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Warren Farmers' Market

Real Living AVISTA Properties logo
Real Living AVISTA Properties
is the proud sponsor of the Warren Farmers' Market.

For more farm market listings see:
bulletWarren County Farm Market Directory
bulletU-Pick Farms
bulletMore "Local Food" Resources and Recipes

 

Why Buy Local?

Buy Fresh Buy Local  - Western Pennsylvania Local Food Guide.

Are you ready for the 100 Mile Diet Challenge?

10 Reasons to Eat Local (File size: 65 Kb, a PDF ® document from Eatlocalchallenge.com)

The Warren Farmers' Market has closed for the season
What: Fruit, vegetables, baked goods, plants, herbs, honey, flowers, eggs, maple syrup, jelly, jam, candy, gourmet dog treats, salsa, and a variety of meats and meat products. 
When:
The Warren Farmers' Market is open Saturday mornings, 8 a.m. until noon, from the middle of June through the end of October.
Where:
It is located on the Second Ave side of the city parking lot, behind the Conewango Club, in downtown Warren, PA.
WHO:  Warren Farmers' Market Vendor List

Would you like to be a Farmers' Market vendor?  Visit Warren Farmers' Market on the Real Living Avista Properties website for an application form and more information.

Buy Fresh!  Buy Local!  Support the Farmers MarketWarren County residents have been fortunate enough to have a Farmers' Market for 35 years.  Annually, folks who grow vegetables, fruit, flowers, and more meet each Saturday during the summer and fall months and offer their wares to those who wish to purchase organic foods, fresh baked goodies, seasonal maple syrup, or plants.

This year the leaders of the Warren Farmers' Market have decided to start a little earlier, allowing those vendors who have ware to sell the opportunity to do so before the traditional beginning of the market in July.

Folks might ask why anyone would like to shop at a Farmers' Market.  The reasons are many.  First you purchase vegetables and fruits from the folks who grew them.  You can also purchase organically grown meats and eggs or freshly baked bread, rolls, cakes, pies or cookies.  You can purchase perennials that can be used to enhance your property and fresh cut flowers to brighten the interior of your home.  Several vendors offer home canned relishes, jellies, salsas, mustards and more.  If you don't like to can but enjoy freshly made items, this is a great place to shop.

Beginning June 18th the Early Bird Farmers' Market will be held at the Mid-Town Parking Lot in Warren.  Proudly sponsoring us for advertising and signage is Tony Siliano from Real Living Avista Properties in Warren. 

Included in the vendors will be the Presbyterian Church.  Members of the church donate produce and baked goods for sale.  The selection is different each week.  Every cent they have earned from this booth, totaling $56,000 over the years, is donated to a World Hunger Program.  They also sell coffee, Equal Exchange Coffee, that is promoted by the World Hunger Program, aiding countries where coffee is grown.  You can purchase beans or ground or a cup of freshly brewed coffee to enjoy with a cinnamon roll or muffin that you might purchase from another booth.

Friar's Haus, owned by Tom Friar, from the Bradford area, is the Warren City arborist and has his own nursery.  He sells perennials, herbs, garlic, cut flowers and honey.

Busti Cider Mill and Farm Market will participate in the early bird weeks.  They sell fresh produce, cut flowers, fresh ground organic flours including whole wheat, rye, buckwheat and cornmeal.  They also offer a whole-wheat cereal.  Children love the fruit leather that has been rolled into logs.

Small Meadows Farms offers organic meats.  They sell goat, beef and pork.  They have an assortment of cheeses, goat milk fudge, eggs, and stewing chickens.

Tara Casey of Warren works her magic in the kitchen and bakes wonderful treats, including cinnamon rolls, sold individually.  Shoppers have been known to purchase a cinnamon roll, a cup of coffee and walk around while visiting and eating breakfast.

The official opening of the Warren Farmers' Market will be July 9th, when the early bird vendors will be joined by many more including Josie Gerardi with biscotti, canned goods, including jams, jellies, and salsa as well as dried and fresh herbs.  If you are lucky she will have had time to make little banana breads.  Josie noted, "I won't sell anything that I wouldn't consume myself."  Most of her goodies are made from recipes from family and friends.

Borden's Honey from Sheffield will have a variety of sizes of containers filled with locally produced honey.

Geoff Howard, Warren, offers garlic and shallot. 

Ray and Jackie, Warren, sell produce. 

Shirley Olson, the apple lady from Russell, also sells fresh produce including great onions, beautiful delicious tomatoes and more. 

Rae Peterson, Clarendon, offers home baked items, fresh produce and a wide variety of canned relishes. 

Pies of all sizes and flavors are made fresh and sold by Linda Spencer, Russell.

The Williams sisters offer pet treats and herbs. 

Some other vendors are talking about joining the weekly tradition.  One is planning to sell cupcakes and others haven't listed their wares.

To add to the festive mood of the market several folks get together for a jam session and play lively music. 

If you are looking for help with your lawn, flowers, or vegetable garden you can always solicit advice from the Penn State Master Gardeners.  They usually are available twice a month.  Each time they have a display they highlight one topic to help educate local gardeners.

If you plan to visit the Farmers' Market, it begins at 8:00 a.m. and runs until noon.  First you arm yourself with a canvas shopping bag or basket and a loosely written shopping list. 

Next imagine yourself shopping in an outdoor market in Europe.  Allow yourself to "go with the flow."  If you see a food item that you weren't planning on buying that looks delicious, or tempts your taste buds - make the purchase and change your menu.

The Warren are is very fortunate to have this luxury during the summer and fall months.  Take advantage of this unique shopping experience and you might find it becomes a Saturday habit.  According to Bill Dyke, one of the market's old=timers, "It gets in your blood and you can't miss a week."

The Warren Farmers' Market is a member of GRO-Warren and PASA (Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture).  Visit PASA's Buy Fresh Buy Local site for more local food sources.

Tips for Canning & Freezing
Resources recommended by Phyllis Wright at her "Tips for Canning & Freezing for One or Two" workshop.

National Center for Home Food Preservation
FreshPreserving.com -
the Ball website

Home Food Preservation: Resources for Safe Food Preservation at Penn State University
So Easy to Preserve (
book available from the National Center for Home Food Preservation.)
USDA Complete Guide Canning (1994 ed.)
"Let's Preserve" Fact Sheets
available from the Warren Penn State Extension Center

See also: FOOD TIPS from  Phyllis Wright  Peaches | Pickles | Sauerkraut | Turkey | Winter Squash and Pumpkins

How to Preserve Food by Drying Resource recommended by teacher Ms. Tabitha Brooks.

Warren Farmer's Market

Buying local, going global
PA church’s farmers market supports Presbyterian Hunger Program
by Bethany Furkin, Presbyterian News Service
Posted 4/29/2009
Source link: http://www.pcusa.org/pcnews/2009/09353.htm

The farmers market at First Presbyterian Church in Warren, PA, offers more than fresh produce and baked goods — it also helps provide hunger relief to people across the country and globe.  More...

 

View from Hickory Heights: Eat Where You Live!
By Ann R. Swanson, correspondent for the Times Observer

Ann Swanson is a writer and popular columnist for the Times Observer.   Visit her website, hickoryheightsbooks.com for information on her books and articles. She can be contacted at hickoryheights1@verizon.net.

Buy Local!When I heard a chef say we should eat where we live, I knew I wanted to write about it. The big supermarkets are filled with anything and everything that we could possibly desire to eat, but are we getting what we are paying for?

Research tells us that on the average most of our food travels 1500 - 2000 miles before it gets to us. During my recent travel I found things that I knew were exported to the U. S. Although they were native to the tropics, they had to be picked "green" to be shipped elsewhere. More...

Vendors include:
Bordens Honey (local honey, comb honey, creamed honey)
Bob and June Borden
814-730-4011 bborden@ localnet.com
Busti Cider Mill & Farm Market 
1135 Southwestern Drive, Jamestown, NY 14701
Accepts Food Stamps
716-487-0177
or 716-484-7300
info@busticidermill.com
Website: www.busticidermill.com
By Rae (mustards, jams, pickles, canned and fresh vegetables)
Rae Peterson
814-726-0541  
First Presbyterian Church (Produce, Baked Goods, Jams)
Bill Dyke
814-723-9200 WDFE3188@verizon.net
Frair Haus Greenhaus (Perennials, Herbs, Fresh Cut Flowers, Garlic, Fall Mums, Honey)
Tom & Linda Frair
814-362-1467 frairhaus@verizon.net
Howard's Specialty Garlic (Hardneck Garlic)
Geoff Howard
814-757-1434 ghoward35@atlanticbb.net
Martin's Produce (Seasonal fruits and vegetables, Christmas trees)
David Martin
1695 Cidermill Hill Rd
Russell, PA  16345
814-757-8318 dmmkmm@verizon.net
 
Olson's Produce (Garden Produce, Apples)
Shirley Olson
814-757-8347  
Rae and Jackie's Produce (Garden Produce, Berries)
Rae Kujawa  and Jackie Franklin
814-723-6522  
Riverside Herbs (Fresh and dried herbs, jelly, jams, Italian cookies)
Josie Gerarde
814-723-5578  
Scott’s Flowers (flowers, produce)
Alan Scott
814-489-3746 hiland@kinzua.net
Simonson's Apples (apples and cider)
Doctor Ron Simonson
   
Small Meadows Farm (Goat milk products, goat meat, pork, produce, Concord grape products, spices, herbs and seasonings) 
Carl & Ann Schultz
716-782-4484 rockingoatmama@yahoo.com
Spencer's Baked Goods (bread, cookies, pies)
Linda Spencer
814-757-8443 jlspencer23@yahoo.com
Tara's Tasty Treats (bread, cookies, baked goods)
Tara Casey
814-723-2952 joentara@verizon.net
Williams Farm (Gourmet dog treats, herbs and produce)
Wanda Kelley and Linda, Billie Jo, & Susan Williams
814-726-2009 wjwgolfer@msn.com

For more farm market listings see: Warren County Farm Market Directory  and U-Pick Farms

 

"LOCAL FOOD" WEB RESOURCES: RECIPES AND MORE

bullet The Opportunity to Support Local Farmers is All Around You!  (Adobe Acrobat PDF ® document. File size: 269K)
A listing of local growers, area farmers' markets, and natural food stores compiled by and used with the permission of Quiet Creek Herb Farm. 
bullet Eating Fresh - tools for living and eating locally, seasonally and organically
bullet Eat Wild - grass-fed food and facts, resources and recipes
bullet Local Harvest - "real food, real farmers, and real community"
bullet Sustainable Table - recipes from the Sustainable Kitchen

 

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