information on the book drive please click here.
 Think you have what it takes to win our annual watermelon seed spitting contest? If so, please join us at 10 am and get to spitting! There will be a kid and a grown-up contest. (Thank you to Deer Run Farm for donating the watermelons!) Judging for our best overall overalls contest, for kids and adults as well, will be at 11 am. Don't forget to shop
at our Kid Vendor booths under the big tent, as well as all of our grown-up market vendors. To learn more about Kids Days and how to become a vendor at our last Kids Day this year, August 28, please click here.
Please click here to see what our kid and grown-up vendors are bringing this week!
At
10:30 am each Saturday, we will hold a raffle. Raffle items vary weekly, so be sure to check in at the Center for Rural Culture booth to see what exciting items are up for grabs this week! Raffle tickets are $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00; so get your tickets early
and shop around until the drawing.
If you would like to volunteer at the Goochland Farmers Market, please contact our Volunteer Coordinator, Michele Wright. For additional information about volunteering, please click here. |
Vote for Goochland Farmers Market!
Thanks to everyone who has voted so far! Last year, we were in the top 20 for the medium farmers markets category in the entire country! Please
vote today for Goochland Farmers Market to once again become one of America's Favorite
Farmers Markets! Please spread the word! |
Mid-season Reduced Rate on Local Roots
Registration
If you have not joined Local Roots yet, now is the time! Registration rates are being reduced, just in time for the
peak summer harvest! Beginning July 15, registration for the Center for Rural Culture's Local Roots Food Co-op will be reduced from $65 to $35 for the remainder of the season. The Local Roots Food Co-op works on a weekly buying cycle. Pick up is on Thursday afternoons at your preferred
location, with two pick-up sites, one in Eastern Goochland at St. Mary's
Episcopal Church and one in Ashland. Please click here for more information.
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Recipe Box
 In honor of Kids Day, here is a link to some great organic recipes for kids from OrganicToBe, a blog that hosts an ongoing conversation about organic food and farming. There are some great recipes for grown-ups as well!
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A Special Thank You To Our Sponsors:
    
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P.O. Box 639
Goochland, Virginia 23063
804-332-3144
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