What’s Happening at This Week’s Orange County HomeGrown Orleans Farmers Market
The Orange County HomeGrown Farmers Market is located on the west side of the beautiful historic Congress Square Park in Orleans, Indiana and takes place each Saturday from 8:00 a.m. until noon. During the month of October, our hours change to 9:00 a.m. to noon. Please support your local growers, bakers, artists and handcrafters by shopping at the Orange County HomeGrown Farmers Market. Bring your friends and family! Last week, we surveyed our wonderful vendors. Here’s what they expect to have at the Orange County HomeGrown on Saturday, October 20th, 2007:
From the Farm: apples, basil, beets, chili peppers, decorative corn, eggs, eggplant, field corn, flowers, gourds, herbs, sweet peppers, persimmon pulp, plants, potatoes, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, green tomatoes, winter squash, sorghum
From the Kitchen: bagels, biscotti , brownies, cake, candy, caramel corn, cookies, fudge, granola, pickles, persimmon pudding, peanut brittle, pies, quick breads, scones, salt rising bread, yeast bread, yeast rolls, jams, jellies, doggie treats, barbecue sauce, fried pies, sugar free pies, salsa, relish
Art and Crafts: baskets, bird houses, crochet, fresh flower arrangements, jewelry, leather goods, photographs, purses, rustic furniture, rugs, soaps, stationary, soft goods, hand sewn items, quilts, baskets, dolls, cutting boards, painted glass containers, aprons
Services & Other Goods: hand creams, French Lick History by local author Al Kalla
THIS WEEK’S EVENTS:
Congress Square Park will be the place to be this Saturday. The Town of Orleans is sponsoring a Fall Fun Fest in conjunction with our Farmers Market so there will be many things to do. The Farmers Market will have a Scarecrow Contest. Read below for the details. The Orange County Amateur Radio Club ARES will be at the Market as well. And, as always, our Farmers Market Jammers all decked out in their new t-shirts and hats will lift your spirits with their fun music. Bring your instrument and/or your singin’ voice and join in! The Orleans Town Chamber will host a variety of fun family activities all day in the park including an antique tractor display, an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast, a 5 K health walk, a 3 on 3 basketball tourney, a pumpkin decorating contest, an historic walking tour, a corn hole tourney, an apple pie baking contest, an ugly cart parade, kids’ activities, and more. Dunn Memorial Hospital will sponsor a one-mile walk with tee-shirts to be handed out to the first twenty participants. Dunn’s Health Express will be present for Total Cholesterol Glucose screenings as well as Blood Pressures, all free of charge. We encourage everyone to take advantage of the free screenings and walk a mile for your health. The Health Express will begin at 9:00 a.m. and end at noon, with the walk starting around 10:30 a.m. Water and fruit will also be handed out to walkers. There will even be a pet costume contest! The contest will include five categories: most original, prettiest, ugliest, funniest and most colorful. Registration begins at 10:30 in front of Kirk Veterinary Service, located on the south side of the park. The entry fee is $5.00 with all of the proceeds to benefit the Chamber’s Community Improvement Fund. The parade will get underway at 11:00 a.m. A professional photographer will be available to take pictures of your pet for a small fee.
SCARECROW CONTEST ON OCTOBER 20th! Each Saturday through October 20th, we’ll have our free Make-Your-Own Scarecrow area set up with straw, twine and scissors. All you need to do is bring some old clothes to stuff your scarecrow with. We’ll have local pumpkins available to buy too if you wish to have a head for your scarecrow. On the day of the contest, October 20th, make a scarecrow at the Make-Your-Own Scarecrow area or bring the scarecrow that you made earlier back to the Market. We’ll have a place set up to display all the scarecrows. Next to each scarecrow, we’ll place an empty mason jar. That morning we’ll give all of the vendors, volunteers, jammers and visitors one ticket each to use for voting. We’ll all get to look over the scarecrows and drop in our ticket to cast our vote for our favorite. Voting will begin at 10:00 and end at 11:00. There will be prizes for the winners.
OUR VENDOR OF THE WEEK: The Lost River Market and Deli, a project initiated by Orange County HomeGrown, will be our featured vendor. The exciting opening of the natural food, full service grocery will happen on October 23! For the first couple of weeks while the staff is in training, the store will have reduced hours, 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Regular hours will be from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Sundays. The Lost River Market and Deli, a cooperative, will feature healthful foods, bulk foods, local foods, a healthful salad bar and a grab & go deli. The beautiful store is located on Library Street right behind the Paoli Public Library just off the Paoli Square. Feel free to stop by a take a peek! As you know, cooperatives are built by people for people and thus depend upon memberships to get started. Cooperatives are owned by the membership. Lost River invites you to join. Just stop by their booth at the Market, visit their website http://lostrivercoop.com/ or give them a call at (812) 723-3735. If you are visiting their booth at the Market when the timer rings, you’ll get a coupon!
REPORT FROM LAST WEEK’S MARKET: Everything was right with the world Saturday morning because the weather was like it should be in October, crisp, chilly and sunny. We could even see our breath while setting up our booths. We had 44 vendors and registered one new vendor. The Market was bustling with visitors all morning, visitors from Idaho, Massachusetts, and all parts of Indiana. While the Jammers entertained, there were little ones making scarecrows with their mothers at our free Make-Your-Own Scarecrow area. They are getting ready for our Scarecrow Contest which takes place on the 20th. Everyone cheered as the parade honoring the Orleans Marching Band passed by.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR THIS YEAR’S ORANGE COUNTY HOMEGROWN HOLIDAY MARKET:
Orange County HomeGrown Holiday Market will take place Saturday, November 17th from 9 am – 3 pm at the Paoli High School Cafeteria and Lobby.
OTHER GREAT FEATURES AT THE MARKET: Be sure to stop by and see our new BUCK A BOOK/BOOK A BOOK TRAILOR where you can browse a great selection of books. We welcome the donations of books for the book trailer. All of the money from book sales goes to support Orange County HomeGrown Farmers Market (Orleans). Just bring the books to the BUCK A BOOK/BOOK A BOOK TRAILOR and choose a book for free. Visit us at the Host Tent and have a free cup of coffee courtesy of our neighbor, Maple Street Restaurant. We are fortunate to have friendly, helpful MASTER GARDENERS at every market. Bring your gardening questions to the MASTER GARDENER TABLE and they will be very happy to help you! Learn more about the LOST RIVER COMMUNITY CO-OP which will be opening a new grocery store in Paoli on October 23rd. You’ll be able to get a sneak preview of what the store, LOST RIVER MARKET & DELI, will look like and see its floor plan. You can even sign up to be a member!
The Orange County HomeGrown Farmers Market is located on the west side of the beautiful historic Congress Square Park in Orleans, Indiana and takes place each Saturday from 8:00 a.m. until noon. During the month of October, our hours change to 9:00 a.m. to noon. Please support your local growers, bakers, artists and handcrafters by shopping at the Orange County HomeGrown Farmers Market. Bring your friends and family! Last week, we surveyed our wonderful vendors. Here’s what they expect to have at the Orange County HomeGrown on Saturday, October 20th, 2007:
From the Farm: apples, basil, beets, chili peppers, decorative corn, eggs, eggplant, field corn, flowers, gourds, herbs, sweet peppers, persimmon pulp, plants, potatoes, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, green tomatoes, winter squash, sorghum
From the Kitchen: bagels, biscotti , brownies, cake, candy, caramel corn, cookies, fudge, granola, pickles, persimmon pudding, peanut brittle, pies, quick breads, scones, salt rising bread, yeast bread, yeast rolls, jams, jellies, doggie treats, barbecue sauce, fried pies, sugar free pies, salsa, relish
Art and Crafts: baskets, bird houses, crochet, fresh flower arrangements, jewelry, leather goods, photographs, purses, rustic furniture, rugs, soaps, stationary, soft goods, hand sewn items, quilts, baskets, dolls, cutting boards, painted glass containers, aprons
Services & Other Goods: hand creams, French Lick History by local author Al Kalla
THIS WEEK’S EVENTS:
Congress Square Park will be the place to be this Saturday. The Town of Orleans is sponsoring a Fall Fun Fest in conjunction with our Farmers Market so there will be many things to do. The Farmers Market will have a Scarecrow Contest. Read below for the details. The Orange County Amateur Radio Club ARES will be at the Market as well. And, as always, our Farmers Market Jammers all decked out in their new t-shirts and hats will lift your spirits with their fun music. Bring your instrument and/or your singin’ voice and join in! The Orleans Town Chamber will host a variety of fun family activities all day in the park including an antique tractor display, an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast, a 5 K health walk, a 3 on 3 basketball tourney, a pumpkin decorating contest, an historic walking tour, a corn hole tourney, an apple pie baking contest, an ugly cart parade, kids’ activities, and more. Dunn Memorial Hospital will sponsor a one-mile walk with tee-shirts to be handed out to the first twenty participants. Dunn’s Health Express will be present for Total Cholesterol Glucose screenings as well as Blood Pressures, all free of charge. We encourage everyone to take advantage of the free screenings and walk a mile for your health. The Health Express will begin at 9:00 a.m. and end at noon, with the walk starting around 10:30 a.m. Water and fruit will also be handed out to walkers. There will even be a pet costume contest! The contest will include five categories: most original, prettiest, ugliest, funniest and most colorful. Registration begins at 10:30 in front of Kirk Veterinary Service, located on the south side of the park. The entry fee is $5.00 with all of the proceeds to benefit the Chamber’s Community Improvement Fund. The parade will get underway at 11:00 a.m. A professional photographer will be available to take pictures of your pet for a small fee.
SCARECROW CONTEST ON OCTOBER 20th! Each Saturday through October 20th, we’ll have our free Make-Your-Own Scarecrow area set up with straw, twine and scissors. All you need to do is bring some old clothes to stuff your scarecrow with. We’ll have local pumpkins available to buy too if you wish to have a head for your scarecrow. On the day of the contest, October 20th, make a scarecrow at the Make-Your-Own Scarecrow area or bring the scarecrow that you made earlier back to the Market. We’ll have a place set up to display all the scarecrows. Next to each scarecrow, we’ll place an empty mason jar. That morning we’ll give all of the vendors, volunteers, jammers and visitors one ticket each to use for voting. We’ll all get to look over the scarecrows and drop in our ticket to cast our vote for our favorite. Voting will begin at 10:00 and end at 11:00. There will be prizes for the winners.
OUR VENDOR OF THE WEEK: The Lost River Market and Deli, a project initiated by Orange County HomeGrown, will be our featured vendor. The exciting opening of the natural food, full service grocery will happen on October 23! For the first couple of weeks while the staff is in training, the store will have reduced hours, 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Regular hours will be from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Sundays. The Lost River Market and Deli, a cooperative, will feature healthful foods, bulk foods, local foods, a healthful salad bar and a grab & go deli. The beautiful store is located on Library Street right behind the Paoli Public Library just off the Paoli Square. Feel free to stop by a take a peek! As you know, cooperatives are built by people for people and thus depend upon memberships to get started. Cooperatives are owned by the membership. Lost River invites you to join. Just stop by their booth at the Market, visit their website http://lostrivercoop.com/ or give them a call at (812) 723-3735. If you are visiting their booth at the Market when the timer rings, you’ll get a coupon!
REPORT FROM LAST WEEK’S MARKET: Everything was right with the world Saturday morning because the weather was like it should be in October, crisp, chilly and sunny. We could even see our breath while setting up our booths. We had 44 vendors and registered one new vendor. The Market was bustling with visitors all morning, visitors from Idaho, Massachusetts, and all parts of Indiana. While the Jammers entertained, there were little ones making scarecrows with their mothers at our free Make-Your-Own Scarecrow area. They are getting ready for our Scarecrow Contest which takes place on the 20th. Everyone cheered as the parade honoring the Orleans Marching Band passed by.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR THIS YEAR’S ORANGE COUNTY HOMEGROWN HOLIDAY MARKET:
Orange County HomeGrown Holiday Market will take place Saturday, November 17th from 9 am – 3 pm at the Paoli High School Cafeteria and Lobby.
OTHER GREAT FEATURES AT THE MARKET: Be sure to stop by and see our new BUCK A BOOK/BOOK A BOOK TRAILOR where you can browse a great selection of books. We welcome the donations of books for the book trailer. All of the money from book sales goes to support Orange County HomeGrown Farmers Market (Orleans). Just bring the books to the BUCK A BOOK/BOOK A BOOK TRAILOR and choose a book for free. Visit us at the Host Tent and have a free cup of coffee courtesy of our neighbor, Maple Street Restaurant. We are fortunate to have friendly, helpful MASTER GARDENERS at every market. Bring your gardening questions to the MASTER GARDENER TABLE and they will be very happy to help you! Learn more about the LOST RIVER COMMUNITY CO-OP which will be opening a new grocery store in Paoli on October 23rd. You’ll be able to get a sneak preview of what the store, LOST RIVER MARKET & DELI, will look like and see its floor plan. You can even sign up to be a member!
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