The Fondy Beet - Saturday, September 10th at Fondy

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This Saturday at Fondy

Haymarket Days Festival: 
Celebrating 80 Years of Eating Local 

You're invited to join in the fun at "The Haymarket" (aka Fondy Farmers Market) this Saturday. We'll be celebrating the market's 80-year legacy of bringing locally grown produce to the heart of Milwaukee. Enjoy free activities for all ages, including music, storytelling, face painting, a watermelon seed spitting contest, cooking and canning demos, and food samples. For a complete line-up, click here. As this is the culminating event for Milwaukee's Eat Local Challenge, local food organizations will be on hand with educational resources. Haymarket Days takes place this Saturday, September 10th from 9am to 1pm at Fondy Farmers Market, rain or shine. The market will be open from 7am until 3pm as usual.

Taste the Season: "Less-traditional Southern"
Taste the Season takes place Saturdays, 9am - noon
Guest Chef Deborah Spriggs-Ross, executive chef and owner of Expressively "Your" Personal Chef Services, will demonstrate some of her signature "less-traditional Southern" favorites using cabbage, collards, Brussels sprouts, and sweet potatoes. In addition to cooking as a personal chef, Chef Deborah is the resident chef and food writer for Girlfriends Health Guide and has taught Milwaukee-area youth healthy cooking and living. Check out her profile at basilmagazine.com.

Youth Booth: Healthy Lunch Bag Craft
Youth Booth takes place Saturdays, 9am - noon
Tired of that same 'ol brown paper lunch bag? Kids can stop by the Youth Booth to create a colorful bag by using veggies like rubber stamps. Each lunch bag comes with a quick guide to making a healthy, well-balanced lunch.

News & Announcements

WUWM: What's New at the Marketplace?

WUWM Environmental Reporter Susan Bence recently visited Milwaukee-area farmers markets, including Fondy, to check on the pulse of the burgeoning market scene in Southeastern Wisconsin. She found farmers spread thin as markets bump into one another. Listen to her conversations with Fondy Executive Director Young Kim, as well as farmers and customers from neighboring markets, by clicking here. 

Take the Eat Local Challenge Today!

Milwaukee's Eat Local Challenge officially takes place the first two weeks of September. The Challenge encourages people to increase their consumption of locally grown food, not only during these two weeks, but all year round. Eating locally helps the environment, the local economy and our community. Plus, local food just plain tastes better! 

What's in Season?
What you can expect to find at market this week.

Plentiful (weather willing)

Veggies: cranberry shelling beans, purple hull peas, snap beans (green, Romano, yardlong), beets (Chioggia, golden, red), bell peppers (green, orange, purple, red, yellow; Topepo Rosso heirloom), cabbage, Napa cabbage, cabbage sprouts, carrots, celery, chili peppers (Banana, Cayenne, Cherry Bombs, Habanero, Hungarian Wax, Jalapeno, Jimmy Nardello heirloom, Thai), sweet corn, Hmong corn, cucumbers (Hmong, pickling, slicing), Asian eggplant (Chinese, Japanese, Thai ball), Asian bitter eggplant (Hmong red, Thai pea), Italian eggplant (green, purple, white), garlic, ginger, kohlrabi, lettuce (green leaf, red leaf, mesclun, Romaine), okra, onions (red, white, yellow), scallions, baby potatoes (red, yellow), baking potatoes, waxy yellow potatoes, radishes, Asian squash (bitter melon, winter melon, opo, pumpkin), summer squash (yellow, zucchini), cherry tomatoes, green tomatoes, red slicing tomatoes, turnips (purple top, Japanese)

Greens: collards, kale, slick mustard, pumpkin leaf, Malabar/Vietnamese spinach, stirfry mix, sweet potato leaf, Swiss chard, turnip greens

Fruits: cantaloupe, peaches, watermelon

Herbs/Aromatics: basil, cilantro, dill, garlic, ginger, parsley, rosemary, sage, thyme

Value-added: apple cider, popping corn

Flowers/Plants: beautiful fresh-cut flower bouquets featuring cosmos, dahlias, dasies, gladiolas, lilies, poppies, sunflowers, sweet peas, zinnias, and more

Limited Supply (get to the market early!)

Veggies: lima/butter beans, Brussels sprouts, butternut squash, snow peas, sorghum cane, heirloom tomatoes

Greens: curly mustard, spinach

Fruits: apples

Meat/Poultry: chicken, eggs

Prepared Food Vendors (Saturdays Only)
Avia Cakes, Checker Board Foods, Corn Man, Egg Roll Lady, Vi Nai Cafe, Yammies Pie Co.

Craft & Specialty Vendors (Saturdays Only)
Miss Rose’s Watkins & More