A 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 and food artisans 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 Pleasantville Farmers Market as a forum so area residents and our producers can come together. This Saturday, whether you are shopping for Christmas or Hanukkah, our producers have great ingredients and gift items for everyone. We truly wish you and yours a fine holiday season -- especially at mealtimes!

PFM-O: BRISK SERVICE FOR ANY WEATHER

Preorder to get in and out quickly!
Our winter market, and Pleasantville Farmers Market Online (PFM-O), are designed to ease winter shopping outdoors - whatever the weather. Many vendors do make a selection of their items available for walk up service, but if you preorder you'll get in and out quickly, and ensure you get what you're seeking. So PFM-O benefits include:

• Get what you want! Don’t worry about items selling out! Keep your gloves on!
• Quick and easy pickup. No standing on long lines.
• Pay in advance with one click, no matter how many vendors you preorder from.
• Prices are the same online as in the Market.

MARKET IS CLOSED 12/24/22 & OPEN 12/31/22

Plan ahead to have frozen dinners from Trotta Foods or Pika's Farm Table, plenty of proteins from our many producers, root veggies and hearty greens from Gajeski Produce or Maple View Farms, enough crisp apples from Mead Orchards and anything else you will desire while we are closed on 12/24. Our producers will fit a bit of rest in after our 12/17 market, with the next market being on 12/31.

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 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
WHO'S IN THIS WEEK?

Visit Pleasantville Farmers Market Online to preorder, Tuesday 7pm - Thursday 7pm. It's easy, quick, and convenient -- a perfect match for winter shopping!

View our Map of the Market to see where all returning and new vendors visiting this Saturday will be located in the marketplace, which is REVISED for winter.
In addition to Weekly vendors the following Rotation vendors will also be in this Saturday:

• Cooper’s Daughter Spirits
  
• Alpacatrax
• Dancing Spirits Herbs
• Hodgin’s Harvest
• Kriemhild Dairy Farms
• Noble Pies
• Strudel House
• Whitecliff Vineyards

Note: These Rotation vendors are in weekly through December 17:

• Chaseholm Farm Creamery
• Conant Valley Jams
• Demi Olive Oil
• Red Barn Bakery

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".

HARVEST HEROES & WINTER WARRIORS:
THANKS!

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

Contribute as a $50 HARVEST HERO to receive:

• Two orange PFM reusable bags
• No PFM-O service fees, December – March ($48 value)

Contribute as a $100 WINTER WARRIOR to receive:

• Choice of sweet PFM swag!
• No PFM-O service fees, December – March ($48 value)

THANKS in advance if you're able to support us in this way. Please note that because the Market is a 501 (c)(4) nonprofit organization, individual contributions are not tax deductible.

ANOTHER WAY TO GIVE: VOTE for PFM in the BOW!

As a community-based service, we’re proud to have been awarded the honor of “Best of Westchester” in recent years by voters in Westchester Magazine’s annual contest. This feedback is an indication that we’re fulfilling our mission to our community, farmers and food artisans. And the attention it garners attracts new shoppers to the Market, which benefits our producers.
Now the 2023 “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 will take you to a Reader's Ballot where you can place your vote for a favorite Farmers' Market, and a favorite venue to purchase Best Produce. Then explore the other entries and categories highlighting many great county-based businesses.

The format to vote is new this year, with some added steps. Please stick with it to get your votes in, thanks for participating, and thanks for considering Pleasantville Farmers Market in your voting!

VENDOR HIGHLIGHTS

Warm up at the Market with a hot sausage sandwich from SOVA Farm, a cup of hot broth from Woven Stars Farm or SOVA Farm, a great cup of coffee or tea from Teagevity, and a warm Knot of This World Pretzel or waffle from Pika's Farm Table.

Dancing Spirits Herbs will visit with stocking stuffers such as their unique vinegars, balms, salves and lip balms. This week all vinegars are $12 (reg. $15). Stock up as Clare's next visit is in March!

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.

Got your holiday turkey or ham yet? New weekly vendor Hilly Acres Farm has beef, poultry, pork, lamb, eggs, and turkeys for the holidays. Turkeys are $5.49/lb, weigh 12 - 15 lbs, and are frozen (defrost in fridge, 1day for every 4lbs). They also have no nitrate smoked ham roasts available (boneless, range 3 - 5 lbs). Preorder to ensure you get your turkey or ham this week!

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

Woven Stars Farm has partnered with Chef Jack Peele of Jacuterie to craft dry cured salamis using blends of spices, herbs and Woven's excellent pork. Two flavors to start: a spicy Spanish inspired salami (seasoned with smoky paprika, garlic and red wine), and a floral French inspired salami (seasoned using thyme, basil, rosemary, tarragon, savory, marjoram, oregano, bay leaf, white pepper and garlic). Woven also has a fresh batch of their frozen bone broth in quarts, and they'll be offering hot cups for sale of their broth at the Market too!

Whitecliff Vineyard will be in and they're highlighting two special items in their PFM-O store for the holidays. First, 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.

Edgwick Farm will visit this Saturday, and on 12/31, to finish out their 2022 season (before a January "break" to kid over 100 baby goats). They have hard goat cheeses, some popular soft goat cheese options, and a limited stock of holiday sweet cheeseballs this week.

Hodgin’s Harvest is making a special visit for the holiday with oyster and Lion's Mane varieties of mushrooms, mushroom tinctures, and several types of Grow Kits so you can produce Organic mushrooms at home -- pretty unique gift idea!

Chaseholm Farm Creamery has two new items: Red Beard, a smear ripened cheese washed with hard apple cider. And they're now sourcing Jake's Aged Gouda from NY to sell a Dutch Style Gouda -- sweet, nutty and full of lactate crystals.

Spice Revolution is featuring their Holiday Spice Bundle gift sets. Each set contains two spice blends and a wooden spice scoop. Perfect little gift or stocking stuffer. Choose from sets of refill pouches or small glass jars. Packaged in a compostable gift bag ready to be gifted. Check out all the options in PFM-O tonight!

Gajeski Produce will have items for walk up shoppers (selection will vary depending on cold temps) and all their items are in PFMO including fresh herbs, stored squash, potatoes, roots veggies, fresh scallions, leeks, greens, lettuce mixes, and more.

in PFM-O Bobolink Dairy & Bakehouse has created several gift baskets as samplers of their delicious cheeses and breads. Prices range from $38.00 to $199.50. Have a look to see if a gift basket is your solution for a cheese lover this year such as their Small, Family, or Chef Sampler. For more details look into PFM-O tonight.

Conant Valley Jams will have the first marmalade of this winter season, Meyer Lemon & Key Lime. This is a great hors d'oeuvre paired with a soft chevre or as part of a main course for Christmas or New Year's dinner (Conant will have a recipe to share for Chile Marmalade Duck at their stand on Saturday). And all of Conant's jams are great for last minute stocking stuffers and Hannukah gifts.

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

Heads up from Teagevity, the holidays are a great time to stock up on their top three herbal fruit teas: Hibiscus Pineapple, Blood Orange & Hibiscus and/or Strawberry Fields.

Bombay Chutney Company will be in with gourmet Indian food that is healthy, vegan and fresh. Shop from delicious chutneys, samosas, soups and simmer sauces to had some spice to this week's menu.

Cooper's Daughter Spirits will be in. They're highlighting their Cooper's Daughter Black Walnut Bourbon. A one of a kind bourbon for your bourbon loving friends and family, which is aged in a cask used to hold black walnut syrup tapped from trees on the farm. 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 Noble Pies are all in to provide baked goods for the holiday. Also, choose your loaves and sweet treats from Orwasher's Bakery or Bien Cuit -- each will have a selection of items for walk up shoppers, and an even wider selection of their artisanal items in PFM-O for preorder.

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO

Metered Parking in Plaza lot:
The Village of Pleasantville's Memorial Plaza parking lot requires payment on Saturdays. The Village's Pango smartphone app and two pay stations are available to make payment for Plaza lot parking and metered street side spaces. Have your license plate number when making payment. For the most convenient way to pay, download the free Pango app today and follow the prompts to set up an account and method of payment. If you prefer free parking get to know the "hidden parking lots of P'ville" (6 out of 9 lots are free) by clicking here.

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).

Market Bucks:
Any Market Bucks you have from our spring/summer/fall season can be used throughout the winter with any vendor. We do pause providing new Market Bucks until April when our Manager's Tent returns. Note: vendors take credit cards for purchases and accept cash of course -- easiest of all, avoid payment at the Market by preordering.

Using SNAP at the Market:
The Pleasantville Farmers Market welcomes shoppers using SNAP EBT. To use SNAP benefits during winter locate the Market Manager who will help you redeem your benefits as tokens. THANKS to a generous grant from Market Sponsor The Pleasantville Lions Club, you'll receive 40% more value as "Bonus Bucks", enhancing your ability to purchase nutritious, farm fresh foods for you and your family.

IN THE COMMUNITY:

Village Gas Powered Trade In & Electric Purchase Rebate Program:
This Saturday, 9am - 12pm
Department of Public Works, 1 Village Lane, P'ville
Thanks to a $5k NYS grant the Village of Pleasantville received (due to the hard work of the Climate Smart Community Committee and the Village), Village residents may be assisted in purchasing electric snow blowers, lawn mowers or leaf blowers as of December 1, 2022. Save your receipts! THIS SATURDAY, turn in your old gas clunkers between 9am - 12pm and receive a rebate for new electric equipment, or arrive to learn about rebates for first time buyers. Rebates are first come, first served, while funds last. Limit of one snow blower, lawn mower or leaf blower per household. Email receipts and.or any questions to climatesmart@pleasantville-ny.gov.

Shop Local:
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. Check out the Pleasantville Chamber of Commerce website for a full member directory, an event calendar, and a feature to help find parking spots when visiting.