Springing Ahead

Winter and taxes are behind us. Spring seems believable now, as does gardening, grilling, and moving the Market outdoors late May. The talk of the town this week is Harper Keehn Knife Sharpening, making the first of two visits on Saturday. Shoppers can look forward to the Pleasantville Farmers Market at the Pleasantville Middle School through May 9. The following Saturday May 16 the Market is closed to prepare for opening outdoors on May 23. Each week now the Market will help you spring ahead with flowers, herbs, early radishes, fresh greens, meats to grill and more.

Who’s in this week?
Rotation Vendors are specifically listed in the left column of this newsletter. Look to our Map of the Market to see all vendors in this Saturday.

Spring Daffodil Sale
Shawangunk Growers states this is the time to get neat daffodils at a neat price. 6” pots are $7 each, or buy three pots for $20. Delightful mini-daffodils in 4” pots are $4 each, or buy three pots for $10. All daffodils are deer resistant, and Shawangunk has many unique varieties to choose from.

Simply Planted Greenhouses is also in with beautiful combinations of frost tolerant annuals. Just try and pass up their pansies! They have plantings in decorative baskets for the dining room table, Drop and Grow planters with annuals ready to be set into flower beds or containers, and 10” hanging baskets with Bacopa and trailing petunias.

Your Knives Waited All Winter For This
Harper Keehn Knife Sharpening will return this Saturday and April 25. Knives will be sharpened at the Market and can be shipped back to you by mail as well.

Flavorful Topics
Spice revolution will have vintage merlot sea salt, hickory smoked sea salt, a new Thai ginger sea salt and they’ll also have black garlic. Pickle Licious is highlighting their Hot & Spicy Pickles with a $1 OFF any container sale. And as another sign of spring, Trotta Foods has made their goat cheese and spring pea ravioli - featuring new vendor Ardith Mae Farmstead’s goat cheese.

Rootin’ For Non-Gluten
Spoonful of Sugar Bake Shop will be in with some new items including Pecan Raisin Babka (gluten & dairy free), donut holes filled with fresh lemon curd then topped with coconut (gluten & dairy free), and pizzelle sandwich cookies. These cookies are made of a chocolate and vanilla pizzelle with a dark chocolate and marshmallow filling - kind of like Italian S’Mores. Even more alarming: these irresistible pizzelle sandwich cookies will be on SALE at 25% OFF!

MORE Rootin’ For Non-Gluten
For diehard fans of Healing Home Foods this is the week you have been waiting for. Healing Home Foods is back Saturday with all their delicious, gluten-free granolas and snack options. Time to restock the pantry.

Phelps Health Tip: Tomatoes
“The fruit of the week (yes, it is a fruit) is TOMATOES! Tomatoes are a great source for vitamins A, C and K and potassium. Research shows that more consumption of tomato products leads to a lower incidence of prostate cancer.” Are they in season?! Ask Mead Orchards...

Mead Orchards Tomato Sauce IS In Season
Yup, you can get all that tomatoey nutrition and goodness thanks to Mead Orchards having planned ahead last summer. Whether baked with Pura Vida fish and capers, or with Trotta Foods pasta and mozzarella, Mead Orchards tomato sauce offers a way to add some flavor to your early spring menu.

Get Prepared
Need a couple lazy nights in the kitchen: get PREPARED at the Market. You can rest your feet, and leave the apron on the hook, thanks to the many clever delights created by vendors with prepared food options. Two rotating vendors this week with prepared foods are Stefan’s Pure Blends (Polish items such as kielbasa, stuffed cabbage, and pierogis) and Bombay Emerald Chutney Company with their homemade vegetarian roti rolls. Looking for something new? All You Knead Artisan Bakers now carries homemade dumplings (veggie or pork scallion). Line up early as supplies are limited.

Business Supporters Program
Fundraising provides an important contribution to the Market’s operating funds, ensuring it can continue to showcase a diverse and unique selection of farm fresh, regional products for Village residents. Support of the Market by area businesses is gratefully acknowledged through our Business Supporter Program. Supporters are listed on our Kiosk at the Market, and on our website with live links. Please visit the Supporters page to see our current Business Supporters, consider supporting them with your patronage, and use the email link there to send a message if you would like to have your business join this program as well.