Sweet Summer

Our season is at a crossroads at the Pleasantville Farmers Market. Treats like blueberries are still available. A summer’s worth of sun has brought us peaches, nectarines, melons and sweet corn. Yet the first glimpse of fall has arrived in early varieties of apples and pears. Nevertheless, summer remains the star of the show this week with the tomato harvest at peak. Try to fit in some slow meals between preparing children for school, and unpacking from recent trips. The meals you make now will provide tasty memories when you look back later in fall.

What Vendors Are In This Saturday?
To review vendors attending this Saturday, and where they’re located in the marketplace, view our interactive Map of the Market.

Where To Park?
Get to know the “hidden parking lots of Pville”. There are 7 parking lots within a few blocks of the Market. Review them all by clicking here to view a parking map.

This week’s Phelps Health Tip:
Fruit Of The Week: Tomatoes
“The fruit of the week (yes, it’s a fruit) is the TOMATO. 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.”

Tomatoey Tips
For those who want a homemade sauce, but aren’t at home to make one this week, consider that Mead Orchards produces a great sauce from their own tomatoes. Trotta Foods also creates their Filleto de Pomodoro sauce with Market plum tomatoes, fresh whole leaf basil and garlic -- all sourced from Market farms. Ed Trotta hopes you’ll think of his fresh mozzarella at this time of year, but Nina White of Bobolink Dairy & Bakehouse also believes that aged cheeses go wonderfully with tomatoes. To make her case Nina points out that Bobolink’s Drumm and Jean-Louis cheeses, with fresh tomato, create one heck of a grilled cheese-- especially if made on their Garlic Rye Levain. Also watch for their ciabattas with black plum tomatoes. Of course all these ideas really seem top tomato to us.

Eating By The Season: Tomatoes
The Valley Table Magazine posted a nice article on tomatoes by writer Robin Cherry which you can view by clicking here.

Annual Customer Survey Almost Closed
The Pleasantville Farmers Market also values customer input. If you haven’t done so yet please take a moment now and help make your market better by participating in our annual survey (participants are eligible for a prize drawing of Market Bucks and Market t-shirts!) or fill one out at the Market (near Manager’s Tent).

Bobolink Dairy & Bakehouse Staffing
Shoppers, or their older teenage children, can email info@pleasantvillefarmersmarket.org to share interest in working at the Market with vendors. We do get asked if we know hard working individuals who are local, and who would like to work at the Market with vendors. Bobolink Dairy & Bakehouse could use some help, so if the opportunity is of interest, send along an email which will be forwarded.

Dancing Spirits Herbs Is In Saturday
Summer is upon us, and Dancing Spirits Herbs will be in with their Poison Ivy Solution just in time. They’ll also have Clare’s Salve and their unique culinary vinegars. Review their new website at http://dancingspiritsherbs.myshopify.com/.

Summer Berry Lemonade and Apples
Wright’s Farm will blend their raspberries into fresh lemonade to create a super refreshing drink Saturday. They also will have fresh blackberries and just-picked Ginger Gold apples.

Cowberry Crossing Farm Notes
Cowberry reports that they’ll have amazing tomatoes (sun gold cherries, heirlooms, and slicers) but also fresh green beans, fingerling and new potatoes, as well as a new batch of grass fed/grass finished beef so there are many cuts available this week.

PROGRAMMING FOR
THIS SATURDAY, AUGUST 22:

Kids: 9:30am - 11:00am
Making Yogurt Parfaits With The Wobble Cafe
Using fresh ingredients from the Market, and assistance from the Wobble Cafe, kids create their own scrumptious, fruit layered, yogurt parfait this Saturday!

Tomato Tasting: 9:30am - 12:00pm
At the Culinary Tent (at the north end of the Market) stop by to taste samples of many varieties of tomatoes, including Cherokee Purple, Polish Plum, Striped German, Speckled Roman, Valencia and more. Samples will be organized with name and farm source so shoppers can easily seek them out. Discover which one(s) are your favorite! Tomatoes for this event have been generously donated by participating farms.

Music @ The Market: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Singer/Songwriter Melissa Frabotta
Welcome back singer/songwriter and guitarist Melissa Frabotta. A Yorktown Heights native and SUNY Purchase conservatory student, Melissa has performed her songs from here to Greenwich Village, and will be performing mesmerizing takes on popular tunes as well as originals from her debut CD, “Kites and Clouds.” She is in the process of recording an EP of new material this fall so be sure to sign up for her mailing list too.

SPECIAL PREREGISTRATION
THIS SATURDAY
FOR 2nd KNIFE SKILLS WORKSHOP ON AUGUST 29

Knife Skills From Those Who Know:
Zwilling J.A. Henckels
Next Saturday, August 29, new Market Business Supporter Zwilling J.A. Henckels will offer a morning of free knife skills workshops. Taught by Resident Chef & Culinary Program Manager Bernard Janssen, each workshop will help participants learn proper technique for the most important knives, including the professional way to hold and use a chef’s knife. Preregistration is required for these 45 minute workshops (which will begin at 9am, 10:15am and 11:30am). Up to 12 participants will be accepted for each workshop.

To sign up (or learn more) stop by the Manager’s Tent at the north end of the Market throughout Saturday’s market.