SFM WEEKLY EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS
The Saugerties Farmers Market brings you not only the best fresh foods that the Hudson Valley has to offer, but also chef demonstrations, free tastings, recipes, live music and more. This schedule will be updated frequently, so check back soon.
Kids Can Cook are free children's cooking classes at the Saugerties Farmers Market offered by Debbie Osborne of Arcadia Homewares. Kids ages 8-11 learn where food comes from and how to cook it, make a recipe together using farm fresh ingredients, and eat what they prepare at the end of the session. To express interest in 2008 series, please contact Debby at arcadiany@aol.com or (845-246-7371).
Kids Can Cook is brought to you by the support of the Kiwanis Club of Saugerties, Price Chopper, Sawyer Savings Bank, Stewart's Shops, and Arcadia Homewares.
Art Lab at the Market, a place for children to explore art and agriculture, every Saturday from 10am-1pm at the Saugerties Farmers Market. Art Lab at the Market aims to support families visiting the market, provide children with art and agriculture fun, and build community connections. Activities include seed planting, print making, painting, playdoh, clay, collage, book making, wood sculpture, and a farm fresh snack. For more information or to volunteer contact: Katie Emerson at 246-9252. Art Lab at the Market, was developed and supported through generous funding by the Kiwanis Club of Saugerties. See the Art Lab website for more information!
Please contact us if you have crafts or artwork for sale that is connected to agriculture or traditional crafts or arts so that we may schedule you a tent and table for an extremely modest fee between September 8-October 27.
JUMP TO: June - July - August - September - October
June 14
- OPENING DAY LINE-UP: JUNE 14!
10:30am ribbon cutting (elected officials including Congressman Hinchey, Senator Bonacic, Assemblyman Lopez, Supervisor Helsmoortel, Mayor Yerick, and County Legislators
- Arts
First Day of Art Lab at the Market, a weekly free children's arts program at the market that gives kids of all ages something creative to do while their parents shop for food.- 9:30am: Elizabeth Stegmayer will read to kids about markets across the world.
- 9am-2pm: face painting by Maggie Green
- 11am-1pm: Jay Ungar & Molly Mason, our favorite Hudson Valley troubadours
- Tastes
- 12pm: Karl Krause of Krause's Candy will return to dip local strawberries in chocolate for free tastings and take-home purchases.
June 21
- Tastes
- 11am: Holly Anne Shelowitz doing Amazing Greens! Demo how to make dark leafy green vegetables taste great. Free tastes. Shelowitz is a Certified Nutrition Counselor and owner/director of Nourishing Wisdom that provides cooking classes and workshops making the connection between good nutrition and good taste. Info at www.nourishingwisdom.com or call 845.687.9666
June 28
- GARDENING Q&A
First Day for Cornell Cooperative Extension's Master Gardener Program to return to the market: Barbara Bravo and friends answer all your gardening questions and perform soil tests. Remember to bring soil samples from your garden. Bring your soil sample taken from a depth of about 6" from several places in the bed. Soil should be dry or moist, not wet.
- Tastes
- 9:30-11am:
First in the series of free children's cooking classes in which kids meet the farmers, learn about fresh local food, do some hands-on cooking, enjoy the fruits of their labors, and take home a recipe and a chef's toque. Pre-register with Debbie Osborne of Arcadia Homewares (845-246-7371).
- 9:30-11am:
July 5
- Arts
- 11am-1pm: Doug Marcus, our favorite stand-up bass player returns to croon and swoon us
July 12
- Tastes
- 9:30-11am: Second in the series of free children's cooking classes in which kids meet the farmers, learn about fresh local food, do some hands-on cooking, enjoy the fruits of their labors, and take home a recipe and a chef's toque. Pre-register with Debbie Osborne of Arcadia Homewares (845-246-7371).
- 9:30-11am:
July 19
- CHILDREN'S DAY
sponsored by the Town of Saugerties
- Arts
- 10am-2pm: Young people from the Bruderhof community teach how to make grass goblins and flower wreaths
- 10am-1pm: Art Lab's arts and crafts
- 10am-12pm: Cleoma's Ghost makes down-home Cajun music
- 11am-1pm: Maggie Green paints faces as animals or imaginary creatures
- 12pm-1pm: Karen Pillsworth tells stories of high drama and excitement
- 1pm-2pm: Grian MacGregor brings back the ever popular Ivy Vine Players, handmade puppets with attitude
July 26
- GARDENING Q&A
Master Gardeners of the Cornell Cooperative Extension will be in the market all day to solve your thorny gardening problems and provide soil testing on the spot. Bring your soil sample taken from a depth of about 6" from several places in the bed. Soil should be dry or moist, not wet. It is high summer so almost too much is going on in the garden; don't let the experts get away without answering your innermost gardening questions.
- Tastes
- 9:30-11am: Third in the series of free children's cooking classes in which kids meet the farmers, learn about fresh local food, do some hands-on cooking, enjoy the fruits of their labors, and take home a recipe and a chef's toque. Pre-register with Debbie Osborne of Arcadia Homewares (845-246-7371).
- 9:30-11am:
August 2
- Arts
- 11am: TBA
- Tastes
- 1pm: FARM FEAST, a community meal affordable for all, cooked by chef Ric Orlando of New World Home Cooking who will use the fruits and vegetables of the season to show and tell how we can all cook and taste from the Saugerties Farmers Market. Meal to be served at the market. Farm Feast sponsored by the Watershed Agricultural Council.
August 9
- Tastes
- 11am: Chef Demo TBA
August 16
- Tastes
- 11am: Chef Demo TBA
August 23
- Arts
- 11am-1pm: TBA
August 30
- FARM ANIMAL DAY (RAIN DATE SEPT 6)
The Barnyard Brought to Market. Meet, pet, feed and talk to the animals: Goats, Rabbits & Bunnies, Chickens & Chicks, Ducks, Pigs, Turkeys, Draft Horses, Llama, Sheep.
- Arts
- FREE pony rides by Bailiwick Ranch
- Face painting by Maggie Green
- Bruderhof young people teaching arts and crafts
- Tastes
- To be announced
- GARDENING Q&A
Master Gardeners of the Cornell Cooperative Extension will be in the market all day to solve your thorny gardening problems and provide soil testing on the spot. The Master Gardeners will focus their advice on harvesting at this time of year: how to harvest and how to preserve.
September
- HARVEST HOME DINNERS - BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
The Saugerties Farmers Market sponsors taste of the market dinners prepared by outstanding local chefs and home cooks. This is a fundraiser in private homes with a ticket price of $50/person to support the market, help local agriculture stay in business, and enjoy a sumptuous meal prepared from the best our local farms have to offer. There was so much good wining and dining last year that most everyone wants to return and some even offered to host. We expanded our schedule to the whole month of September for your convenience. To attend or be added to the mailing list, email: contact@saugertiesfarmersmarket.com.
September 6
- RAINDATE FOR FARM ANIMAL DAY
- TOMATO TASTE-OFF
CALLING ALL HOME GARDENERS: TEST YOUR TOMATOES AGAINST THOSE GROWN BY THE PROFESSIONALS! Ms. Hot Tomato threatens a return engagement and our judges will use all of their tasting skills to award the prizes. Come to the Saugerties Farmers Market at 11am to show off your stuff. Bring your favorite tomatoes for the judges to sample. The winners will be announced at noon so that awards and praise can be bestowed immediately.
- The start of the season for
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Painters, woodworkers, weavers, potters, photographers, quilters, engravers, etc. demonstrate display, and sell. Sign up: email contact@saugertiesfarmersmarket.com. Tent cost $10/day; free if you include demonstrating your craft.
September 13
- Tastes
- 11am: Chef Demo TBA
September 20
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MEN'S COOK-OFF
We supply the burner, tent, paper goods, and a chef's toque. You supply the food and the skill cooking up market food and vying your specialty against the next man's. Limit of 6 participants. Sign up in advance by sending us an email with your name, address, and phone. People's Choice vote by customers in the market determines the winner. Prize: $100 coupon to spend at the Saugerties Farmers Market.
- GARDENING Q&A
Master Gardeners of the Cornell Cooperative Extension will be in the market all day to solve your thorny gardening problems and provide soil testing on the spot. The Master Gardeners will focus their advice on harvesting at this time of year: how to harvest and how to preserve.
September 27
- MARKET CLOSED FOR GARLIC FESTIVAL WEEKEND
Please visit our farmers and many others at the Hudson Valley Garlic Festival at Cantine Field. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Please do so for lots of fun and food.
October 4
- Arts
- 11am-1pm: TBA
October 11
- APPLE FEST
Learn how to bake an apple pie, make apple fritters, and other delicious apple treats. Free tastings!
October 18
- Arts
- 11am-1pm: TBA
- Carrying forward through the winter: this is to make plans about stocking up, canning, freezing, and finding out where to find the farmers in the off-season especially those that might still have products to sell. Consult the Farmers tab for more info.
October 25
- HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN FESTIVAL
Celebrate the season with Pumpkin Carving at Art Lab at the Market. Buy your pumpkin at the market; carving kits available free. Come by and vote your favorite.
- GARDENING Q&A
Master Gardeners of the Cornell Cooperative Extension will be in the market all day to solve your thorny gardening problems and provide soil testing on the spot. The experts will help you consider planting perennials and bulbs and how to put your garden to bed in order to prepare for the next growing season.
- CLOSING DAY
Stock up on fall fruits and farm raised products that keep - apples & pears, breads to freeze, wine, honey, maple syrup. Once again, go to our links to farmers who will have products to sell year round. SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!