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 to provide the forum of the Pleasantville Farmers Market for area residents, regional farmers and food artisans to come together. And we truly wish you and yours a fine holiday season -- especially at mealtimes!

BRISK SERVICE FOR
DAMP WEATHER

Preorder to get in and out quickly!
Saturday's weather may turn out to be cool and damp. Our winter market, and Pleasantville Farmers Market Online (PFM-O), are designed to ease winter shopping outdoors - whatever the weather. Many vendors do make some portion of their items available for walk up service, but if you preorder it will help everyone get in and out quickly, and ensure you get what you're seeking.

STOCK UP, MARKET IS CLOSED 12/25/21 & 1/1/22

Plan ahead to have frozen dinners from Trotta Foods or Pika's Farm Table, plenty of proteins from our many producers, roots veggies and hearty greens from Gajeski Produce or Maple View Farms, enough crisp apples from Mead Orchards and anything else you will desire during the period we're closed. Our producers will fit a bit of rest in after our 12/18 market, with the next market being on 1/8/22.

FOOD DONATION DAY USING PFM-O this week!

To support efforts to ease food insecurity during the winter months PFM-O will have a donation option on the 3rd Saturday of each month - starting with this week. So between Tuesday, 7pm and Thursday, 7pm when setting up your preorders you can also donate $10, $20 or $30 as well to the Pleasantville Community Garden. They'll use donations to purchase produce and nonperishable items, and see that those are delivered to families and individuals that are food insecure in our region.

PFM-O OPENS
TONIGHT, 7:00pm

WHO'S IN?

View our Map of the Market to see where all vendors visiting this Saturday will be located in the marketplace.
NOTE: rotation vendor Chaseholm Farm Creamery is absent this Saturday.

In addition to our Weekly Vendors (yes, Strudel House, Dutch Desserts and Red Barn are all back this week) the Rotation Vendors listed below will also be in this Saturday.

• Cooper’s Daughter Spirits
• Dancing Spirits Herbs
• Demi Olive Oil
• Kriemhild Dairy Farms
• Little Croc Bakehouse
• Rock City Mushrooms
• Whitecliff Vineyards
• Wildcraft Farms

First time user of PFM-O? Please register at Pleasantville Farmers Market Online. Then login to browse our producer's items and place preorders Tuesdays, 7:00pm - Thursdays, 7:00pm. Saturday collect preorders from the producers you preordered from.

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".

PARKING OPTIONS

Click here for directions to the outdoor Market. Do you know the "hidden parking lots of Pville"? There are 8 parking lots within a few blocks of the Market, with over 400 parking spaces available - plus metered street parking throughout the Village. Review them all by clicking here to view a summary of parking lot locations.

HARVEST HEROES & WINTER WARRIORS:
THANKS! Collect complementary swag at the Manager's Tent on 12/18!

Support your Market and receive some fun, complementary thank you items! Donations can be made through PFM-O (Tuesday 7pm - Thursday 7pm). Here are the details:

Contribute as a $50 HARVEST HERO to receive:
(collect PFM tote bags at Manager's Tent on 12/11 or 12/18)

Contribute as a WINTER WARRIOR to receive:
(collect items at Manager's Tent on 12/11 or 12/18)

THANKS in advance if you're able to support us in this way - your collaboration helps make a year-round Pleasantville Farmers Market possible. Please note that because the Market is a 501 (c)(4) nonprofit organization, individual contributions are not tax deductible.

ANOTHER WAY TO GIVE: VOTE!

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.
Now the 2022 “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 to place your vote for a favorite farmers market in two categories: “Farmers Market” (listed as Best Farmers Market (#34) and Best Produce (#62). Then explore the other 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!

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO

Pleasantville Farmers Market remains committed to the health and safety of the whole community, including shoppers, vendors, volunteers, and staff.

Mask wearing for unvaccinated shoppers (including children ages 3 - 12) is required, and all shoppers are requested to maintain physical distancing in the marketplace.

Avoid the Market if you're 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

Dancing Spirits Herbs will make their December visit with stocking stuffers such as their unique vinegars, balms, salves and lip balms (which are all on sale).

Little Croc Bakehouse is in with items produced in their dedicated GF kitchen. Items this week include crusty rustic bread loaves, sweet loaf breads and muffins, whoopie pies, donuts, quiche and more.

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. Grown in unheated high tunnels and sweetened by frosts, Maple View's mesclun features a mix of lesser known but really tasty greens such as miners lettuce, tatsoi, mustard greens, cress and lettuces.

Kriemhild Dairy Farms will be in with dairy products from their grass-fed herd, including butter, flavored butters, creme fraiche, milk, chocolate milk, and real buttermilk with live cultures. They also have sourced peer producer Family Farmstead Dairy for quarts of delicious egg nog (grass fed, organic, and high in A2 beta-casein).

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 Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Riesling 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 a light dessert or a cheese course.

Wildcraft Farms will be in with their heirloom varieties of corn for popping, cornmeal, corn flour, and varieties of oats, rye and wheat, all grown using regenerative agriculture methods. Stuff a stocking with 1lb of popcorn for a surprise.

Stock up on Edgwick Farm cheese! They will be absent until January 22nd so that they can deliver over 100 baby goats and start up production at their dairy goat farm. Keep an eye on their Facebook and Instagram pages for baby goat photos.

This week Spice Revolution is featuring their Spice Duo gift sets. More than a dozen different combos to choose from. Each set contains two tins of spice and a wooden spoon, gift packaged in a compostable plant based package.

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

in PFM-O Bobolink Dairy & Bakehouse has created several gift baskets as samplers of their delicious cheeses and breads. Prices range from $35.00 to $194.50. For more details look into PFM-O tonight.

Conant Valley Jams has great stocking stuffers for Christmas and hostess gifts for New Year's Eve parties! They also will have a new Anjou Pear Jam which has a slightly more aromatic quality than the Bosc Jam.

Mead Orchards has crisp apples, rich squash and more for your holiday menu - check out all their items in PFM-O.

Kiernan Farm is highlighting this week their Beef Sirloin Roasts (avg, 3.5 - 4.0 lbs) at $13.00/lbs (reg. $16.50/lb) - note that these make a really nice holiday roast beef. Kiernan has also have discounted their Pork Chops (two in a pack) to to $13.00/lb (reg. $14.75/lb). And buy five one pound packages at $11.75/lb get $10.00 off the total.

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.

Red Barn Bakery and Strudel House and Dutch Desserts are all in to provide baked goods for the holiday.

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 the Pleasantville Chamber of Commerce.