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Carrboro Farmers' Market
301 W. Main St., Carrboro, NC
Saturdays - 9:00-Noon |
Carrboro Wed. Market
Closed for the Season |
Southern Village Market
Market St., Chapel Hill
Closed for the season |
Our Farmers
“Sweets for your Sweetheart” - Valentine’s Day Tasting, Treats and Children’s Crafts at the Carrboro Farmers’ Market - Mark your calendars now to come celebrate Valentine’s Day at the Carrboro Farmers’ Market on Saturday, February 13th, between 9:00 a.m. and 12 noon. Join our bakers, candy makers and farmers on Saturday for a delicious tasting of chocolates, breads, jams, wine, cheeses and other items. We will also have beautiful handmade crafts, flowers and other gifts that have been “made with love” from our bakers to you! Children can make valentines at a valentine-making station and participate in a scavenger hunt with their parents to see how many red vegetables and flowers at the farmers’ booths they can find. The first 100 children will receive red balloons.
Sample featured vendors include Benjamin Vinyards, Blessed Earth Farms, Fitita’s Chocolates, Twin Cakes, Yugala’s Baked Goods, Turtle Run Farm and many, many others. We might even have a special flowery surprise from Wild Hare Farm.
FoodShare Program 2009!
Thank you to everyone who supported the Carrboro Farmers' Market Farmer FoodShare program in 2009. Through your time and generous cash and food donations, we raised over seven tons of food to feed the hungry in Orange, Durham, Wake and Chatham Counties!
Here are the year end results:
14,364 pounds were collected, or over seven tons of fresh food. Of this, shoppers donated $2,537 in cash to purchase food. The program started in late May and ran at every Saturday and mid-week market through the end of the year, rain or shine! Farmers and shoppers donated an average of 266 lbs per market, which worked out to an average of 2,052 lbs per month. The highest donation weekend was the Farmer FoodShare Challenge, where we raised 1736 pounds of food in one morning.
According to the USDA's annual report on food insecurity, 1 in 7 families in the U.S. experienced food insecurity in 2008. That means that almost everyone has encountered someone who has experienced food insecurity. There is much more work to be done at many levels to eliminate food insecurity in our community and to increase access to fresh, locally-grown food for everyone. Farmer FoodShare, in partnership with local groups like the Inter-Faith Council for Social Services' FoodFirst initiative, the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle and many others will be working to address these challenges and opportunities in 2010. We will also continue to grow the FoodShare program at the Carrboro Farmers' Market and hope to start similar programs at other interested markets. Please visit us at the market or contact Margaret Gifford at mgw@well.com or 967-6464 if you are interested in volunteering or donating.
The Farmer FoodShare program continues to collect fresh food at every market year-round. To read more about the FoodShare program, click here. For pictures of the event, click here.
Chefs' 2009 Event Recipes and Pictures
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The finest and freshest locally grown produce, prepared foods,
flowers, and crafts! All items are sold by the original producer.
If they didn't produce it, they won't sell it!
The Carrboro Farmers' Market is located on Carrboro Town Commons, next to Town Hall at 301 West Main St. Market is open Saturdays year round, currently from 7 am - Noon. Our Wednesday Market runs from 3:30 - 6:30.
Sprouting in 2004 was a new member of the Carrboro Farmers’ Market family, the Southern Village Market, at Southern Village on the Village Green on Market Street. Our Thursday Market at Southern Village on the green across from the Lumina is currently closed for the season.
Please note: We love our puppies, but, in accordance with Town Ordinance, dogs are not allowed at the Market during Market hours. We're sorry for any inconvenience.
Saturday Market Now Open Year Round
Our Saturday Market is now open year round! Our winter hours are from 9 - Noon every Saturday.
Several of our farmers are experimenting with growing produce in the winter using greenhouses and cold frames. Items to expect during the winter months at the Market are: Collards, Mustard Greens, Turnip Greens, sweet potatoes, hydroponic lettuces, Asian greens: tot soi, bok choy, and mizuna; chicories, winter squashes, pastured-based meats - beef, buffalo, chicken (limited quantities), goat, lamb, pork; charcuterie: bacon, bratwurst, breakfast sausage, chorizo, country ham, hot dogs, hot and sweet Italian sausage; eggs, fresh and aged cow's milk cheeses, pecans, pickles, jams, jellies, honey, wine, prepared foods, and crafts.
Updated January 29, 2010
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