This Week at the Durham Farmers' Markets

Great variety and authenticity are expressed exceptionally well in Durham’s food - that's why Durham is the Tastiest Town in the South. Part of Durham’s exciting food culture comes from a fascination with locally grown and raised products, and from the chefs who prepare celebrated cuisine recognized in regional and national media. Each week at Durhams's farmers' markets everyone can be a chef with access to fresh local produce.

Produce available this week includes: pumpkins, greens, broccoli, radishes, carrots, bok choy, kale, apples, sweet potatoes, and more! Also look for meats, cheeses, flowers, specialty items and crafts.

Durham Farmers' Market
Celebrate Food Day with a vendor costume contest and double bucks fundraiser. Then at 10 am, Chef John Eisensmith from Six Plates will be doing a cooking demonstration.Visit the Durham Farmers' Market Saturdays from 8am- Noon in Durham Central Park.

South Durham Farmer's Market
This week, there will be music by Kristi Dixon, and the Master Gardeners will be the Market Guest. Visit the South Durham Farmer's Market on Saturdays from 8am-Noon at Greenwood Commons, 5410 Highway 55.

Visit the farmers' markets, tour a farm, and discover more great agritourism opportunities in Durham.

This Week at the Durham Farmers' Market

Great variety and authenticity are expressed exceptionally well in Durham’s food - that's why Durham is the Tastiest Town in the South. Part of Durham’s exciting food culture comes from a fascination with locally grown and raised products, and from the chefs who prepare celebrated cuisine recognized in regional and national media. Each week at Durhams's farmers' markets everyone can be a chef with access to fresh local produce.

Produce available this week includes: apples, muscadine and scuppernong grapes, peaches, green beans, corn, chard, eggplant, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and more! Also look for meats, cheeses, flowers, specialty items and crafts.

Durham Farmers' Market
Visit the Durham Farmers' Market Saturdays from 8am- Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm in Durham Central Park.

South Durham Farmer's Market
This week, there will be Pizza Faces with local vegetable in the Kid's Tent Visit the South Durham Farmer's Market on Saturdays from 8am-Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm at Greenwood Commons, 5410 Highway 55.

Visit the farmers' markets, tour a farm, and discover more great agritourism opportunities in Durham.

This Week at the Durham Farmers' Market

Great variety and authenticity are expressed exceptionally well in Durham’s food - that's why Durham is the Tastiest Town in the South. Part of Durham’s exciting food culture comes from a fascination with locally grown and raised products, and from the chefs who prepare celebrated cuisine recognized in regional and national media. Each week at Durhams's farmers' markets everyone can be a chef with access to fresh local produce.

Produce available this week includes: figs, tomatoes, asparagus, eggplant, mushrooms potatoes, peaches, okra, onions, sweet potatoes, watermelon, zucchini and more! Also look for meats, cheeses, flowers, specialty items and crafts.

Durham Farmers' Market
Visit the Durham Farmers' Market Saturdays from 8am- Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm in Durham Central Park.

South Durham Farmer's Market
This week, music will be performed by Bread and Butter Duo. Visit the South Durham Farmer's Market on Saturdays from 8am-Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm at Greenwood Commons, 5410 Highway 55.

Visit the farmers' markets, tour a farm, and discover more great agritourism opportunities in Durham.

This Week at the Durham Farmers' Markets

Great variety and authenticity are expressed exceptionally well in Durham’s food - that's why Durham is the Tastiest Town in the South. Part of Durham’s exciting food culture comes from a fascination with locally grown and raised products, and from the chefs who prepare celebrated cuisine recognized in regional and national media. Each week at Durhams's farmers' markets everyone can be a chef with access to fresh local produce.

Produce available this week includes: tomatoes, asparagus, eggplant, mushrooms potatoes, peaches, okra, onions, sweet potatoes, watermelon, zucchini and more! Also look for meats, cheeses, flowers, specialty items and crafts.

Durham Farmers' Market
Tomorrow chef Shane Ingram from Four Square will be cooking on the lawn from 9am until Noon.Visit the Durham Farmers' Market Saturdays from 8am- Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm in Durham Central Park.

South Durham Farmer's Market
This week, the Harvest Book Drive will be on site. Plese bring any gently used children's books to donate. Music will be performed by the Deepwood Ramblers. Visit the South Durham Farmer's Market on Saturdays from 8am-Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm at Greenwood Commons, 5410 Highway 55.

Visit the farmers' markets, tour a farm, and discover more great agritourism opportunities in Durham.

This Week at the Durham Farmers' Markets

Great variety and authenticity are expressed exceptionally well in Durham’s food - that's why Durham is the Tastiest Town in the South. Part of Durham’s exciting food culture comes from a fascination with locally grown and raised products, and from the chefs who prepare celebrated cuisine recognized in regional and national media. Each week at Durhams's farmers' markets everyone can be a chef with access to fresh local produce.

Produce available this week includes: tomatoes, asparagus, eggplant, potatoes, okra, onions, sweet potatoes, zucchini and more! Also look for meats, cheeses, flowers, specialty items and crafts.

Durham Farmers' Market
This week there will be storytelling with Cynthia Raxter from 9-Noon and the Kid's HomeFries Cooking Class will be taught by Cece Lopez of Bull City Burger from 9:30-11am. Visit the Durham Farmers' Market Saturdays from 8am- Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm in Durham Central Park.

South Durham Farmer's Market
This week, food truck Olio & Aceto will be on site with music by Kristi Dixon. Visit the South Durham Farmer's Market on Saturdays from 8am-Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm at Greenwood Commons, 5410 Highway 55.

Visit the farmers' markets, tour a farm, and discover more great agritourism opportunities in Durham.

This Week at the Durham Farmers' Markets

Great variety and authenticity are expressed exceptionally well in Durham’s food - that's why Durham is the Tastiest Town in the South. Part of Durham’s exciting food culture comes from a fascination with locally grown and raised products, and from the chefs who prepare celebrated cuisine recognized in regional and national media. Each week at Durhams's farmers' markets everyone can be a chef with access to fresh local produce.

Produce available this week includes: peas, blueberries, peppers, garlic, corn, tomatoes, peaches, melons, eggplant and more! Also look for meats, cheeses, flowers, specialty items and crafts.

Durham Farmers' Market
This week, at 10 am there will be a canning demonstration and tasting with local writer and author Andrea Weigl. Visit the Durham Farmers' Market Saturdays from 8am- Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm in Durham Central Park.

South Durham Farmer's Market
This week, Captain Ponchos and Bulkogi food trucks will be on site with music by Chelsea Vanderhamm. Visit the South Durham Farmer's Market on Saturdays from 8am-Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm at Greenwood Commons, 5410 Highway 55.

Visit the farmers' markets, tour a farm, and discover more great agritourism opportunities in Durham.

This Week at the Durham Farmers' Markets

Great variety and authenticity are expressed exceptionally well in Durham’s food - that's why Durham is the Tastiest Town in the South. Part of Durham’s exciting food culture comes from a fascination with locally grown and raised products, and from the chefs who prepare celebrated cuisine recognized in regional and national media. Each week at Durhams's farmers' markets everyone can be a chef with access to fresh local produce.

Produce available this week includes: tomatoes, jalapenos, corn, carrots, cucumbers, garlic, peaches, blueberries, blackberries, eggplant, yellow squash, zuchinni, peas, peppers and more! Also look for meats, cheeses, flowers, specialty items and crafts.

Durham Farmers' Market
This week will be the annual Tomato Tasting Day with more than 50 varieties of tomatoes to taste. Visit the Durham Farmers' Market Saturdays from 8am- Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm in Durham Central Park.

South Durham Farmer's Market
This week, the La Farm Bakery food truck will be on site. Visit the South Durham Farmer's Market on Saturdays from 8am-Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm at Greenwood Commons, 5410 Highway 55.

Visit the farmers' markets, tour a farm, and discover more great agritourism opportunities in Durham.

This Week at the Durham Farmers' Markets

Great variety and authenticity are expressed exceptionally well in Durham’s food - that's why Durham is the Tastiest Town in the South. Part of Durham’s exciting food culture comes from a fascination with locally grown and raised products, and from the chefs who prepare celebrated cuisine recognized in regional and national media. Each week at Durhams's farmers' markets everyone can be a chef with access to fresh local produce.

Produce available this week includes: jalapenos, corn, carrots, garlic, peaches, blueberries, blackberries, eggplant, peas, peppers and more! Also look for meats, cheeses, flowers, specialty items and crafts.

Durham Farmers' Market
This week there will be a HomeFries kids cooking class by Susan Sing of Tarheel Foodie. Visit the Durham Farmers' Market Saturdays from 8am- Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm in Durham Central Park.

South Durham Farmer's Market
This week, there will be music by The Bred & Butter Duo. Visit the South Durham Farmer's Market on Saturdays from 8am-Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm at Greenwood Commons, 5410 Highway 55.

Visit the farmers' markets, tour a farm, and discover more great agritourism opportunities in Durham.

This Week at the Durham Farmers Markets

Great variety and authenticity are expressed exceptionally well in Durham’s food - that's why Durham is the Tastiest Town in the South. Part of Durham’s exciting food culture comes from a fascination with locally grown and raised products, and from the chefs who prepare celebrated cuisine recognized in regional and national media. Each week at Durhams's farmers' markets everyone can be a chef with access to fresh local produce.

Produce available this week includes: strawberries, arugula, beets, mushrooms, potatoes, rhubarb, sugar snap peas, spinach, cauliflower, cabbage, and more! Also look for meats, cheeses, flowers, specialty items and crafts.

Durham Farmers' Market
Visit the Durham Farmers' Market Saturdays from 8am- Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm in Durham Central Park.

South Durham Farmer's Market
This week, there will be music by Dave Ellis and an appearance by Le Farm's Bread Truck. Visit the South Durham Farmer's Market on Saturdays from 8am-Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm at Greenwood Commons, 5410 Highway 55.

Visit the farmers' markets, tour a farm, and discover more great agritourism opportunities in Durham.

This Week at the Durham Farmers' Markets

Great variety and authenticity are expressed exceptionally well in Durham’s food - that's why Durham is the Tastiest Town in the South. Part of Durham’s exciting food culture comes from a fascination with locally grown and raised products, and from the chefs who prepare celebrated cuisine recognized in regional and national media. Each week at Durhams's farmers' markets everyone can be a chef with access to fresh local produce.

Produce available this week includes: sugar snap peas, squash, zucchini, asparagus, green onions, bell peppers, lettuce, strawberries, cauliflower, and more! Also look for meats, cheeses, flowers, specialty items and crafts.

Durham Farmers' Market
Visit the Durham Farmers' Market Saturdays from 8am- Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm in Durham Central Park.

South Durham Farmer's Market
This week, there will be a kids activity where kids will make edible strawberry mice and food truck Humble Pig will make an appearance. Visit the South Durham Farmer's Market on Saturdays from 8am-Noon at Greenwood Commons, 5410 Highway 55.

Visit the farmers' markets, tour a farm, and discover more great agritourism opportunities in Durham.

South Durham Farmers' Market Launches Wednesday Market

Great variety and authenticity are expressed exceptionally well in Durham’s food - that's why Durham is the Tastiest Town in the South. Part of Durham’s exciting food culture comes from a fascination with locally grown and raised products, and from the chefs who prepare celebrated cuisine recognized in regional and national media. Each week at Durhams's farmers' markets everyone can be a chef with access to fresh local produce.

The South Durham Farmer's Market has announced that it will be open on Wednesdays from 3:30-6:30 pm from May 7 through October 29 in addition to its Saturday schedule from 8am-Noon at Greenwood Commons, 5410 Highway 55.

Visit the farmers' markets, tour a farm, and discover more great agritourism opportunities in Durham.

This Week at the Durham Farmers' Markets

Great variety and authenticity are expressed exceptionally well in Durham’s food - that's why Durham is the Tastiest Town in the South. Part of Durham’s exciting food culture comes from a fascination with locally grown and raised products, and from the chefs who prepare celebrated cuisine recognized in regional and national media. Each week at Durhams's farmers' markets everyone can be a chef with access to fresh local produce.

Produce available this week includes: asparagus, strawberries, tomatoes, radishes, greens and more! Also look for meats, cheeses, flowers, specialty items and crafts.

Durham Farmers' Market
Learn how to make strawberry jam  at 9am and 11am this week. Visit the Durham Farmers' Market Saturdays from 8am- Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm in Durham Central Park.

South Durham Farmer's Market
This week, meet Mango Bakery, the newest vendor at the market. Visit the South Durham Farmer's Market on Saturdays from 8am-Noon at Greenwood Commons, 5410 Highway 55.

Visit the farmers' markets, tour a farm, and discover more great agritourism opportunities in Durham.

This Week at the Farmers' Markets

Great variety and authenticity are expressed exceptionally well in Durham’s food - that's why Durham is the Tastiest Town in the South. Part of Durham’s exciting food culture comes from a fascination with locally grown and raised products, and from the chefs who prepare celebrated cuisine recognized in regional and national media. Each week at Durhams's farmers' markets everyone can be a chef with access to fresh local produce.

Produce available this week includes: asparagus, strawberries, tomatoes, broccoli, greens, carrots, radishes and more! Also look for meats, cheeses, flowers, specialty items and crafts.

Durham Farmers' Market
Starting this week, the Durham Farmers' Market will start accepting SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits. Visit the Durham Farmers' Market Saturdays from 8am- Noon and Wednesdays 3:30-6:30pm in Durham Central Park.

South Durham Farmer's Market
This week come celebrate Earth Day. Visit the South Durham Farmer's Market on Saturdays from 8am-Noon at Greenwood Commons, 5410 Highway 55.

Visit the farmers' markets, tour a farm, and discover more great agritourism opportunities in Durham.

This Week at the South Durham Farmers' Market

This  Week at the Market

• Saturday 8 am-Noon Greenwood Commons 54110 Hwy 55 Durham, NC 27713
• Community Cooking Club: Melina's Pasta with Pesto
• Food Truck: Le Farm Bakery
• In Season: floral arrangements, green onions, radishes, cucumbers, tomatoes, bok choy, potatoes, lettuce.

Local Pasta Made Fresh

Topped with fresh tomato sauce or simply drizzled with olive oil, a bowl of fresh pasta never fails to satiate and soothe. And, at the South Durham Farmers’ Market, we have an assortment of delicious ravioli and fettuccine made locally by Melina’s Fresh Pasta with farm fresh ingredients.

After learning to make handmade pastas in Bologna in 2010, Carmella Alvaro was inspired to start a business in Durham that would share the rich culinary experience of fresh, traditional pasta. So, she started Melina’s Fresh Pasta with just a small food processor and some rolling pins. She now sells at six farmers’ markets in the area, and her business has expanded into her remodeled garage to accommodate a giant 60-quart mixer, a machine for cut pasta, a walk-in freezer and, most recently, a pasta extruder for making fusilli and other decorative shapes.

She inherited her love of cooking and good food from her parents, who immigrated to the United States from Calabria (the toe of Italy’s boot) and settled in Syracuse, New York. They grew a garden of their favorite vegetables from Italy, foraged for mushrooms and cured their own sausage from local meat. On the way to soccer practice as a child, Carmella remembers her father collecting dandelion greens for dinner. They are immensely supportive of their daughter’s venture. Last year, her mother planted a large crop of basil, so that Carmella would have enough to last through the winter.

From her parents, she has developed a deep appreciation for the importance of quality ingredients, and she constantly seeks out local sources for her fillings and sauces. (You should definitely try her local beet and goat cheese ravioli!)

Coincidentally, Carmella was originally interested in bread making and took a class at the local La Farm Bakery, whose food truck will be joining us tomorrow.  She ultimately decided that baking bread was too precise of a practice. She prefers experimenting with her recipes and finds pasta a more forgiving medium.

Join us this weekend and try her ravioli creations yourself! The Community Cooking Club will be serving samples with their own zesty pesto variations.

This Week at the South Durham Farmers' Market

This  Week at the Market

• Saturday 8 am-Noon Greenwood Commons 54110 Hwy 55 Durham, NC 27713
• Musical Guest: Scott Boggs 
• Food Truck: Olio & Aceto
• In Season: cucumbers, cabbage, tomatoes, potatoes, yams, lettuce, greens

Summer Hours & New Vendors
We are returning to our extended summer hours of 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. tomorrow! And, we are also welcoming several new vendors this weekend, including Filaree, Larry’s Chili & Heirloom Tomato Plants, Mango Bakery and Wrenn's Farm & Nursery. Check out their blurbs below!

EBT & Debit Cards Now Accepted
I am are very pleased to share with you that beginning this Saturday customers will be able to shop the market using their Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards and Debit cards!

EBT cards are used to access benefits received through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program. SNAP recipients simply visit our market’s information booth, swipe their EBT card on the market’s point-of-sale machine and enter the dollar amount they intend to spend at the market. The customer will receive $1 wooden tokens equal to the amount withdrawn from their account. All of the vendors at our market will accept the tokens for SNAP eligible products. If the customer does not use all of the tokens, they can either be returned and credited back to the account or saved for future markets dates (tokens do not expire!).

We have also opted to accept debit cards to expand payment options for shoppers and to cover the costs of accepting SNAP/EBT at the market.  Similar to EBT transactions, customers can swipe their debit cards at the market information booth and receive $5 wooden tokens to spend like cash with any of the market vendors. A $1.50 transaction fee will be charged to debit customers, helping to subsidize the market’s SNAP/EBT program.

By accepting SNAP/EBT, we are proud to be increasing our entire community’s access to the healthy and local foods available at market.

Meet Our New Intern
Meet our new intern, Haniah Lerner, a third-year student at UNC-Chapel Hill with a major in Elementary Education and a minor in Spanish. She has always loved working with food and grew up in a very health-conscious household. She is fascinated with learning how to grow different crops and food preservation techniques. She has worked as the cooking camp director at the Marbles Kids Museum, volunteers at the Chapel Hill Inter-Faith Council Food Bank, and attended a week-long alternative spring break trip to New Orleans in order to help local farmers with harvesting and planting new crops. She is eager to begin working with the South Durham Farmer's Market where she will help manage the SNAP/EBT table and children’s tent (coming soon!). 

This Week at the South Durham Farmers' Market

This  Week at the Market

• Saturday 9am-Noon Greenwood Commons 54110 Hwy 55 Durham, NC 27713
• Educational Guest: Food & Water Watch
• In Season: basil, tomatoes, potatoes, kale, lettuce, flowers, cabbage.

More Cheese, Please!
A couple of weeks ago, I visited Prodigal Farm with friends for the immense mood lift that comes with seeing cute baby goats. I wrote an article for the Herald Sun about the experience, and I learned a lot more about their excellent goat cheeses.

I was most surprised to hear that goat cheeses should not taste goaty. Dave Krabbe, co-owner of Prodigal farm, explained that goat’s milk is much more susceptible to absorbing the smells and flavors of the environment than cow’s milk. To avoid picking up undesirable terroir, David and his wife and co-owner, Kathryn Spann, are fanatical about the cleanliness of their milking stations and cheese room.

When I visited, they weren’t making much cheese, but following kidding season, they will make cheese every two days. The process begins with bringing goats to the milking stations from the loafing pen (a sheltered area adjacent to the dairy). The goats’ milk travels through tubes into the stainless steel, refrigerated bulk tank in the next room. Once cooled, the milk is gently gravity fed (agitation lowers the quality of the milk) into the pasteurizer, and then it is time to make cheese!

The easiest cheeses to make are the young chèvres, which Prodigal Farm makes more complex with inventive flavors. The Bollywood Poire is a delicious spread for curry-lovers, and the cherry-almond chèvre makes a great tea time snack smeared across Ninth Street Bakery’s gingersnaps.

The trickier cheeses are those with bloomy rinds, including the Crottin, Field of Creams and Hunkadora. Prodigal Farm purchases the cultures to ensure reliable flavor, and rinses the cheeses frequently to control the mold’s growth. Recently, they have been expanding into more aged cheeses, like the deliciously fragrant Hopalong. (My husband and I quickly devoured our wedge of Hopalong with apple and pear slices.)

To make more hard aged cheeses, more room and equipment is needed, and Prodigal Farm is asking for your help! This Sunday, from 5pm to 8pm, come out to the Mystery Brewing Public House to support their Kickstarter campaign to raise $45,000 and sample their current small-batch of aged cheeses.

But, you don’t have to wait until Sunday for a taste; Prodigal Farm will be at the market tomorrow with coolers full of cheese and samples on the table. 

This Week at the South Durham Farmer's Market

This  Week at the Market

• Saturday 9am-Noon Greenwood Commons 54110 Hwy 55 Durham, NC 27713
• In Season: kale, tomatoes, potatoes, yams, lettuce, chard, and eggs

But Where are the Spring Vegetables?
We have officially entered into spring! And, the weather is finally matching our expectations for late March in North Carolina; however, it’s going to take a little time for all the fruits and vegetables to catch up after this year’s winter.

Over the past two months, the farmers have weathered one big snow storm and two very destructive ice storms. The snow storm collapsed high tunnels and killed off the hardier greens lingering in the fields. The heavy coatings of ice that skipped much of southern Durham knocked out power in Rougemont and Efland for days, brought down fences, and dropped trees on houses, roads and fields.

Farmers with greenhouses and non-collapsed high tunnels have fared better, but many of their crops are behind schedule, too. Plants need sunlight to perform photosynthesis and grow into something tasty to eat, and it has been unusually overcast this winter. Only three days in February were deemed ‘fair’ by the National Weather Service.

The good news is that we are headed into a beautiful weekend, and we will have several great produce vendors joining us at the market this Saturday with tomatoes, potatoes, lettuce, kale and flowers. (But, come early because quantities are still limited!) And before long, we will have tables full of green onions, peas, radishes, asparagus and all the other rewards of spring.

This Week at the South Durham Farmers' Market

This  Week at the Market

• Saturday 9am-Noon Greenwood Commons 54110 Hwy 55 Durham, NC 27713
• Music by Decatur Street Beat Dixieland band
• Food Truck: Olio and Aceto
• In Season: tomatoes, basil, herbs, bread, eggs, jams and more!

The Luck of the Locavores

This Saturday, we are kicking off the St. Patrick’s Day festivities, so put on your green and grab some local meat and potatoes! Fullsteam Brewery will be with us as a guest vendor selling their brew. The Decatur Street Beat Dixieland band will be playing from 10am to 11am, and they promise to throw in some Irish tunes for us.

 

For the kids, there is a scavenger hunt to find the SDFM leprechaun’s pot of gold. To get your first clue, come to the market’s information tent. Then just follow the rainbow! (There will be seven clues, one for each color of the rainbow - ROYGBIV.)

Opportunity for Local Crafters

We are inviting our local craftspeople to participate in a Craft Cooperative stall during our Saturday morning market! We are looking for a variety of unique handmade products, and we would especially love to include crafts made from locally sourced and/or reclaimed materials. The Cooperative will accept up to 12 members, and 3 members will attend market each week based on an established rotating schedule. Applications are due March 28th. For more information, please visit our website.

Market Elects New Board

This past Wednesday, March 12th, we had our third annual General Membership meeting and elected our Board of Directors for the 2014-2015 market season! Please join me in congratulating our eleven board members: Jenna D’Amore (President), Liz Clore (Vice-President), Judy Thomson (Treasurer), Rhiannon Kincaid (Secretary), David Barrett, Samantha Gasson, Noah Ranells, Carolyn Rose-Seed, Peter Schubert, and Kathryn Spann. And, a big thank you to the board members who served the market this past year. 

This Week at the South Durham Farmer's Market

This  Week at the Market

• Saturday 9am-Noon Greenwood Commons 54110 Hwy 55 Durham, NC 27713
• Community Cooking Club Serving Corned Beef
• In Season: broccolini, squash, brussel sprouts, tomatoes, green onions, lettuce, potatoes, yams  and more!

Our First Food Truck!
We want the South Durham Farmers’ Market to be a place that brings together all the different players in our rich local food economy, and we are especially eager to include the area’s fine food trucks. This Saturday, we welcome our first ever food truck, Will & Pop’s. They will serving hot brunch items featuring local cheeses, meats and bread.

We hope they will be the first food truck of many, so let your favorite chef on wheels know that we are accepting applications!

Goodbye to Winter
The recent freezing rains aside, signs of spring are beginning to emerge. The daffodils are peaking through the soil, lettuce greens are returning to market, and we will have our first tomatoes of 2014 this Saturday!

All I can say is, 'Thank goodness!' It’s been a cold winter replete with snow, ice and wind – tough conditions for enticing locals to an outdoor market, but even tougher for actually growing any produce to bring to market. Our vendors persevered, and you all continued to come out even on the days that puddles took over the main thoroughfare and the wind threatened to steal our tents. Thank you all for keeping this a truly year-round market.

I happily welcome warmer days, and consider the lost hour of sleep this weekend a fair trade for the extra light in the evening. Hello tomatoes, goodbye winter!

This Week at the South Durham Farmers' Market

This  Week at the Market

• Saturday 9am-Noon Greenwood Commons 54110 Hwy 55 Durham, NC 27713
• Music by Bulltown Strutters from 10am-11am
• Face painting by Amy Burns
• In Season: cabbage, squash, brussel sprouts, broccoli, green onions, herbs, potatoes and more!

SDFM Needs You!
Only one month left before we begin our third season at the South Durham Farmers' Market! That means it is time to gather up the General Membership and, among other things, to elect new members to the market’s Board of Directors. If you are a part of the market’s Community Membership, we invite you to attend the annual General Membership meeting on Wednesday, March 12th at the Durham County Extension Office from 6:30pm to 9:00pm. The meeting is catered, so if you plan to attend, please RSVP by emailing the market manager. There are vacant Community Member seats on the Board, and we are accepting nominations at this time. Self-nominations are entirely welcome.

Samedi Gras at Market
This Saturday, we are bringing a little of the Durham Carnival to market! The Bulltown Strutters are going to be parading through and around the market from 10am to 11am. The music might get a little loud, but the costumes promise to be even louder. We definitely encourage our young shoppers to come out in their dress-up clothes and join the party!

We are also happy to be serving free samples of King Cake from La Farm Bakery. It’s a French-style King Cake made from brioche with a cinnamon filling and iced with the traditional green and purple Mardis Gras colors. Of course, in each cake there is a trinket, and the lucky shopper who gets the baby figurine in their slice wins a free t-shirt. And, we will have a very talented face painter, Amy Burns, ready to help our little shoppers get gussied up for the festivities.

If you are planning any Fat Tuesday parties of your own, don’t forget to stock up on Andouille and chorizo for your jambalaya!