It’s May and the goodness is blooming!

Grab your shopping bags and join us for the first Saturday Market of May! Peek at this week’s Newsletter to find out what’s in season this month in our region, and learn more about the very freshest, locally grown and raised veggies, fruits, flowers, meat, eggs coming to your dinner table this week!

 

This Week

* Come enjoy Market Music by Triangle Sax Ensemble!

* Poet William Davis is back at market this week – come get a custom, live-written poem for you or a loved one!

 

Upcoming Events

* DFM Strawberry festival NEXT WEEK, Saturday May 13th! Join us for our annual Strawberry Shindy, and celebrate all things strawberries with a pie eating contest, custom strawberry Boomerang Bags (bring a t-shirt from home to make the bag out of!), face painting, tastings, and recipes!

 

Want to find out what else your local farmers are bringing to the market this week? Check out this week’s Newsletter! https://conta.cc/3LDUosb

 

When: Saturday, May 6th, 8am – 12pm
Where: The Pavilion at Durham Central Park / 501 Foster Street

It’s a beautiful day for an afternoon at the market!

Looking for a fun way to spend your afternoon? Come down to Durham Central Park from 3-6pm TODAY for fresh local foods, lawn games, kids activities, live music, and poetry. Bring the friends and family and hang out on the park lawn while enjoying social district brews and all your market goodies!

This week

Sneak a peek at the newsletter link below to find out which of your favorite vendors are coming to market, and what delicious, humanely and locally raised foods may be filling your shopping bag this week! Here are just a few highlights to whet your appetite:

 

Sprouts Club has returned!

That’s right, Kids Sprouts Club is back, and we’re loving it. Every week, we’ll have community partners from around the area leading us in fun and educational activities, and every kid who participates will receive Market Bucks to spend at tasty foods at market. THIS WEEK our friends at the Museum of Life + Science are joining us from 3-5pm to teach us about Plant Properties: Learn how plants like chamomile, ginger, garlic etc. could help you or a loved one feel better. Join us in making our own tea bags with various medicinal herbs! 

New Coffee Vendor!

Please join us in giving 321 Coffee a warm welcome to their very first DFM market! 321 Coffee will be a guest vendor this season at the Wednesday markets and will be bringing decaf coffee our afternoons have been craving, along with their other in-house roasted, ethically sourced coffees.

May Flowers (and gorgeous produce) are here!

Thanks to all our April rain, May is off to a beautiful start in the fruit, veggie, and flower department. Catch Wild Scallions Farm, Harland’s Creek Farm, and Hurtgen Meadows for wonderful arrangements of spring flowers while you pick up some of their tasty veggies. Hua Nong Ecorganic Farm and Lyon Farm will be here with an amazing variety of bok choy, sweet and tender Chinese zucchini, lettuce, watermelon radishes, strawberries, tomatoes, asparagus, and lots more.

Bull City Farm

New this season, guest vendor Bull City Farm will be joining us every Wednesday bringing eggs, pasture-raised meat, and dog treats (believe us, your pups will love them!).

Tulip Poplar Honey

We have honey, hun! Every week, guest vendor Tulip Poplar Honey will be here to share the bounty of their local beehives! Raw honey, candles, lotion bars, and more.

A match made in heaven

And, of course, we will have a scrumptious assortment of local bakeries – Loaf, Ninth Street Bakery, and Strong Arm Baking – here to fill your kitchen with artisan loaves, buns, granola, croissants, cookies, and even pizza. And you know what goes well with fresh baked bread? Locally crafted ciders from returning vendor Botanist & Barrel! They always have something fun to sample and take home and we can’t wait to see what they have in store for us this season.

Live Music

Enjoy Market Music by local singer-songwriter, Remona Jeannine!

Poetry

William Davis and his beautiful poems are back! Be sure to come say hi and get a custom, live-written poem for you or someone you love while Will visits market this week.

 

See you there, friends!

 

Newsletter Link: https://conta.cc/3LRECvd

 

When: Wednesday, May 3rd, 3pm – 6pm
Where: The Pavilion at Durham Central Park / 501 Foster Street

Spend the beautiful last weekend of April with us!

We’ve seen it all this month, lots of warm sun, lots of rain to feed our plants and soils, and even a few nerve wracking thunderstorms and floods. As we wrap us this April together, we are grateful for a wonderful start to our Main Season Saturday and Wednesday hours and for all your patronage despite the April showers! We look forward to celebrating May flowers and all that our last full month of Spring has in store for us.

April Highlights

There was a whole bunch of goodness to celebrate this month! Here are just a few highlights:

* The beginning of Main Season! We celebrated the return of our 4 hour Saturday Market on April 1st, and the return of Wednesday Afternoon Markets on April 19th. We’ve had a great line up of new and returning vendors at both markets, and it’s been a joy to be back at it full time!

* The Piedmont Farm Tour was a success! It took place last weekend, and provided community members all across the region a chance to spend some time with many of our vendors out on their farms, learn about their farming techniques, and pick up some tasty meals and products. Thanks to all who joined!

* Kids Sprouts Club returned to Wednesday Market! After a couple years on hiatus, Sprouts Club is officially back at market, and it has been so fun to see how many kids have excitedly participated in our educational activities and enjoyed picking up their Market Bucks to spend on fresh, locally grown foods. Thanks to our generous community sponsors who help make this a possibility!

* Earth Month 2023 – we celebrated all month long with our friends at The ReCollective who brought new and exciting ways to recycle and go green every week.

* Fruits, veggies, and flowers galore! With the return of our beloved vendors who tend their farms during the winter market season, we have seen some of our favorite varieties of fruits and veggies pop back up at market for the season. Tomatoes, asparagus, strawberries, plant starts, and native bedding plants lead the charge, with more delicious goodies to follow as we gallop through spring toward summer.

 

This Week

* Enjoy Market Music by the toe-tappin’ bluegrass band, The Carolina Cutups!

* The Poetry Fox is back! Catch him and his typewriter for a personalized, live-written poem!

 

News & Events

*  Something for the Kids – Sprouts Club returns to Wednesday Afternoon Market! Find us every week from 3-6pm through Mid-October at Durham Central Park. Bring the kids for fun activities like plant starting, earth science projects, smoothie making, and more. PLUS, every Sprouts Club Kid who participates will receive Sprouts Club Bucks to spend on tasty foods at market.

 

Want to find out what else your local farmers are bringing to the market this week? Check out this week’s Newsletter! https://conta.cc/3Az6uO4

 

When: Saturday, April 29th, 8am – 12pm
Where: The Pavilion at Durham Central Park / 501 Foster Street

Celebrate Earth Day by supporting local, sustainable, earth-happy foods and goods at the Farmers Market!

It’s always the right time to ask ourselves what ‘going green’ means, and how we can participate in protecting the environment and its people. In big ways and small ways, we can change our habits and help provide a healthy, bright future for our community and beyond. We are grateful for all the ways that customers like you help support local, environment-conscious producers and creators, which can make a big difference in waste and emissions reduction, as well as create a sustainable farmer-to-consumer food system.

Here are just a few highlights of sustainability at work: Chocolatay Confections uses fair trade chocolate and compostable packaging when creating their delicious chocolates and treats you see at market every week. MoonDance Soaps and Sundries reduces their packaging by providing many of their products without plastic (or any!) packaging, and by growing compostable Luffa plants for their soap scrubbers. And with our market partnership with The ReCollective, every week this month you can come to market to learn about new ways to reduce waste by giving hard-to-recycle items a new life and keep them out of the landfill. Find ReCo at the market this week as they hold a special community plastic drop off!

Click the newsletter link below to find out who else is coming to market this week, and ask them how they are working to go a little more green. Happy Earth Day, Durham! You’re looking beautiful today.

 

This Week

* Enjoy Market Music by local singer songwriter, Remona Jeannine!

* The Poetry Fox is back! Catch him and his typewriter for a personalized, live-written poem!

* Celebrate Earth Day with The ReCollective team at their community partner booth, and get started recollecting! Find out what else they are up to this Earth Month HERE

 

News & Events

*  Sprouts Club returns to Wednesday Afternoon Market! Find us every week from 3-6pm through Mid-October at Durham Central Park. Bring the kids for fun activities like plant starting, earth science projects, smoothie making, and more. PLUS, every Sprouts Club Kid who participates will receive Sprouts Club Bucks to spend on tasty foods at market!

* This weekend, April 22-23, many of your favorite vendors are participating in the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association Farm Tour, with guided farm tours, farm fresh meals, and products available on site. Find more information about participating farms HERE

 

 

Want to find out what else your local farmers are bringing to the market this week? Check out this week’s Newsletter! https://conta.cc/3KPqcd8

 

When: Saturday, April 22nd, 8am – 12pm
Where: The Pavilion at Durham Central Park / 501 Foster Street

Shopping local with our friends, in the sunshine? Don’t mind if we do!

Our fingers are crossed for this Saturday, because the forecast calls for SUNSHINE and beautiful 60-70 degree weather! With 57 vendors on deck, community partner booths, poetry, and live music, you won’t want to miss this market.

Catch Sarah’s House of Clay to see all of her new wares fresh from the kiln, visit The Spicy Hermit for her delicious display of traditional kimchi, grab a nutritious fresh-squeezed juice from Jewels of Health, and of course, stock up on your favorite pasture-raised meats, eggs, and all the beautiful spring produce we get to enjoy this season. See you there!

 

This Week

* Enjoy Market Music by Stephan Hermann!

* The Poetry Fox is back! Catch him and his typewriter for a personalized, live-written poem!

* Find The ReCollective team at their community partner booth as they celebrate Earth Month 2023, and get started recollecting!

 

Dates to Remember

*  Wednesday Afternoon Market returns NEXT WEEK Wednesday, April 19th! Catch us every Wednesday from 3:00pm-6:00pm for Kids Sprouts Club, fresh fruits, veggies, meats, baked goods, honey, and more!

 

Want to find out what else your local farmers are bringing to the market this week? Check out this week’s Newsletter! https://conta.cc/3zYnFrX

 

When: Saturday, April 15th, 8am – 12pm
Where: The Pavilion at Durham Central Park / 501 Foster Street

Rain or shine, it’s always a good day at market!

Looks like we’re getting a bit of rain this weekend, so we’re bringing our own sunshine. Spring produce in our growing region is really starting to take off. Take a peak at the photos below for just a glimpse at the colors, flavors, and smiles that await you this weekend at the DFM!

We hope your Easter table is filled with delicious, locally loved and raised meats, vegetables, and goodies, and that your weekend is filled with hope and joy. We’ll see you tomorrow!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Week

* Enjoy music from acoustic vocal duo, Blumora!

* William Davis is back this week with his typewriter, ready to delight you with a beautiful, personal poem!

 

Dates to Remember

*  Wednesday Afternoon Market returns Wednesday, April 19th! Catch us every Wednesday from 3:00pm-6:00pm for fresh fruits, veggies, meats, baked goods, honey, childrens activities, and more!

 

Want to find out what else your local farmers are bringing to the market this week? Check out this week’s Newsletter! https://conta.cc/3ZMEJMg

 

When: Saturday, April 8th, 8am – 12pm
Where: The Pavilion at Durham Central Park / 501 Foster Street

Main Season hours return!

You know that that means…yup, we’re open 8am-12pm THIS WEEKEND through the middle of November! That means you can come early for that hot cup of coffee, have plenty of time to grab all the wonderful offerings our market vendors have on display this week, and still have time to sit and enjoy the Old North State Jam get everyone’s toes tapping with this week’s live music performance!

With many of our main season vendors returning this week, we are so excited to see what they’ve got up their sleeves and to enjoy the morning with you all. Be sure to check out the Main Season Market Map below to see if your favorite vendors have found a new spot this season, and click the newsletter link at the bottom of this page to find more details on what our farmers and creators are bringing this week!

 

 

This Week

* Enjoy live Market Music by Old North State Jam!

* Poet William Davis visits market for a special live poetry day! Be sure to say hi and grab your personalize, live-written poem from Will and his typewriter

* Catch The ReCollective at their partner booth to find out how you can tackle hard-to-recycle items!

 

Dates to Remember

* Wednesday Afternoon Market returns Wednesday, April 19th! Hours: 3:00pm-6:00pm

 

Want to find out what else your local farmers are bringing to the market this week? Check out this week’s Newsletter! https://conta.cc/3JXyU8U

 

When: Saturday, April 1st, 8am – 12pm
Where: The Pavilion at Durham Central Park / 501 Foster Street

Spring is here!

Wow, it’s been a wild March so far, but spring is finally here. And the forecast calls for a gorgeously sunny and warm day for market on Saturday to celebrate the occasion!

As always, we’ll have an abundance of fresh produce, meats, handcrafted goods, preserves, plants, pickles, flowers, baked goods, soups and prepared entrees, and lots more. And here are a few special highlights this week:

* South Wind Produce returns to market this week! Find them on the pavilion next to Speckled Bird and Celebrity Dairy to welcome them back and pick up some beautiful produce.

* Sarah’s House of Clay ‘Pottery Seconds’ Sale! Sarah will be bringing her ‘pottery seconds’ to market for a special pay-what-you-will (minimum $6/pound) day this week. Don’t miss out on these lovely and unique pieces!

* A few of our pastured meat vendors, including Fickle Creek Farm and Stoney Mountain Farm, are bringing some great Easter specials to market to help make a scrumptious Easter meal.

 

This Week

* Catch the Market Music debut of Hound Chase!

* The Poetry Fox is back with his delightful poems this week

 

Next Week

* Next week, April 1st, the market returns to main season hours, 8:00am-12:00pm!

* Enjoy Market Music by the one and only Old North State Jam!

* Poet William Davis will be visiting market with his typewriter and inspired live written poetry!

 

Dates to Remember

* Wednesday Afternoon Market returns Wednesday, April 19th! Hours: 3:00pm-6:00pm

 

Want to find out what else your local farmers are bringing to the market this week? Check out this week’s Newsletter! https://conta.cc/3LLbsOq

 

When: Saturday, March 25, 10am – 12pm
Where: The Pavilion at Durham Central Park / 501 Foster Street

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

We’re rocking our green this week – all the green thumbs, the freshest locally grown leafy greens and bountiful produce you ever did see, and the spirit of ‘going green’ with our NewSoil Compostables Program and ReCollective community partner booth! Speaking of going green, guest vendor Red Drum Roasters just created a reusable container subscription program!

Saturday’s weather forecast calls for a sunny day and high of 60 degrees. We’re crossing our fingers for a quickly warming morning, and if not, we’ve got all the dancing tunes, hot chocolate and coffee, soup samples, hot pastel de yuca, and sweatshirts to warm you body and soul.

Be sure to check out our newsletter link at the bottom of the page to see the list of vendors attending market, and to see what specials and tasty recipes ideas they have in store for you this week at market.

You’re beautiful, Durham. We’ll catch you tomorrow from 10a-12p!

 

This Week

* They’re back! Enjoy Market Music by the Patrick McGrew Trio (warmer weather permitting)

* The ReCollective returns to the community partner booth. Catch them to learn more about upping your recycle game!

* Visit the folks at NewSoil Vermiculture to sign up for our community Compostables Program and make your compost drop!

 

Next Week

* New market music! Enjoy live music by Hound Chase!

* The Poetry Fox Returns!

 

Dates to Remember

* Main Season Starts Saturday, April 1st! Hours: 8:00am-12:00pm

* Wednesday Midweek Market Returns Wednesday, April 19th! Hours: 3:00pm-6:00pm

 

Want to find out what else your local farmers are bringing to the market this week? Check out this week’s Newsletter! https://conta.cc/3JQUwoF

 

When: Saturday, March 18, 10am – 12pm
Where: The Pavilion at Durham Central Park / 501 Foster Street

Vibrant Market Colors

March is being its beautiful, unpredictable self with its tank top and shorts temperatures, and impromptu rain and chill. And we are here for it! We love seeing the abundance of spring flowers and produce that has begun to pop up on market tables. We’ve got alot of goodness headed our way this weekend, and we can’t wait to get the kitchen stocked up for the week, and see all our friends out and about.

See you Saturday from 10:00-12:00!

 

This Week

* Visit the folks at NewSoil Vermiculture to sign up for our community Compostables Program and make your compost drop!

* The Poetry Fox returns! Stop by his spot on the green for a personalize, live written poem!

 

Next Week

* Enjoy Market Music by the Patrick McGrew Trio!

* The ReCollective community sponsor booth returns!

* Catch The Poetry Fox!

 

Dates to Remember

* Main Season Starts Saturday, April 1st! Hours: 8:00am-12:00pm

* Wednesday Midweek Market Returns Wednesday, April 19th! Hours: 3:00pm-6:00pm

 

Want to find out what else your local farmers are bringing to the market this week? Check out this week’s Newsletter! https://conta.cc/3YAcGif

 

When: Saturday, March 11, 10am – 12pm
Where: The Pavilion at Durham Central Park / 501 Foster Street