Green Energy Fair at the Market
Green Energy Fair
This Sunday the Brighton Farmers’ Market hosts the 2013 Green Energy Fair, sponsored by ColorBrightonGreen.org. Dedicated members of this all-volunteer organization have worked since 2007 to help our community find ways to protect and improve our environment. The Brighton Farmers’ Market was founded following a recommendation by the organization to the Town of Brighton, and the Market and ColorBrightonGreen.org have been partners ever since in promoting a better way of life for our community and our planet. The Green Energy Fair will feature information and resources about ways to save energy and resources, businesses offering green products and services, displays of alternative technologies, student projects, activities for children, and a silent auction of energy-saving products and services to benefit future educational programs of ColorBrightonGreen.org. For more information, please check out their website. Many thanks to the members of this fine organization for their continuing good work.
From the Vendors
Strawberries have arrived! Lagoner Farms will have some, plus their tricolor kale pack and tricolor lettuce pack, rhubarb, asparagus, radish, and arugula (Jake Lagoner recommends combining his arugula with Blue Moon Bend Farm’s chevre). Fisher Hill Farm will also have strawberries, plus spring mix lettuce, radishes, head lettuce (red leaf, green leaf, and romaine), rhubarb, fresh chicken, red potatoes, and onions. Shady Lane Farm is bringing fresh-cut spring flower bouquets, rhubarb, asparagus, beet greens, green onions, and fresh herbs, including chocolate mint.
Lakestone Family Farm is bringing fresh certified organic chicken, broccoli raab, prize choi, hakurei turnips, spinach, French breakfast radishes, and Denis’ first chard and kale of the season. Clearview Farm will have certified organic scallions, green garlic, kale, dill, herbs, dried hot peppers, dried beans (black, red merlot, red kidney), and organically-fed, free-range eggs. Growing Family Farm is bringing fresh shiitake and wine cap mushrooms, greenhouse broccoli, soil-grown hothouse tomatoes, free-range eggs, and dried shiitakes.
Ann’s Purple Produce will have potted herbs, annuals, perennials, and shade-loving caladiums, plus purple asparagus, purple radishes, edible pod peas, baby kale, arugula, edible flowers and cut herbs. Honeyhill Farm will have red, white, and golden beets; sweet baby carrots; and baskets of assorted, colorful lettuces. Kids can enter a contest to name the farm’s new hen mascot. Dearhaven Farm will have succulent lettuce, herbs, beet greens, and cilantro. Andy’s Specialty Garlic & Produce is bringing spinach, green curly kale, rainbow chard, green leaf and romaine lettuces, and the first garlic scapes of the season.
Shannon Brook Farm will have certified organic broiler chickens, chicken feet, pekin duck, duck liver and feet, eggs (chicken, duck, and guinea), pasture-raised, organically-fed pork, including sausage made with organic ingredients and no-nitrate smoked hams. Bolton Farms is bringing hydroponic bibb lettuce, lettuce bouquets, spring mix, micro greens, arugula, watercress, swiss chard, kale, bok choi, tatsoi, sugar snap peas, parsley, and basil.
Happy Hooves Organic Farm will have certified organic grass-fed and finished beef, no-soy high omega-3 chicken (fresh and frozen), frozen duck, poultry organs, eggs, and no-soy high-omega-3 pork, organically raised on pasture. R&M Bischoping will have Chandler and Earliglow strawberries, red Russian and dinosaur kale, Swiss chard, and dried beans, all no-spray. Wohlschlegel’s Naples Maple Farm is bringing maple mustard, maple garlic pepper rub for grilling, and extra-dark maple syrup.
Brian’s Cookies is introducing a vegan oatmeal raising cookie. Newbury Park Pastries will have strawberry rhubarb pies plus chicken, vegetable, panang, and shepherd’s pot pies. Lettuce B. Frank will offer vegetarian sausage gravy and local sausage gravy on cheddar scallion biscuits. Tripleberry Farm is bringing pesticide-free berry jams and brownies, goat’s milk soaps including mosquito-repelling soap for dogs or humans. Tocoti Chocolate will have micro-batch bean-to-bar chocolate bars and taster sets.
Nordic Farm‘s jam of the week is strawberry rhubarb, and will have jam bars made with that jam, plus pickles and free-range eggs. Small World Food will have kimchis, sauerkrauts, and other fermented veggies. Biscotti for Everybotti is bringing back espresso chocolate chip biscotti made with Joe Bean coffee. Lavender Moon will have all-natural Bug Off bug repellent spray — smells good, works well.
Also at the Market
We’ll have music from Babek Elahi and friends. A 6th grade class from Our Lady of Mercy School in Brighton will present their final projects for a program called CIA — Concern, Inquiry, Action — addressing themes such as global vision, concern for the earth, compassionate service, and hospitality.
The Brighton Farmers’ Market is held Sundays from 9 am to 1 pm in the Brighton High School parking lot, 1150 Winton Road South. Beginning June 30, the market will temporarily relocate for a few weeks to the Temple B’rith Kodesh parking lot, 2131 Elmwood Avenue (between Twelve Corners and S. Clinton). Details on the market’s move and return to BHS will be posted at the market’s website, www.brightonfarmersmarket.org, as the season progresses.
The Brighton Farmers’ Market is sponsored by the Town of Brighton.
See you Sunday!
