Playing Around with Winter Menus!

Don't shy away from getting creative with your winter menu. The apparent constraint of cooking with seasonally available ingredients opens a door on how individuals, and cultures have approached the same opportunity. And of course, the opportunity has always been for a delicious meal.

Case in point, food journalist and author Mark Bittman's West African Peanut Soup with Chicken uses items mostly available now at the Pleasantville Farmers Market. With kale*, garlic, onions and sweet potatoes from Gajeski Produce, chicken from Hilly Acres Farm, SOVA Farm** or Woven Stars Farm**, cayenne, salt and pepper from Spice Revolution, and a jar of peanut or nut butter from Peanut Principle, you're set to produce a hearty, healthy and fun winter dish.

• (*Maple View Farm returns on 3/4 and has collards and (frozen) summer tomatoes that are also ideal for this dish)
• (**broth used in the dish can be sourced from SOVA Farm or Woven Stars Farm)

FINAL ROUND OF WESTCHESTER MAGAZINE'S BEST OF WESTCHESTER IS OPEN!

TO BEGIN VOTING
CLICK HERE!

Love the Market? You can cast Final Elimination Round votes for Pleasantville Farmers Market in two categories: Best Farmers Market and Best Produce!

Celebrate the shoppers, producers and volunteers that enable the Pleasantville Farmers Market to succeed as the largest weekly, year round, fully inspected farmers market in the region -- and the only one offering all products for online preorder with a single, convenient click to pay. How to place your votes?

1. Use the “CLICK HERE” link above.
2. You’ll be asked to register.
3. Of twelve Reader's Ballots, you'll start in "Food: Shops" where you can vote for the Market as Best Farmers Market, and Best Produce.
4. Then explore other ballots to vote for additional local businesses too. Pleasantville has many businesses in this round! Note: you only get to cast votes once, and participation requires filling out at least five categories.

When recognized as the Best, the Market benefits from increased visibility and visitation, which supports your favorite farmers and food artisans -- and helps us to know Pleasantville's volunteer-driven, community-based approach is working for you. THANKS for taking a minute to vote for the Market and all the small businesses that have earned your loyalty!

IT'S 7:00pm TUESDAY:
PFM-O IS NOW OPEN!

To begin shopping with Pleasantville Farmers Market Online CLICK HERE.

Preorders can be made Tuesday 7pm - Thursday 7pm. PFM-O is easy, quick, and convenient -- a perfect match for winter shopping!

MAKE A FOOD DONATION
WITH PFM-O THIS WEEK!

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

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.
In addition to Weekly vendors the following Rotation vendors will also be in this Saturday:

• Chaseholm Farm Creamery
• Cooper’s Daughter Spirits
• Kriemhild Dairy Farms
• Noble Pies
• Strudel House
• Whitecliff Vineyards

Lead Sponsor Northwell Health Tip:
February is American Heart Month, highlighting cardiovascular health. Where do sweet potatoes fit in? Eating potassium-rich sweet potatoes helps promote a healthy heart. Higher potassium intake allows you to excrete more sodium, lower your blood pressure, and reduce your risk for heart disease according to the American Heart Association. Brought to you by Northern Westchester and Phelps, your local Northwell hospitals.

VENDOR HIGHLIGHTS

As we celebrate Black History Month it's pretty cool to see our own Preston Powell, aka founder of Teagevity, aka the "retired music professional and martial artist now in the tea business" featured in this CBS2 spot! As Preston says, "Don't buy tea from strangers." See him and his excellent teas every Saturday at the Market!

Mead Orchards has plenty of apples and fresh apple cider. Their apples are kept in controlled atmosphere storage so varieties can stay crisp well into the spring. This week: Macoun apples are back in PFMO -- they were just taken out of storage and they’re excellent -- as crisp and tasty as in October.

Turnabout! Certifed Organic Chaseholm Farm Creamery is back as a weekly vendor for this month. They're highlighting that their Red Beard is back too (smear ripened cheese washed with hard apple cider).

Gajeski Produce has fresh spinach, kale, lettuce greens, leeks, roots veggies, onions, shallots and more. (With Maple View Farm out until 3/4, Gajeski is the one to source for veggies in February).

This week Bobolink Dairy & Bakehouse will offer their cheeses in PFMO and at the Market, but not breads (due to work being done on their wood-fired oven).

This week Spice Revolution is featuring a 25% OFF SALE on their Blackened Cajun spice, in all sizes to celebrate Mardi Gras! The perfect seasoning for fish, chicken, beans, lentils, stews, mushrooms, potatoes, pork, beef and root vegetables. Easy to find in PFMO -- preorder some tonight.

Kriemhild Dairy Farms will be in with their full line of premium, Organic, grass-fed dairy products, including butter, flavored butters, creme fraiche, milk, chocolate milk, and real buttermilk with live cultures. They ask that shoppers preorder to help the farmer know what to pack!

Edgwick Farm is sharing that they've made up one of our favorite goat's milk cheese pairings: Maple Chipotle Canterbury.

Pie? Noble Pies is back this week with their line of sweet and savory options.

Margery of Conant Valley Jams is having some fun with President's Day weekend by highlighting her Cherry & Merlot Jam. Certainly suggesting George Washington should not have cut down that cherry tree.

Warm up while shopping. Enjoy a Knot of This World Pretzel from their grill, a SOVA Farm grilled chicken sausage sandwich, or a hot cup of tea or coffee from Teagevity.

Cooper's Daughter Spirits will be in with their Black Walnut Bourbon, a one-of-a-kind bourbon, aged in a cask used to hold black walnut syrup tapped from trees on the farm.

Hudson Valley Duck Farm brings to market rendered duck fat. With a higher smoke point, and a rich complex flavor, duck fat is considered essential in many cuisines. Hudson Valley Duck offers a 16 oz. container and a new 7 oz. one. Here's an article from 2016 on just this topic.

Out of Whitecliff Vineyards wines? You can stock up this Saturday!

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO

Winter Hours: 9:30am - 12:00pm

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. 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).

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. And THANKS to a generous grant from our local hospitals, Phelps Hospital and Northern Westchester Hospital, both part of the Market's Lead Sponsor Northwell Health, 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:

Pace Wellbeing Fair
Last week Pleasantville Farmers Market was present to support Pace University’s first Wellbeing Fair, meant to spread the word about the University’s wellness initiative to benefit students, faculty, and staff. Marvin Krislov, President of the university also signed the Okanagan Charter, an international charter for health promoting universities and colleges. It was great to celebrate among over 40 groups (including our Lead Sponsor Phelps Hospital) the ways we’re all seeking to contribute to various aspects of wellness in our local community.

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.