This Saturday: Food Donation Day!

Food Donation Day This Saturday
In conjunction with the National Farmers Market Coalition's National Farmers Market Week, and the Farmers Market Federation of NY's statewide "Give Back NY" event, the Market is holding a Food Donation Day this Saturday. Buy extra items of bread, fruit or produce Saturday and tell your server you want them donated. Or you can use Pleasantville Farmers Market Online (PFM-O) to make a cash donation to Food Donation Day, which our event partner the Pleasantville Community Garden will use to purchase items Saturday for donation. All donations assist individuals in our region that are food insecure. Food pantries/food donation sites used to accomplish this are Hillside Food Outreach, Neighbors Link, and The Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry. To use PFM-O to donate click here and look for the Food Donation Day as a featured item. (If you're a first time user of Pleasantville Farmers Market Online (PFM-O) you'll be asked to register before beginning). PFM-O stays open until Thursday 2:00pm.

Please participate Saturday with your food or cash donations to help all these organizations in addressing this meaningful cause!

Who's In This Week?
View our Map of the Market to see where vendors visiting this Saturday will be located in the marketplace.

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

• Demi Olive Oil
• Forward Roots
• Kriemhild Dairy Farms
• North Winds Lavender Farm
• Red Barn Bakery
• Warwick Valley Winery

Vendors Who Are On Pause:
Break Bread Not Hearts, Brooklyn Biscuit Company, Dancing Sprits Herbs, and Head & Heal CBD.

Hours?
The Market is open Saturday from 8:30am to 1:00pm at Memorial Plaza.

Phelps Health Tip:
Lead Sponsor Phelps Hospital Northwell Health shares the following: "Health experts have emphasized the significance of reducing sodium and increasing potassium levels in the US diet. Sodium intake can be lowered by avoiding processed foods, and by eating more fresh produce. Potassium occurs naturally in items like fresh beets and beet greens, Swiss chard, kohlrabi, mushrooms, radishes and spinach".

Free 2020 Census Shopping Bags ARE In!
We got them out late last Saturday but are on our game for this week. Get your reusable 2020 Census shopping bag as you enter our main entrance Saturday. Then, after toting home your fresh food, if you've not already done so please fill out the census. How's our Village doing? Only 72.7% of residents have filled out the census to date.
UPDATE: Westchester County has been notified that the U.S. Census Bureau will be halting Census 2020 efforts one month early, with operations concluding on September 30. With the new timeframe restrictions in place, it is more important now than ever that all Westchester County families fill out their Census forms.

PFM-O: What's New?

• Demi Olive Oil: this week only, in PFM-O, you can get a 500ml bottle of Demi Olive Oil for $19.50 - 15% off (reg. $23.00). Inventory is only 20 bottles so first come, first served!
• Wright’s Farm: mixed heirloom tomatoes, and their first fresh apple of the year: Ginger Gold. They’re also highlighting they have tons of blackberries.
• Mead Orchards: Sungold cherry and larger New Girl tomatoes, donut and yellow peaches, and their first fresh apple of the season: Pristine apples.
• Pura Vida Fisheries: two new additions to their online store: Black sea bass and cod.
• Prepared Foods: a number of new items are in including Ice Cold Gazpacho and Mexican Street Corn by Pika’s Farm Table. And Red Barn Bakery has large savory tarts (Organic Kale Tomato Goat Cheese and Organic Mushroom Onion Goat Cheese), and Organic Large Pie (use a drop down to select from four flavors).
• Lastly, if you’ve arrived too late for fresh mozzarella at Trotta Foods use PFM-O to reserve some today.

Explore Pleasantville Farmers Market Online (PFM-O) as a way to enjoy contactless shopping, to reserve items to avoid the morning rush, and to enable your Market visit to be brief.

If you are a first time user of PFM-O please register by CLICKING HERE. Then use the same link to login and preorder from participating vendors - you can place orders today until 2:00pm (PFM-O is open each week between Tuesday, 7:00pm and Thursday, 2:00pm).

PFM-O is also a great way to further support your producers. By preordering items and skipping the line at our busiest vendors you can help reduce the length of vendors' walk up lines (to their relief!) and provide them needed revenue during a challenging year.

Which walk up lines can you skip by preordering this week?

• Campanelli's Poultry Farm
• Mead Orchards
• Morgiewicz Produce
• Orwasher's Bakery
• Pickle Licious
• Pura Vida Fisheries
• Teagevity/BeanLuv
• Woven Stars Farm
• Wright's Farm
• Yellow Bell Farm

You can also preorder from these additional, participating vendors who generally have short or no lines:

• Demi Olive Oil
• Chaseholm Farm Creamery
• Dutch Desserts
• Forward Roots
• Hudson River Apiaries
• Kriemhild Dairy Farms
• Peanut Principle
• Pika's Farm Table
• Red Barn Bakery
• Rock City Mushrooms
• Spice Revolution
• Trotta Foods

How to pick up preordered items?

• Items ordered on PFM-O are collected at vendor’s tents.
• All participating vendors have a sign saying “Preorder From Me Online”.
• In front of vendors that typically lack significant lines "Walk Up Service & Preorder Pick Up" is painted on the pavement. PFM-O shoppers wait briefly with other walk up shoppers to collect their items from these vendors.
• Vendors having dedicated, sizeable walk up lines display a “Pick Up Preorders Here” sign above a yellow "Preorder Pick Up" box painted on the pavement - at these vendors you can skip the walk up line. Step in the box, then step away quickly after receiving your preorder.

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:

Demi Olive Oil
Demi Olive Oil is in this week with their great EVOO. And in PFM-O (this week only) you can get a 500ml bottle of Demi Olive Oil for $19.50 - 15% off (reg. $23.00). Inventory is only 20 bottles so first come, first served! (Shop their items until Thursday 2:00pm in PFM-O).

Woven Stars Farm
Woven Stars Farm is highlighting their chicken wings this week. They made some in their own kitchen recently, coated with a honey barbecue sauce topped with cilantro - YUM! (Shop their items until Thursday 2:00pm in PFM-O)..

Forward Roots
Forward Roots is visiting with their small batch, naturally fermented kimchi sauces in original and vegan varieties. This staple of Korean cuisine, known for its tangy & sour fermented flavors, will have you consuming more vegetables, as well as plenty of natural prebiotics and probiotics. (Shop their items until Thursday 2:00pm in PFM-O).

Kiernan Farm: SALE!
This week beef sirloin tip steaks are on a 50% off SALE, priced at $10.75/lb (reg. $21.50/lb). Buy 5 one pound packages at $10.75/lb, you'll get $10.00 off the total for your ground beef. And buy any three packages (mix or match) of sausage (Pork Chorizo, Cajun Andouille, Bratwurst Sausages) at $13.75/lb. and $14.24/lb and get $6.00 off the total.

North Winds Lavender
North Winds Lavender Farm offers potted and cut lavender and creates unique homemade lavender-filled products and culinary lavender items from lavender grown on the farm without the use of herbicides or pesticides.

Kriemhild Dairy Farms
Kriemhild Dairy Farms will be in on Saturday with their full product line including grass fed Meadow Butter, Cultured Buttermilk, and Creme Fraiche. (Shop their items until Thursday 2:00pm in PFM-O).

Warwick Valley Winery
Will make their visit for August this week - stock up on their wines, hard ciders and distilled items.

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.