{"id":13663,"date":"2014-05-16T14:02:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T19:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=13663"},"modified":"2014-05-28T13:23:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T18:23:12","slug":"mid-town-farmers-market-saturday-preview-for-may-17-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/mid-town-farmers-market-saturday-preview-for-may-17-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Town Farmers&#8217; Market Saturday Preview (for May 17, 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mid-Town Farmers&#8217; Market fans and customers,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/TLV-203-SA-MidtownFarmersMarket-RGB.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"554\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13665\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/TLV-203-SA-MidtownFarmersMarket-RGB.jpg?resize=600%2C554\" alt=\"TLV-203-SA-MidtownFarmersMarket-RGB\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/TLV-203-SA-MidtownFarmersMarket-RGB.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/TLV-203-SA-MidtownFarmersMarket-RGB.jpg?resize=300%2C277&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>The market continues <span data-term=\"goog_1238430467\">this Saturday<\/span>, May 17 (<span data-term=\"goog_1238430468\">7-11 am<\/span>), and below are the expected vendor highlights:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Welcome Valley Farm <\/strong>will have vine ripe tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, rape, kale, turnips and mustard greens<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Sherry Driggers from 7D Farm<\/strong>will have breads: whole wheat, whole wheat with quinoa, 7D seven grain, oat, challah, focaccia, garlic studded baguette, farm house white; scones: apple cinnamon and blueberry; sweet breads: cinnamon, chocolate twist, and death by chocolate; mini grits pie; and monster cookies<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Cathy Field<\/strong> will have three kinds of focaccia bread: rosemary, olive with parmesan cheese, and basil pesto with goat cheese and tomato; plus chocolate and cinnamon babka<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The Spicy or Not Veggy<\/strong> will have jams and jellies including regular and sugar-free honeysuckle jelly and sugar-free strawberry jam; various baked goods including cookies (honey, sugar, peanut butter), coconut pound cake (regular and mini loafs), pie-on-a-stick (chocolate, apple and pecan), mushroom tarts, granola bars, and homemade crackers as well as gluten free items including cookies and pound cake<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>YaYa&#8217;s Yummys<\/strong> will have blackberry, strawberry, raspberry, blueberry and peach preserves; plum, grape, and apple butter jellies; salsa; pepper jellies; chow chow; dip mixes; baking mixes; yeast rolls; garlic parmesan focaccia; multi-grain bread; banana nut bread; and oatmeal raisin cookies<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Yokna Bottoms Farm <\/strong>will have radishes, mixed lettuces, head lettuces, kale, collards, turnips, green onions, green garlic, mixed mustard greens, smoked sweet and hot peppers, and a variety of herbs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Fresh From The Farm <\/strong>will have kohlrabi, radishes, broccoli, and a wide assortment of pickles, preserves, and salsa<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Linda Boyd<\/strong> will have asparagus, lettuce mix, arugula, Italian dandelion, chard, basil plants, heirloom tomato jam, and blueberry jam<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Sunlight Springs Certified Organic Produce <\/strong>will havelettuce, salad mix, radishes, greens, collards, shagbark hickory syrup, and wood chips<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Bost Farm<\/strong>\u00a0will have English peas, yellow squash, new potatoes, cucumbers, spinach, mustard tender greens, turnip greens with turnips,\u00a0beets, lantana plants, and melampodium plants<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Sophie Quinn of Joyous Plants<\/strong> will have assorted plants including moon vines, Louisiana iris, and lemon balm<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SeedTickRoad.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"542\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13664\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SeedTickRoad.jpg?resize=600%2C542\" alt=\"SeedTickRoad\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SeedTickRoad.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SeedTickRoad.jpg?resize=300%2C271&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>We will have <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">live music this week<\/span> (from ~8-10 <span data-term=\"goog_1238430469\">on Saturday<\/span>) from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/seedtick.road\">Seed Tick Road<\/a><\/strong>. If you enjoy the music, please consider showing your support for the musicians, who are not getting paid for these gigs, with a tip (or some produce).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The <span data-term=\"goog_1238430470\">Wednesday<\/span> market will begin this week<\/strong><\/span>, running every week <span data-term=\"goog_1238430471\">8am to 1pm<\/span>.\u00a0 Please note that during the <span data-term=\"goog_1238430472\">Wednesday<\/span> market hours, our vendors may arrive or depart any time during those hours, depending on availability of their product.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>You can receive an update similar to this one each week on our\u00a0Facebook page (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mtmarket\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mtmarket<\/a>), along with additional content such as photos and videos<\/strong> from our vendors and from the market itself.\u00a0We would love for you to take photos at the market, or photos of yourself eating food from the market, and post them on our Facebook page! Or, just make a quick comment on our page about your experience with the market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Did you know that Bost Farm can accept EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfer) for payment?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0If you know anyone who receives food benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly the Food Stamp Program), please let them know that they can now use EBT to purchase fresh healthy food at Mid-Town Farmers\u2019 Market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">We need\u00a0<strong>volunteers\u00a0<\/strong>to help at the market tent this summer.\u00a0 If you are interested in helping, please contact our volunteer coordinator Betty Crouther (<a href=\"mailto:arpate@olemiss.edu\">arpate@olemiss.edu<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">If you know of a\u00a0<strong>vendor who is interested in selling at Mid-Town<\/strong>, please point them to our website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtfarmersmarket.com\/\">http:\/\/www.mtfarmersmarket.com\/<\/a>) where the application documents can be downloaded, or give us their contact information so we can mail the documents to them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Directions to the market:<\/strong>\u00a0From the Oxford Square, drive (or walk or bike!) north on North Lamar about \u00bd mile, and look for us on the left in the parking lot of the Mid-Town Shopping Plaza. Alternatively you can take the\u00a0<strong>bus<\/strong>, utilizing the Oxford University Transit\u00a0Red Route, which passes Mid-Town once per hour <span data-term=\"goog_1238430473\">on Saturday<\/span> mornings (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordms.net\/visitors\/transit\/bus-routes-a-schedules.html\">http:\/\/www.oxfordms.net\/visitors\/transit\/bus-routes-a-schedules.html<\/a>).<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">See you at the market!<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-Town Farmers&#8217; Market fans and customers, The market continues this Saturday, May 17 (7-11 am), and below are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":13667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,68],"tags":[3431,2623,1363,3445,3437,1379,1377,3432,3442,3446,1364,1344,1343,3438,3439,1359,3444,3448,1096,3440,1986,1345,1342,1341,1380,1369,4,1370,1348,3428,3430,3447,3433,3441,3443,304,3429,3434,1903,1378,1176,3435,3436],"class_list":["post-13663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening-farming","category-local-food","tag-7d-farm","tag-bbb","tag-bost","tag-bost-farm","tag-bottom","tag-bottoms","tag-boyd","tag-cathy-field","tag-certified-organic","tag-ebt","tag-farm","tag-farmer","tag-farmers","tag-farms","tag-fresh-from-the-farm","tag-fruit","tag-fruits","tag-joyous-plants","tag-lafayette","tag-linda-boyd","tag-live-music","tag-market","tag-mid-town","tag-midtown","tag-music","tag-organic","tag-oxford","tag-produce","tag-sears","tag-seed-tick-road","tag-sherry-driggers","tag-sophie-quinn","tag-spicy-or-not-veggy","tag-sunlight-springs","tag-vegetables","tag-volta","tag-welcome-valley-farm","tag-yayas","tag-yocona","tag-yokna","tag-yoknapatawpha","tag-yummy","tag-yummys"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/mtmarketfeat.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}