WFM Market News - July 25, 2024
Here we are in the last week of July already! Produce is at its peak, perfect for cooling healthy salads on warm evenings. Locally-made bread, pastries, honey and beeswax products, organic raw juices, iced teas and coffee, frozen lemonade, ice cream, and handmade soap, textile items, herbal products, and wood carvings offer a fantastic variety of shopping choices for customers.
SNAP customers- this is the last week to use your July HIP benefits at the Market, so stock up on your fruits and veggies! Remember we offer up to a $10 SNAP match each week.
See you Thursday!
The WFM Management Team
Vendors & Community Partners at the Market This Week
B’s Breads – Assorted Sourdough Breads, English Muffin Toasting Bread
The Bread Basket – Breads and Pies
Classic Grille – Hamburgers made with locally sourced beef.
Crescent City Snowballs – New Orleans Style Snowballs
Crystal Clear Emotions – Handmade Sterling Silver Jewelry
Daggers Meadery – Local Honey Mead
Doce Mercer – Cookies & Cookie Bars, Muffins, Flavored Ice Tea
En3rgyUp Organic Juices – Organic Juices and Ginger Shots
Growing with Minerals – All Natural Herbs, Vegetables, and Products
Jeff Bellefleur – Chainsaw Carvings
Livingstone Mycology – Gourmet Mushrooms
Mimi’s Hilltop Apiary – Raw Honey, Beeswax Skincare
Northside Creamery – Premium Handmade Ice Cream
Pignatare’s Farm – Fruits, Vegetables, and Flowers
Plum Island Jams – All Natural Specialty Jams
Quabbin Hill Farms – Eggs, Microgreens, Vegetables, CBD Products
Rail’s End Crafts – Home Decor and Fun Fabric Items
Ray’s Family Farm – Fruits, Vegetables, and Flowers
Sweet JJ’s – Cookies, Tarts, and Pastries
Tots-A-Lot – Fresh, Cold Lemonade and Pretzels
Vlad’s Fired Pizza – Oven Fired Pizza
Ray's Family Farm
Ray’s Family Farm has been in business in greater Westfield for over 40 years, providing the best, freshest quality produce at affordable prices, together with fantastic flowers and plants for your home and gardening needs.
Crescent City SnowBalls
Crescent City Snowball's added FIVE new flavors to their snowball lineup this week: Blue Bubblegum, Coconut, Grape, Pink Leonade, and, just in time for the start of the season, Peach!
En3rgyUp
What could be more refreshing than one of En3rgyUp's raw, cold-pressed organic juices in flavors like Spicy Lemonade, Pineapple Mint, or Strawberry Goodness? How about an invigorating ginger shot?
Plum Island Jams
Strawberry Vanilla Bean jam fans rejoice - Plum Island made more and it'll be available at the market this week!
UMass Extension Nutrition Education
Stop by the UMass Extension Nutrition Education tent from 12-4 and enjoy a sample of their delicious Peach and Pineapple salsa, pick up a free a free recipe, and get some ideas about what you can do with the abundance of produce you'll find at the market.
Music at the Market
Chip Arnold
Noon - 2:30PM
Gary Kotros
2:30PM - 5:00PM
Free Lunch for Kids & Teens
Ages 2 -18
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Westfield serves free lunch at WFM from 1PM – 1:30PM on every Thursday from June 27 thru August 22. For menus, and a complete list of free lunch locations and times, click the Boys & Girls Club logo.
Pop Club This Week: Move It!
Beat the heat with some fun water activities led by Dr Rachel Burke of Pioneer Valley on the Move from 1PM - 3PM.
(Please note: if the weather isn't conducive to outdoor water activities, an indoor yoga activity will be offered.)This is a fun wellness/fitness activity and physical therapy services are not being offered.
Rachel’s Table is the premier food rescue and distribution program in Western Massachusetts, created by members of the Women’s Philanthropy Division of the Jewish Federation of Western Massachusetts to address food insecurity in the region. Bring your donations of unexpired non-perishable goods and/or fresh produce to the WFM Market Tent where it will be collected by Rachel’s Table volunteers after each market.
Guess the Copper Beech Tree's Age 50/50 Contest
Tickets are available at the ECOTA tent at WFM every Thursday until August 29th.
Rules
- Write your name, contact info, and guess on the ticket and place it in the contest jar.
- One guess per ticket
- No limit on tickets
- The winning ticket will be the guess closest to the actual age of the tree.
- The winner receives 50% of the pot. Multiple winners will split the winnings evenly.
- Contest runs until August 29, 2024.
- The winner(s) will be contacted on Labor Day weekend.
- The actual age of the Copper Beech Tree will be announced on Labor Day Sunday (September 1, 2024) and will be posted on ECOTA’s website and WFM’s website.
We thank the generous sponsors and funders of our 2024 season
