This Week at the Columbia Heights Community Marketplace

Saturday, December 3rd from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (rain, snow or shine)…last market of the season is Saturday, Dec. 17th

Civic plaza at 14th Street and Park Road, NW

www.chfestivus.org

I. Great Food

II. Holiday Market

III. Live Music

I. Great Food

* Chesley Farms will feature greenhouse tomatoes, sweet potatoes, apples (golden delicious, fuji, nittany, stayman, tameo, york, granny smith, pink lady and braeburn varieties), pears, cider, hard winter squash, potatoes, pumpkins, greens (collards and mustard greens) and Christmas trees.

* Licking Creek Bend Farm returns to the market with apples, cider, Christmas trees, wreaths and some fall greens, onions, sweet potatoes and potatoes.

* Wisteria Gardens will bring Asian greens, salad mixes, fall greens, salsas, bean dips, and hummus.

* Bonaparte Breads is the place to go for delicious French pastries.

* Fresh Crunch will introduce cranberry chutney, as well as pickled squash and zucchini. Those are in addition to its other great pickles.

* Springfield Lamb will bring all kinds of great lamb meat and wool products that make great holiday gifts.

* Stachowski Charcuterie offers sausages made from beef, chicken, duck, pork and turkey.

* Twin Post Farms features both chicken and duck eggs.

* UpperCrust Bakery will help prepare you for your holiday parties with amazing fresh artisan breads.  Showing up with a loaf of Pain de Campagne or Russian Black bread will make you the hero of the party. Or try the Olive bread, Harvest Grain or Raisin Pecan breads.  We’ll see you at the market!

II. Christmas Trees & Holiday Market

Our market season will end on December 17th, but we have a real treat for you in the final weeks. Join us at our Holiday Market on December 3, 10 and 17.

This Saturday, Dec. 3rd, eight artists will bring a variety of drawings, jewelry, paintings, pottery and knitware to the Marketplace. These local creations by local artists make wonderful holiday gifts.

The Holiday Market will also feature Christmas trees! Yep, Chesley Farms and Licking Creek Bend Farm will offer Christmas trees and wreaths for sale. Although both farms will bring a variety of sizes to the Marketplace to sell, they urge people to pre-order trees for pickup at the market.

* CHESLEY FARM will charge $10 per foot for Blue Spruce, Douglas Fir and Canaan Fir and $12 per foot for Fraser Firs. To order a tree from Chesley Farms, please contact CHESVEG@GMAIL.COM. In addition, Chesley Farms has about 40 tree stands from various places that it will sell at cost ($5 to $7 per stand).

* LICKING CREEK BEND FARM will charge similar prices for Charlie Brown, Blue Spruce, Douglas Firs, Con-color Firs, White Pine, Canaan Firs. It also will offer live tree and table top trees and wreaths/roping. For more information and to order, please contact ESIEGEL2@IGC.ORG.

III. Live Music from 10 a.m. to noon.

Chelsea McBee (http://chelseamcbee.com/). Thank you to Bloombars (www.bloombars.com) for making this possible.

Born and raised in Shepherdstown, WV, McBee quotes the old-time WV banjo tunes that she learned as major influences in her style of playing and her songwriting. She began playing claw-hammer banjo in the summer of 2005 and has been working on traditional tunes as well as writing original songs since then. Her unique, inviting voice pairs well with the distinctive sound of her 5-string. Artists such as Gillian Welch, Anais Mitchell, Feist, Bonnie Rait and the Indigo Girls have all inspired this young songstress. “I have always been really into female musicians. Not exclusively, but I can relate to the common thread of womanness and really admire it”. McBee will get up and sing a WV tune, a catchy melody, a bare-boned a capella, and then a sultry tango piece all with the banjo. She worked with The Fox Hunt (www.myspace.com/lefoxhunt) for her debut album ‘Don’t Close Your Eyes’. Their WV string band energy behind McBee’s lyrics make for an entertaining mix. Her tunes offer a variety of sound and heart stirring emotion, which will only serve to broaden her fan base. Chelsea splits her musical time between her solo act and The Lady Dies an alt-country folk-roots gypsy band based out of Shepherdstown (www.myspace.com/jesseboyd1). She has traveled all over the US and parts of Spain spreading the music.

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