Events

The market is more than shopping! Enjoy weekly activities like the childrens' area and facepainting as well as special event like the ones listed below:

Garden Festival (May) - celebrate the growing season with demos and displays about composting, heirloom seeds, planning your garden and even info on community gardens in your area.

Bike to Market Day (June) - don a helmet and dust off the bike shorts! Bike to the market on Bike to Market day and you'll receive our thanks by way of coupons and special treats for cyclists.

Cookbook Swap (June/September) - everyone has a book or two in their collection that doesn't quite match their cooking style - swap it for something more your taste at our annual cookbook swaps.

Tomato Festival (September) - celebrate the Love Apple with tastings, beautiful and informative displays and recipes to make with those delectable heirlooms you just found at the market.

Harvest Festival (October)- everything squash and apples and pears! Recipes, information, cooking tips and demonstrations. Enter your pie in our pie competition.

Buskers

Interested in sharing your musical talents with the market community? We book 2 buskers at each of our markets each week throughout the summer. All music should be acoustic and appropriate for an all ages event. Bookings must be done in advance through the market office. Email or call us if you're interested in booking a busking date at the market.

Free Community Tables

As a commitment to our community, we aim to involve community-based organizations in our Markets. Under normal circumstances, we charge for space at the Markets. We have made an exception with community groups. We set aside one free space each week at each of our three markets for community education. This is our way of saying thank you for doing the work you do and offering you an opportunity to inform others of your organization.

Since this table is a free space, there are limits to what you may sell. The only permitted items are:

society memberships
general donations
raffle tickets
event tickets

You may not sell T-shirts, coffee mugs, buttons, badges, plants, seeds, food items, or other items not listed above at this free table. Additionally, to sustain the economic efforts of our vendors, free food and hand-crafted items may not be offered at this space. If you want to sell or distribute something that is not on this list please contact Jen for more information.

2010 Application will be available soon. Please check back or get in touch with us to be notified.

If you would like to be notified when the applications go online, contact us at communitytables@eatlocal.org to be put on our mailing list.