This Week At The Market...
October is for squash, pumpkins, scarecrows and all things fall. This Sunday, your farmers and vendors will be sharing tips for the season: Recipes, pairings, preservation tips or gardening advice, experts on the field are at your fingertips. Don't forget your tickets for this week's raffle!
We are open from 9:30am to 1:30pm on the west side of Grant Park on Cherokee Ave.
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RAFFLE
The Grant Park Farmers Market will be hosting at-market raffles with new prizes available every other week throughout the remainder of the 2014 market season! These prizes will range in value from $100 and up. Tickets are $5 for 1 or $20 for 5 and can be purchased each market at the information booth tent, beginning October 5th. Winners will be selected every two weeks at the end of each raffle cycle. Some examples of the wonderful prizes to come are:
- October 5th: A Coffee Connoisseurs Dream Basket, worth $150, sponsored by Octane Coffee, My Friends Growler shop, and Dr. Bombay's Underwater Tea Party. This basket includes two selections each of premier tea and coffee, a gift certificate to Octane, a top-of-the-line french press, and a growler of cold pressed coffee.
Chef Demo
This Sunday GPFM will feature a demo by GA Grown Executive Chef, Jennifer Hill Booker. For over 20 years Booker has spent her culinary career educating people about food, nutrition, and healthy cooking practices. As a culinary educator, she has been in a prime position to demonstrate the ease, affordability, and importance of cooking and eating seasonally, and has shared this information in the classroom, cooking stage, original published recipes and in her first cookbook, Field Peas to Foie Gras: Southern Recipes with a French Accent, now available!
Meet Your Vendor...
Atlanta Fresh
“Grassfed. Local Milk. No rBST antibiotics. 24 hours cow to carton. Delicious everywhere.” is the tagline at the top of the Atlanta Fresh Artisan Creamery website, and for good reason. Located in Norcross, Ga., Atlanta Fresh takes pride in their fresh, Georgia-grown, 100% natural handmade products. Magazines and newspapers alike have hailed the praises of the delicious, high-quality dairy products that come in an array of unique flavors and various forms, like maple bacon Greek yogurt, apricot honey Riesling cream cheese and chipotle lime salad dressing. Visit Atlanta Fresh at the market on Sunday and you’ll taste the difference.
Oct. 18th, Third Annual
We are gearing up for the best yet, Tour De Farm. Check out this amazing feature on Creative Loafing!
"Tour de Farm functions as a hands-on look behind the scenes of urban farming in Atlanta. Many of the participating sites are not open to the public and are offering exclusive access to the tour. This event celebrates sustainable culture and community and even provides a way to work up an appetite between locally-sourced meals"
Get more info and the last tickets available here.
Featured Recipe
Try your hand at Sarah Dodge's adaptation on Eat Your Veggies, our blog's corner for market produce recipes. Greens are back in the markets, you can try this easy and delicious recipe with your favorite cheese and greens combination.
Arugula + Many Fold Farm Brebis Wontons
serves 5 time 25 minutes
- 4 cups Arugula
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 2 TBS olive oil
- 4 oz Many Fold Farm Brebis
- approx 10 wonton wrappers
- soy sauce, optional
- salt and pepper to taste
- canola oil or vegetable oil… enough to fill whatever frying vessel you are using
- Heat olive oil in medium saute pan. Add garlic and arugula and cook until greens are wilted and dark green. You can cook with soy sauce as well. Greens will reduce to about 1/2=1 cup. drain excess liquid if it didn’t evaporate. Let cool.
- Add arugula and brebis to food processor and process until nice and combine, but still kind of chunky.
- spoon mix into wonton wrappers and fold up pinching corners with a dap of water.
- Heat oil to about 360 degrees. If you don’t have a thermometer, you can always test a little piece of the wonton wrapper. When the oil is ready, the dough will bubble and float to the top.
- Fry wontons and set on a paper towel to cool.
- Serve plain, with soy sauce or whatever suits your fancy. These can be served cool or warm… either way, they are tasty!
Follow Sarah's recipes every Monday on our blog!
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Market Info
The Grant Park Farmers Market can be found in Grant Park at the historic Milledge Fountain at 600 Cherokee Ave every Sunday rain or shine from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm. We accept credit & debit cards and gladly double all EBT/SNAP benefits.
Visit
www.grantparkmarket.org
for more info.
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DOUBLE SNAP
The Grant Park Market is a grateful partner of Wholesome Wave Georgia, an organization that doubles every SNAP/EBT dollar spent at the market. Families using SNAP get twice the purchasing power for healthy food! $1 = $2. Visit the main info booth to get SNAP tokens or to find out how you can support the program.
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Bike to the Market
Your efforts to support your community don't have to end at buying local. Choose walking or biking to the market instead of car transportation, and help improve your neighborhood's carbon footprint. Cruise the roads aroun Grant Park and enjoy the outdoors in support of your community.
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