Logo 2013

Saturday

June 15,  2013

 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

402 W Duke of Gloucester St.

 

 

 

Zamora produce
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY  
 
Take The Pledge & Celebrate WFM
  
Farm.Fresh.Pledge!   VA Grown logo
  •  Ask for the "Farm, Fresh, Pledge" punch card at the Market Tent or the Token Tent. 
  • Purchase Market tokens with cash, credit cards or EBT cards to verify your spending.
  • Earn one punch for each $10 token you purchase to spend on Virginia Grown products at the WFM. 
  • Collect all 14 punches for a chance to win a gift basket of Virginia Grown®/Virginia's Finest®  products valued at  $250.
  • Contest ends September 28.  You have all summer to fill punch cards.

The Williamsburg Farmers Market will have drawings during the summer for anyone pledging $10.

 

At the same time, enter the American Farmland Trust's

AFT Pledge Button jpeg

 

I Love My Market Celebration
which is also raising national awareness about local farmers markets and putting money directly in the pockets of family farmers.
  • Ask to enter at the market on the market's iPad 
  • Pledge and enter each day at                                I Love My Farmers Market 

The Top 100 most celebrated markets will receive a special logo honoring their achievement, "No Farms, No Food"® gear, and recognition on the Celebration's website.

  

 

 
Neighbors in Merchants Square
  
Danforth Pewter -  is offering 10% off one pewter item every Saturday to Farmer's Market customers. www.danforthpewter.com
  
Williams -Sonoma - stop by the store to learn about the June Culinary Technique classes and sales. http://www.williams-sonoma.com/  

    

 
Volunteers
Volunteers  
Diane Dye, Dorothy Sparrow and Binky Brough volunteer regularly on
Saturday mornings.  Inquire about assisting the market either on site or
behind the scenes.
  
Opportunity to Raise Money for WFM
VOLUNTEERS CAN EARN MONEY FOR OUR NONPROFIT! - On June 21-23, the Greater Williamsburg Chamber & Tourism Alliance will be hosting the Rev3 Triathlon ($100,000 purse - 1500 athletes and families). They are looking for hundreds of volunteers for Friday-Sunday events. In addition to lunch and a t-shirt, they will ALSO give a $20 donation per person to their nonprofit.
Make sure when it asks if you are a group, that you put the
 Williamsburg Farmers Market.
If you want to sign up to work as a group on June 22
from 12-2:00 pm.,  email therner@williasburgva.gov 
  
  

 

Garlic, Elephant
Elephant Garlic
Open Saturdays
through Oct. 26
Products & Vendors
Click on Vendors to see the 40 vendors and their products for this week.
 
Pre- Orders are encouraged.
Look for: 
 
Fruit is ripening -blueberries, raspberries, strawberries are all at the market. Peaches arrive next week.
  
Sunflowers (Pollenless) - Amy's Garden
 
Nasturtiums (for salads) - Blenheim Organic Farm
     
Raspberries - Agriberry
 
For Farther's Day
Give Market Tokens to spend on :
Apple Pie - Simply Southern Pies
 
Steamed Crabs - VA Blue Crab
 
Grass-fed Beef - Pampatike Hill Farm
 
Wine - Saude Creek Winery
  *****
WFM ACCEPTS
SNAP EBT and
Credit Cards
Exhibitior

Master Gardeners will answer questions about flowers.

Music
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Ron Fetner will play the Blues.
Coming Events
WVEC Dialogue - June 16, 12:00 pm
Interview with Randy Gulden of KelRae Farms and Libbey Oliver, market manager.
 
Farm to Table Dinner -
June 29, See A Mid-Summer "Virginia Bounty" Dinner  for details of this special dinner at Traditions  of the Williamsburg Lodge.
Call 757-229-2141 for reservations.
Sponsors
* Founding Sponsors
City of Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Merchants Square Association
*Sustaining Sponsors
Riverside Doctors' Hospital Williamsburg
Howell Creative Group
Chesapeake Bank
Towne Bank
Farm Bureau
Farm Credit
*Supporters
Berret's Seafood Restaurant
Williams-Sonoma
Click Here to see Volunteers and Friends and to join
Williamsburg Farmers Market - A Producer-only Market