This Will Cheer You Up

This Week at the Market

Feeling a little grumpy? Need some good news? How about this: Le Petit Poutine returns to the Market this Sunday, April 6.  Lizzie and Ronnie will be showing off their big beautiful new truck, and will be featuring their usual poutine choices plus some new ones — bacon poutine, pulled pork poutine, and breakfast poutine, as well as ginger soda and lemon lavender soda. Another suggestion for banishing those where-is-spring blues:  plan your garden!  Fruition Seeds will offer a wide variety of certified organic seeds, grown specifically to thrive in our area.

This week we’ll say goodbye to our friend Jill Stackpole of Bloomfield Honey Farm; it’s the Farm’s last week at the Market. We wish Jill all the best in her new ventures. JonJohn’s Bakery joins us with Grandma’s breakfast cake, German chocolate cake, peach cobbler, and turkey dinner with stuffing and gravy, vegetables, and fresh rolls. Lakestone Family Farm will have colorful organic eggs.

Fisher Hill Farm is bringing frozen chicken, rutabaga, carrots, parsnips, potatoes, onions, shallots, dry beans, and Red Jacket juices. Bolton Farms will have lettuce bouquets, spring mix, arugula, watercress, spinach, bok choi, kale, parsley, cilantro, and escarole. Shannon Brook Farm is featuring pork rib end roasts and pork rib chops, organically-fed and pasture-raised.

Nordic Farm is bringing fresh jams, brown eggs, pickles, salsa, applesauce, granola, and some English walnuts grown along Keuka Lake. Wohlschlegel’s Naples Maple Farm returns with maple cotton fluff, syrup in several sizes, soft and hard molded candies, maple garlic pepper rub, and maple mustard — Mother Nature’s sweet treats for the Easter basket.

Happy Hooves Organic Farm is bringing an assortment of grass-fed and finished beef cuts, pasture-raised pork, and eggs (certified organic and soy-free); it will be the last chance to reserve a side of pork until fall. Newbury Park Pastries will have chicken, veggie, and beef stew pot pies.

Also at the Market

Grant Cos and Babak Elahi will perform. Tom Moore, a teacher at Ellwanger Barry Nursery School, will offer information about the school and an activity for kids.  ColorBrightonGreen.org will collect hard-to-recycle items. Please consider donating to Brighton Food Cupboard.

Brighton Winter Farmers’ Market is held Sundays, 1 to 4 pm, through May 18, 2014 (closed Easter Sunday, April 20).  It is located in Brighton’s Brookside Center, 220 Idlewood Road, Rochester. There is a second entrance to the building, easily accessible, from S. Winton, between Westfall and 590 (just south of Westfall).

The summer Brighton Farmers’ Market opens May 25; it will be held Sundays from 9 am to 1 pm in the Brighton High School parking lot, 1150 Winton Road S.

The Brighton Farmers’ Market is sponsored by the Town of Brighton. For information on a Green Gardening workshop sponsored by the Town’s Recreation Department, see  here. More information about the market can be found at www.brightonfarmersmarket.org or on the Market’s Facebook page.

See you Sunday!