DFM Accepts
SNAP Benefits |
The Durham Farmers' Market proudly accepts SNAP benefits. To use SNAP benefits at the Market, please visit the Market info table at the center of the Pavilion.
The Double Bucks Program allows SNAP customers to receive double the amount of money they spend on tokens for purchases up to $10.
The Market is working closely with RAFI as our fiscal sponsor. Read more about the program and our partnership
HERE.
Thank you to everyone who has already made donations to the Double Bucks program! We couldn't do it without you.
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| Farmer Foodshare Donation Station |
The Donation Station Program collects donations of fresh food and cash from customers at the Durham Farmers' Market. The money is used directly at the Market to purchase food from farmers for those who are hungry in our communities. Farmer Foodshare's mission is to connect our local farmers with those who need food!
Please visit or volunteer at our Durham Farmers' Market Donation Station!
COME SUPPORT YOUR FARMERS!
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NOW AVAILABLE
AT THE MARKET |
FLOWERS
GRAPES
TOMATOES
PASTURED MEATS
EGGPLANT
SQUASH
PEPPERS
EGGS
ARTISAN BREAD
GREENS
OKRA
CHEESE
ONIONS
RADISHES
TURNIPS
SWEET POTATOES
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10% Campaign
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The 10% Campaign is a project of the Center For Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS). The campaign encourages you to spend 10% of your existing food dollars to support North Carolina food producers, businesses and communities. Why 10%? In North Carolina, we spend $35 billion on food every year. If we spend 10% of our food dollars on local product, we can infuse over $3.5 billion into the local economy. As avid supporters of the Durham Farmers' Market, you already know the many advantages to shopping locally. So, why join the campaign? It will re-affirm your commitment to shopping locally and it sends a strong message to policy makers about the importance of local foods! For more information
visit: www.nc10percent.com |
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Raise your hand if you love potatoes! Right now you can pick up sweet, fingerling, purple, and more varieties of potatoes at the Market. These versatile vegetables inspire the greatest, and sometimes simplest, home cooking. Packed with vitamin C and potassium, their health benefits live up to more than their starchy reputation. They can be the perfect side dish, or they can steal the show and make the main component of the meal. Served hot or cold, these little beauties are an important staple to have in your pantry.
To preserve your potatoes for many months, be sure to keep them in a dry, dark, and cool place.
Planted in February and March in this area, "seed potatoes" are not those tiny seeds we commonly think of, rather potatoes that are cut into several pieces and planted in furrows. Each potato piece must contain an eye, and the eye must be pointed upward in the furrow. Once planted, the eye on the potato pieces will sprout and create the plant. They will also send down roots and eventually begin to grow many brand new potatoes from each plant.
A fun way to grow potatoes in your home garden, especially if you don't have much space, is to use tires!
Simply stack a few tires, fill them with soil, and plant your seed potatoes. As the plant grows taller, stack additional tires and fill with more soil or mulch. Make sure to leave about 6 inches or so of the plant above the mulch you are using. When it is time to harvest, un-stack the tires to easily dig out your above ground potato crop!
But until then, you can find them awaiting you at the Market, already planted, hilled, and masterfully harvested by your favorite farmers. Happy cooking!
Written by Jenny Elander.
See you tomorrow!
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Market News
Saturday, October 8
- Check out what the Homefries Kids are cooking on the Market Lawn with Chef Jeff Crane from 9:30-11:00 am.
Wednesday, October 12
- The last Wednesday Market of the season.
Saturday, October 15
- Chat with the Master Gardeners from 8 am-noon.
Saturday, October 29
- Mark your calendars now for our annual Vendor Costume Contest!
September 10-November 6
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Fresh this Week!
 VEGETABLES:
Acorn Squash,
Arugula, Black Spanish Radish, Broccoli, Butternut Squash, Eggplant, Fall Squash, Garlic, Ginger, Kale, Lettuce, Okra, Onions, Padron Peppers, Pea Shoots, Peppers, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Radishes, Squash, Tomatoes, Turnips and more!
FRUIT:
Grapes and Melons
MEATS & EGGS: Pork, Beef, Chicken, Duck Eggs and Chicken Eggs
CHEESES: Goat Milk Cheeses
FLOWERS:
Sunflowers, Zinnias,
Celosia, Marigolds and more!
SPECIALTY ITEMS: Baked Goods including Pies, Breads, Cookies, Pastries, Pickles and Preserves
Produce availability depends on weather conditions.
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Big news! We are looking for a passionate person to join our team as the Assistant Manager! Are you a people person who loves local food, farming, and artisan crafts? Are you a guru in event planning, social media, and writing? Is getting up early on Saturday your jam? Find the full job posting on our website and apply today! Also, please e-mail us with any questions. Thank you for helping us spread the word about this opportunity!
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News from Durham Central Park!
 A few weeks ago, our friends at Durham Central Park asked for your feedback through their community input survey. The survey was the first part of a process to revise and update the Park's Master Plan.
The next step is to participate in the Design Charrette and work on updating the Park's Master Plan.
DFM's customers are some of the most frequent park visitors so we encourage you to participate
Design Charrette this
Saturday, October 8 from 9 am-noon at
Measurement Inc. (423 Morris Street).
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Fickle Creek Farm
10% off purchase of $100 or more!
Pre-order
by Tuesday, October 4 at 8 pm to have
an order held for you at Market until 5:30 pm.
Fresh, never frozen, 100% grass-fed mutton:
Leg, shoulder, loin chops, rib chops, ground, shanks, heart, kidney, ribs, and bone
100% grass-fed beef: Ground beef, stir fry meat, kabob meat, steak (NY strip, bone-in/boneless ribeye, boneless sirloin, lat iron, chuck eye), short ribs, pot roast, chuck roast, rump roast, bottom round roast, London Broil, osso buco, heart, smoked kielbasa sausage, soup bones, knuckles, and kidney
Pork (pasture and woodlot raised): Belly/jowl bacon, tenderloin, bone in pork chops, smoked boneless chops, spare/babyback ribs, boston butt, boneless pork loin, mild breakfast sausage patties, breakfast pinky links (maple, mild, hot), bulk sausage (hot extra sage, mild Italian, hot Italian, chorizo), link sausage (bratwurst, hot Italian, mild Italian, smoked chorizo, smoked bell pepper & onion, smoked polish), smoked hocks, fatback, leaf lard, and rendered lard
Chicken (fed certified organic feed and free-range on pasture): H
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f broiler, French breast, leg quarter pairs, wings, backs, necks, and wing tips
Artisan Deli Meats:
Bologna, corned beef, roast beef, pastrami, salami and hot dogs (pork, or pork/beef)
100% grass fed beef jerky (4 oz), beef sticks (1 oz) and snack bits (4 oz):
Hot, mild and sweet
Soup, stew and stock (pre-order only!)
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Beef soup bones, knuckle; pork meaty neck/back bones; chicken backs, necks, wing tips; Whole stew hens
Produce (no synthetic chemicals)
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Fairy tale eggplant, garlic, yum yum peppers, mixed sweet peppers, arugula
Chicken eggs (free range and pastured hens): Mixed (medium-extra large), jumbo, and pullet
Duck eggs
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Maple Spring Gardens
With the weekend's forecast predicting heavy rain and wind, we're making sure to really savor the beautiful sunny weather we're having this week. Come enjoy being outside and check out our stand at the Market
this Wednesday
! This week we'll have tomatoes (slicers, cherries, and paste), peppers (green and sweet), beans, eggplant, lettuce, butternuts, ginger, broccoli, and arugula.
We look forward to seeing you at the Market!
Maple Spring Gardens
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Boxcarr Handmade Cheese
 We are a small, family-operated creamery in Cedar Grove making Italian-inspired Cow and Goat-milk cheeses. We hand craft all our artisan cheeses, packing each with love.
We bring the whole family to the market so get ready to meet the kids!
Come taste all of our delicious cheeses including our new,
Pimento, Herb Garlic, and Chive flavored fresh, cow-milk cheese,
Freshen; our award-winning bloomy-rind, mixed-milk,
Cottonseed; our bloomy-rind creamy cow-milk
Cottonbell; our lightly-smoked, meltable fan favorite,
Campo; our decadent ash-ripened,
Rocket's Robiola; our milder take on a beer washed Taleggio,
Lissome; our mixed-milk feta,
Flint Ridge; and our aged and bees wax dipped, mixed-milk,
Winsome.
F
or more about our cheeses, creamery, and us, please visit our
Austin, Dani, Samantha & Alessandra
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Pomegranate Kitchen
Fresh, local North Carolina produce with an international twist of
flavors. That's the concept of Pomegranate Kitchen.
Mally is a globe trotter and has been exposed to exotic flavors from around the world. She looks forward to sharing her mouth-watering food with you!
Mally Rafizadeh
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Parking & Street Information
The Market is located at 501 Foster Street in and around the Pavilion at Durham Central Park.
Parking can be found on the street around the Market or in public parking lots along Foster Street and on Morgan Street near the Carolina Theatre.
Handicap parking is available on Foster Street, right next to the south entrance of the pavilion.
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Durham Farmers' Market Animal Policy
Please note that the Durham Farmers' Market does not allow dogs or other pets in the Market area during Market hours.
Service animals are exempt from this rule.
Leashed pets are welcome elsewhere throughout Durham Central Park.
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