It may be cold outside but we’re busy getting ready for the 2014 market season. We are now accepting applications for vendors and farmers.  If you’re interested in speaking with the Market Master about opportunities to sell at the market, please send an email to  contact@potomacvillagefarmersmarket.net addressed to the Market Master. Opening Day is Thursday, May 1st, 2014.

2014 PVFM Application

Thursday, November 7th (2:00-5:30 pm)

• Seasonal Squash, Potatoes, Beets, Lettuce, Arugula, Kale, Spinach, Grass fed Beef, Whole Chicken, Suasages, Turkey, Lamb (when available), Fresh Eggs, Pork, Raw local Honey and Bees Wax Candles, Fresh Fish – Flounder, Rockfish, Shrimp and more, Pies, Baked Goods, Fresh Crisp Pickles (Kosher Dill, Bread & Butter, Garlic, and more)

• Canned Peaches, Spinach, Honey Crisp Apple Sauce, Cameo and Fuji Juice, fresh cut flowers and garden plantings.

 
Farmers & Vendors

• McCleaf’s Orchard– A variety of seasonal fruits including apples, peaches, pears, berries, and season vegetables.
• Rockland Farm(Non-certified Organic) – Heirloom varieties of tomatoes and vegetables, pastured eggs, plantings, pastured pork, beef, mutton & goat (when available)
• Green Gate Farm -  Delicious pasture raised chickens and pork. Wonderful seasonal organic vegetables and greens
• Plantmasters – Fresh cut flowers and plantings for your home garden or office
• Tony’s Pickles - Freshly made pickles in a variety of flavors including Kosher Dill and Bread & Butter
• Beads by Bettina -  Award winning hand crafted jewelry designs great for gift giving 
• iHeartU Bakery - Delicious sweet treats include Blueberry mini loaf, Gluten-free Banana bread, Baklava, Date Cookies, Gluten-free Swiss Chocolate Cake, Carrot Cake and Caribbean Coconut Cake
• Salt River Lobster - Fresh lobster, crabs, local fish, salmon (fresh and smoked), famous crab dip
• Simply Delicious -   Award winning cheesecakes, pies, cakes, cupcakes, and more all baked with homemade love and care
• All Things Olive– All Things Olive offers California extra virgin olive oils and wine vinegars.  Please stop by our tent for a taste

Thursday

2:00-6:30 pm

• Green Peppers, Yellow Peppers, Red Peppers, Tomatillos, Zucchini, Yellow Onions, Garlic, Fresh herbs, Eggplant, Okra, Yellow Squash, Cucumber, Yukon Gold Potatoes, Red Potatoes, Green Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes, Patty Pan Squash, Beets 

                       Pluots | Plums | Cantaloupe

White & Yellow Peaches | Doughnut White & Yellow Peaches

• Canned Peaches, Spinach, Honey Crisp Apple Sauce, Cameo and Fuji Juice, fresh cut flowers and garden plantings.
•  Grass fed Beef, Chicken (wings, breasts, thighs), Turkey, Lamb (when available), Mutton(when available), Goat (when available), Fresh Eggs, Pork, Raw local Honey and Bees Wax Candles, Fresh Fish – Flounder, Rockfish, Shrimp and more , Pies, Baked Goods, Fresh Crisp Pickles (Kosher Dill, Bread & Butter, Garlic, and more)

Farmers & Vendors

• McCleaf’s Orchard– A variety of seasonal fruits including apples, peaches, pears, berries, and season vegetables.
• Rockland Farm(Non-certified Organic) – Heirloom varieties of tomatoes and vegetables, pastured eggs, plantings, pastured pork, beef, mutton & goat (when available)
• Hillside Meadow Farm - All natural vegetables and delicious all natural hormone-free beef
• Bees By the Bay -  Fresh local unpasteurized honey harvested from hives located throughout Maryland. Bees wax candles and Panal too.
• Plantmasters – Fresh cut flowers and plantings for your home garden or office
• Open Book Farm - Pasture raised whole chicken and chicken cuts, turkey and Pork. Farm Fresh eggs. Cucumbers, tomatoes and French green beans
• Tony’s Pickles - Freshly made pickles in a variety of flavors including Kosher Dill and Bread & Butter
• Designs by Bettina -  Award winning hand crafted jewelry designs great for gift giving
• iHeartU Bakery - Delicious sweet treats include Blueberry mini loaf, Gluten-free Banana bread, Baklava, Date Cookies, Gluten-free Swiss Chocolate Cake, Carrot Cake and Caribbean Coconut Cake.
• Salt River Lobster - Fresh lobster, crabs, local fish, salmon (fresh and smoked), famous crab dip
• Simply Delicious -   Award winning cheesecakes, pies, cakes, cupcakes, and more all baked with homemade love and care
• All Things Olive– All Things Olive offers California extra virgin olive oils and wine vinegars.  Please stop by our tent for a taste
• The B List - (Not at the market today) Fun and fashionable gifts and home decor items at very affordable prices. Need a hostess gift idea, turn a scrumptious baked cake loaf from Simply Delicious into a  special hostess gift by wrapping it in one of Bridgette’s decorative linen hand towels. Simply perfect!

Thursday

2:00-6:30 pm

• Green Peppers, Yellow Peppers, Red Peppers, Tomatillos, Zucchini, Yellow Onions, Garlic, Fresh herbs, Eggplant, Okra, Yellow Squash, Cucumber, Yukon Gold Potatoes, Red Potatoes, Green Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes, Patty Pan Squash, Beets 

                       Pluots | Plums | Cantaloupe

White & Yellow Peaches | Doughnut White & Yellow Peaches

• Canned Peaches, Spinach, Honey Crisp Apple Sauce, Cameo and Fuji Juice, fresh cut flowers and garden plantings.
•  Grass fed Beef, Chicken (wings, breasts, thighs), Turkey, Lamb (when available), Mutton(when available), Goat (when available), Fresh Eggs, Pork, Raw local Honey and Bees Wax Candles, Fresh Fish – Flounder, Rockfish, Shrimp and more , Pies, Baked Goods, Fresh Crisp Pickles (Kosher Dill, Bread & Butter, Garlic, and more)

Farmers & Vendors

• McCleaf’s Orchard– A variety of seasonal fruits including apples, peaches, pears, berries, and season vegetables.
• Rockland Farm(Non-certified Organic) – Heirloom varieties of tomatoes and vegetables, pastured eggs, plantings, pastured pork, beef, mutton & goat (when available)
• Hillside Meadow Farm - All natural vegetables and delicious all natural hormone-free beef
• Bees By the Bay -  Fresh local unpasteurized honey harvested from hives located throughout Maryland. Bees wax candles and Panal too.
• Plantmasters – Fresh cut flowers and plantings for your home garden or office
• Open Book Farm - Pasture raised whole chicken and chicken cuts, turkey and Pork. Farm Fresh eggs. Cucumbers, tomatoes and French green beans
• Tony’s Pickles - Freshly made pickles in a variety of flavors including Kosher Dill and Bread & Butter
• Designs by Bettina -  Award winning hand crafted jewelry designs great for gift giving
• iHeartU Bakery - Delicious sweet treats include Blueberry mini loaf, Gluten-free Banana bread, Baklava, Date Cookies, Gluten-free Swiss Chocolate Cake, Carrot Cake and Caribbean Coconut Cake.
• Salt River Lobster - Fresh lobster, crabs, local fish, salmon (fresh and smoked), famous crab dip
• Simply Delicious -   Award winning cheesecakes, pies, cakes, cupcakes, and more all baked with homemade love and care
• All Things Olive– All Things Olive offers California extra virgin olive oils and wine vinegars.  Please stop by our tent for a taste
• The B List - (Not at the market today) Fun and fashionable gifts and home decor items at very affordable prices. Need a hostess gift idea, turn a scrumptious baked cake loaf from Simply Delicious into a  special hostess gift by wrapping it in one of Bridgette’s decorative linen hand towels. Simply perfect!

Pluots are here and Honey Crisp apples too!

• Apple Cider, Green Peppers, Yellow Peppers, Red Peppers, Tomatillos, Zucchini, Yellow Onions, Garlic, Fresh herbs, Eggplant, Okra, Yellow Squash, Cucumber, Yukon Gold Potatoes, Red Potatoes, Green Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes, Patty Pan Squash, Beets 

         Pluots | Plums | Cantaloupe | Blueberries 

  White & Yellow Peaches | Doughnut Peaches | Sweet Corn

      Honey Crisp | Cameo Ginger Gold | Rambo Apples 

• Canned Peaches, Spinach, Honey Crisp Apple Sauce, Cameo and Fuji Juice, fresh cut early season flowers and garden plantings.

• Grass fed Beef, Fresh Eggs, Pork, Raw local Honey and Bees Wax Candles, Fresh Fish – Flounder, Rockfish, Shrimp and more , Pies, Baked Goods, Fresh Crisp Pickles (Kosher Dill, Bread & Butter, Garlic, and more)

Farmers & Vendors

• McCleaf’s Orchard– A variety of seasonal fruits including apples, peaches, pears, berries, and season vegetables.
• Rockland Farm(Non-certified Organic) – Heirloom varieties of tomatoes and vegetables, pastured eggs, plantings, pastured pork, beef, mutton & goat (when available)
• Hillside Meadow Farm - All natural vegetables and delicious all natural hormone-free beef
• Bees By the Bay -  Fresh local unpasteurized honey harvested from hives located throughout Maryland. Bees wax candles and Panal too.
• Plantmasters – Fresh cut flowers and plantings for your home garden or office
• Tony’s Pickles - Freshly made pickles in a variety of flavors including Kosher Dill and Bread & Butter
• Designs by Bettina -  Award winning hand crafted jewelry designs great for gift giving
• iHeartU Bakery - Delicious sweet treats include Blueberry mini loaf, Gluten-free Banana bread, Baklava, Date Cookies, Gluten-free Swiss Chocolate Cake, Carrot Cake and Caribbean Coconut Cake.
• Salt River Lobster - Fresh lobster, crabs, local fish, salmon (fresh and smoked), famous crab dip
• Simply Delicious -   Award winning cheesecakes, pies, cakes, cupcakes, and more all baked with homemade love and care
• All Things Olive– All Things Olive offers California extra virgin olive oils and wine vinegars.  Please stop by our tent for a taste
• The B List - fun and fashionable gifts and home decor items at very affordable prices. Need a hostess gift idea, turn a scrumptious baked cake loaf from SImply delicious into a  special hostess gift by wrapping it in one of Bridgette’s decorative linen hand towels. Simply perfect!

Thursday

2:00-6:30 pm

Honey Crisp apples are here!

Need a hostess gift? Turn a scrumptious baked cake loaf from SImply Delicious into a  special hostess treat by wrapping it in a decorative linen hand towel from The B List. Simply perfect!

• Green Peppers, Yellow Peppers, Red Peppers, Tomatillos, Zucchini, Yellow Onions, Garlic, Fresh herbs, Eggplant, Okra, Yellow Squash, Cucumber, Yukon Gold Potatoes, Red Potatoes, Green Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes, Patty Pan Squash, Beets 

Watermelons
Plums
Cantaloupe
Blueberries
White & Yellow Peaches
Doughnut White & Yellow Peaches
Sweet Corn
Honey Crisp, Cameo Ginger Gold, Sansa, and Rambo Apples

• Canned Peaches, Spinach, Honey Crisp Apple Sauce, Cameo and Fuji Juice, fresh cut early season flowers and garden plantings.

• Grass fed Beef, Chicken (wings, breasts, thighs), Turkey, Lamb (when available), Mutton(when available), Goat (when available), Fresh Eggs, Pork, Raw local Honey and Bees Wax Candles, Fresh Fish – Flounder, Rockfish, Shrimp and more , Pies, Baked Goods, Fresh Crisp Pickles (Kosher Dill, Bread & Butter, Garlic, and more)

New This Week

          The B List is back with great gift and home decor items! Award winning jewelry designer, Bettina of Designs By Bettina returns with fresh new jewelry pieces for your whole family from earrings to one of kind necklaces. 

Dahilias and more Dahlias! Saturated in colors, unique shapes and forms, who can resist? Plantmasters has lots to share plus great summer bouquets bursting with zinnias, hydrangeas, gomphrenas, fragrant tuberose and more. Thursday is Flower Day in Potomac!

Farmers & Vendors

• McCleaf’s Orchard– A variety of seasonal fruits including apples, peaches, pears, berries, and season vegetables.
• Rockland Farm(Non-certified Organic) – Heirloom varieties of tomatoes and vegetables, pastured eggs, plantings, pastured pork, beef, mutton & goat (when available)
• Hillside Meadow Farm - All natural vegetables and delicious all natural hormone-free beef
• Bees By the Bay -  Fresh local unpasteurized honey harvested from hives located throughout Maryland. Bees wax candles and Panal too.
• Plantmasters – Fresh cut flowers and plantings for your home garden or office
• Open Book Farm - Pasture raised whole chicken and chicken cuts, turkey and Pork. Farm Fresh eggs. Cucumbers, tomatoes and French green beans
• Tony’s Pickles - Freshly made pickles in a variety of flavors including Kosher Dill and Bread & Butter
• Designs by Bettina -  Award winning hand crafted jewelry designs great for gift giving
• iHeartU Bakery - Delicious sweet treats include Blueberry mini loaf, Gluten-free Banana bread, Baklava, Date Cookies, Gluten-free Swiss Chocolate Cake, Carrot Cake and Caribbean Coconut Cake.
• Salt River Lobster - Fresh lobster, crabs, local fish, salmon (fresh and smoked), famous crab dip
• Simply Delicious -   Award winning cheesecakes, pies, cakes, cupcakes, and more all baked with homemade love and care
• All Things Olive– All Things Olive offers California extra virgin olive oils and wine vinegars.  Please stop by our tent for a taste
• The B List - fun and fashionable gifts and home decor items at very affordable prices. Need a hostess gift idea, turn a scrumptious baked cake loaf from SImply delicious into a  special hostess gift by wrapping it in one of Bridgette’s decorative linen hand towels. Simply perfect!

The Potomac Village Farmers Market operates May through October (and sometimes into November) on Thursdays from 2 to 6:30 p.m., rain or shine, in the parking lot of the Potomac United Methodist Church (9908 S. Glen Rd., Potomac, at the corner of the intersection of Falls Road and Democracy Boulevard).

Thursday, August 1st

2:00-6:30 pm

New This Week – APPLES!! First of the season Pristine and Cameos.

• Green Peppers, Zucchini, Head Lettuce – Limited, Spring Onions, Yellow Onions, Garlic, Fresh herbs, Kale, French Green Beans, Eggplant, Okra, Yellow Squash, Cucumber, Yukon Gold Potatoes, Green Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes, Heirloom Tomatoes, Patty Pan Squash, Beets 

                 Watermelons | Plums | Cantaloupe | Blueberries | White & Yellow Peaches 

                                            Sweet Corn | Pristine Apples | Cameo Apples

• Canned Peaches, Spinach, Honey Crisp Apple Sauce, Cameo and Fuji Juice, fresh cut early season flowers and garden plantings, vegetable plants for your garden including tomato, Cucumbers, Eggplants, Zucchini and lots more!
•  Grass fed Beef, Chicken (wings, breasts, thighs), Turkey, Lamb (when available), Mutton(when available), Goat (when available), Fresh Eggs, Pork, Raw local Honey and Bees Wax Candles, Fresh Fish – Flounder, Rockfish, Shrimp and more , Pies, Baked Goods, Fresh Crisp Pickles (Kosher Dill, Bread & Butter, Garlic, and more)

New This Week

Simply Delicious
Fresh peach pies and luscious loaves.

PlantMaster’s
Plant Masters will bring Lisianthus, your new favorite summer flower, in white, purple, bicolor and pale green.  Also plenty of zinnias and garden bouquets of mixed flowers.  Look for the pomegranate trees and fall blooming jasmine.  Still a good selection of herbs too.

Food Trucks

Hardy’s BBQ Food Truck
Perfect for a family dinner or to bring to an after school event.  BBQ pulled chicken and beef, ribs, smoked chicken wings, a side of veggies.  A choice of delicious sauces too.

Farmers & Vendors

• McCleaf’s Orchard– A variety of seasonal fruits including apples, peaches, pears, berries, and season vegetables.
• Rockland Farm(Non-certified Organic) – Heirloom varieties of tomatoes and vegetables, pastured eggs, plantings, pastured pork, beef, mutton & goat (when available)
• Hillside Meadow Farm - All natural vegetables and delicious all natural hormone-free beef
• Bees By the Bay -  Fresh local unpasteurized honey harvested from hives located throughout Maryland. Bees wax candles and Panal too.
• Plantmasters – Fresh cut flowers and plantings for your home garden or office
• Open Book Farm - Pasture raised whole chicken and chicken cuts, turkey and Pork. Farm Fresh eggs. Cucumbers, tomatoes and French green beans
• Tony’s Pickles - Freshly made pickles in a variety of flavors including Kosher Dill and Bread & Butter
• Designs by Bettina -  Award winning hand crafted jewelry designs great for gift giving
• iHeartU Bakery - Delicious sweet treats include Blueberry mini loaf, Gluten-free Banana bread, Baklava, Date Cookies, Gluten-free Swiss Chocolate Cake, Carrot Cake and Caribbean Coconut Cake.
• Salt River Lobster - Fresh lobster, crabs, local fish, salmon (fresh and smoked), famous crab dip
• Simply Delicious -   Award winning cheesecakes, pies, cakes, cupcakes, and more all baked with homemade love and care
• All Things Olive– All Things Olive offers California extra virgin olive oils and wine vinegars.  Please stop by our tent for a taste

The Potomac Village Farmers Market operates May through October (and sometimes into November) on Thursdays from 2 to 6:30 p.m., rain or shine, in the parking lot of the Potomac United Methodist Church (9908 S. Glen Rd., Potomac, at the corner of the intersection of Falls Road and Democracy Boulevard).

Every year, as Market Master, I perform a market inspection of each farm and business that sells at the Potomac Village Farmers Market (PVFM). An onsite farm visit helps ensure you, the customer, are getting real food from a real farmer. It’s also a way for me to get to know the farmer better. This relationship is one of respect and mutual beneficence. In touring the farm, I meet with the farmer(s) and often their family (sometimes friends and summer interns too). We talk about their experience, farm history, the animals, growing practices, and the produce.  Actually, we talk about almost anything and I tour. Some farms are too big to walk in the allotted time so driving is the only way to preview its fields, orchards, and pastures.  However, on Friday July 5th, I visited Andrew and Mary Katherine at their farm, Open Book located in Myersville, MD and walked the tour.

Open Book Farm is owned and run by married couple Andrew and Mary Katherine Barnett.  These two relative new comers started farming in 2011 by leasing the land that they now call home to Open Book in Myersville, MD. Myersville is just south west of Fredrick, MD. There is a lot of work to be done each day at Open Book Farm. Both Andrew and Mary Katherine are up early in the morning and start the day with chores. Animal husbandry is the domain of Andrew who, at one point, interned with Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms (featured in Omnivores Dilemma) in Virginia.  He tends all Open Book’s farm animals including its chickens, hens and pigs on pasture, ensuring they have plenty of fresh water, green grass, and protection from the elements and predators. Andrew is also the head poultry butcher at Open Book. Mary Katherine tends to the farms’ vegetable field and grow tunnel providing delicious produce including vine ripened tomatoes and incredible French green beans. As we walked through the rows of trellised plants, Mary Katherine spotted a tomato horn worm on one of the trellised tomato vines. Mentioning its natural predator the parasitic wasp hadn’t arrived yet, she quickly removed the big fat green gooey worm.

   Both Andrew and Mary Katherine when not busy tending the farm, share in the care of their baby boy Sylvan. When not in the fields and pastures, their Great Pyrenees dog Patou, watches carefully and patiently over the flock of egg laying hens, the drove of pigs out on pasture and of course, the chickens located in mobile coops. Patou enjoys his watch dog role and is good at it!

The Barnett’s utilize sustainable farming practices most recognizable and exemplified in the quality of their pastured poultry, pork, turkey, fresh eggs and vegetables. When the baby chickens are too young for pasture, in response to customer requests, they provide  soy-free feed to a subset of their chickens for those seeking soy-free chicken.  Their poultry, meat, and vegetable products are served in several top area restaurants including Volt of Frederick.

Even though it was almost 100 degrees the day I visited, I was glad I walked the tour.  With each step along tractor worn farm roads and trampled grass paths, the structure and organic’ness of the farm including its buildings, kept revealing itself a little bit at a time, much like the pages of a book reveal its story. Open Book Farm is a well-run, true to word, family farm. So, stop by Mary Katherine this Thursday at PVFM.  The breakfast sausage, pork shoulder, and chicken products including whole chicken are my favorites but then again, the French green beans are really good too! Check out their website for more information on Open Book Farm: www.openbookfarm.com

The Potomac Village Farmers Market operates May through October (and sometimes into November) on Thursdays from 2 to 6:30 p.m., rain or shine, in the parking lot of the Potomac United Methodist Church (9908 S. Glen Rd., Potomac, at the corner of the intersection of Falls Road and Democracy Boulevard).