Winter Market Season Starts Saturday!
The Winter Market moved out of Downtown last year, find us year-round at 2051, Kaen Rd, off Beavercreek Rd.
The 7th Oregon City Winter Market starts this Saturday November 5th at 10 am … please note the later start time. It may be rainy (hey it’s the season!) but the veggies will be picked and bundled, the fruit packed, the pies and breads baked, the boxes loaded and we’ll be open no matter what. Most markets are closed for the year, but we’re lucky to have a year-round market , which runs every other weekend through April. Let’s show our farmers and vendors some love and make this the best fall and winter season yet!
Wine-taste at both Forest Edge Vineyards and Kings Raven Winery.
The Market opens with 30 vendors and many more are joining us for the Thanksgiving Market (November 19th) and beyond. Hot food, coffee, live music…we’ll even have knife-sharpening this season! Six farms selling fresh produce , plus many returning vendors and some exciting new ones (Ole World Oils is one!) start us off this weekend. Check our interactive map each week on the web site’s ‘2016 Vendors’ page to see who’s coming! : https://orcityfarmersmarket.com/?page_id=4 Several crafters, Portlandia Granola and 2 Towns Cider are joining us next week, plus we’ll have Holiday wreaths and trees in December.
Fresh flowers this week from Lee’s Gardens.
The holidays are just around the corner and now is the time to make food preparations. Order your pies this week from The Pie Guy , what better than one of his butter-crust pies for Thanksgiving?! Fisher Ridge Farm is joining us this Winter. The Fisher family have farmed on the land east of Salem for 135 years and they’ll be bringing a selection of beef, chicken, pork and lamb, all grass fed meat. They do not feed corn or soy, and are antibiotic and hormone free. They’ll not be back at the Market until Dec 17th, so pick up your Thanksgiving meat and order your Christmas meat from them THIS week. Birkeland Farms will also have whole chickens (who needs a Turkey?!) as well as bone broth. Wild Oregon has checked in and coming fresh from the coast Saturday is Salmon, Petrale Sole, Skate, Rock Fish, Netarts Oysters, Steamer Clams, fresh Crab and the last of the fresh Shrimp.
Veggies coming from 6 farms…apples, pears from Kiyokawa Orchards!
For a true taste of the fall season: Pitkin Winterrowd Farms brings bright large yellow fragrant QUINCE to the market this Saturday. Blend with apples for Quince/Apple Sauce–great with Pork or Fish. Cook and mix with apples, for a more fragrant pie!
Kids just love being empowered to buy their own fruits and veggies..no matter the weather! Thanks to the POP Club.
The Kids POP (Power Of Produce) Club continues and to help fund it this winter , Casey Zwan of The Rusted Nail is offering one of his fabulous hand-made tables and a bench (a $800+ value) as a drawing! The winning ticket will be drawn at noon on Saturday December 17th…..just in time for the lucky person for Christmas. Buy your tickets this Saturday at the Info Booth and see the table at the market on Nov.19th. The tickets are only $1 (6 for $5)….please help us fund this great home-grown kids program that has spread to farmers markets nation-wide and even to markets Canada. By giving children (ages 5yrs-12yrs) $2 in wooden tokens each market day to spend on fresh produce we empower them to make healthy food choices, and by encouraging health eating early at the Market we hope they will develop tastes and habits that stay with them for life….and many thanks Casey for donating the fantastic prize!
Heirloom apples from Kiyokawa Orchards just some of the selection….
Short on cash? Some vendors take debit and credit but you can also purchase market tokens at the Information Booth with your debit card (the $5 Market tokens make an ideal and unusual gift for the Holidays!), use your SNAP Card to buy tokens and we’ll match up to $10. Next market (Saturday Nov 19th , the Thanksgiving Market) the SNAP To It! Program continues. Customers who use the SNAP card can sign up at 10am at the Info Booth to walk the Market with a nutritionist, watch a cooking demo and receive $5 extra in tokens. Always easy, close parking, good hot eats and drinks for brunch…..buy local this season, support your farmers!
Pick up a winter market schedule at the Info Booth!