the market beet, summer2013 newsletter

…from @FMCorg…w/ usual heads up for the #Mountainair #farmersmarket dba Farm and Market Garden…reciprocity rules even when not reciprocated.

Farmers Market Coalition's quarterly newsletter, Summer 2013

Gardening video: planting sweet corn

…how does your garden grow? From #communitygarden novices to experienced home kitchen gardeners, farmers market growers, professionals and permaculturists…'tis  the season when thoughts turn to gardening. Claunch-Pinto and Torrance County Extension have been collaborating in gardening workshops. Since the June workshop has been postponed and the series on hiatus with Gene Winn recovering from hip surgery, perhaps we all can help fill the gap here with videos, resources and gardening tips. Topics and recommendations invited.

                                             

Praxxus55712 has uploaded Planting Ambrosia Sweet Corn!

Planting Ambrosia Sweet Corn! by Praxxus55712

In today's episode you and I will plant Ambrosia Sweet Corn. Join me in the garden for a slightly different method of planting corn for a stronger healthier plant. Stay tuned for many updates on this. Hopefully it ends with me grilling fresh corn on the barbeque this summer. 

• Gem corn video provided by: http://www.youtube.com/user/douglasfi2re
• Praxxus on Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/praxxus55712
• Indoor Gardening Channel: http://www.youtube.com/VoodooGarden

Gardeners also share tips on the Facebook page. Here's an interesting one that reminds us how much gardening is the ultimate recycling:

"I am growing potatoes in horse feed bags. They are doing great so far. I rolled the bag all the way down to start, added straw in the bottom then a layer of soil enriched with compost, planted and now as they grow I am alternating straw and soil."

the market beet

…quarterly newsletter of the Farmers Market Coalition (also on Facebook), Winter 2013…just in time for today's Mountainair Farm & Garden Market meeting, 2 pm at Ancient Cities. Learn more about New Mexico Farmers Markets on the association's website. There is now a blog and a newsletter subscription form, suggesting (one hopes) that publication has resumed. I subscribed and will let you know. You can also learn about NM farmers markets by real and virtual visits to individual markets. Follow (or at least visit) NM Farmers Market, the Coalition and the #farmersmarket tag on Twitter for even more information.

Weather impact on farmers' markets & other challenges

Not just here - hot and dry - but everywhere. Sometimes it is too much rain rather than none at all. Too hot. Not hot soon enough. Run a Google search for "weather + farmers markets. 

Today an Ohio news station, on of many, reports on the weather impact on farmers' market

"Delay in crops: extreme weather is a growing concern for farmers who make money off summer crops. The spring rain and summer heat has affected sweet corn and a few other crops.

Farmers have to take advantage of what mother nature provides. The amount of rain and heat not only impacts what you may see at a farmers' market but when you may see it there as well."

Farmers Markets around the World

Join us at the #farmersmarket this afternoon in #Mountainair, 3-7 pm in front of the Dr Saul Community Center. The growing popularity of local markets for local produce and wares is global...here's the slide show to prove it.

To market, to market to buy

... whatever catches your fancy, tickles your palate... a Trip to the #FarmersMarket just to take it all in.

Film maker Steve Skojec explains, "In the summer of 2007, a trip to the farmers' market in Leesburg, Virginia, afforded me an opportunity to explore the importance of local food and culture, and the value of shopping at these markets."

Farmers Markets in Art

Today and yesterday, Oakland artist Anthony Holdsworth writes about farmers markets visited, sketched and painted from the 60s to the present. More than a change of page writing the informative and exhorting the green sustainable, pieces like this remind of the aesthetic and sensory experience of markets, suggesting a regular feature on Farmers Markets in arts (as well as images of markets around the world, which we've already occasionally touched on)

(Read Brenda Payton’s on the street commentary in the Sunday Insight Section of the SF Chronicle)

  

Old Oakland Market - April, 24"x 35", oil/canvas, Anthony Holdsworth, 2009

In these recessionary times Farmers’ Markets appear to be thriving. This is reassuring. Many of us look forward to their arrival in our neighborhood as a high point in the week. The sights, smells and flavors of the countryside spilling out onto concrete and asphalt. The opportunity to support small, family farmers, to pick up gardening tips. To enjoy the food stands and musicians. It’s  hard to imagine a time before most of these markets existed. It wasn’t so long ago.

May 5 Grand Opening: #Mountainair's new #FarmersMarket

Of course you already know the date, May 5. With the BIG notice just below the page title here as well as a smaller version as profile picture on our Facebook page, how could you not. Whether vendor, visitor or local shopper, surely you also have enough details to get you to the market opening on time.

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The poster (last and latest I hope) below has already been posted on Facebook as well as on other Mountainair blogs, but somehow missed getting posted here ~ chalk that up to the barefoot shoemakers' children syndrome.

There will be more to come about the Grand Opening, special attractiMFGMons and features. I've been collecting information but want to make sure details are correct and as complete as possible. If you have news to add, please send it to me directly at vcrary@yahoo.com, not to the address on the flier. 

BYOP: Farmers Market Guide [video]

Get the skinny on how to buy fresh and save money shopping at a farmers market, filmed in Boston. I just saw how many farmers market videos are on YouTube and see BYOP (Bring Your Own Popcorn) as a regular series here ~ maybe renamed from popcorn to crudités. Yes, a quick and easy way to get a blog post ~ but entertaining and informative too.

Farmers Markets in the News: postquake in NZ

TAKING STOCK: After Hurricane Katrina flattened New Orleans in 2005, the local farmers' market was among the first of businesses to re-emerge.

It would be the same in Christchurch, said Farmers Markets New Zealand chairman Chris Fortune. Christchurch's markets at Dean's Bush will open as usual this weekend, and while Lyttelton's Farmers Market are closed until further notice, a "pop up" market has been organised at the Mt Pleasant community centre for the Sumner, Redcliffs, Mt Pleasant, Woolston, Linwood and South Shore communities, he said.

Farmers' markets New Zealand would donate the costs of coffee and milk for this market, so local residents could get a free cup of coffee, Mr Fortune said.

Pop up market co-organiser Angela Clifford said the event would give access to fresh food for people who had no local food outlets, and offer a safe community space to meet.

Farmers' markets would also be a lifeline to fresh food producers in Canterbury who had lost much of their market, particularly those supplying restaurants and other businesses in the Christchurch CBD, Mr Fortune said.

Farmers' markets were "great invigorators" of community life, he said.

The pop up market will operate from 10am to 1pm.

Mr Fortune, a restaurateur in Blenheim, said the Christchurch earthquake had even restricted food supplies to Marlborough. Much of the region's staple food supplies such as milk, flour and bread come from Christchurch processors whose production has been affected by the quake, or which were holding back supplies for city residents.

Ironically Blenheim had a dairy processing factory of its own until Goodman Fielder shut it down and moved processing to Christchurch around three years ago, Mr Fortune said.

via stuff.co.nz

Sounds like a series, eh? An outlet to recycle at least some of the farmers market stories showing up in my feed reader, plus a window on the world.

Mar 23: Free Farmers Market Training Seminar

...  Home-Based Food Vendors get ready for the new #Mountainair market by taking the free seminar in handling foods safely, learning about state requirements and getting certificates.