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Martinez Sunday Farmers’ Market
On Sunday, May 2 the Sunday Martinez Farmers’ Market kicks off the 9th season on the Main Street Plaza. Open weekly starting May 2 to October 31 from 10am to 2pm. Make your Sunday’s a family day where you can enjoy music while you stroll. Buy freshly picked local produce and talk directly with Farmers who grow your food. The market is a perfect place to pick up healthy snacks, baked goods, ethnic sauces, jams, and fresh cut flowers. Enjoy comparative tastings and cooking demonstrations, offering something for everyone in your family. On opening day, healthy cooking instructor and cookbook author of Quick and Healthy Meals from Trader Joe's , weight management coach, Jamie Davidson, MS. She will join us as "Guest Chef". Bring your dull knives and gardening tools for sharpening by “Critical Edge” knife sharpening services on the 1st Sunday of every month. "Get Your Sunday Farmers’ Market On" in charming, historic downtown Martinez!
For more information, visit the Contra Costa Certified Farmers’ Market website at www.cccfm.org or call the CCCFM market line at 925.431.8361.
Popular Farmers’ Market Returning to Martinez Thursdays,
May 6th through November 18h from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Main Street
Martinez, CA (May 6, 2010) ? The grand opening of the Thursday Martinez Certified Farmers’ Market is just around the corner! Opening Day for the 2010 season is Thursday, May 6. The market is open from 10 am to 2 pm every Thursday, rain or shine, through November 18. You can find the market on Court Street, between Main and Escobar, in front of the County Courthouse.
On Opening day, Mr. Carrot and Martinez mayor, Rob Schroder, will be on hand for the annual ribbon cutting ceremony, and Big Dog and the Bite will perform Classic Rock favorites. This year marks the tenth year anniversary that Pacific Coast Farmers’ Market Association has operated the Martinez Farmers’ Market.
The Market features locally-grown, farm fresh produce direct from the farmer. Some of the delicious fruits and vegetables that the Martinez Farmers’ Market will feature on opening day include mouth-watering strawberries, flavorful asparagus, and sweet cherries along with just-baked pastries and artisan breads. If you are looking for organic vegetables, fresh cut flowers, delicious peaches and plums, flavored nuts, dried fruit and gourmet foods, you will find it at the Martinez Farmers’ Market.
In addition to delicious foods, the Martinez Farmers’ Market also provides a valuable resource for its shoppers. At the market information booth, you will find an abundance of recipes using fresh fruits and vegetables available at the market, as well as useful nutritional information and listings of current events in the local community.
The Martinez Farmers Market is proud to have its own market expert–Olga Bier–who visits the farmers’ market weekly and provides shopping and cooking advice through her regular column–Cream of the Crops–published weekly in the Martinez Gazette. The column focuses on seasonal crops that are available at the Martinez Farmers’ Market, and includes recipes and interviews with the farmers at the market. Bier’s column has been a fixture at the Martinez Farmers’ Market information booth since 2002.
Sameer Poudyal, the manager of the Martinez Farmers’ Market, said he is looking forward to opening day. “Martinez is such a warm, welcoming and friendly community and I can’t wait for the Market to open. I know shoppers will be happy to see the Market return with great spring crops.”
The Martinez Farmers’ Market also provides opportunities for local businesses to promote themselves and their products and services to market shoppers through the Merchant at the Market program. Members of the Main Street Martinez can have a space in the Market, free of charge, in which they can promote their business to market shoppers. During the season, the Main Street Martinez Youth Group comprised of students from the Environmental Studies Academy, will be on-hand to promote recycling through education and art projects, and raising money for their program by selling environmentally friendly shopping bags.
The Pacific Coast Farmers’ Market Association is the state’s largest operator of Certified Farmers’ Markets, with over sixty Certified Farmers’ Markets weekly in the Bay Area during the peak summer months. Certified Farmers’ Markets are locations that offer only California-grown products sold directly to consumers by the farmers that grew, nurtured and harvested the crops. All PCFMA markets accept WIC FMNP (Woman Infant and Children Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program coupons) and EBT (the Golden State advantage food stamp cards).
For more information on the Martinez Farmers’ Market, please contact the Pacific Coast Farmers’ Market Association at (800) 949-FARM, (925) 825-9090, or go to www.pcfma.com.
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