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The Davidson Farmer's Market
Saturday, July 14, 2012, 8 a.m.-noon
Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest Tomorrow!
Market will be Open Rain or Shine |
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Vote for Your Favorite Farmer's Market | |
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Want to Bring Your Dog to Market? |
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We welcome dogs at the Market, but before you bring your furry friend with you, please read our Pooch Policy, containing important rules and guidelines. |
| Quick Links Recipes | |
The main ingredients for these recipes may be found at the Market!
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3rd Annual Salsa Showdown
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The 3rd Annual Salsa Showdown is Sat., July 21. Salsa-makers will use Market ingredients for this challenge and Market-goers will be the judges.
If you're interested in being a contestant, Email the Market manager here.
To view the contestant application and guidelines follow here.
For the Showdown timeline follow here.
The Showdown is next Saturday!! |
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Candy-Sweet Watermelon
Elle Gurskis, Davidson College 2013 | |
There aren't too many things more satisfying than the first juicy bite of a fresh summer watermelon. Pretty pink, candy-sweet, antioxidant-rich, and thirst quenching-what's not to love about this incredible fruit?
Watermelon is roughly 92 percent water and six percent sugar. It's thought to have originated in Egypt, but today China is its single largest producer. In the same plant family as cucumber and squash, watermelon ranges in color (golden to red), in size (small to enormous), and in shape (Google "cubic watermelon" and prepare to be amazed).
At the Davidson Farmer's Market this Saturday, you'll find the good old round kind, both with seeds and without. And the Seed Spitting Contest is the perfect excuse-like you needed one-to sink your teeth into a slice of this summer treat. Win or lose, reward yourself by bringing home a few whole ones. Toss the fruit into smoothies, cocktails, and salads, or get creative with watermelony appetizers, entrees, and sides. Better yet, do as I do-slice it raw and scarf it down so fast that the juice covers your face and runs down your elbows. Happy summer! |
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Hands-on Composting Session
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 Join us for a Basic Composting and Waste Reduction Class with FREE starter materials and guide, Sat., July 28, 9-9:45 a.m. at the Market!
Learn the basics of backyard composting and other organic management practices, including bin options - what you can and can't compost, how to maintain your pile and other ways to handle organic debris.
Please email or call, Leslie Willis, Town of Davidson Healthy Living and Wellness Supervisor, at lwillis@townofdavidson.org or 704-892-3349 by July 22 to sign-up for this hands-on session and receive FREE material for a compost bin and a basic guide to composting.
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This Week at the Davidson Farmer's Market! | |
Buying and eating local is a choice. Shopping at the grocery store or shopping at the Market is a choice.
The grocery store routine is hard to break, just like any long-running habit. But it's convenient throughout the week and is home to pharmacy items, toiletries, tortilla chips, beverages and more. It serves a purpose, no doubt.
Shopping at the Market for produce, proteins, eggs, cheeses, breads, honey and all the wonderful offerings that local vendors bring to our community takes practice and consistency - like forming a new habit.
Over the years, Market shoppers have added more to their Saturday totes, wagons and packs. More of their weekly foods are being purchased at the Market and they seem to glow with local enthusiasm.
Perhaps these shoppers have had the experience of slicing a store-bought tomato and having no reaction or feeling whatsoever - firm and tasteless. Then slicing a farm-fresh tomato; when once the knife hits the skin, a garden fresh aroma is released. It's exciting and exquisite. These tomatoes could win awards without a single bite.
Buying local and eating local is a choice. A choice that tastes better, feels better, does better and is better for you.
Make shopping at the Market a habit. It can be the place you shop for your farm-fresh, delicious, local goods every week.
For a full list of Market offerings this week follow here.
A few important notes for tomorrow:
Chef Andres will be joining us with a chef demo at 9 and 10 a.m. He'll be making brown butter scallops from Flying Fish Seafood and demonstrating two fresh, marinated vegetable salads - peach and preserved watermelon relish and a sweet corn radish salad with toasted cumin vinaigrette and shaved almonds. Get a seat under the blue tents!
Our first ever seed spitting contest will take place tomorrow from 8 to 11 a.m. Stop by and buy a slice of juicy watermelon ($1) and send your seed sailing. See more details below.
Chef Charles Catering will not be at Market tomorrow.
Please pardon a correction from last weeks newsletter: The Imhoff's wheat grinder is run by an electric motor. It runs at slow speed. The grinding is not done by hand.
See ya at the Market,
Market Manager |
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Market Events this Week | |
* Chef Demo: 9 & 10 a.m. with Chef Andres Arboleda
*Music: Work Release String Band
*WOW: Native Plants
*Community Partners: Allie and Friends
* Growing Kids Club: No Kids Club this Week - Back again on Sat., July 21
*Sponsors of the Day: Carolinas HealthCare System, Flatiron, Mi-Connection and Wooden Stone |
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Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest Tomorrow | |
Tomorrow morning from 8-11 a.m., step right up, buy a slice (for $1), find the perfect seed, lean back, and let it rip! You get three chances for once slice.
Our first ever Seed Spitting Contest will have five categories. Each category will have first and second place winners. Prizes will include a combination of melons, Market bucks, Market t-shirts and place ribbons.
Divisions:
1. Female
2. Male
3. Youth (8-15 years)
4. Kids (7 and under)
5. Vendors
It's melon season - lets have some fun! |
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Stacking with Chef Vera | |
Last Saturday Chef Vera stacked-up a delicious Market dish with grilled eggplant, heirloom tomatoes, oregano and fresh mozzarella. The lemon zest and crushed red pepper added just the right tang and kick!
Thank you Market vendors for donating your home-grown goods to this tasty demo:
~ Twin Oak Farm - Eggplant, Basil, Oregano
~ Correll Farm - Heirloom tomatoes, eggplant
~ KC Farms - German Johnson tomatoes
~ Calico Farmstead - fresh mozzarella
View Chef Vera's Eggplant, Heirloom Tomato and Fresh Mozzarella Stack recipe right here. |
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Farm-fresh Food During the Week | |
Barbee Farm - located off Poplar Tent Rd., on Shelton Road in Concord, you'll find lots of farm-fresh seasonal produce during the week. Follow here for Farm Stand hours and location.
KC Farm - located off Hwy. 115 North, on Midway Road (just minutes from Davidson), you'll find farm-fresh eggs, seasonal produce and grass fed beef. Call Chris for more information - 704.807.2900.
Flying Fish - located on Hwy. 115 North and Presbyterian Rd., just one mile from downtown Davidson, you'll find local NC seafood on Thursday and Friday afternoons from 3-6 p.m. Follow here for more information. |
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Vendors Speak | |
We have been a vendor at the DFM for 3 years, and we are thankful that we have such a great outlet to sell our homegrown produce. Our farm has been in our family for over 100 years and it is opportunities such as the DFM that hopefully will allow us to continue the farming tradition for many more generations.
David Correll, Correll Farms, LLC |
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Thank you 2012 DFM Sponsors
Wooden Stone, Title Sponsor & DavidsonNews.net, Media Sponsor
FlatIron Kitchen + Taphouse & Carolina HealthCare System, Presenting Sponsors
Baybridge Management, Inc.; Bragg Financial; 'Cats on Main; Charlotte Pediatric Dentistry; Cocoon Salon; Davidson Family Medicine; Davidson Lands Conservancy; Davidson Village Inn; Edmund Morgan Massage School; Home Careolina; Ingersoll Rand; JJ Wade Agency; John Marshall Custom Homes; JJ Horton Photography; Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce; Lake Norman Magazine; Lake Norman Realty; Lake Norman Embroidery and Screen Printing; Lake Norman YMCA; Little Fish Marketing; Main Street Books; Mayes| Wilson & Associates, LLC; McIntosh Law Firm; Mi Connection; Moliver Chiropractic; Our Town Cinemas; PiEs - Project for Innovation, Energy and Sustainability; PostNet Davidson; Restroom Direct; Sanctuary of Davidson; Sandy and Rex Kragh and Family; South Main Square; The Cycle Path; and The Village Store.
5th/3rd Bank (office space); Brenda Pressley, CPA, PA (accounting services); Town of Davidson (market site and storage)
You help to make it happen! |
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