May 17 Market News

This week come enjoy the sound of our talented youth as you shop and eat! Jubilation Choir from Mansfield High School, along with students studying harp and guitar will play starting at     4:30 PM. The Friday Market Café will be open with indoor and outdoor seating.

Highlights:

Running Bear Farm will have their lamb—roasts, legs, ground, and sausages; rabbit, and turkey cuts. For produce they will have hakurei turnip greens, broccoli rabe, tatsoi, bok choy, cilantro, chives, green onions, and spinach. Try some Asian greens this week!

Spring Meadows will have lovage and other herbs, and water cress. Rhubarb is in season so stop by the Yorkshire Meadows booth and get some wonderful rhubarb bars, strawberry/rhubarb jam or rhubarb crunch along with the regular fare of shortbread, scones and lemon or lime curd. Why not put some of Liz’s homemade sauerkraut in a crockpot with a pork roast or get yourself some hot dogs from Hillstone Farms and top them with sauerkraut?

Inn To The Seasons will be there with a new cheese product—Ricotta Salata. This is an aged and salted ricotta and used much the same way as feta cheese. They will also have all of their meat products. If you are interested in Morning Glory Muffins please email Bernard (jurkowski.virginia@gmail.com) to order them ahead of time.

Simply Sweet by Stef will have Original and Hot Pepper Gourmet Soft Pretzels, Classic PB Fudge, Crunchy Granola and Pretzel/Chocolate Pretzel Granola Bars, Blueberry Muffins/Scones and Cran-Orange Biscotti. To order granola in bulk email stefaniegreenawalt@yahoo.com.

The Herb Corner hopes to start bringing tomato & pepper plants this week to market. They will, of course have lots of herbs, flowers, hanging baskets and other vegetable plants as well to sell. The Herb Corner grows 90% of their plants from seed, so if you are a gardener who does not plant until Memorial Day, not a problem. They sow succession seedings of all their plant varieties in order to have plenty of healthy plants throughout the growing season.

Cardinal Inn B&B will not be at Mansfield this week, but we hope you will. Check the Facebook page for any last minute updates. See you 3-6 PM Friday!

—Lilace

Mother’s Day Market News

Looking like great weather in the forecast for the second week of the outdoor Market this Friday.

The bounce house won’t be up this week but the music tent certainly will be and we’ll have some great original homegrown Tioga County music preformed by Folk Spirits.

Stop by our Market tent, introduce yourselves, and have a cup of coffee on the house from Night and Day while you check out our market tee-shirts and tank tops for sale.

Hungry? Stop in at the Market Café for some great food. Last week was a terrific success with great reviews. Enjoy foods prepared with local ingredients from the growers, as made available, by the chefs of the St. James International Dinner Series fame. You won’t be disappointed. Seating will be in and out doors as weather permits. They will also be glad to make it to go, if you wish.

All of our vendors from last week as well as one or two others will be there with a wide variety of spring produce, meat, and baked goods. New Horizon Creamery will also be there with their cheeses, curds, and delicious homemade ice cream, with free samples, just in case you need to be convinced.

Speak to Liz at Yorkshire Meadows about great Mothers Day gift ideas, beautiful designer scarves, gift boxes packed with short bread and lots of other favorites and don’t forget Liz’s great sauerkraut. It’s been getting rave reviews. You might want to think about a gift certificate for knitting/spinning classes at Liz’s studio for a Mothers Day gift idea as well.

Herb Corner will be having lots of goodies, herbs, spring veggie flats. It’s not too late to plant them; they’ll thrive in these cool nights and mornings. All you’ll need to do is put them in the ground with a little TLC and wait. Also, consider their hanging baskets for a great Mothers Day gift idea or even better start an herb garden for the Mother in your life.  I’m sure Diane can point you in the right direction.

Simply Sweet by Stef will also have great gift items this week, including handcrafted wooden pens, caramel corn, fudge variety packs, and pretzel cookies along with their usual fare.

Spring Meadows will have their unique assortment of spring goods, wild leeks, watercress, lovage, and miners’ lettuce as well as pastured soy free eggs. Andy would love to speak to you about CSA shares. Ask.

Welcome Cardinal Inn back by stopping and checking out their booth. You’ll find decorated chocolate chip cookies for Mothers Day, cheddar bay biscuits, cupcakes, and biscotti all baked with loving care, unbleached flour, aluminum-free baking soda and organic sugar. They’ll also have herbs, ramps (wild leeks), and raw honey for sale. Pre-orders are encouraged, so call Darlene at 570-549-2295 to place you order for pickup at the Market.

Running Bear will have a great selection of spring goods, including bok choy, turnip and beet greens, broccoli rabe, cilantro and chives. They will also have their usual cuts of frozen meats and sausages.

Remember to speak to the meat vendors about ordering freezer items for the future. Now’s the time, it takes awhile to grow ‘em.

So, with baked goods from Basically Bagels, frozen meats and other items from Bernie, great meats from Hillstone Farms, salsas and baked goods from Glennfiddich, goat milk soap, hand cream, and lip balm from Always Somethin’ Farms, and so much more, how can you go wrong?

Come and celebrate with good food and old friends or make new ones this Friday. We’re here each week 3-6 P.M. at the St. James Episcopal Church on Rt. 6 one block east of Main St.  Look for our signs.

–Dave, Market Manager

First Outdoor Market of 2013–May 3

Yippee! It looks like perfect weather for our first outdoor market of 2013! That means that the bounce house the Lutes Foundation helped us buy will be open for kiddos to amuse themselves while parents shop. (There will be no formal supervision, so we ask that parents take responsibility for their children’s behavior.)

T-shirts and tanks will be for sale at the Market Booth, where you can enjoy a free cup of Night & Day Coffee. Come browse and say hello, while enjoying Judith Giddings on the mountain dulcimer.

Starting this week the Friday Market Café is open for business. The Café will be based in the Parish Hall kitchen with indoor and outdoor seating available.  The Friday Market Café will be open every Friday except the last of each month, when there will be a hot cart as in previous years.

Run by the chefs of the St. James International Dinner Series, the cafe fare highlights ingredients from market vendors. Regular weekly items include Sylvia’s Chicken Salad and Supreme Grilled Cheese made with Shannon’s Sourdough Bread, Early Spring Mix Salad with choice of Miso Ginger, Greek Vinaigrette, or Poppy Seed Dressing, Spicy Hummus Wraps, Tomato Basil Soup, variety of just baked desserts and freshly brewed Sweet Iced Tea.

Spring Meadows Farm joins us for their first market of the season, with lovage, watercress, miner’s lettuce, and wild leeks. The Herb Corner will be bringing plants only–and lots of them–to the market Friday: herbs, veggies, and some flowers. Yorkshire Meadows will have the usual array of sauerkraut, jams—including peach this week!—scones, and Scottish shortbread cookies. If you are interested in learning how to knit socks, make felted hats or spin wool into yarn then stop by the Yorkshire Meadows booth and sign up for a class at Liz’s Knitting Shop.

The regular wonderful motley crew of vendors will be there with a variety of greens, meats, baked goods, cheese and ice cream, frozen ricotta-based foods, granola, goat milk soap and salves, salsa, and more.

Come celebrate the pleasant weather with good food and good friends. We’re here every Friday 3-6 pm at St. James Episcopal Church on Rt. 6 one block east of Main Street.

–Lilace

April 26 Market News

Greetings Market Friends,

Take time out to enjoy spring!

What a great month April has been at the indoor Market!!! There is a wonderful atmosphere in the Parish Hall, kind of like an ongoing family reunion. This will be the last week of the indoor market because we’ll be moving outside next week.  We’re hoping the weather will co-operate but don’t worry–we’ll be there rain or shine with wonderful fresh foods.

This week Stef from Simply Sweet will have butter pecan fudge as an addition to her regular fare of granola, granola bars, and cookies.

The Herb Corner will have their fabulous herbs, starter plants, lettuce and all kinds of wonderful gardening tips.  I planted some of their lettuce in pots on my porch and we have been enjoying it in our salads. Try starting an herb garden on your kitchen windowsill.

Hillstone Farms and Running Bear Farm will have an awesome selection of meats and sausages. Plus Running Bear will have eggs and fresh produce in season.

Have you tried homemade sauerkraut from Yorkshire Meadows? It’s packaged in individual servings as well as quart bags.

Get some bread and salsa from Glenfiddich Bakery or a bagel from Donna, some cheese from New Horizons Creamery , the sauerkraut , find some corned beef and make yourself a Reuben  sandwich. YUM

Inn to the Seasons has all kinds of frozen ricotta entrees for you to enjoy, as well as delicious chocolate fudge.

Finish off your shopping spree with a tub of homemade ice cream from New Horizons Creamery.

Your fingers are going to be sticky from all the treats you are going to try so you’d better get some homemade soap to wash up with from Always Somethin’ Farm. These soaps make great gifts too.

Want to learn to knit or spin wool from local sheep? Sign up for a class at the Yorkshire Meadows table.

So we’ll all be there at 3pm – 6pm on Friday. Hope to see you then.

Thanks so much for supporting the Mansfield Growers Market!!!

–Liz

The Grower’s ABCs

Hi there, Market Customers!

Thank you for your support in the past two weeks. Here’s a fun way of sharing some of the items available at the Market this Friday. However, there are many more items available. If you are looking for something in particular, just ask a vendor or volunteer. We would be happy to point you in the right direction!

SOMETHING NEW ON THE HORIZON! New Horizon Creamery will be joining us this week with an assortment of cheeses and ice cream. Yum! Sweets by Stef will not be with us this Friday, so get those cravings cookin’ for next Friday!

The Grower’s ABCs

M Marvellous Locally Grown Foods

A Angus Beef

N Nothing like it Fudge

S Sofrito – spice basis for all Spanish cooking

F Fougasse Bread

I Incredibly good Homemade Sauerkraut

E Everything bagels

L Lamb cuts

D Delicious Lemon or Lime Curd

G Goat’s milk Soap

R Ricotta Cheese

O Oatmeal pecan Cookies

W White Chocolate/Macadamia Cookies

E Eggs

R Rhubarb/Strawberry Jam

S Sun Tea

M Mini Bagels

A Absolutely Wonderful Sweets by Stef

R Raspberry Almond Tea Bread

K Kale

E Everything you need for an Herb Garden

T Turkey

Have a great week! Hope to see you on Friday from 3pm – 6pm.

We would truly appreciate it if you would “share” any Market posts you see on Facebook so we can increase the contacts.

Liz McLelland

Let it Rain—We’re Indoors for April!

Be sure to head to the Mansfield Growers Market 3-6 pm on Friday. Last week for our first market 150 folks came on down. Many vendors sold out and everyone had a great time. We are off to a great start!

Running Bear Farm has a limited amount of produce, including spinach, Napa cabbage, broccoli rabe, and beet greens. They will also have a variety of meat including lamb cuts & sausage, poultry, and rabbit. Inn to the Seasons will have a variety of meat cuts, as well as manicotti, blintzes, etc. made from their fresh ricotta.

Herb Corner will have more starter veggie plants for early gardeners, and bay leaves. Yorkshire Meadows will be back with a colorful assortment of sweaters, felted mittens, hats and scarves, and yummy sauerkraut, scones, shortbread cookies, lemon and lime curd, a variety of jams.

Simply Sweet, a new vendor, has amazing granola, granola bars, gourmet soft pretzels, biscotti, and some fine woodcrafts for sale. If you’d like to place a bulk order for granola, you may buy 2 lbs for a $3 discount. You may pre-order from before the Market so they can package it in bulk or pick from what is available at the Market. To pre-order either email stefaniegreenawalt@yahoo.com or find Simply Sweet on Facebook and place your order there.

Glenfiddich Farm Baked Goods will have oatmeal bread, sourdough bread, cinnamon raisin sourdough bread, raspberry almond tea bread, white chocolate macadamia nut cookies, cinnamon rolls, chocolate peanut butter cookies, fougasse, lime tarts, and key lime cupcakes. She will also have red salsa and green salsa, in addition to vanilla sugar. And if it’s bagels you want, come see Donna—she has a wide variety!

And finally, with all the gardening you are doing (or, in my case, will do any day now . . . ) you definitely need some gentle but hard-working goat milk soap from Always Somethin’ Farm. And to avoid those painful cracks follow up with the hand cream. I am loving the new “Walk in the Woods” scent.

So tell your friends about us and come on down to enjoy fresh food grown by your friends. The market is located at 30 E. Wellsboro Street. And remember, it can rain all it wants because we’re inside for all of April! Find us on Facebook or on the web at mansfieldgrowersmarket.wordpress.com. If you have questions please email MGMPAinfo@gmail.com.

Take care,

Lilace

Thanks to Our 2013 Sponsors!

Just a week away! The Mansfield Growers Market will open 3 to 6 PM Friday, April 5 in the St. James Church Parish Hall. This year marks our fifth anniversary and we’re expanding to include early spring and late fall by moving indoors for those seasons. The outdoor market will be 3 to 6 PM Fridays May through September as usual.

Though it’s still cold, many of the vendors have high tunnels and greenhouses, so customers can expect some produce as well as a large variety of baked goods and meats at opening day. There will also be vegetable starter plants for early gardening.

It’s an exciting year. The community businesses and organizations have really shown their support for the market, which is non-profit and run by volunteers. Our sponsorship list has grown and we are getting new vendors. In addition to a grant from the Tioga County Visitors Bureau to help with advertising, almost forty sponsors have given one hundred dollars or more!

The 2013 Market Sponsors are: Affordable Rentals; Arts for All; Changos; Cooper’s Sporting Goods; Citizens & Northern Bank; Community Blood Bank; Cummings Jewelers; Debbie’s Day Care; Elite Therapy; Endless Mountain Designs; First Citizens Community Bank; Foor & Associates Architects; Grammas’ Kitchen; Indigo Wireless; Keystone Welding and Fabrication; Laura C. Bellows, DC; Lawrence B. Mansfield, Attorney at Law; Liberty Church; Main Street Yoga; Mansfield Chamber of Commerce; Mansfield Embroidery & Screenprinting; Mansfield High School; Night & Day Coffee Café; Northern PA Notary; Northern Tier Beverage; Oswald Cycle Works; Papa V’s Pizzeria & Restaurant; Patricia Hutcheson Beauty Salon; Penny-Saver; Phoenix Rehabilitation & Health Services; Photos by Dart; Red Rose Antiques; Stager & Coole Dentistry; Strohecker Vision Care; Try Chips; United Country Realty Pioneers; Wendels; Wren’s Nest; Yorkholo Brewing Co.

The Market is still accepting applications for vendors. For information go to  mansfieldgrowersmarket.wordpress.com and look under “Vendor Guidelines.” To request an application email MGMPAinfo@gmail.com or call Dan Styborski at 662-2766. St. James Church is located at 30 E. Wellsboro Street on Rt. 6 one block east of Main Street. Come get fresh food—grown by your friends!

–Lilace