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← Sat. July 16th: Watermelon, sweet corn, white peaches, canteloupes, tomatoes and much more!
July Announcements from Columbia Heights Community Marketplace →

July 23rd – This Week at the CH Market: pickles, heirloom tomatoes, personal watermelons, sweet corn, peaches, cantaloupes and much more.

Jul21
2011
Written by chfestivus

Our Festibucks double dollars program helps recipients of SNAP (Food Stamps) and of WIC and Senior “Get Fresh Checks” buy more with their nutrition benefits. Please go to the little orange-topped canopy on the south side of the plaza (next to Kenyon Street) to learn more and to get your Festibucks.

NOTE: KidPowerDC will be at the market to sell produce that kids from Chavez PCS and Tubman Elementary school have grown organically.


Bella Terra Family Farms

Continuing with tomatoes, watermelon, basil, roaster chickens, cucumbers, eggplant, fennel, flower bouquets and sunflowers.

Bonaparte Breads

Delicious French pastries and breads

Chapel’s Country Creamery

Feta, Bay Bleu, Talbot Reserve, Chapelle, Chapel Cheddar and Vanilla Yogurt.
Chapel’s will sample its Chapelle cheese on baguettes from Upper Crust Bakery with local honey and basil.

Chesley Farms

NEW this week: Cantaloupes, tomatoes, garlic, nectarines Continuing with eggplant, sweet corn, cherry tomatoes, blackberries, white peaches, beans and other produce.

Dragonfly Farms

NEW this week: Honeydew, Korean and Chinese melons, watermelons, salad tomatoes (orange and yellow) and okra.

Continuing with field tomatoes, sweet corn, peaches, cucumbers, green zucchini, yellow squash, kale, swiss chard, collards, cantaloupe melons, orange cherry tomatoes, heirloom cherry tomatoes, green tomatoes, peaches, purple beans eggplant, peppers (green, purple, black, hot), celosia, sunflowers, zinnias and stattice

Fresh Crunch Pickles

— NEW producer
This addition to the Marketplace will have pickled cucumbers, okra, green tomatoes, beets and beans.

Ginger Juice

— NEW producer
Locally grown fruit to make juice!

Gunpowder Bison

Bison meat in various cuts and dog snacks

Licking Creek Bend Farm

NEW this week: Formosa and shiro plums (sweet), bell peppers, cherry tomatoes (three varieties).

Continuing with peaches, green sour apples, Broccoli, cauliflower, squash (eight varieties), cucumbers (four varieties), cilantro, sorrel, arugala, peaches, Lodi apples (sour), kale, beans (royal burgundy, yellow, dark and light green), collard greens, beets and basil

Pleasant Pops

Summer peach, watermelon mint, as well as three or four other yummy and refreshing flavors of popsicles, all made with locally grown fruit.

Springfield Farms of Kent County, MD

Lamb meat and sheep products

Spriggs Delight Goat Goat Cheese

Hill Side Feta
Feta Salad Mix
Tow Path Camembert
Stone BarnValencay
Tomme
The chevres are: Fresh chevre, garlic and herb, jalapeno and chive, pineapple and jalapeno, cran-nut & fruit and nut
Whole goat milk ricotta
Plain whole goat milk yogurt
Pure whole goat milk fudge – peanut butter, chocolate, chocolate & peanut butter

Stachowski Brand Charcuterie

All kinds of delicious sausage made from duck, lamb, poultry and pork.

Twin Post Farm

Chicken and duck eggs

Upper Crust Bakery

Upper Crust Bakery this week is beating the heat by baking your bread for you. Try the Artisan Baguettes or Sun-dried Tomato Torpedo for your picnics and bike rides. Try the Foccacia breads with fresh farm tomatoes and cheeses from our two cheese producers – Chapel’s Country Creamery and Spriggs Delight.

Upper Crust also will have Harvest Grain, Pain de Campagne, Russian Black Bread, Olive Bread, New York Rye, Sourdough, Whole wheat, Challah, Artisan Baguettes and More!

We thank our weekly sponsors Old School Hardware, Lafayette Federal Credit Union and PNC Bank.

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Events on May 19, 2012
  • This week's cooking demo: Great Greens with Colleen DiPietro
    Starts: 10:00 am
    Ends: May 19, 2012 - 12:00 pm
    Location: The Columbia Heights Community Marketplace, of course! (14th & Park, NW)
    Description: Join health coach Colleen DiPietro at your local farmers’ market this Saturday, May 19, and learn all about simple, tasty ways to incorporate more greens into your diet.

    Green vegetables are the foods most missing in modern diets so Colleen will be talking about ways to incorporate leafy greens, especially kale, into a daily diet. Did you know that kale can be prepared a variety of ways and eaten at every meal? Imagine that! Beginning at 10am, the local health coach will prepare kale 3 ways while offering recipes and tips on adding a little GREEN into breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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  • Uncle Devin Show at the Marketplace to entertain the kids, and the adults, too!
    Starts: 10:00 am
    Ends: May 19, 2012 - 11:00 am
    Location: civic plaza at 14th Street and Park Road, NW
    Description: The Uncle Devin Show performs at the CH Community Marketplace.

    The Uncle Devin Show is a live, interactive musical experience for children five and over by renowned drummer Devin Walker. The show cultivates the minds of children through percussion instruments and is a dynamic cross between Fat Albert and Schoolhouse Rock...http://theuncledevinshow.com.
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Events on May 26, 2012
  • TRUCK FARM at the CHCM!
    Starts: 9:00 am
    Ends: May 26, 2012 - 1:00 pm
    Description: Come check out DC Central Kitchen's farm-on-wheels! http://www.dccentralkitchen.org/truckfarm/
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  • This week's cooking demo: DC Central Kitchen
    Starts: 10:00 am
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  • USDA: Know Your Farmer, Know your Food
  • WIC: Women, Infants, and Children

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