1. Music

We are very lucky to have another great musician on Friday, July 31: Tim Berry, who will play Folk/Americana. You can listen to some of his music at:

http://www.myspace.com/timberrymusic.

Please help spread the word! This is vacation time, and many of you have friends and family visiting. Bring them to the market on Friday! We are proud to be a quintessential small Vermont Farmers’ Market, right here in your community - and of course, great music adds to the fun.

2. National Farmers’ Market Week in August

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has declared August 2 - August 8 2009 to be the 10th annual National Farmers' Market Week. NOFA Vermont is organizing special events at farmers' markets around the state, visit http://www.nofavt.org/ for more information.  There is also a video contest where everybody is invited to participate:

Buy It, Cook It, Film It Video Contest

A creative film contest open to everybody who loves Farmers’ Markets! Shoot a short film about your favorite farmers' markets and post it to YouTube to be entered into this contest. Judges are NOFA Vermont's executive director, Enid Wonnacott, as well as Vermont Secretary of Agriculture, Roger Allbee. With over 70 farmers’ markets, Vermont has many reasons to celebrate and there are many events planned nationwide to acknowledge that ‘shopping local’ is great resource and should be accessible to all. More info:

http://www.nofavt.org/market-organic-food/farmers-markets/129#2

‘Travel to the Farmers’ Markets’. A brochure will showcase US East Coast Farmers' Markets and give out information about their times & location, so visitors can plan their summer vacation route differently this time. The working title is:

Travel the fresh way - visit local Farmers' Markets! Ask us when it’s coming out!

Our musician on Aug 7 will be Evelyn Troester who comes from Brooklyn, NY and we will partner with a New York City Farmers Market for the day.

August 07 Market Day:

Books on farming, homesteads, and the localvore movement are on display.  The event will be held together with the Westford Library, and all books are available at the library.