Welcome

This week: Wednesday, September 8, 2010

September is Locavore Month, and we hope you'll come celebrate with us. Abundance Cooperative Market's 2nd Annual Market Passport Program runs from September 1 through September 30. Pick up a free Farmers Market Passport card at Abundance or at our market, and use it to track purchases at any of the ten participating farmers' markets until September 30. Redeem your fully-stamped Passport card at Abundance for a free gift and a chance to win $100 worth of groceries.

This week we will have lots of peppers, of every variety: sweet, hot, really hot, big, tiny, skinny, fat. Beans will be both yellow and green. There will be pumpkins, and other winter squash, eggplants of every shape and size, broccoli, cabbage large and small, and more of those fabulous heirloom tomatoes. Also apples and more scrumptious raspberries.

Our musicians will be the local duo Tin Can Set. Michael and Daniel have been regulars at our market. Their music blends Gypsy Punk and American Folk, and aims for social relevance.

Mona will be back at the artist's table with her bright and beautiful tie-dyed clothing.

The Monroe Branch Library will be joining us again. Come check out the books and materials at their table. And we will also have Rochester Community Acupuncture, a community-style acupuncture clinic providing personalized acupuncture treatments in a quiet, open setting. They are located at 728 South Ave., and their sliding-scale fees make acupuncture accessible to everyone (rochestercommunityacupuncture.com).

For a $5 donation you get a gift of a dark green Monroe Village Farmers' Market shopping bag.