Columbus Day Weekend - Special Market!

Columbus Day Weekend - Special Market!

Come celebrate Autumn and the wonderful Apple with us at market THIS FRIDAY!  

Many of your favorite summer vendors will be there as well as some special guest vendors.

Find special items with our summer vendors:

Bessie's Farm Goods will be bringing frozen, no spray blueberries. And they will have mini apple pies and devil's food cup cakes.  And much more!

Pretzel Logic is baking up special Apple Cider pretzels! Wow and Yum!

Casco Bay Soap Co. will have all of your favorites PLUS some seasonal/limited edition soaps.  Apple Cider, Pumpkin Spice Scrub and Witches Brew soaps all to put you in the "seasonal" mood!

A Small Town Bakery is  bringing Biscotti, pies, cookies, whoopie pies, homemade bread, pub cheese, and cupcakes!

Longwoods Alpacas will be bringing bumps of colorful core-spun rug yarns for weavers or special order rugs, as well as felted insoles, fine alpaca knitting yarns, and handwoven scarves.

And joining us this week:

Sweetser's Apple Barrel - With lots of apples!

Hog Stomp BBQ - BBQ sandwiches!  Come early, he usually sells out pretty fast!

Winter Hill Farm - Cheese!  Spreadable soft, herby cheeses and hard aged cheddar.  Some yogurt too!

Plainview Farm - Seasonal farm veggies and flowers!

Winter & Root Veggies

This week at market it is our LAST regular market of the season!  How did that happen!??  It went by soo fast.  We were very lucky to have such great weather this summer for our market too.  We only broke down early a few times due to severe thunderstorm warnings, but market was up and running strong every week!

We celebrate Winter & Root Vegetables this Friday.  Stop by our Farmers, Valley View Farm and Jillson's Farm & Sugarhouse to snap up the seasons hardiest veggies:  potatoes, carrots, squash and more.  

Hope to see you here tomorrow, Friday September 7th!!

We will have 2 additional special markets...Columbus Day Weekend and a Harvest Market in November.  Check this blog of updates!

I love to roast my root veggies!  I also like to mash them and mix them all together.  Carrot and Turnip mash is a family favorite for generations in my family.  How do you prepare your root veggies?  

Here is a recipe for Roasted Root Vegetable Medley from The Food Network

Roasted Root Vegetable Medley

Ingredients

• 8 to 12 slender carrots, peeled and trimmed
• 8 to 12 baby turnips, peeled
• 6 to 8 fingerling potatoes scrubbed and cut lengthwise in halves
• 1 or 2 large parsnips, peeled, trimmed, and cut diagonally into 1-inch-thick slices
• 1 or 2 medium onions, trimmed, peeled and halved, each 1/2 cut into quarters
• 1 or 2 large beets, peeled and cut into thick wedges
• 1 or 2 kohlrabi bulbs, peeled and cut into thick wedges
• 1 celery root, trimmed and halved, halves cut crosswise into 1-inch-thick slices
• 1 whole head garlic, separated into cloves, unpeeled
• 2 or 3 sprigs fresh rosemary, sage, or thyme
• Salt
• Freshly ground black pepper
• Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Directions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.

Put all the vegetables and the herb sprigs in a large baking dish. Season well with salt and black pepper, drizzle generously with olive oil, and toss them with your hands to coat them evenly.
Put the baking dish in the preheated oven and cook, stirring the vegetables occasionally, until they are tender and golden brown, about 45 minutes. Serve the vegetables from their baking dish or transfer them to a platter to accompany a roasted main course.

Sweet Treats & Crusty Breads

This week we celebrate Sweet Treats & Crusty Breads!

Come on down to market and visit our talented bakers and take home something good to eat!

A Small Town Bakery offers cookies, cupcakes, breads and more....

Find crackers, breads, whoopee pies, molasses cookies and more at Bessie's Farm Goods.

Gourmet soft pretzles from Pretzel Logic...

Even Jillson's Farm & Sugar House offers Maple Kettle Corn!

Stop by and see us 1-5 on Fridays right off of Main St. at L.L.Bean!

Fabulous Fibers & Maine Craftsmen

This week we celebrate Fabulous Fibers & Maine Craftsmen.  Visit our all Maine Made craftsmen at market, chat with them and see their beautiful wares.

Find Longwoods Alpacas and Bessie's Farm Good carrying wonderful fibers in beautiful colors! Everything you need to spin or knit or purchase a finished product.

AND we have many wonderful Maine Craftsmen (and women)!  

Jeff Raymond Woodturner

Shannon, Casco Bay Soap Co.

Angela, The Craftin' Scot

Ginny, Bags of Gold

Libby, Brickyard Cove Pottery

Two Smart Ladies, Jewelry

Kate, Love For Lemons

Aritsan Cheeses & Yogurts

This week we celebrate Artisan Cheese & Yogurts!  Find wonderful products made from Durham and Freeports very own small batch creamery, Spring Day Creamery and Winter Hill Farm!

Sarah Spring of Spring Day Creamery will be at market.  Stop and sample her delicious cheese and talk to her about her cheese marking She is bringing along yogurts from Winter Hill Farm.  

We are thrilled to have them join us and offer dairy at our market!  Come on down and support super local,  hand made, artisan products from them and other great vendors!

From Spring Day Creamery Website:

 Spring Day Creamery is primarily focused on French traditional cheeses.

Sarah’s “Spring Day Blues,” won 2^nd place in this year’s American Cheese Society (ACS) North American competition.

Cheese is carefully handmade in small batches and is subsequently turned, brushed, or pierced, until it is ripened to perfection.

Spring Day Creamery’s raw milk supplier is L & P Bisson and Sons  in Topsham, Maine, and occasionally Winter Hill Farm in Freeport. Pasteurized milk comes from Pineland Farms in New Gloucester, Maine.
Sarah likes to experiment. It is is not uncommon for customers at the farmers’ market to discover cheeses in her cooler labeled “New Cheese, ” with a request for customer feedback.

From the Winter Hill Farm Website: 

Winter Hill Farm produces fresh, unpasteurized milk, whole milk yogurt, kefir and aged raw milk cheese that is sold here on the farm to regular customers as well as to a number of health food stores in the area.

Yogurt - We seem to have quite a dedicated following for our yogurt. It isn't unusual for one of us to hear' "I LOVE your yogurt!" or "That is the best yogurt!" from random people when they find out that we are the farmers at Winter Hill. Our yogurt is thick and mildly sour. The culture we use is described as having a ‘mild yogurt flavor’, and a ‘smooth heavy body’. At our house, we love it on pancakes, alongside curry dishes or with a simple drizzle of maple syrup for dessert. Yum!