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Photos from the Emerson-Garfield Farmers’ Market Launch

Photos from the Emerson-Garfield Farmers’ Market Launch

Patrons at Pacific Produce booth.
Slicing a nectarine for sampling at the Pacific Produce booth.
Rachel’s handmade soaps at the Orange Thyme booth.
Rachel and Brian discuss her handmade soaps at the Orange Thyme booth.
Claire from the Vinegar Flats booth.
Jennifer de-stresses a patron at the Jennifer Michelle Massage booth.
Bev from Petunia’s Marketplace proudly displaying honey from her own apiary.
Pete explains his homemade rubs and spices at the SavorX booth.
Lauri can’t bag her bread fast enough at the Pleasant Prairie Farms booth.
Some of the homegrown veggies on offer at the Sweet Things booth.
Info leaflets on Sweet Things’ Trades of Hope.
Wild-caught, flash-frozen sockeye at the Old Harbor Sustainable Seafood booth.
The Scoop doing a brisk trade on an especially hot day.
Anne with her homegrown veggies at The Father’s Table.
Sunny and Jim at the JJ Goats booth.
Rocky River Soap Co’s gorgeous lineup of liquid castile soaps.
Rocky River Soaps — good for your skin, good for the environment.
Alie of Gluten Busters shows off their range of tantalizing gluten-free products.
Gluten Busters is proud of being gluten free.
Making friends at the Emerson-Garfield Farmers’ Market.
Climbing trees at the Emerson-Garfield Farmers’ Market.
Farmers’ Market Launch Today

Farmers’ Market Launch Today

EGFM sandwich boardWell, the big day is finally here. The Emerson Garfield Farmers’ Market launches today (Friday, July 19) at 3pm and will run until 7pm in the parking lot Knox Presbyterian Church (806 W. Knox) [map].

The buzz so far seems to be great. Yesterday we got a wonderful writeup in The Inlander‘s food newsletter, Entree, and this website saw some of its highest traffic ever. In the past 24 hours alone, we’ve added LyLo’s Teriyaki food truck and Orange Thyme to our full-season vendors.

Here are some highlights and important info:

  • We have approximately 16 vendors and food trucks taking part today, with the possibility of some last-minute additions. Even more are scheduled for next week (but let’s not get ahead of ourselves).
  • Today’s event isn’t just a one-off. It’s a weekly market that runs until October 18, and if it’s a success, it will continue next year too.
  • Remember that this is not the location that we announced back in May. It’s in the parking lot of Knox Presbyterian at the corner of Knox and Post. Look for the sandwich boards (pictured) when you’re heading north on Monroe, west on Indiana and south on Post.
  • The Party Palace on Division was fantastic enough to donate some balloons to decorate our sandwich boards. R&R Custom Color Lab on N. Monroe was kind enough to cut us a nice break on flyer printing, which was largely out-of-pocket.
  • Bri Musser designed our logo as well as our soon-to-be-printed tokens. If the market has slick branding, she’s the one to credit. Those tokens are being sponsored by Prime Lending and the interesting new episodic TV show Washington Grown, and we’re incredibly grateful for their generosity and support. Megan Kennedy and Melissa Parker were the dynamic duo that recruited those sponsors.
  • The Emerson-Garfield Farmers’ Market is a “sister” market of the West Central Marketplace. We got this off the ground in just 60 days because we were able to pool resources with Project HOPE, who have been instrumental in sorting out a lot of the back-end paperwork. That also means market tokens from one market will be valid at the other — which opens up your market shopping opportunities.
  • Knox Presbyterian has been a dream venue for a lot of reasons — not least their eagerness to make sure we had all the amenities a market would need. If you bump into one of their volunteers, thank them profusely.
  • Despite all our publicity, there are plenty of people who still won’t know about this new weekly event. Mention it to your friends, family and co-workers — tell ’em that there’s a convenient place to go on Friday afternoon/evening for some excellent fast food as well as some fresh, affordable weekend shopping. Spokane’s north side needs a little love.

And we’ll conclude there for now. See you at the market!

Farmers’ Market Vendor Lineup

Farmers’ Market Vendor Lineup

On Friday we sent confirmation e-mails to the vendors and food trucks who had applied to be part of the first-ever Emerson-Garfield Farmers’ Market. Here are the ones you can expect to see each week at the market this season:

Farmers' Market BingoPlease visit their websites and check them out on Facebook!

Keep in mind that this is by no means the definitive list. We’re awaiting signed applications from a few more vendors and food trucks, and there are also day vendors who will be appearing intermittently. To add some promotional suspense, we’ll keep those day vendors a surprise until the week before they’re scheduled to attend.

However, we are still trying to recruit some specialist food trucks (especially tacos and BBQ) for our rotating lineup. If you’re interested, please download an application here — and if you have a favorite food truck, urge them to take part. We’re not looking for any more full-season trucks, just some to be part of a round robin schedule to mix things up a bit.

One of the things we’re especially proud of is the fact that five of the fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen vendors listed above are located within Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood. So not only will the market give Emerson-Garfield residents access to fresh, local food, it will also help bring some much-deserved attention to these Emerson-Garfield businesses.

Reminder: July Meetings and Breaks

Reminder: July Meetings and Breaks

Just a reminder that there is no Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council meeting this month. Normally the EGNC meets on the second Wednesday of each month, but this is not the case for July, when we traditionally take a break for the summer holidays.

There is, however, a Neighborhood Planning meeting on this Wednesday, July 10, at the Corbin Senior Center [map]. It starts at 7pm and will run about an hour. If you’re on Facebook, please RSVP here (and please “Like” the E-G Neighborhood page while you’re at it).

This is an ideal activity for anyone with an interest in helping to determine what our neighborhood looks like in five, ten or even twenty years’ time — it doesn’t matter whether you’re a seasoned neighborhood stalwart or just someone who’s curious about Emerson-Garfield’s future.

But one meeting instead of two doesn’t mean that there’s nothing going on. Looking  ahead into July and August, we have the launch of our first-ever weekly farmers’ market on Friday, July 19 (click here for times, location, and more details). We also have a free concert in Emerson Park [map] on Sunday, July 28, which is also the same day as the Christ Our Hope Bible Church’s Parking Lot Party. Fortunately, they only overlap by half an hour. Hit the concert first at 4pm, then head down to the PLP!

In August, we have our annual summer potluck. This year it’s in Corbin Park [map] and starts at 6pm. That will happen in place of the August EGNC meeting — in other words, on Wednesday, August 14.

Get an overview of all those events on our calendar page or on Facebook; registered Facebook users are encouraged to RSVP. We’re also asking for your help to spread the word — more on that (with download links to flyers for printing) is here.

Help Us Get the Word Out!

Help Us Get the Word Out!

We have a number of really exciting upcoming neighborhood events, and we could use your help in spreading the word.

Like most all-volunteer organizations, we’re limited by funds and manpower. We can’t afford to print enough flyers to reach everyone — and even if we did, we don’t have enough members to make sure that a copy is delivered to everyone in the neighborhood.

So please download the flyers below (they’re standard PDFs) and print out a copy or two for your neighbors, church, or workplace. It would lift some of the load from our shoulders, and it would make sure that more and more people hear about these great neighborhood events.

The 2-up/4-up ones will need to be cropped accordingly. Or you can click on the icons above to access 1-up versions of all the flyers.

Thanks on behalf of the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council for any help you’re able to offer! And if you have time, please leave some info in the comments about where you’ll be flyering — we naturally don’t want to cover the same area twice.