August: Summer's Peak!

August always delivers an especially abundant, diverse harvest. Make use of the Market to ensure summer doesn't slide by without your family having great meals to think back on once fall settles in. Don't think fall will ever arrive? Mead Orchards says the first glimpse is here in their early apples arriving (Honeycrisps are in this week!). That said, in celebration of our still present summer we're sharing a Market Moments video (and recipe card) so you can make authentic Greek tzatziki using fresh cucumbers from our farms, yogurt from Chaseholm Farm Creamery or Edgwick Farm, and Demi's olive oil. Enjoy!

PFM MARKET MOMENT:

MARINA'S AUTHENTIC GREEK TZATZIKI!

Click here to view our latest PFM Market Moments video with registered dietitian and Foodchester Board member Marina Tsougranis Stopler sharing how to make authentic Greek tzatziki, using ingredients available at the Market! Click here for Marina's recipe card after viewing her video. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel and share your comments in response to Marina’s video.

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO

While recent changes in NYS COVID-19 regulations have enabled us to relax some health & safety protocols for customers at the Pleasantville Farmers Market, please note our updated policies for August:

Distancing:

• Please maintain 6' distancing while shopping, especially in busy vendor queues

Masking:

• Unvaccinated shoppers are required to wear masks while visiting the Market (including children ages 2 through 12).
• Vaccinated shoppers are recommended to mask while shopping (they are not required at this time)

If eating or drinking while at the Market:

• Please make use of our grass area where we will have spaced tables and chairs (beginning this week).

The Market is monitoring guidance and will provide policy updates as need.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PFM-O!

PFM-O is one year old! Thank you for using our preorder system and for supporting our farmers and food artisans, especially this year. This system helped our customers to shop safely during the pandemic by implementing no-contact payment and reducing exposure to other shoppers and vendors. And it’s also supported our vendors’ businesses at a critical time, while reducing food waste.

Though experiment has been an enormous success, to be sustainable as a non-profit we need to break even, and that requires raising the pickup fee to $3 per order (effective in August). This represents an increase from the $2 fee we set and held since last winter, but is much less than the $5 fee per order we began with one year ago.

We’re committed to health and safety – and to shoppers using PFM-O! - and we hope you’ll agree with us that the benefit PFM-O provides to our community is worth this small increase.

PFM-O OPENS

TONIGHT, 7:00pm

Click Pleasantville Farmers Market Online to begin shopping after 7:00pm tonight. PFM-O is open to place preorders until 7:00pm Thursday evening.

Nearly all producers offer both walk up service and preorder pick up service. Exceptions are Gajeski Produce and Maple View Farm (full walk up service only in summer/fall).

Who's In?

View our Map of the Market to see where all vendors visiting this Saturday will be located in the marketplace. NOTE: Melissa's Health Hub now visits the Market on the 1 & 3 Saturdays of each month (so they're out this week).

In addition to our Weekly Vendors the Rotation Vendors listed below will also be in this Saturday.

• Demi Olive Oil
• Forward Roots
• Head and Heal
• Kriemhild Dairy Farms
• Red Barn Bakery
• Warwick Valley Winery & Black Distillery

Questions?

Email us at orders@pleasantvillefarmersmarket.org

THANKS Chad David Kraus Photography!

Often before heading out for a weekend of event photography Chad stops in at the Market to capture some images for us. Chad's volunteer effort in this regard helps us to display our producers work in the best light, which we really appreciate come newsletter time. Learn about Chad's work at chadkraus.com. Or follow him on Facebook, or on Instagram at @chadkrausphoto.

Phelps Health Tip:

Lead Sponsor Phelps Hospital Northwell Health shares the following: "The antioxidant vitamin C, when eaten in its natural form (in whole foods such as peaches) or applied topically, can reduce wrinkles, improve overall skin texture and help to fight skin damage caused by the sun and pollution. Vitamin C also plays a vital role in the formation of collagen, the support system of your skin".

Market Intern Program

The Market is accepting applications from area High School students for the Intern Program. For information inquire at the Manager's Table or email info@pleasantvillefarmersmarket.org.

VENDOR HIGHLIGHTS

Making tzatziki? Chaseholm Farm Creamery and Edgwick Farm have yogurt, Demi Olive Oil is in, Spice Revolution has great salts, and our farms have fresh cucumbers and more. Click here for the recipe card we posted earlier in this newsletter.

Kriemhild Dairy Farms is in this Saturday with their full product line, except creme fraiche. How is their chocolate milk faring in with chocolate milk bloggers? Click here to see a review from a person who is trying to find the best chocolate milk in the country and, out of over 1500 tried so far, gave Kriemhild's a 10 out of 10.

Nina White of Bobolink Dairy & Bakehouse is highlighting that their Drumm and Foret for Ray cheeses are perfect right now, and delicious when paired with a tomato and cucumber salad!

Kiernan Farms has a SALE on pork Country Style ribs at $9.25/lb (reg. $13.25/lb). They have discounted their beef Tuscan sausages too, at $14.00/lb (reg. $17.00/lb). And if you buy 5 one pound packages of ground beef at $11.75/lb, get $10.00 off the total.

Spice Revolution is featuring a NEW Roasted Garlic Sea Salt. Perfect for everything! Meat, veggies, chicken, fish, salads, mushrooms, sauces, marinades, rubs, grilling, roasting, truly everything. It’s available in all sizes under Salts in their PFM-Online store.

Yup! Mead Orchards is reporting that Honeycrisp apples are in, coming to the Market this Saturday as one of our most popular early apples.

Talitha Jones of Edgwick Farm says this of their August pairings: "The sweet pairing is a delicious apricot jam layered under our fresh goat cheese and made from the sweetest drippy ripe apricots. Our savory is a basil pesto layered under our fresh goat cheese and made from fat Genovese basil leaves and pine nuts."

Warwick Valley Winery will make their August visit this Saturday. Have you tried their new sangria?

IN THE COMMUNITY:

Shop Local Business Listing:

The Pleasantville Chamber of Commerce can help you stay connected to the small businesses that make Pleasantville such a wonderful place to visit and to live. Their Shop Local Business Listing is updated regularly with the latest on store hours and pick up options. To view the listing visit pleasantvillechamber.com.