Coming to the Market Soon! Fresh Fish!
Apple Bake-Off Sunday, October 5th
Start looking for a good apple recipe! More information to follow...
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| VENDOR PROFILE:
Hmong Farm
By Jan Santos, Westford Academy Class of 2010
For this week’s interview, I traveled out to Lancaster to visit Flats Mentor Farm and learn more about Hmong Farm (pronounced “mung”), which attends the Westford Farmer’s Market every Tuesday.
Please click here for the full article.
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JOYFUL MUSIC
Win a free class!
Music Together is a family music and movement program that offers classes in Westford (with new Sat. classes)! and Chelmsford. Come sing, dance, play instruments and have a great time making music with your child or children. Mixed aged classes, so bring the siblings! For infants - preschoolers and the grownups who love them!
Buy a chance for $1 to win!
(Classes offered at the Roudenbush)
click for more information
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MARKET VENDORS
For more information and links to vendors websites, click on the VENDORS tab.
To our Customers: For reasons beyond our control, vendors may vary from week to week due to unexpected circumstances.
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*Occasional vendors
Abigail's Bakery
Hand-shaped organic breads made from all natural ingredients.
Bagel Alley
A variety of fresh-baked bagels.
Coutt's Specialty Foods*
All-natural jams, jellies,relishes and applesauce.
Deborah's Kitchen*
All-natural, low sugar spreadable fruit and relish.
Dragonfly Farms
Vegetables, herbs, annuals and perennial flowers grown using organic methods.
Golden Girl Granola
Home-made granola, breads and hand-crafted gifts such as aprons, placemats, and table
runners.
Goodies
Cookies baked from scratch, using the
finest quality and freshest ingredients. No preservatives, no transfats, no artificial flavors or colors.
Hill Orchard
Syrup,
honey, jam, cider, flowers, pumpkins, fruit, including apricots, plums,
nectarines, peaches, pears, 25 varieties of apples, raspberries, and
blueberries.
Hmong Farms
Asian vegetables.
In Hot Water
A variety of iced and hot teas served at the market.
La Bella Dolce
Hand-made pastries, lovingly prepared, to create and enkindle special memories. Seasonal items include summer browines, lemon rind bread, peach crisp and blueberry breakfast squares.
Leading Seafood
Fresh seafood from Boston's fish pier as available, including salmon, crabmeat, halibut, grey sole, swordfish, sea scallops and swordfish, and more.
Nissitisett Honey
Local honey and beeswax.
Parlee's Farm
Fresh, local fruits and vegetables including strawberries, blueberries, pumpkins, tomatoes, corn and honey.
Springbrook Farm
A large variety vegetables, plants and grain-fed beef.
Springdell Farm
Fresh vegetables, eggs, grass-fed black angus beef, fruit and flowers.
Surfing Goat Soaps*
Goat milk soap using only natural ingredients, no artificial fragrances or additives.
Vermont Gourmet Candy & Other Sweet Things
Gourmet ice cream sauces, specialty jellies and condiments. Seasonal items including fresh fudge.
Westriver Creamery
Fresh cheese, smoked meats, nitrate-free bacon.
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| NOW AVAILABLE!
Westford Farmers Market
Grocery Bag
You
will love this 100% cotton canvas market bag, made and printed locally
with the market logo! Thank you for buying local! $9.99 for 1 bag,
$14.99 for 2 bags. All proceeds directly benefit the market.
What about all those
plastic market bags?
We
all know they are bad for the environment. Read some convincing
statistics that will help you remember to B.Y.O.B.: Bring Your Own
Bags! click
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CUSTOMER OF THE WEEK
Madison, of Westford
WFM: What do you like about the market?
M: I like the lemonade the best!
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AUGUST 19
MUSIC:
3:00 to 3:30 Suzuki music school
3:30 to 4:30 American Songbook with Carol Bernhard
OUTREACH:
Cookbook Exchange
Bring one/take one. Another great way to recycle!
EDUCATION:
Westford Water Department, Jessica Gajigas will be available with information on water conservation.
COOKING DEMO:
Karma Restaurant, Westford
Cooking to Learn Amy Dempster learn more
Coming Soon!
Not your Average Joe's, Acton
Demo August 26 learn more
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Food for Thought:
Watermelon: Numerous Heath Benefits Click
The Market Recommends:
Click here to find out!
MUST CLICK!
Recommended visiting:
The Food Project
The Food Project creates fertile ground for new
ideas about youth and adults partnering to create social change through
sustainable agriculture.
Rooftop Gardens in Boston
Boston Medical Center rooftop transformed into farming paradise.
Environmental Working Group (EWG)
The mission of the Environmental Working Group (EWG) is to use the
power of public information to protect public health and the
environment.
MUST SEE!
"King Corn"
MUST READ!
"Animal, Vegetable, Miracle"
by Barbara Kingsolver
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WE'RE IN THE NEWS!
Check out Westford Eagle website for a glimpse of the Market experience! click here
Pictured below, Gloria Gilbert, founder of the Market, accepts the Mass Dept. of Agriculture grant check on August 5.
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