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Either drop off at the Dorchester Winter Farmers’ Market on Sundays from 12-3pm at the Great Hall in Codman Square or mail to:
Dorchester Community Food Coop
17 Ashmont St.
Dorchester, MA 02124
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Dear Friends and Neighbors:
We are continuing to create great community space and farm fresh local food access for residents of Dorchester and the surrounding communities at the Dorchester Winter Farmers’ Market, Sundays 12-3pm at the Great Hall at Codman Square (corner of Washington St. and Talbot Ave.) Please help us grow the Market; forward this email to your own friends and neighbors and post on your Facebook pages! We have plenty of food for all. To volunteer at the market, contact sarah.cadorette@gmail.com
Here’s the line up for this coming Sunday!!
January 29 theme: DORCHESTER READS!
Food Vendors
Silverbrook Farm
Oakdale Farm
Stillman’s Meats
Lawton Cheese
Proofed Artisan and Traditional Bread
Good Measure Bakery
Stir It Up Cuisine: Caribbean Pepper Jelly and Cheese Tortes
(Powisset Farm takes a break from the market this week–but will be back next week!)
Crafts
Codman Crafter Joanne Winbush will return to the market selling jewelry
Gail’s Homemade Soaps
Children’s Activities
Face-painting for kids!
Students will read to kids on the stage while you shop
Wellness:
1-3pm: Complimentary 10 minute chair massage by Patricia
What’s Going on in Dorchester:
Learn more about the Initiative to build a new Food Coop in Dorchester. Come by theDorchester Community Food Coop table to get information, buy a Winter Farmers Market T-shirt, and enter a raffle to win a cookbook.
Please continue to spread the word that SNAP participants can use EBT cards at the Winter Farmers’ Market, and will get Boston Bounty Bucks to double the value of purchases!(Get $20 of food for only $10)
Check out the Dorchester Winter Farmers Market Facebook Page for the latest news and great pictures of the market!
After the Market:
Monday Night Wine Club at Ashmont Grill: A four course meal with wine pairings for a fixed price of $38. Throughout January, $5 of each meal will be donated to the Dorchester Community Food Co-op. This is the last night for the Wine Night Food Coop benefit! Owner/Chef Chris Douglass will be focusing the dinners on winter produce available at the Farmers’ Market. Reservations for Wine Club should be made by the Sunday or mid day Monday before each Monday night: 617-825-4300. Great fun to bring your friends!
The Dorchester Winter Farmers Market is a project of the Dorchester Community Food Coop. Thanks to our friends from SCI Dorchester for staffing our last market Many thanks to the hundreds of supporters who have volunteered time and donated resources to make the market possible. Please join us in giving thanks to the growing number of local organizations and businesses who have provided funding and in-kind support for the Winter Farmers’ Market:
Volunteers
To volunteer at future markets, contact Sarah Cadorette sarah.cadorette@gmail.com
Looking forward to seeing all of you at the Market!
The Dorchester Winter Farmers’ Market Team
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Dear Friends and Neighbors:
Its beginning to look more like winter outside, but the skies should be clear and sunny tomorrow for our third Dorchester Winter Farmers’ Market from Noon to 3pm at the Codman Square Great Hall (corner of Talbot and Washington). For those driving–there is plenty of parking on the street and in the lot adjacent to the Codman Square Health Center next door.
At our second market last week we had a great turnout–more than 300 people turned out on a freezing cold holiday weekend! We had more vendors, and there was plenty of food throughout the hours of the market! Our farmers have sweet potatoes, squash, onions, garlic, turnips, celery root, carrots and parsnips, collard greens and kale, and more–everything you need to make a hardy soups and meals for this winter weather. Add a bit of grass fed meat, delicious artisan bread and cheese, and a local sweet and you have a terrific all local meal. (See recipe below for Squash, Carrot and Parsnip Ragout!)
Please continue to spread the word that SNAP participants can use EBT cards at the market, and will get Boston Bounty Bucks to double the value of purchases!(Get $20 of food for only $10)
Check out our new Dorchester Winter Farmers Market Facebook Page for the latest news and great pictures of last week!
Preview: Next week (January 29) we will be celebrating “Dorchester Reads” and we will have a book exchange for all. This week you can begin to bring books you would like to share with your neighbors. Deposit them in the “Book Exchange” box at the Food Coop table. In addition, EBT/Bounty Bucks/WIC participants can receive a new Children’s Book donated by First Book. On stage, volunteers from Codman Academy will be reading to children, and the Codman Square Library will have a library card sign up table.
Here’s the line up for January 22!!
Happy New Year to our Vietnamese friends and neighbors! Learn about Vietnamese New Year (Tet) traditions.
Volunteers from SCI Dorchester will provide volunteer staffing.
Food Vendors
Silverbrook Farm
Powisset Farm
Oakdale Farm
Stillman’s Meats
Lawton Cheese
Proofed Artisan and Traditional Bread
Good Measure Bakery
Crafts
Sierra Rothburg from GoGa will return to the market selling artwork and silk screened apparel. http://www.planetgoga.com/planetgoga/goga_menu.html
Children’s Activities
Face-painting for kids!
Color a Dragon for Tet: the Vietnamese New Year!
Workshops:
On stage: Bootstrap Compost will be demonstrating composting.http://bootstrapcompost.com/.
What’s Going on in Dorchester:
Our good friends from Social Capital Incorporated will be tabling and volunteering at the market. SCI Dorchester has been working hard not only create a fantastic informational website on all events and news Dorchester (http://www.mydorchester.org/), they have also put together toy giveaways on Christmas and done many other community oriented events.
Learn more about the Initiative to build a new Food Coop in Dorchester. Come by theDorchester Community Food Coop table to get information, buy a Winter Farmers Market T-shirt, and enter a raffle to win a cookbook.
After the Market:
Monday Night Wine Club at Ashmont Grill: A four course meal with wine pairings for a fixed price of $38. Throughout January, $5 of each meal will be donated to the Dorchester Community Food Co-op. Owner/Chef Chris Douglass will be focusing the dinners on winter produce available at the Farmers’ Market. Reservations for Wine Club should be made by the Sunday or mid day Monday before each Monday night: 617-825-4300. Great fun to bring your friends!
Thanks to Dorchester People for Peace for staffing our last market and Epiphany School students for making the paper cranes to decorate the Great Hall. Many thanks to the hundreds of supporters who have volunteered time and donated resources to make the market possible. Please join us in giving thanks to the growing number of local organizations and businesses who have provided funding and in-kind support for the Winter Farmers’ Market:
Volunteers
To volunteer at future markets, contact Sarah Cadorette sarah.cadorette@gmail.com
Looking forward to seeing all of you at the Market!
The Dorchester Winter Farmers’ Market Team
Butternut Squash, Carrot & Parsnip Ragoût
From EatingWell: September/October 1994
6 servings
Active Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
1 teaspoon olive oil
3 cups peeled and cubed butternut squash, (about 1 pound)
Salt & freshly ground pepper, to taste
1 1/4 cups reduced-sodium chicken or vegetable broth
1 tablespoon butter
2 cups diced carrots
2 cups diced parsnips
1 teaspoon sugar
2 large leeks, trimmed (all but 2 inches of green removed), cleaned and chopped
Optional: Freshly grated nutmeg, to taste
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Heat oil in a shallow roasting pan on the stovetop over medium heat. Add squash, season with salt and pepper and toss gently. Add 1/2 cup broth and transfer the pan to the oven. Bake until squash is just tender, about 15 minutes; do not overcook.
Meanwhile, heat butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add carrots, parsnips, sugar, and salt and pepper to taste; cook until the vegetables are lightly browned, about 3 minutes. Add 1/2 cup broth, cover the pan and simmer until tender, about 10 minutes. Transfer to a dish and set aside.
Add leeks and the remaining 1/4 cup broth to the pan, season with salt and pepper, cover the pan and simmer until tender, about 10 minutes. Add the reserved squash, carrots and parsnips and toss gently. Taste and adjust seasonings, adding a grating of nutmeg. Simmer for an additional 3 to 4 minutes to warm through before serving
Nutrition
Per serving: 155 calories; 3 g fat (2g sat, 1g mono); 6 mg cholesterol; 31 g carbohydrates; 3 g protein; 6 g fiber; 122 mg sodium; 779 mg potassium.
Nutrition Bonus: Vitamin A (410% daily value), Vitamin C (65% dv), Folate & Potassium (22% dv), Magnesium (17% dv).
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Dear Friends of the Dorchester Community Food Coop:
What an amazing Opening Day we had last week at the Dorchester Winter Farmers’ Market! More than 650 people attended, and the atmosphere was electric! Folks chatted with neighbors, shopped from local farmers, celebrated the diversity of Dorchester, welcomed Mayor Menino, and showed the city that our neighborhood is part of the conversation about healthy food! I hope you all saw the great Boston Globe article on page 1 of the Metro Section on Monday, January 9.
Please keep the momentum going and come to our second market this coming Sunday, January 15. We will have one additional produce vendor, and all the vendors are bringing MORE FOOD now that they know to expect such a big crowd. Let’s not disappoint them!
Spread the word that SNAP participants can use EBT cards at the market, and will get Boston Bounty Bucks to double the value of purchases! (Get $20 of food for only $10)
Check out our new Dorchester Winter Farmers Market Facebook Page for the latest news and pictures of last week!
Here’s the line up for January 15th!!
We are celebrating Martin Luther King Day by honoring Dr. King’s Vision for Peace in the World and Peace in Our Neighborhoods. Our host organization will be Dorchester People for Peace, who are working to bring this message to our neighborhood
Food Vendors
Crafts
Health and Children’s Activities
Music
What’s Going on in Dorchester
After the Market
Volunteers
Volunteers needed to teach older children to make Origami peace cranes—training provided! Also—some volunteers needed to help set up mid day on Saturday. Contact Jenny Silverman silverman.jen@gmail.com
To volunteer at future markets, contact Sarah Cadorette sarah.cadorette@gmail.com
Many thanks to the hundreds of supporters who have volunteered time and donated resources to make the market possible. Please join us in giving thanks to the local organizations and businesses who have provided funding and in-kind support for the Winter Farmers’ Market:
Looking forward to seeing all of you at the Market!
The Dorchester Winter Farmers’ Market Team
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Today is the Grand Opening of the Dorchester Winter Farmers’ Market. Grab your shopping bags and come on down to the Great Hall at the Codman Square Health Center (6 Norfolk St) from noon to 3:00pm. Mayor Thomas Menino will be cutting the ribbon at 2:00pm. See you there!
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Happy New Year to all the friends and supporters of the Dorchester Community Food Co-op. It has been an incredible year of imagining what a new co-op could mean for Dorchester.
Our first project is about to launch—we hope to see many of you at the
Grand Opening of the Dorchester Winter Farmers’ Market at the Great Hall in Codman Square this Sunday, January 8 from 12 to 3pm.
Mayor Menino and other dignitaries will join us at 2 pm for a ribbon cutting ceremony. It will be a busy day—so be sure to come early enough to take part in all the activities! The market will open at noon, and will welcome EBT card holders. Bounty Bucks will be available to double the value of SNAP purchases up to $10.
Here’s the line up for January 8th!!
Food Vendors
Crafts
Health and Children’s Activities
Music
What’s Going on in Dorchester
After the Market
Volunteers
To volunteer at the Market in the coming weeks, contact Sarah Cadorette atsarah.cadorette@gmail.com
Many thanks to the hundreds of supporters who have volunteered time and donated resources to make the market possible. Please join us in giving thanks to the local organizations and businesses who have provided funding and in-kind support for the Winter Farmers’ Market:
Looking forward to seeing all of you at the Market!
The Dorchester Winter Farmers’ Market Team
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