Announcements
Now accepting applications for the Winter Market.
Click here for the application. Applications are due Austust 15th. Some spots may be available after this date, but priority will be given to those submitted by the deadline.
Stainless steel water bottles with the market logo are available at the market table for $8 each or 2 for $15.
What's fresh now?
Schenectady Greenmarket August 29, 2010
Outside Around City Hall, Sunday 10-2
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Bring the kids, or the kid in you - another action packed market day is ahead! The YMCA sponsored bouncy bounce returns, as well as market favorite CircusYoga! Enjoy a new take on popular standards as Trilogy keeps the atmosphere fun and lively on the market stage. As usual, our vendors will have plenty of gorgeous produce: squash, tomatoes, peppers, apples, peaches and more are ripe with the flavor that August sunshine brings. Don't forget to pick up your fresh poultry, meats and cheeses for your late-summer barbecues! We'll see you there!
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Special Event, 10-2: The Bouncy Bounce returns! Sponsored by the Schenectady YMCA, the event will be held on the grass at City Hall and manned by two YMCA employees. Free of charge to children of all ages. Some weight restrictions apply; please check with YMCA personnel.
Market Stage 10-2:
Trilogy Popular standards in fresh arrangements. Patricia Kernan on flute and clarinet, Tom Smith adds harmony and inventive solos on acoustic guitar, and Kevin Aldrich lays down a rhythmic groove on upright bass.
Children's Table:
CircusYoga with Christine Carpenter of Orenda Yoga and Healing Arts Come one, come all to the most fun on earth! CircusYoga blends the consciousness of yoga with the communal celebration of circus. Fostering connection, play and communication through group games and invention, creative movement, circus skills, balance, partner yoga, and partner acrobatics. CircusYoga also emphasizes courage, trust, listening, cooperation and celebration! Prior circus, acrobatic or yoga experience are not required - just a playful spirit!
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Variety Vendors: Route 146 Originals, Sistahs Vintage Aprons, Smyth/Cid Pottery
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Maynard Farms: Enjoy yellow peaches (only four varieties left) and nectarines while they are still here! White peaches and nectarines are still coming, along with delicious Honeycrisp, McIntosh, and Gala apples. Old-fashioned Jonathan apples will arrive this week or next; if you've never had one, it'll light up your lips! Pluots and plums, Bartlett, Bosc and Magness pears, heirloom tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, onions, colored cauliflower, broccoli, and potatoes!
Palatine Valley Dairy is pleased to announce we are now manufacturing Raw Milk Cheddar, and will have some at the market starting Sunday! We made this batch a few months back and in keeping with NY state regulations, it could not be sold before it was aged for a short time. We've also just won an award in the NYS Cheddar Competition! Keep an eye out next week to discover which cheese was selected. We will be accepting the award and finding out this Monday at the State Fair!
Healing Path Massage: Art Lindemanis will be the massage therapist at the market this Sunday offering chair massage.
Cornell Farm: A stunning variety of tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, and heirloom tomatoes; fresh lettuce mix, blackberries, peppers, hot peppers, eggplants, leeks, onions, shallots, garlic, new potatoes, cucumbers, squash, chard, cabbage, carrots, and beets. Cage-free eggs fed farm grown and made feed - we have fresh pullet eggs!
Sweet Tree Farm will have fresh grass-fed beef and pastured chicken this weekend, just in time for the last summer barbeques. We still have smoked bacon and an assortment of sausages that were made fresh last week, but hurry - they are going fast!
Cooper's Ark Farm: Farm-fresh eggs, fresh turkey (cutlets and whole), and stew chickens. Don't forget to order your pasture raised turkey for the holiday season!
Barber's Farm: Peppers! Green, ivory, purple and fryer; jalapeño, cherry bomb, hot Portugal, and Hungarian hot wax peppers; tomatoes, German white garlic, four varieties of eggplant, super sweet carrots in bags and bunches, insecticide-free sweet corn, colorful potatoes, red onions, bunched colorful Swiss chard, a gorgeous array of fresh lettuces, broccoli, bagged and bunched tender beets, zucchini, summer squash, and red, Savoy, green and pointy headed cabbage! We'll also have fresh basil, dill, and fennel.
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at the market!