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Tarrytown Farmers' Market Plans to Open 2011 Season on Memorial Day Weekend
Two new vendors have signed on for the 2011 Tarrytown Farmers' Market season: Feather Ridge Farms (super brown eggs and chickens) and Raaka Chocolate (gourmet chocolate bars).
On Sunday, May 28, the Tarrytown Farmers' Market will begin its 12th year of operation. The market will be open every Saturday at Patriots Park from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Two new vendors have signed on for the 2011 Tarrytown Farmers' Market season: Feather Ridge Farms and Raaka Chocolate.
Feather Ridge Farms provides "Omega 3" brown eggs and roasting chickens. Its owners, the Bogdanffy family, have raised chickens since 1938 when the farm was started in Elizaville, located in Columbia County, NY.
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Each Feather Ridge Farms egg contains 350 mg of Omega 3 and is said to provide six times more vitamin E than an ordinary egg. Its hens are fed flaxseed and alfalfa and the eggs they lay are hand-gathered from nests, washed, graded and packaged in biodegradable pulp containers. No antibiotics or hormones are involved.
Raaka Chocolate, located in New York, NY, does not make its gourmet chocolate bars by roasting cocoa beans. Instead a low-temperature bean-to-chocolate manufacturing process is used, developed by owner Ryan Cheney.
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The Raaka Chocolate bars come in the following four flavors: dark with sea salt (70% cacao), blueberry lavender (67% cacao), hazelnut (67% cacao) and vanilla Rooibos (66% cacao and green Rooibos tea). The cocoa beans used by Raaka are supplied by the Conacado Cooperative, an organization of small farmers in the Dominican Republic, formed to improve wages and protect farmers from fluctuations in global cocoa prices.
Many of the food products to be sold at the Tarrytown Farmers' Market and other farmers' markets in Rockland and Westchester Counties this coming season were on display and available for sampling by the press at the celebration of the 20th anniversary of Community Markets, the network's organizer. The festivities took place on April 4 at Community Markets' newly opened headquarters in Ossining.
A list of vendors returning to the Tarrytown Farmers' Market from last season follows:
Amazing Real Live Food Company Pine Plains, NY Cheese, Dairy Products, Yogurt Benmarl Winery Marlboro, NY Wine Bread Alone Boiceville, NY Artisinal Bread Bread AloneBoiceville, NY
Pastry
Gajeski Produce
Riverhead, NY
Cut Flowers, Herbs, Vegetables
Meredith's Bread
Kingston, NY
Baked Goods, Jam, Pastry, Pies, Quiche
Pickle Licious Teaneck, NJ Pickles Pika's Farm Table Big Indian, NY Prepared Foods, Salsa, Soup Orchards of Concklin Pomona, NY Baked Goods, Fruit, Pies, Quiche Tierra Farm Valatie, NY Specialty Foods
Community Markets was founded by Miriam Hass in Ossining in 1991 to bring fresh produce to local neighborhoods after she became disillusioned by the wilted greens at a local grocery.
Only farmers, growers or producers and their family members or employees are permitted to sell at the farmers' markets. Middlemen, brokers or resellers are excluded. Crafts, jewelry and clothing vendors are not accepted for participation.
Other farmers' markets managed by Community Markets serve the Westchester County communities of Croton-on-Hudson, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Mount Kisco, New Rochelle, Ossining, Pelham, Pleasantville and Rye, the Rockland County communities of Piermont and Spring Valley and all New York City boroughs except Staten Island.
Potential vendors that meet the eligibility requirements can contact Community Markets, 173 Main Street, Ossining, NY, 9124-923-4837. www.communitymarkets.biz
