Delicious Holiday to You & Yours!

Thanks for contributing to the great community spirit present each Saturday at the Market. Thank you for supporting regional farms throughout the winter, helping them to stay strong come spring. And thanks for supporting the healthy tradition of home cooking. We're so pleased we've been able to continue to provide the forum of the Pleasantville Farmers Market for area residents and regional farmers and food artisans to come together. And we truly wish you and yours a fine holiday season -- especially at mealtimes!

BRISK SERVICE,
CRISP WEATHER

Preorder to beat the chill!
Saturday's weather will challenge our producers' and shoppers' ability to adapt to a deep winter market season. There will be no walk up items at Mead Orchards, Gajeski Produce Or Maple View Farm as these farms will focus on protecting preordered items in their heated trucks and distribution. Please plan to preorder from these vendors for this reason.

Many other vendors do make their items available by preorder and walk up service but if you can preorder it will help everyone get in and out quickly.

Click Pleasantville Farmers Market Online to begin shopping after 7:00pm tonight. PFM-O is open until 7:00pm Thursday evening but some items may sell out early due to holiday volume.

Fun PFM-O tip for the week: type "GIFT" into the search bar to see all vendors who have gift boxes or gift sets for the holiday.

Questions?
Email us at orders@pleasantvillefarmersmarket.org

Please note the new Market hours on Saturday in winter: 9:00 - 11:30.

Who's in this week?

View our Map of the Market to see where all vendors visiting this Saturday will be located in the marketplace.

Note: due to issues related to cold and/or staffing Trotta Foods, Living Edge Designs and The River Garden are unable to attend on 12/19.

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

• Cooper’s Daughter Spirits
• Dancing Spirits Herbs
• Forward Roots
• Little Croc Bakehouse
• Rock City Mushrooms
• Whitecliff Vineyards

These rotation vendors are weekly in December:

• Conant Valley Jams
• Red Barn Bakery
• Strudel House

Phelps Health Tip:
Lead Sponsor Phelps Hospital Northwell Health shares the following: "The vegetable of the week is chard. Chard provides antioxidant beta-carotene, vitamin K, magnesium, potassium, and sodium and can be eaten raw in salads or cooked quickly and paired with lemon juice and olive oil".

It's a long winter
please support your market!

We're so grateful to shoppers that have reached us recently with support as $10 and $25 Friends, $50 Harvest Heroes and $100 Winter Warriors. The Market is committed to staying open and safe for all our shoppers and producers, but it hasn't been easy – and these donations have become critical. Contributions of $50 and up come with amazing Market swag and no PFM-O pickup fees through March! If you wish to make a donation you can use this link, or donate through PFM-O when it is open - and THANKS in advance for your support - your collaboration helps make the outdoor Winter Market possible. Please note that because the Market is a 501 (c)(4) nonprofit organization, individual contributions are not tax deductible.

Know before you go:

Masks Are Mandatory & Other Guidelines
Help the Market remain a safe and efficient place to gather food. Masks are required to be worn while at the Market. Please send only one member of the family to shop. If arriving as a couple, bring enough reusable bags so you can splitting up shopping tasks. Do not use the Market at this time as a family outing as we must limit the number of people in the marketplace, and shopping is meant to be brief and purposeful. For more information about COVID-19 protocols for shoppers please click here. Your adherence to these shopping guidelines assists us in keeping the Market open to support residents and vendors alike.

Absolutely avoid the Market if you are sick. Especially so if you exhibit any symptoms of the COVID-19 virus (temperature of 100° or above, a cough, a sore throat, shortness of breath). The New York State Department of Health has set up a hotline at (888) 364-3065 where Department of Health experts are available to answer questions regarding COVID-19.

VENDOR HIGHLIGHTS For Saturday:

When shopping in PFM-O type "Gift" into the search bar to see gift boxes and baskets our producers have created for you, including from Spice Revolution, Bobolink Dairy & Bakehouse, Dancing Spirits Herbs and Teagevity.

Kyle Nisonger of Maple View Farm is encouraging shoppers to make a great Christmas salad with fresh, sweet winter greens. Harvested just before markets, washed and spun dry, these greens keep well for up to 10 days in fridge. Items to consider this week are: microgreens (mild mix), mustard greens, bunched kale, pea shoots, claytonia (miner's lettuce) and beautiful, bunched red radishes.

Dancing Spirits Herbs will make their December visit with stocking stuffers such as balms, salves and lip balms (which are all on sale), and their neat Kitchen Vinegar gift sets. They'll be located near the Market's main entrance on Saturday.

Pick up or pre-order Teagevity's $15.00 Holiday Tea Bundle (Kraft take out box packed with two teas and one 2.5 deluxe ball tea strainer). Choose from three Tea Bundle options: 1. Fruity: (Hibiscus Pineapple, Blood Orange & Strainer; 2. Caffeine & Fruit: Assam & Hibiscus Pineapple; or 3. Herbal: Ginger Root & Rooibos Masala Chai.

Whitecliff Vineyard will be in and they're highlighting two special items in their PFM-O store for the holidays: Their North River line of champagne method wines, made from estate grown Chardonnay and Pinot Noir through the true champagne method at Whitecliff. Each bottle is handled over two dozen times in the laborious hand process and aged over three years to develop complex yeasty flavors. And Whitecliff has a dessert wine, Bourbon Barrel Blond, which is a white port, aged in bourbon barrels from a local distillery. It is 19% alcohol and gently sweet -- a great pairing with apple pie, flan or cheese cake.

Rock City Mushrooms now is bringing turkey parts from their farm as well. Browse their store to see the convenient products their have available (preorder-only) including ground, stir fry strips and many parts.

Hudson River Apiaries has their PFM-O store loaded with honeys to choose from, including their natural honeycomb which can be a special gift. For walk up-only Saturday they will also have their handmade, beeswax holiday candles for sale in many types.

Bobolink Dairy & Bakehouse has created gift baskets of their delicious cheeses and breads in three sizes in PFM-O: Epicure ($59.50), Connoisseur ($89.50) and Gourmand ($194.50). New this week: Bobolink cheese crackers, and their lemon thyme cookies.

Spice Revolution has several spice kits that make great gift set items and they're available for preorder. This week they're highlighting a Grill & Chill spice kit. And they've added Spanish saffron threads and many large spice refills to their store.

Gajeski Produce has their PFM-O store loaded with items for your holiday meals - dive in and get preordering!

Mead Orchards has crisp apples, rich squash and more for your holiday menu - check out their items to preorder tonight!

Cooper's Daughter Spirits will be in. They have this festive suggestion: get a bottle of Cacao Maple Vodka and Black Walnut Liqueur to create their renowned Holiday Eggnog (1.5oz Cacao MapleVodka, 1.5oz Black Walnut Liqueur, 3 dashes of Black Walnut Fig Bitters, freshly grated nutmeg). They're also tempting us to order an extra bottle of Cacao Maple Vodka for spiked hot chocolate on Christmas morning.

Campanelli's Poultry Farm has added whole turkeys and goose to their PFM-O store for next week's holiday meals.

Kiernan Farm has their PFM-O store ready with beef sirloin tip roasts on SALE at $12.50/lb (reg. $16.50/lb) - please specify size. They've pork sausages at $12.00/lb -- buy three (mix & match) and get $5.00 off the total (choose from hot Italian, sweet Italian, breakfast varieties). Also, you can preorder 1lb of their ground beef for $11.75, or toggle down to order five 1lb packages to get $10.00 off the total order.

Little Croc Bakehouse is in with all their GF items produced in their dedicated GF kitchen. Items this week include delicious cinnamon coffee cakes and vanilla holiday cupcakes!

Margery of Conant Valley Jams is now attending the Market every week and notes this week that her jams and ramp-infused olive oil make great stocking stuffers and Hanukkah gifts. Her Apple Pie jam is delicious with latkes.

Red Barn Bakery and Strudel House join Dutch Desserts, as weekly vendors providing baked goods at the Market.

STRIVING TO BE THE BEST, EVERY WEEK

Last year the Market was among over a dozen Pleasantville businesses awarded the honor of “Best of Westchester” by voters in Westchester Magazine’s annual contest. As a community-based service, we’re proud of this feedback as an indication that we’re fulfilling our mission to our community, farms and food artisans -- year-round.Now the 2021 “Best of Westchester” first round voting is open. Please take a minute to VOTE TODAY for your favorite farmers market and all local, small businesses that have earned your loyalty.

TO BEGIN use this Best of Westchester link which takes you to the Reader's Ballot for Food & Drink to place your vote for a favorite farmers market in two categories: “Farmers Market” (listed as #34) and “Produce” (listed as #57). Then explore the other eight categories listing other great county-based businesses. Once you have voted, encourage fellow shoppers and family members to vote to help the contest garner more momentum. Thanks for participating!

IN THE COMMUNITY:

Shop Local Business Listing: Updated Daily
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 daily with the latest on store hours and pick up options. To view the listing visit pleasantvillechamber.com.