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Touch-A-Truck Event, Sunday June 19th

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This Sunday at the market we’ll be hosting a Public Safety Day featuring Swampscott Police, Fire, Ambulance and The Red Cross. They will be bringing their trucks and cruisers down and will be out there during the market for a meet & greet.

Sunday June 19th
Swampscott High School
10am

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We would like to thank everyone for the great turnout for our Opening Day last week, it was a huge success! We hope that you’ll continue to come out every weekend to support our farmers and stock up on the great produce & other goodies our vendors have this year.

Also this Sunday at the market, our civic booth will be the Swampscott Yacht Club.

Our musician will be Aidan Bonner.

In addition to the touch-a-truck event, we will be having a flag making craft activity for the kids. They can have fun making their own flag for the 4th of July Parade.

We’ll see you there!!

2016 Opening Day! June 12th

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The big day is almost here! Sunday June 12th will be the first market of the season. We can’t wait to see everyone out there, we have a wonderful list of vendors joining us this year.

We’ll have a pot-a-plant activity for the kids, our civic booth will be the Board of Health who will have reusable totes available.

For music we’ll have the wonderful Molly Pinto Madigan.

We will also be holding a perennial swap at the market. If you have any perennials in your garden that you are looking to part with, bring them to the market with you and you can swap with others. Maybe you have extra lilies and are looking to add some variety to your garden? See what others have an you can go home with a new plant for free!

Sunday June 12th
10am-1pm
Swampscott High School
200 Essex Street

We’ll see you all there!!

CSA Shares Available!

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Sign up for a CSA Share with Long Hill Orchard and you can pick up your share at the Farmer’s Market every Sunday this summer. The CSA includes fruits & vegetables and plenty of variety. Simply visit their website, download the membership form and mark it for Swampscott. They anticipate selling out so sign up now!

Apples, Apple Cider Donuts & Fall Fun!

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Looks like we are going to have another gorgeous fall day on Sunday! You’ll find a variety of fresh local apples at all of our produce vendors and apple cider donuts at the Cannoli Corner (they are worth a trip on it’s own).

This weekend we will have a Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater craft for the kids as part of our continuing October Halloweenfest. If you haven’t heard yet, we’ll be having a kid’s Halloween Costume Parade at the last market on the 25th, RSVP via our facebook event page to receive reminders about the event.

Only 3 markets left! We hope to see you out there!

 

 

 

Flu Shots at the Market, October 4th

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It’s time to get those doorsteps looking festive! Stop by the market this weekend to stock up on pumpkins, gourds and other festive fall items. Grab some delicious baked goods and apple cider while you’re at it.

It looks like the rain might hold off for us but just a reminder that we ARE open rain or shine! Only 4 markets left this season, don’t miss out on all the fantastic local items available!

This weekend the town nurse will be giving out flu shots at the market this weekend, just bring your health care card with you.

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We are still having our October Halloweenfest so there will be a pumpkin craft for the kids this weekend. If you didn’t catch it last week, make sure you mark your calendar for the kid’s Halloween Costume Parade on Sunday October 25th.

We’ll see you there on Sunday!

Make a Farmer’s Market Smoothie!

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Don’t let yourself get into a rut, buying the same things every week. Try picking up some different produce this weekend and try blending it up in a smoothie, it’s a great way to start the day and get in your servings of fruits & vegetables! I bought some nectarines last week and they were incredible. Juicy, sweet & ripe.  Try blending up combinations like nectarine, almond milk, greek yogurt, ice & maple syrup or get adventurous and add vegetables like celery, kale or tomatoes.

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If you have a juicer at home you can juice items like apples, beets or carrots.  Get creative and see what works! You can even make dog biscuits from the leftover vegetable pulp.

This weekend at the market…9-13-15…

Remember the market is rain or shine! We’re hoping that the thunderstorms hold off until the afternoon but we hope you’ll come out to support the vendors either way.

Vendors joining us this Sunday are…Swiss Bakers, Witch City Salsa, Alfalfa Farm Winery, Grant Farm, Clark Farm, Moran’s Pet Food, Lanni’s Orchard, Golden Cod Fish, River Rock Farm, Long Hill Orchard, All Fruit, Pour Man’s Coffee, Pickle Emporium, Rowands Fish, The Soup Guy, Next Step Living.

Crafters at the market this Sunday are…Made With Love Beaded Jewelry, Kaleidoscopesoap, Storyteller Jewelry, Iris Design Decoupage Tiles.

Civic booth this week is…The Girl Scout’s

Musician week is…Tev Stevig

This Weekend’s Market 8-16-15

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We have another fun craft for the kids planned this weekend! This time we’ll be painting with vegetables.  Let’s see what type of fun masterpieces we can create using just paint & vegetables.

We’re at the peak of the season and the produce is looking incredible, make sure you take advantage of it and pick up some fresh veggies for this week’s dinners along with a bottle of award-winning blueberry wine and a cold brew coffee to sip on the way to the beach.

For music this week we’ll be featuring Tev Stevig and Joe Kessler from Seaglass Sound.

We’ll see you there!!

This weekend at the Market! 8-2-15

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First of all, we would like to thank everyone for all of their thoughtful and helpful comments on our last post about attendance this year.  There are some great ideas that we are definitely going to take into consideration and we’ll discuss each and every one of them at our next meeting.  Please feel free to continue giving feedback throughout the season, this is a community market and we want you to be a part of it. Likewise, if you’re interesting in volunteering, we’re always looking for new enthusiastic community members to join the committee. It’s a fun way to meet new people and participate in enriching the town of Swampscott.

One takeaway from your comments is that people often forget about the market and need reminders during the weekend. We are going to set up an email that will go out every weekend to remind you to stop by the market, highlighting events and vendors that will be there that week.  If you would like to be added to our email list, just send us an email (swampscottfm@fastmail.fm), fill out the contact form on our website, send us a facebook message or stop by our booth on Sunday to add your name.  We promise not to spam you!

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This weekend we have a fun beach rock painting event planned for the kids.  Bring them by to get creative while you get your shopping done!

Northshore 104.9 will be joining us providing music and Hope for Creativity will be our civic booth for the week.

We hope to see you out there on Sunday! Thank you again for your continued support!

Where are our loyal patrons?

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We want to take this time to sit down with you, our market patrons and have a heart-to-heart. Unfortunately we have noticed a dramatic decline in market customers this year and we want to get feedback from everyone as to why this may be happening.  We have a loyal group of volunteers who come out to work every week and take time out of their schedule throughout the year to grow the market and provide this service to the community so it breaks our hearts to see this.  We have had feedback in the past that we need more produce vendors so we listened and we now have 4 large farms that come and provide an abundant selection of fruits, vegetables, plants & herbs in addition to all of our other great vendors providing goodies like cold brew coffee, maple syrup, baked goods, eggs, meat, pickles, salsa, spices, snacks, fresh fish and crafts.  If the vendors don’t have the patrons to support their business and the travel to the market, we are going to lose them and along with it this vibrant market we have built.

SO, we are reaching out to you for your help.  We need you to come out and support the vendors and spread the word so that your friends and families come out as well.  In addition to supporting the market, we are looking for your feedback.  Why are you not making it to the market this year? Is there something more you’d like to see? Are we missing something? Do you just need reminders? Will signs throughout town on Sunday help bring people in?  You can either comment on this post, on facebook or email us, we’re here to listen!

We provide this service to enrich our community and support our local farms and businesses, we want it to thrive and grow but we can’t do that without your support! Thank you!!

Sincerely,
The Swampscott Farmer’s Market Committee

This Weekend’s Market: 7-19, A Scavenger Hunt & Lanni Orchards

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As we get deeper and deeper into summer you’re going to start seeing more and more at the market every weekend.  We’re supposed to have another gorgeous Sunday so stop on by to grab a cold brew Iced Coffee before the beach and stock up on fresh vegetables and fish to have for dinner when you get home.

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We’d also like your help in welcoming a new vendor who will be joining us at the market for the remainder of the season: Lanni Orchards from Lunenberg MA. The orchard was started 50 years ago by Pasquale Lanni and his sons.  Today the farm is being operated by the third and fourth generations.  They grow their own apples, peaches, pears, corn, squash, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and so much more!

For the kids this weekend, we’ll be having a scavenger hunt, bring them down for some fun following clues around the market for a prize.

We’ll see you on Sunday, 10-1!