Last “summer” Saturday Market!
Happy Halloween from all of us at the Info Booth!
Get ready for some Halloween fun at the Market this week! Vote for your favorite vendor costume, visit with the 4H Ambassadors furry friends, kids get a treat plus face-painting too! The OC Lions Club will have their last POP Club Activity Course set up AND you can purchase a cute (recycled milk-jug) Alien to decorate for Halloween…all proceeds benefit the kids POP Club! Place battery-operated votive candles in their heads and tummies (the Aliens not the kids..duh!) …super-spooky at night…TIP: they also discourage deer. Find us Saturday Oct 26th. in the parking lot at 2051, Kaen Rd, 9am-2pm. Last opportunity to use those WIC and Senior coupons…don’t forget ’em.
Eat your colors!
Eat your colors …celebrate Food Day (Oct 24th) by stocking up with all the beautiful fall fruits and veggies…the farmers tables are literally a feast for the eyes. Nutritionally-dense foods such as deep dark red beets, bright orange carrots, snowy white cauliflowers, bright green chard, kiwi berries from Parsons Farms, rosy red apples, yellow pears, dark green kale, peppers and winter squashes of all colors, …and of course we have the perfect pumpkins! Huge ones for decorating, gorgeous BRIGHT orange Cinderella pumpkins…and plenty of sugar pumpkins to make your own pie filling.
Take home a bright bouquet of flowers, keep the water clean, they’ll last a long time…may be until the Winter Farmers Market starts in November! Cheer someone up…take them a bunch too:)
Quince and cute fall decorations from Pitkin-Winterrowd Farms
Back this week is Hansen Family Farm…so stock up your pork and beef. Sweet Home Farm Meats will be back next month for all the Winter Markets. Fresh seafood, plenty of farm eggs (if a vendor has run out ask us at the Info Booth, we’ll point you in the right direction!), breads, pastries, cup cakes, hummus, salsa (you gotta try their cucumber salsa..woweee!), salumi, coffee beans, roasted nuts, preserves, kombucha, dog treats (don’t trust your pooches health to imported treats…yuck) , goats milk soaps, beautiful wood products and landscaping shells. Bring you knives and garden tools..Sir Sharp-A-Lot doesn’t come out to play in the Winter! Hot food by Mitzil…giant burritos, tamales, empanadas, hot coffee, chocolate, smoothies and wine by the glass also available. You’ll love the music too…Kim Delany plays her unique style from 10-1pm.
Perfect for your Halloween party…:)
So this is the end of our 9th season..phew…thanks for all your support this past summer at the Wednesday market as well as at the Saturday Market and keep it up as we move from the top of the hill to Downtown Oregon City for the Winter! Give us feed back about the summer markets… what you like , what you want to see different, we are always looking for ways to improve..so share your thoughts please (anytime) ! Email the Manager at marketmanager@orcityfarmersmarket.com, your comments will be shared at our board meetings.
The Downtown OC Winter Farmers Market opens Saturday Nov. 9th!!!!
The Downtown Winter Farmers Market is much bigger than the little Wednesday Market and we have tons of fresh local produce coming ALL season long. We open Saturday Nov. 9th on 8th St at Main, opposite the Courthouse. In addition to splendid produce find meats, eggs, seafood, baked goods, wines, salsa, hummus, preserves, kombucha, mushrooms, flowers (through Thanksgiving) in fact many of the vendors you know from the summer markets plus a few new ones! We open later during the winter months, at 10am-2pm and will have hot food , live music..and around holiday time, fresh Christmas Trees, wreaths, gift baskets and holiday music.
Rain, sleet or shine..we’re open during the Winter!!
Parking is free and easy downtown on a Saturday. New stores have opened up in the area too…so shop local this year for all your gifts! Pick up a schedule of this twice a month Market at the Info Booth , follow us on Facebook , we’ll be open rain, sleet and shine..if in doubt about weather conditions call 503 734-0192.
Cheers and thanks!!!