Bexley Farmers' Market: July 31st

“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”

― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

Farming VanScoy Style

Hydroponic farming is the science of growing or the production of plants in nutrient-rich solutions or moist inert material, instead of in soil. VanScoy Farms located in Ridgeway, Ohio, brings fresh hydroponically grown produce to you at our market! Join us this week on Thursday, July 31st, from 4-7pm, and talk to them about their unique farm and why they grow some of their produce the hydroponic way! Check out the info-graphic below to read about some interesting hydroponic facts and figures!

Also! Make a note to bring your utensils needing to be sharpened! Sharpening on Site will be present for market this Thursday, July 31st, from 4-7pm!

Our vendors for Thursday, July 31st include:

Bridgman Farm
Chuck Evans' MONTEZUMA Brand Sauces and Salsas
Dan the Baker
Hirsch Fruit Farm
Ohio Farm Direct
Oink Moo Cluck
Organic Green Fix
Rhoads Farm
SaraBee Pure Honey 

Sharpening on Site
Spiral Touch
Sweet Thing Gourmet
The Secret Garden

Two Roasting Joes

VanScoy Farms
Wayward Seed Farm

And don't forget... Grab your dinner at the market!

Our food trucks: Ohio Farm Direct

Our musical entertainment:  John Millard

Our community table: Bexley Library

Join us every Thursday through October from 4:00-7:00PM! Rain or shine!
Bexley Farmers' Market
2111 East Main Street
Bexley, Ohio 43209

For more information, or questions related to any of our services, please contact us via email at info@bexleyfarmersmarket.com. See you at the market!

Bexley Farmers' Market: July 24th

“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece” 

 ― Claude Monet

Why Support Farmers' Markets?

Find out why supporting your local farmers' market is good for our communities and ourselves! Check out the info-graphic provided by the Farmers Market Coalition below and see why farmers' markets matter!

Our vendors for Thursday, July 24th include:

Bridgman Farm

Challah Food Truck
Chuck Evans' MONTEZUMA Brand Sauces and Salsas
Dan the Baker
Hirsch Fruit Farm
Ohio Farm Direct
Oink Moo Cluck
Organic Green Fix
Rhoads Farm 

SaraBee Pure Honey
Sippel Family Farm/Kokoborrego

Spiral Touch
Sweet Thing Gourmet
Sweet! The Mobile Cupcakery
VanScoy Farms
Two Roasting Joes
Wayward Seed Farm

And don't forget... Grab your dinner at the market!

Our food trucks: Ohio Farm Direct and Challah Food Truck

Our musical entertainment: Jordan Lynch

Our community table:  Bexley Library

Join us every Thursday through October from 4:00-7:00PM!

Bexley Farmers' Market
2111 East Main Street
Bexley, Ohio 43209

For more information, or questions related to any of our services, please contact us via email at info@bexleyfarmersmarket.com. See you at the market!

Bexley Farmers' Market: July 17th

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.”

― Luther Burbank

Fruit + Sugar = SORBET!

Fruit sorbet is a summer classic treat. With plenty of fresh fruit options throughout the summer, there's a fruit sorbet for everyone! Here's a recipe on, "How To Make Sorbet With Any Fruit", from one of our favorite blogs, The Kitchn.

To make sorbet, you'll need about 2 pounds of fruit, a cup of sugar, water, and lemon juice. At least 24 hours before making the sorbet, place the ice cream base in the freezer to freeze.

                                      

How To Make Sorbet With Any Fruit
Makes 1 quart

Ingredients
2 pounds fresh fruit (4 to 5 cups after prepping and slicing)
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 to 4 tablespoons lemon juice

Instructions:

Freeze the ice cream base: At least 24 hours before making the sorbet, place the ice cream base in the freezer to freeze.

Prepare the fruit: Wash and dry the fruit. Cut away or remove any rinds, peels, pits, seeds, stems, or other non-edible parts of the fruit. Slice the fruit into bite-sized pieces. You should have around 5 cups of chopped fruit, though a little more or less is fine.

Prepare the simple syrup: Combine the sugar and water in a small sauce pan and bring to a simmer over medium-high heat, stirring gently once or twice. Simmer until the sugar is completely dissolved in the water, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool.

Combine the fruit and 1/2 cup of simple syrup: Combine the fruit and 1/2 cup of the cooled simple syrup in the a blender, the bowl of a food processor, or in a mixing bowl (if using an immersion blender). Reserve the remaining syrup.

Blend until the fruit is completely liquified: Blend the fruit and the syrup until the fruit is completely liquified and no more chunks of fruit remain.

Strain the juice: If your fruit contains small seeds (like strawberries or raspberries) or is very fibrous (like mangos or pineapples), strain it through a fine-meshed strainer to remove the solids. Gently stir with a spoon as you strain, but don't force the solids through the strainer.

Test the sugar levels with the egg-float test: Wash and dry a large egg. Gently lower the egg, still in its shell, into the sorbet base. You're looking for just a small nickel-sized (roughly 1-inch) round of shell to show above the liquid — this indicates that you have the perfect balance of juice and sugar. If you see less shell (dime-sized), stir in a little more sugar syrup; check with an egg and continue adjusting as needed. If you see more shell (quarter-sized), stir in a little water or fruit juice; check with an egg and continue adjusting as needed. (Store leftover simple sugar in the fridge.)

Stir in the lemon juice: Stir in 1 tablespoon of lemon juice. Taste the sorbet base and add more lemon juice if it tastes to sweet and bland.

Chill the base: Cover the sorbet base and refrigerate until very cold, at least 1 hour or overnight.

Churn the sorbet: Pour the chilled base into the ice cream machine and churn. Continue churning until the sorbet is the consistency of a thick smoothie. This typically takes between 10 and 15 minutes in most machines.

Freeze the sorbet: Transfer the sorbet to pint containers or other freezable container and cover. Freeze for at least 4 hours, until the sorbet has hardened. Homemade sorbet will generally keep for about a month in the freezer before starting to become overly icy.

Serve the sorbet: Let the sorbet soften for a few minutes on the counter, then scoop into serving bowls.

Our vendors for Thursday, July 17th include:

Bridgman Farm
Chuck Evans' MONTEZUMA Brand Sauces and Salsas
Dan the Baker
Hirsch Fruit Farm
Ohio Farm Direct
Oink Moo Cluck
Organic Green Fix
Rhoads Farm
Sippel Family Farm/Kokoborrego
Sweet Thing Gourmet
Sweet! The Mobile Cupcakery
VanScoy Farms
Two Roasting Joes

Wayward Seed Farm

And don't forget... Grab your dinner at the market!

Our food trucks: Ohio Farm Direct

Our musical entertainment: Chris Bullwinkle

Join us every Thursday through October from 4:00-7:00PM!

Bexley Farmers' Market
2111 East Main Street
Bexley, Ohio 43209

For more information, or questions related to any of our services, please contact us via email at info@bexleyfarmersmarket.com. See you at the market!

Bexley Farmers' Market: July 10th

“Ol' man Simon, planted a diamond. Grew hisself a garden the likes of none. Sprouts all growin' comin' up glowin' Fruit of jewels all shinin' in the sun. Colors of the rainbow. See the sun and the rain grow sapphires and rubies on ivory vines, Grapes of jade, just ripenin' in the shade, just ready for the squeezin' into green jade wine. Pure gold corn there, Blowin' in the warm air. Ol' crow nibblin' on the amnythyst seeds. In between the diamonds, Ol' man Simon crawls about pullin' out platinum weeds. Pink pearl berries, all you can carry, put 'em in a bushel and haul 'em into town. Up in the tree there's opal nuts and gold pears- Hurry quick, grab a stick and shake some down. Take a silver tater, emerald tomater, fresh plump coral melons. Hangin' in reach. Ol' man Simon, diggin' in his diamonds, stops and rests and dreams about one... real... peach.” 

― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

Thank you, thank you Jim Budros! We could not thank you enough!

Sending a shout out to a good market friend, Jim Budros! If you did not make it to market last week, July 3rd, Jim brought his mobile oven in which he prepared and baked 35 pizzas for our customers! His generous donation to our market deserves a great deal of thanks to this wonderful Bexley resident and supporter of our market. Thank you again, Jim on behalf of the Bexley Farmers' Market!

Our vendors for Thursday, July 10th include:

Bridgman Farm
Challah Food Truck
Chuck Evans' MONTEZUMA Brand Sauces and Salsas
Dan the Baker
Hirsch Fruit Farm
Ohio Farm Direct
Oink Moo Cluck
Organic Green Fix
Rhoads Farm
SaraBee Pure Honey
Spriral Touch
Sweet Thing Gourmet
Sweet! The Mobile Cupcakery
VanScoy Farms
Two Roasting Joes

And don't forget... Grab your dinner at the market!

Our food trucks:  Ohio Farm Direct and Challah Food Truck

Our musical entertainment: Dave Sky

Our community table:  Bexley Health and Wellness:  Try It Thursday

Join us every Thursday through October from 4:00-7:00PM!

Bexley Farmers' Market
2111 East Main Street
Bexley, Ohio 43209

For more information, or questions related to any of our services, please contact us via email at info@bexleyfarmersmarket.com. See you at the market!

Bexley Farmers' Market: July 3rd

“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. ”

― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Happy Independence Day!

Join Us This Week, July 3rd!

The Bexley Farmers' Market is open at its' normal hours this week despite the holiday and Red, White and BOOM! Come grab your holiday favorites, from 4-7pm at the Bexley Farmers' Market! Rain or shine!

Our vendors for Thursday, July 3rd include (this list is intended to change this week):

Chuck Evans' MONTEZUMA Brand
Dan the Baker
Hirsch Fruit Farm
Oink Moo Cluck
Rhoads Farm
Spiral Touch
Sweet Thing Gourmet 

Two Roasting Joes

VanScoy Farms 

Wayward Seed Farm

And don't forget... Grab your dinner at the market! 

This week Jim Budros will be present to serve his wonderful grilled pizzas!

Our musical entertainment:  Dave Sky

Join us every Thursday through October from 4:00-7:00PM!

Bexley Farmers' Market
2111 East Main Street
Bexley, Ohio 43209

For more information, or questions related to any of our services, please contact us via email at info@bexleyfarmersmarket.com. See you at the market!