Are you a Growing Kid?

If you are a kid and like to plant and grow things...you could be a "Growing Kid" at the DFM.  Come sell your home grown fruits and veggies two times during the Market season.

Stop by the DFM booth for more information or Email info@davidsonfarmersmarket.org 

News from Barbee Farms

We would be happy to share our fall and winter plans with you!

We have planted now - curly Kale, red Russian kale, turnips with greens, carrots, beets, Swiss chard, mustard greens, collards, green onions, kohlrabi, lettuce of all kinds, arugula, radishes, bok choi and greenhouse tomatoes. Add those crops to more sweet corn, tomatoes, green beans, pink eyed peas, squash, zucs, cukes, eggplant, peppers and a few melons for late season. Add to those our storage crops for winter that are being harvested all along; sweet potatoes, white Irish potatoes, butternut squash, spaghetti squash, pumpkins, garlic, and sweet onions(as long as they last).

We also have plans for more new stuff for next spring for Barbee Farms. Stay tuned! 

3rd Annual Know Your Farms Annual Farm Tour

It's Farm Tour Weekend, this Saturday and Sunday.  Don't miss out! 

Follow here to read more and to buy tickets!

Run for The Green Runners

After you finish your race, stroll across the street to the Davidson Farmer's Market and treat yourself to some Summit Java, a mountain fresh apple and an Imhoff donut. You deserve it!

What's a Tussie Mussie?

Look here to find out.  And stop by Landis Mushroom and visit Cris.

Art Contest for DFM Poster

Calling all local students

Grade K-5!

The Davidson Farmer's Market wants to feature your artwork on their Winter Tailgate poster!

Entries will be collected at the Market Sept. 24 and Oct. 1.  Winner will be posted on our facebook page!

Read more details here. Or, you may contact our coordinator here.here.

DC Local Foods Club News

Power, People, Pork

Power, People, Pork is an annual free pig roast hosted by the Food Club, Environmental Action Coalition, and Sustainability Office at Davidson College. The event is open to Davidson students, faculty and staff, and its aim is to support, educate and share the benefits of local food.

The hogs come from Wild Turkey Farms, and all side dishes are sourced locally and prepared by students. This year's event will be held on the night of October 15th behind Vail Commons.

Email Emma or Abbey if you are interested in attending or would like more information.

Davidson Awarded Prestigious CDC Grant

Exciting news - read here!

Market Events this Week

*Music: 3rd Saturday Jam

Save the Date - Annual Community Picnic

Please join your DFM volunteers, vendors and community friends for the Annual DFM Community Picnic on Saturday, Oct. 22, immediately following Market take-down at approximately 12:30 p.m.  This special event honors all the folks that make the Davidson Farmer's Market come to life - and that means you too!

The main course and beverages will be provided.  Please bring a dish to share.  If your last name begins with a-k, bring a side dish.  If your last name begins with l-z, bring a dessert. 

Hope to see you there!  RSVP here.

Out of This World Crepes With Chef Vera

Li Jane Genson

Chef Vera out did her self last Saturday with her heavenly crepes.  The light crepes were filled with yellow squash, zucchini, red onions and crumbled goat cheese.  If you weren't  fortunate enough to get a sample at the demo, you must give this recipe a try at home. 

Thanks to our DFM vendors that contributed to the Chef Demo Saturday: Wild Turkey Farms for the smoke side pork pieces; Barbee Farms for the Zucchini, yellow squash and red onions; Twin Oak Farms for the zucchini and yellow squash; Big Jim's Produce for the  red onion; Calico Farmstead for the goat cheese; and Landis Gourmet Mushrooms for the parsley.

Crepe recipe here & Sauteed squash, zucchini and red onion recipe here. 

Green Day in Davidson - Hawk Release

Davidson Lands Conservancy's

Green Day, the annual sustainability festival, will be this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Village Green. To kick-off this event, a Red-shouldered Hawk from the

Carolina Raptor Center will be released on the Green at 9:45 a.m.  You don't want to miss this!

The Carolina Raptor Center raises orphaned and injured raptors until they are healthy and strong; then they are released back into the wild - their natural habitat.  

Bring the family to this fun and exciting event.  Make a day of it - Farmer's Market, then Green Day! 

Landis Gourmet Mushrooms and the Tussie Mussies

I have always enjoyed growing things.  When I was just a small girl my grandmother would thin her Zinnias seedlings and send them home with me in a damp paper towel.  I still have house plants that I had before John and I were married in 1978!  Because we were military and moved often, I could not plant as much as I would have liked.  But after John retired and we bought a small farm, I was able to turn my dreams into reality.  I started with a few flower beds and a vegetable garden, and then became interested in herbs.  Since my major was math, of course my first herb bed was an octagon laid out north, east, south and west.  And when I outgrew that, naturally we put eight trapezoid shaped beds around the octagon...and then eight more.  John no longer has to mow the front lawn.

By that time John had begun growing mushrooms and we were selling them at the markets on the weekends.  We were at a market one Saturday and the Charlotte Herb Guild was making lavender wands and Tussie Mussies.  Finally something I could do with my extra herbs!  I was so excited that I made them for my family and my desk at work, and then I made a couple while we were at the Market and people actually bought them!

So it 'grew' from there.  People began wanting to buy some of the herbs that I had cut and brought with me to make the bouquets and then started asking if I could supply plants.  It is just so nice to be able to use the money from the herbs and bouquets to buy my mulch and order more seeds and plants, not to mention tacky yard art. 

Thanks to everyone at the Davidson Farmer's Market, this year we have been able to plant nine blueberries, two figs, six chestnut, four hazelnuts, two almonds and a pomegranate tree.  Not to mention, a lot of herbs.  I can't wait to share all of the fruit and nuts with everyone.

I think I have the best hobby/habit that anyone could possible have.

Cris Herron, Landis Gourmet Mushroom

I love the Tussie Mussie bouquets! I consider it a little Saturday morning treat to myself. It sets on the entry table in my foyer, so it is the first thing I see when I come home. ~ Sandy, DFM patron