Hollywood Farmers Market

Bike to the Market Day – This Saturday!

Alicia McAvay — Tue, 14 May 2013 20:40:13 +0000

Bike to the Market Day is next Saturday, May 18th! Bike to the market. Then pick up your Bike-to-the-Market punch card at the information booth and get your first punch. Get it punched six times and you get discounts at Velo Cult, Hollywood Cycling, and CyclePath! And finally, visit Velo Cult, our neighborhood bike shop, at their market booth that day to have them check your bikes over and offer a repair diagnostic.

It’s getting even bigger – starting May 4th!

Alicia McAvay — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:59:12 +0000

Check out this great article from Kaia Bolster of Deep Roots Farm!

My name is Kaia, I am almost 13, and I live on my family’s farm where I raise laying hens. You would think I would have had my fill of farmers markets after attending at least one market each week (in season) throughout my life, but I’m still super excited for the Hollywood Farmers Market! The market is a perfect day trip, full of fun things to do. There’s live music, delicious food (including cinnamon rolls, doughnuts, and my personal favorite, ice cream), face painting, and there is even a Halloween parade. Plus the Hollywood Farmers Market staff and volunteers are probably the nicest around.

Another awesome thing about Hollywood Farmers Market is that it’s not super big and intimidating. It’s the perfect size; big enough to fit a HUGE variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, plus plenty good food and drinks you can have on the spot. But it’s small enough that it’s not a gigantic scavenger hunt to find what’s on your shopping list.

I have been going to farmers markets since I was a baby and the Hollywood Farmers Market is definitely my all-time favorite. I love everything about it: The buzz of the people coming and going, the smell of strawberries, the cool mist on my face from the sprinkler the Market puts out to cool people on hot days, and the thousands of different colors at the flower booths. I am sure you will have as much fun as I do at the Hollywood Farmers Market. The market starts on May 4^th and I promise there will be strawberries! You can find me and my family at Deep Roots Farm!

HFM Volunteer Orientation this Saturday April 27th!

AriRosner — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:28:55 +0000

“Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in.”

– Unknown

Interested in volunteering at the Hollywood Farmers Market this season? Come out to our annual Volunteer Orientation on Saturday, April 27th from 10am to noon, at the Rose City Park Presbyterian Church at 1907 NE 45th Ave (meet at the office door on Sandy Blvd). We’ll cover volunteer roles, changes to the 2013 season (including new programs and events), and other information about the market, and do a short “rehearsal” of the market setup and breakdown.

The Hollywood Farmers Market wouldn’t be possible without the help of its volunteers. Every Saturday it takes about 20-25 volunteers to keep the market running smoothly. A few early-riser volunteers show up at 7 am to set up the market’s equipment (canopies, umbrellas, tables, chairs, signage) before customers begin arriving. During the market, volunteers answer customers’ questions, pass out fliers about upcoming market events, allow vendors working solo to take breaks, do crowd counts, and anything else that comes up during the course of a busy market. Then, at the end of the market, they take all our equipment down and repack our storage space. Volunteers enable our market to function and they make it fun!

If you’re interested in learning more about volunteering but can’t make it to the orientation, no worries; contact Ari Rosner at 503-803-7279 or send him an email at volunteers@hollywoodfarmersmarket.org and he can schedule you and orient you on market day!

See you on April 20th!

Alicia McAvay — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:14:48 +0000

I just wanted to remind everyone that the Hollywood Farmers Market runs on the 1st & 3rd Saturday of the month until May. That means that our next market is on April 20th, the last in our winter market series.

In April, the market moved back to Hancock Street with over 25 vendors offering the best of the region’s agricultural products. Each market we have more farms, more produce, more vegetable starts and ornamental plants and more everything you loved at the winter markets. Plus our knife sharpener will be at both markets!

We’ll be back to our every week schedule starting May 4th and back to our bigger footprint!

See you at the market!

Full List of Vendors for April
Alderman Family Farm
Alsea Acre Alpines
Deck Family Farm
Deep Roots Farm
Dragonfly Forge (Knife Sharpening)
Gabriel’s Bakery
Gales Meadow Farm
Herr Family Farm
Linda Brand Crab
Mocha Roma
Montiel’s Cocina/Micro Mercantes
Nature’s Best – Oregon Honey
Nature’s Wild Harvest
Nourishment
Olympic Provisions
Pacific NW Kale Chips
Persephone Farm
Peak Forest Fruit
Pine Mountain Ranch
ProFarm Produce (4/20 only)
Sage & Sea (4/20 only)
Sun Gold Farm
Sweet Briar Farm
Sweet Leaf Farm
THINK Unique Gardens
Willapa Hills Farmstead Cheese

See you on April 6th!

Alicia McAvay — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:01:11 +0000

I just wanted to remind everyone that the Hollywood Farmers Market runs on the 1st & 3rd Saturday of the month until May. That means that our next market is on April 6th and what a market it will be!

In April, the market moves back to Hancock Street with over 25 vendors offering the best of the region’s agricultural products. We’ll have more farms, more produce, more vegetable starts and ornamental plants and more everything you loved at the winter markets. Plus our knife sharpener will be at both markets!

See you at the market!

Full List of Vendors for April
Alderman Family Farm
Alsea Acre Alpines
Deck Family Farm
Deep Roots Farm
Dragonfly Forge (Knife Sharpening)
Gabriel’s Bakery
Gales Meadow Farm
Linda Brand Crab
Mickelberry Gardens (4/6 only)
Mocha Roma
Montiel’s Cocina/Micro Mercantes
Nature’s Best – Oregon Honey
Nature’s Wild Harvest
Nourishment
Olympic Provisions
Pacific NW Kale Chips
Persephone Farm
Peak Forest Fruit
Pine Mountain Ranch
ProFarm Produce (4/20 only)
Sage & Sea (4/20 only)
Sun Gold Farm
Sweet Briar Farm
Sweet Leaf Farm
THINK Unique Gardens
Willapa Hills Farmstead Cheese

Old House Dahlias at the market this weekend!

Alicia McAvay — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:57:07 +0000

We have had a beautiful few days in Portland and that always reminds me that now is the time to start planning and planting the garden! To help set up your garden right, Gales Meadow Farm and Sun Gold Farm will have starts in the market this week and Old House Dahlias is making a guest appearance, selling and taking orders for dahlia bulbs.

We will be full of vegetables, foraged goodies, meats, cheeses and breads and we even have apples and pears for one more market! Nourishment will be absent this week, but Montiel’s Cocina (MicroMercantes) is stepping in with tamales! See can see a full list of Saturday’s vendor below.

See you at the market!

Market Vendors 3/16

Alsea Acres Alpine

Columbia River Salmon, Treaty of 1855*

Gabriel’s Bakery

Gales Meadow Farm

Kiyokawa Family Orchards

La Fountain Herbal

Linda Brand Crab

Montiel’s Cocina/Micro Mercantes

Nature’s Wild Harvest

Old House Dahlia’s

Peak Forest Fruit

Persephone Farm

Pine Mountain Ranch

Sun Gold Farm

Sweet Leaf Farm

* Dependent on product availability

Winter Market this Saturday!

Alicia McAvay — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:10:39 +0000

It’s almost March and with the changing of the month comes our first March market on the first Saturday of the month, this Saturday! Along with the meat, fish, cheese, bread, fruit and hardy winter vegetables you’ve enjoyed this winter, on Saturday, you’ll find vegetable starts! Believe it or not, now is the time to get your garden going.

Last week was the final week for Mt Hood Organic Farm, but Kiyokawa Family Orchards still has a large variety of apples and pears for you to enjoy. We will be without coffee for one more month, so be sure to caffeinated on your way to the market. And check in at the Info Booth to see if Columbia River Salmon, Treaty of 1855, was able to catch enough fish to bring some to market.

And don’t forget that we continue to take Debit & EBT cards at the market and our SNAP match program, Fresh Funds now runs year-round!

At the Market on March 2nd

Alsea Acres Alpine

Columbia River Salmon, Treaty of 1855*

Gabriel’s Bakery

Gales Meadow Farm

Kiyokawa Family Orchards

La Fountain Herbal

Linda Brand Crab

Nature’s Wild Harvest

Nourishment

Peak Forest Fruit

Persephone Farm

Pine Mountain Ranch

Sun Gold Farm

Sweet Leaf Farm

* Dependent on product availability

Hollywood Farmers Market

Winter Markets

December through April

1st & 3rd Saturdays

9 am – 1 pm

Same great location!

Call for recipes from you!

Alicia McAvay — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:55:30 +0000

HFM Announces Community Cookbook project

Call for recipes!

Helping people learn how to cook with seasonal produce has always been a major part of HFM’s mission. To this end, we’ve put on cooking demos, published recipes on our website and e-newsletter, and held produce-themed events at the market. This year we’re embarking on a new project – a Hollywood Farmers Market cookbook!

It’s something we’ve discussed for a while and 2013 is the year we’re finally doing it! (Though we don’t really expect it to be finished until 2014; cookbooks take a lot of time to create). And the only way we’re going to pull it off is with a lot of help from volunteers and the rest of the market community – that means you! In particular, right now what we’re looking for is…

Recipes! The basic building block of a cookbook, and we’re now in the process of collecting them. Our hope is that every recipe in the book will have been submitted by a customer, volunteer, vendor, market chef, or some other member of the market community.

Here’s a few bullet points to help you narrow down what recipes to send in. We’re looking for recipes that:

-use multiple locally available produce items. The more of the ingredients that are available from the market the better, keeping in mind that they have to be available at the same time of the year (winter squash and asparagus recipes are tough to prepare locally!).
-are simple enough to prepare for cooks with differing levels of experience.
-include minimally processed ingredients.
-are flexible with substitutions, so people can substitute ingredients based on what’s available at the market. If you have substitution/variation ideas for your dish, please send them along with the recipe.

The book will be organized by season, so feel free to send recipes for any season of the year. If this is overwhelming to some of you, feel free to just focus on this time of year (winter going into spring) as those are the recipes that we’ll be testing first.

Send your recipes to cookbook@hollywoodfarmersmarket.org. Please include the source of your recipe if you know where you originally got it from (e.g. “adapted from Joy of Cooking”). If there’s a story behind the recipe, feel free to share that too.

Whether its the casserole recipe that your grandmother used to make, or the amazing fennel soup that you just made last week, the cookbook can’t happen without your recipes. Happy cooking!

3rd Saturday of the month means it’s a market day!

Alicia McAvay — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:59:37 +0000

We’re back this week and with even more produce! Sweet Leaf Farm starts their season this Saturday with hardy winter greens and root vegetables. Also new this week, Mount Hood Organics will have baked goods, made with their biodynamically grown apples and pears! Stop by and check out the delicious selection!

At the market, February 16th:

Alsea Acres Alpine

Gabriel’s Bakery

Gales Meadow Farm

Kiyokawa Family Orchards

Linda Brand Crab

Mickelberry Gardens

Mt Hood Organic Farms

Nature’s Wild Harvest

Nourishment

Peak Forest Fruit

Persephone Farm

Pine Mountain Ranch

Sun Gold Farm

Sweet Leaf Farm

Come dance at the first February Market (2/2/13)

Alicia McAvay — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:49:27 +0000

Our winter market series continues next Saturday (2/2) and for this market, we’ll have music! The Cankickers, an old-timey, upbeat three piece, will play from 10am-12:30pm. They are a touring band that’s really fun for the whole family, so let’s show them lots of love!

And while you’re dancing, you can pick up your weekly groceries! This February, you’ll find organic seasonal produce, lots of apples and pears, meats, cheese & seafood (it’s crab season!!), pastries & breads, goat’s milk soap and delicious breakfast burritos! Nourishment won’t have coffee at this market, so be sure to stop and grab a mug full on your way to the market.

At the market, February 2nd:

Alsea Acres Alpine

Columbia River Fish Company, Treaty 1855

Gabriel’s Bakery

Gales Meadow Farm

Kiyokawa Family Orchards

Linda Brand Crab

Mickelberry Gardens

Mt Hood Organic Farms

Nature’s Wild Harvest

Nourishment

Peak Forest Fruit

Persephone Farm

Pine Mountain Ranch

Sun Gold Farm