| Plenty to Do, See & Sample at the Caledon Farmers' Market | | | The Caledon Farmers' Market is a fantastic way to find and sample a variety of healthy foods while supporting local growers, producers and artisans.
 Our food vendors feature high quality products that represent the best of the season, including: fruit, vegetables, lamb, beef and cured meats, honey, baked goods, fudge and chocolate products, herbs and plants. Our artisan vendors offer an intriguing range of wares: ranging from clothing and unique glasswork. Shoppers are welcome every Thursday between 3:00 and 7:00pm until October 7.  Activities for Thursday, August 26 - Tomato Canning demonstration
- Paper Bag Puppets at the children's craft table
- Make-your-own Veggie Dip at the CCA booth
Activities for Thursday, September 2 - Baking with Zucchini - ideas for using this season's giant zucchinis
- Colouring at the children's table
- Last week for Fresh Local Sweet Corn
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| New Contest - WIN One of Two Farmers' Market Gift Baskets | |
Keep checking our website and Facebook Page for soon to be released details on how to WIN one of two Farmers' Market Gift Baskets worth over $100 each. |
| Canning - You Can Do It! | |
 With the plentiful harvest of 2010 what better time to learn how to can. When you can food, you heat the food to a certain temperature. At this temperature, food-spoiling germs are killed. The heat also forces air to leave the jar, and as the jar cools, it will "seal" for you. Once the jar is sealed, no bacteria can enter the jar, and your jar of food will keep for many years until you are ready to eat it.
There is nothing as flavorful as a locally grown fruit or vegetable havested at it's peak and with some time and effort you can enjoy those flavors all year long.
Click HERE to view a recommended website with every thing you need to know to successfully can this seasons fruits and vegetables. |
| Find the Caledon Farmers' Market on Facebook | | |
 For up-to-date information regarding the Farmers' Market, produce in season, special events, entertainment and more follow us on Facebook.
To visit our Facebook Profile page click HERE. |
| Vendors at the Caledon Farmers' Market | | |
Whether food or crafts, at the Caledon Farmers' Market we are fortunate to have vendors selling the highest quality products. In each newsletter we'll feature three of our vendors.
 It's farm-fresh corn season and at our local Caledon markets it is available from local kids and local farmers, James and Julia Thompson-- the kids behind the "Local Kids with Local Corn" available for the second season at each the Inglewood Farmers' Market, sponsored by Eat Local Caledon and the Caledon Farmers' Market in Bolton.
Born and raised on their family's dairy farm in southwest Caledon, James and Julia embarked on a corn stand business when they were still young, opening up their first corn stand the summer they were four and six.
Are you looking for their flavourful corn when dining out locally? Look for the Thompson corn at The Belfountain Inn, Belfountain; Ray's 3rd Generation Bistro Bakery, Alton; and The Terra Cotta Inn, Terra Cotta. Thank you to these local restaurants for supporting local producers!
Al and Joyce Wilby are the husband-wife team behind The Chocolate Gallery. It is Al that you will see at the market each week, while Joyce is behind the scenes making the chocolate. Joyce first started making chocolates as a past-time, and would hand them out as presents during the holidays. When she retired, she decided to pursue this passion and attended the McColl's School of Cake Decorating in Mississauga. There she learned different methods for making an assortment of Belgian chocolates. Shortly afterwards, Al and Joyce moved up to Bala, Muskoka, where they opened a chocolate store. It remained open for five years, and during that time Joyce also made the very-popular cranberry-almond white chocolate bars for Johnson's Cranberry Marsh.
Al and Joyce moved back to the Caledon area four years ago, to be closer to their grandchildren. Now residing in Inglewood, Joyce makes chocolates out of the certified kitchen in their basement. They sell their chocolates at local festivals, fall fairs, trade shows, schools fairs, and of course, farmers' markets.
 Rosalyn's love for Stained Glass began in 1976 in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Canmore Alberta. She attended extensive instruction under a local artist for two years, then continued her passion in the City of Toronto, taking classes at various studios.
In 1983, she moved to Bolton and began a family. Wanting to stay home with her young children, Rosalyn decided to try out a home-based stained glass business. As a first step, she rented a booth at the local Bolton Fall Fair. She sold very little that weekend but received many inquires as to "how do you do stained glass?". She began teaching out of a one room studio in 1985. And when an extension was being built on her home, they incorporated an 800 sq foot studio space; which meant increasing from one room to a full business retail space, 8 student maximum, offering weekly classes, one day workshops, personal one-of-a-kind commissioned works of art, restorations, glass supplies and group celebrations.
In the comfort of Rosalyn's spacious, stress-free home studio, students can relax and enjoy the magic of creating beautiful glass artwork, stained glass window panels, lamps, mosaics, patio stones, garden artifacts, kiln fired/slumped glass vases, votives plates and jewellery are among the many project choices. Let the artist within you blossom!
If time is an issue, she will commission beautiful pieces of glass art for you. In-home consultation is recommended. Allow the beauty of glass in your home. |
| Featured Recipe - Basic Tomato Sauce | |
 Tomatoes are a rich source of several nutrients. They are well known for their high vitamin C content, but also contain significant amount of vitamin A, B vitamins including niacin and riboflavin, magnesium, phosphorous and calcium.
Tomatoes are also a good source of chromium, folate and fiber.
In recent years a particular nutrient found in abundance in tomatoes, lycopene, has made many headlines for its disease fighting abilities.
A helpful note about tomato nutrition is that lycopene is actually more available to the body when tomatoes are cooked, so cooked or canned tomatoes are just as nutritious for you as raw.
Basic Tomato Sauce (recipe courtesy of Foodland Ontario)
A supply of this staple in your freezer serves as the basis for many quick and easy meals.
Add fresh basil and some cream or some spicy sausage and mushrooms just two of hundreds of combinations possible for pasta sauces with this delicious base.
 Preparation Time: 20 Minutes Cooking Time: 40 Minutes Servings: 7 cups (1.75 L)
Ingredients:
2 tbsp (25 mL) vegetable oil
2 medium Ontario Onions, chopped
2 cloves Ontario Garlic, minced
1 Ontario Carrot, grated
10 large Ontario Tomatoes peeled, seeded and chopped
1-1/2 tsp (7 mL) salt
1 tsp (5 mL) sugar
1/4 tsp (1 mL) pepper
Preparation:
In large saucepan, heat oil. Sauté onions in oil over medium heat for 10 minutes until softened. Add garlic and carrot and cook 5 minutes. Stir in tomatoes, salt, sugar and pepper. Simmer covered for 20 minutes.
Note: Sauce may be frozen for later use. Cool and spoon into freezer containers in quantities needed for a recipe. Seal, label amount, date and freeze. |
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| Did You Know? | |
 Canning all started with Nicolas Appert in 18th-century France. At the time, Napoleon, knowing that his army marched on its stomach, offered a handsome cash prize for anyone who could come up with an improved apparatus for preserving food. Appert won the competition with a system of precooking, air-tight sealing and final processing in a newly designed glass canning jar. His wide-mouthed pint "bottles" were filled with hot cooked foods, stoppered with hand-cut corks fitted to the irregularities of the blown glass, sealed with a compound made of lime and skim milk and then finished in a boiling water bath. Appert declared that the meats, vegetables, fruits, soups, and gravies thus prepared would last for at least a year in the same excellent state. And thus he inspired a new industry. |
| Cash, Credit & Interac Options Available at the Market | | |
Some of our vendors, particularly those that you may want to make a substantial purchase from, are now offering alternatives to paying cash.
Speers Farms - beef (VISA, MasterCard, American Express, & Interac)
Arthur Greenhouses - plant material and vegetables (VISA & MasterCard)
We continue to promote cash transactions, as most of our vendors can only accept cash.
However, if you are interested in making a purchase of the products listed above, there are other payment options. |
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