Please join us this Sunday, May 20th, from 12-3pm to shop for veggie, herb, and flower transplants, lots of fresh veggies including greens, lettuce, radishes, asparagus, and more, a cooking demonstration (wilted greens, an awesome recipe), and twister with the family! 

After a wonderful kickoff last week, the Rosedale Farmer’s Market is back for the season with kale, collards, farm-fresh eggs, jams and jellies, beautiful vegetable and flower transplants, specialty chocolates (perfect for Mother’s Day) and more!  Please join us to shop, try our vegetable of the week (spinach), play some games with your kids, and hang out with your friends and neighbors.  We’ll see you there!

This warm weather has us fooled.  I feel like it should be summer already!  Luckily, we’ve got stuff growing under lights and in the garden to be ready for the Rosedale Farmers Market opening day on May 6.  What are you most looking forward to buying locally?

We are still accepting vendor applications for the market – you can download an application here.

See you in 34 days!

We just sent out the call for applications for the 2011 season, and can’t wait to hear who responds!  We’re very excited for this year’s market already, even though it’s two months away.  We know those two months are going to fly by…

Also this week we plan to erase (!) our big board of farmers market activities from last year.  We’re sad to see it go, but excited to fill it up with this year’s plans and dreams.

Today’s the kind of day when you can’t help but dream of the summer months of the Rosedale Farmers Market.  We have our first board meeting of 2011 this week, and will start planning for the official market launch on May 1.  We can’t wait, and hope you are also eagerly awaiting its arrival!

In the meantime, check out upcoming events from our friends at the Rosedale Healthy Kids Initiative.

For the last two weeks Les has brought honey in all sizes of containers (as well as candles), produced on his honey farm in Independence. Worried about “colony collapse”? Talk to Les and get the lowdown. You’ll be surprised by what he says!

Yes, You Can CAN!
Talk to growers about buying veggies in bulk for canning and preserving. Now’s the time to start preserving food for the winter. (Yes, it is right around the corner … well, maybe down the block!)
Family Fun

At least we can look forward to the cooling breezes of autumn with a game of Bobbing for Apples!

Don’t forget!

SNAP customers get double value on produce all summer long!

We’ll see you Sunday!

Come and discover
the Top 3 Reasons to ‘go local’!

1. Tastes better.

2. Fresher and healthier.

3. And, it connects buyers and growers!

(Don’t you want to know who grows your food and how they do it?)

Join Your Neighbors at
Rosedale Farmers Market this Sunday
Noon to 3 p.m. @ SW Family Health Care
SW Blvd @ Rainbow Blvd

Exciting News!

The first sweet corn has arrived!

Here’s what else is coming to the market this Sunday:

Tomatoes

Lettuce
Summer squash

Cucumbers

Peppers

Cabbage

Beets
New potatoes

Okra

Blueberries

Blackberries

Peaches

Canteloupe

Green beans

Peppers

Zucchini

Kale

Mustard greens

Collards

HerbsAND …

Home-crafted bread

PLUS …

100% grass-fed Kansas beef!

Come early … we DO sell out.

What’s this about Royals tickets?

Are you ready to get up close with the hottest team in the AL Central? A generous friend of the Market has donated four seats to the July 21 day game versus Toronto. These seats are 25 rows directly behind the Royals dugout and best of all — are in the shade! A deluxe parking pass is even included for easy in-and-out.

Stop by our Information table on Sunday and bid on these great seats. The tickets and parking retail for more than $150, but the right bid will get you a day at the “K” for a nice price. The Royals may be hot hot hot, but you’ll have it made in the shade … and all the proceeds go to the Rosedale Healthy Kids Initiative!

SNAP customers get Double Value

Spread the word! Customers using EBT cards for SNAP benefits get double value all summer long, thanks to the Beans ‘n’ Greens program, sponsored by the Menorah Legacy Foundation.

What else is at the Market this week?

• Free Gardening Help! K-State Research and Extension Experts will be on hand to answer your questions.
• Free Cooking Lesson! Not sure what to do with all this great produce? Fresh Fest is showing you how to whip up one delicious recipe every week. This Sunday, experience divine stuffed bell peppers!
• For the kids … there’s a Coloring Contest!
• Live music, even! Come hear folk artist Emily Tummons.

We’ll see you Sunday!

I can’t think of a more perfect way to celebrate the fourth of July than being surrounded by local farmers and local produce.  This week we had voter registration at the Community Resource table, patriotic fruit parfaits and film canister rockets at the Family Fun table, and a fabulous mayo-free potato salad at the Fresh Fest.  Check out the photos from the market on our Flickr stream – I tried to document some of the beautiful produce for sale!

We’re looking forward to the coming weeks at the market, and our grateful to Diane and Aaron for taking charge of the weekly market e-newsletter.  If you haven’t already signed up, use the form below.

What a wonderful day! We were so excited to have the Beans and Greens crew with us to celebrate the official launch of the double value SNAP coupons, and we were honored to have Commissioner John Mendez join us as well.  Gayla and Jenn with Beans and Greens brought beautiful balloons and t-shirts with their new logo, giving quite the festive atmosphere to the market.  Gayla, Commissioner Mendez, Board Chair Chris Alliman and Rosedale Development Association director Wendy Wilson spoke about their hopes for the double value and for the future of healthy foods in Rosedale.

KCTV 5 joined the celebration as well and showed the Rosedale Farmers Market several times on the evening news.  We hope to be able to post a link to the footage soon, but for now, check out the photos on Flickr!

Introducing Beans&Greens

The Rosedale Farmers Market is excited to be a part of the Beans&Greens program, a Kansas City initiative officially beginning this weekend that DOUBLES the amount EBT/SNAP and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program participants can spend at the Rosedale Farmers Market!

For example, if you spend $5 of EBT/SNAP benefits at the market, you will get $10 in tokens to spend at the RFM – stop by the information booth for more details and to participate in this matching program.

JOIN THE CELEBRATION!

12:30 p.m. – Fresh Fest, featuring Creamy Turnip Cups

1:00 p.m. – Official welcome from community leaders

Activities for the whole family – from cooking demonstrations to the Family Fun table, there’s something for everyone

Lots of PIE! This Sunday is PIE DAY at the Rosedale Farmers Market – look for pies made with local fruit!
Raffle prizes (for SNAP/EBT participants)
Children’s activities
Balloons for the kids

Silent auction for Royals tickets – shaded dugout seats!
Fresh Fest – featuring Creamy Turnip Cups
Featured community resource – Southwest Boulevard Family Health Care
Baked goods

SEE YOU AT THE MARKET!!!