Carrboro Saturday Market 7 am - Noon Carrboro Wednesday Market 3:30 - 6:30 pm Southern Village Market 4:00 - 7:00 pm Carrboro Farmers' Market 301 W. Main St., Carrboro, NC Southern Village Farmers' Market Market St., Chapel Hill, NC Sign up for the Farmers' Market E-News, local bites:       maps to the markets market recipes local bites - enews special events To contact us, call 919-280-3326, or Email the Market. Here is our brochure. Check out the Carrboro Farmers' Market on My Space. 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 Market is located on Carrboro Town Commons, next to Town Hall, near the intersection of Weaver & W. Main streets. The market is open Saturdays year round, currently from 9 a.m. 'til Noon. The Market returned to its normal hours, 7 - Noon, on Saturday March 15, 2008. Carrboro Wednesday Market re-opened April 9, 2008 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. The Southern Village Market is open Thursdays, beginning May 1, 2008 from 4 - 7 PM. A great selection of beautifully produced, hand-crafted items made by local artisans are available from March until December at the Carrboro Farmers' Market. Click here to see more. Wednesday, May 21st – Musician Mark Holland Plays: Come celebrate as we listen to musician Mark Holland play his acoustic blues/roots music at the Market. Wednesday Market hours run from 3:30 – 6:30. I look forward to seeing everyone there! Wednesday, May 28th - Marilyn Markel of A Southern Season will demonstrate cooking with Farmers’ Market ingredients found at the Market that day! Markel manages the Culinary Lessons at A Southern Season, and will share some great cooking tips and tastes with our customers. Our Saturday Market is now open year round! We are now open from 7 - 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. 2008 Piedmont Farm Tour Slideshow - carrboro.com - April 20, 2008 Leah Cook is keeping it real with the Citizen - Carrboro Citizen - April 18, 2008 NEW GENERATION OF FARMERS - News & Observer - April 2008 - features some of our Carrboro Farmers' Market farmers. Listen to Sara Blacklin, Market Manager, on 1360 WCHL's Seasoned Gardener (show #41). The Mill - Carrboro Citizen - March 20, 2008. Low-mileage meals - Independent Weekly - March 19, 2008. Growing demand for markets - Chapel Hill News - March 16, 2008. Pay For Play? - Chapel Hill News - March 5, 2008. The Carrboro Farmers' Market is featured in the February, 2008 edition of Our State Magazine. “Locavore Nation” – meet our ‘locavore couple’ at the Farmer’s Market. Read more about Tim and his wife, Kiya, as they participate in a study to eat 80% local throughout the year! Another Local couple shopping at CFM and Elysian Farms is featured in this News & Observer story - Triangle family will eat local. Frank Staccio and Kelly Alexander of The State of Things visit the Carrboro Farmers' Market for our Annual Tomato Tasting. Listen here. We had the pleasure of meeting Richard Villadoniga and Lisette Robles at a recent Wednesday Farmers' Market. Richard received the Geoffrey Roberts Award to travel around our country in search of America's endangered foods. Read about his visit and keep up with his travels here EAT-AMERICAN.COM. Teenagers whip up a taste of Italy - June 14, 2007 Carrboro Citizen editor, Kirk Ross, writes about his conversion from eating industrialized pork to locally produced and visits with Carrboro Farmers' Market farmer, Stanley Hughes - May 24, 2007 Carrboro Farmers' Market farmers give advice on choosing vegetables to purchase - May 16, 2007 Our Shop with the Chef event in the Carrboro Commons - March 31 Sheila Neal on The Seasoned Gardener on WCHL - March 31 Chapel Hill News video - March 24, 2007 Read about us in the Carrboro Citizen - March 22, 2007 Chefs Who Shop the Carrboro Farmers' Market is our annual event celebrating our local farms and locally owned restaurants whose chefs shop our Market. This year’s theme, “Southern Fare,” was in honor of our region and of Southern Foodways Alliance’s - Camp Carolina - happening the same weekend in Chapel Hill. Shoppers tasted dishes made by these local chefs, showcasing what’s in season and “Southern” at our Market in early September. Recipes are available below. 2007's Participating chefs included: Kevin Callaghan - ACME Restaurant, Carrboro - Acme butternut squash & goat cheese grits Charlie Deal - Jujube, Chapel Hill - Jello salad Bret Jennings - Elaine’s on Franklin, Chapel Hill - Purple hull pea salad Damon Lapas & Jonathan Childres - The Barbecue Joint, Chapel Hill - Fresh local tomatoes with ranch dressing and bacon Andrea Reusing - Lantern Restaurant, Chapel Hill - Fried okra with hot tomato relish Amy Tornquist - Watts Grocery, Durham - Roasted butternut squash 2007 Farmers’ Market Tomato Tasting July 21, 2007 was the Carrboro Farmers’ Market Annual Tomato Tasting. Customers were able to sample over 50 varieties of tomatoes. The winner of the slicing tomatoes is Little Cherokee. The winner of the cherry tomatoes is Sun Gold. This year we had almost 300 people vote. Thanks to everyone for coming out. Click here for pictures. The Carrboro and Southern Village Farmers’ Markets host popular special events, including fruit and vegetable tastings, cooking demonstrations, advice from Master Gardeners, and celebrations of the market, the farmers and their crops. Everything sold at the Farmers' Markets is grown or produced by the vendors, all within 50 miles of Carrboro/Chapel Hill. For more information ask any vendor or the market manager, or click here to go to our Information Center. We are an approved CHCCS Service Learning site! The market is always in need of volunteers to help run the information booth or assist with our many special events. If you would like to volunteer to sell T-shirts and other Farmers' Market items, provide information and help our customers, please e-mail us and we will contact you! Please send any written correspondence to market manager Sarah Blacklin at: Carrboro/Southern Village Farmers' Market c/o Sarah Blacklin, PO Box 723 Carrboro, NC 27510 Updated May 15, 2008 All photographs are © copyrighted & the property of UniqueOrn Enterprises