Final Countdown

With just 10 days to go we have now reached our final countdown for the opening of the 2012 Tuesday Market in Lauraville season!

Make sure to check out the updated official vendor list, and then swing by on opening day to welcome your favorite (and soon to be favorite) vendors to the market on Tuesday, June 6th from 4pm-8pm.

To get prepared for the upcoming market season, you may want to...

1. Dust off your market basket or bag, so that you can fill it to the brim with fresh goodies.

2. Find the perfect hat to shade your face while wandering around the market in the late afternoon sun.

3. Check out the Maryland's Best website to find out exactly what is currently in season, and what you can get excited about in the coming months.

4. Get your camera ready and take pictures documenting your time at the market. If you feel like sharing your pictures with other market goers, you can post your pictorial experiences on the Real Time Farms website, as well as connect with other local farms and restaurants.

See you on June 6th!

Market Vendors

Can you believe that it is already May 1st? 

ONE MONTH until the beginning of the 2012 season of the Tuesday Market in Lauraville!

To celebrate the countdown, we are sharing with you just a few of the vendors that will be participating in this years market. There are plenty more to come, this is just a sample to get you excited!

Zahradka's Family Farm

Tony Fetters Fruit Farm

Hamilton Crop Circle

Hamilton Bakery

Chef Mac's Louisiana Cuisine 

Pressed Panini

The Red Zebra Pizza

Tooloulou

Thai Spring Roll

Zeke's Coffee

AJ's Hot Dogs and Funnel Cakes

God Scent Herbs

Beads by Bettina 

Made in Heaven 

The Green Crocodile

Gogo's Retread Threads

Jack & Zach Food

The Green Onion 

Prigel Family Creamery

HEALing Fields

Hope that you are as excited about the upcoming market as we are here at 

Hamilton-Lauraville Main Street!

Art Projects

It can be really nice to sit down and do an art project every once in awhile. You know, take out your random box of art supplies that includes everything from scissors and glue sticks to glitter and foam animals. Anything goes in art boxes, the more random, the better.

Hamilton-Lauraville Main Street is pulling out their large art supply box, along with their exciting PNC and Baltimore Office of Promotions & The Arts grant that they were recently granted. With a slightly more organized art box then you might find at your house, the Transformative Art Project grant will provide the area with exciting public art forms.

Currently there are two projects in the works that will address the ongoing and historical presence of urban agriculture in the area, adding on to the two street murals that were put into place last year.

The first of these design ideas include a large carrot sticking out of the soon to be open Green Onion space, located on the corner of Harford Road and Hamilton Avenue.

The second design project will be located on the market lot, and will consist of a large basket on the roof, filled to the brim with market goodies, and have berries falling from the basket creating seating around the market lot.

We hope that you are as excited about these innovative art projects as we are! Stay tuned for more art and market updates, as we slowly slide closer to opening day. In the mean time, crack open that old art supply box of yours and get to your own creative projects.

Is it market season yet?

The fall flew by with vibrant colors, then we had the winter that wasn't, and now we seem to be drifting quite smoothly into spring.

As the weather continues to warm, you can start getting excited about

the start of the Tuesday Market in Lauraville season!

Tuesday, June 5th - Tuesday, October 30th

4-8pm

We have lots of exciting things planned for this coming season, and hope that you will return to enjoy the fresh produce, artisans, and delicious dinner options.

Stay tuned for other exciting announcements coming soon!

Going through withdraw from the Tuesday Market?

If you are like us, and missing your favorite vendors from the Tuesday Market,

we are here to help!

Below is a list of the vendors that can still be spotted around town.

So make sure to go visit them and bring some warm summer weather nostalgia with you.

Happy Place:

Check out her facebook page for updates on where you can find her

Natasha's Brittle:

November 30th at Mercy High School's Mothers Club Christmas Shopping

March 3rd at The Pink Event in Laural

HEALing Fields:

She can be found year round at 3017 Montebello Terrace, 2 doors from Zekes

Also follow her of facebook and twitter to find out about other festivals that she can be found

Natural Aromatics:

32nd Street/Waverly Farmers Market

Downtown market under 83

Studio C Jewelry:

Found almost across the street from the market at 4337 Harford Road

God Scent Herbs:

Towson and Bel Air Markets

Facebook

Etsy

GoGo's ReTread Threads

Follow her on facebook

Wherever her bus takes her!

Infused Spreads:

32nd Street/Waverly Farmers Market

Downtown market under 83

They can also be found at many wonderful proprietors around the city, so check their website out for a complete list!

Pressed Panini

They will be at the last Charles Street Market today!

Greenspring Station Farmers Market

Facebook

Red Zebra

Check out their fabulous new website for the most up to date information!

Hamilton Bakery

Conveniently located just down the street at 5414 Harford Road

Jack and Zach

Excited to say that they have opened a shop at 333 N. Charles Street!

Chef Mac's

Conveniently located just down the street at 4709 Harford Road

Wolfe Street Cuisine

Look out for them rolling around the city in their new food truck!

Sunnyside Farm

They can be found today at the last Charles Street Market of the season, so go by and say hi!

Tony Fetter's Fruit Farm

If you happen to be in Fairfax, Virginia you can stop by and say hi, otherwise catch him on facebook

All of our other lovely vendors will mostly be in hibernation during the winter, so you will just have to start counting down the days until the 2012 Tuesday Market in Lauraville begins again.

Thank you again for a wonderful season!

the last market of the season

Can you believe it?

Our 22-week market season is coming to a close.

We had a great season at 4500 Harford Road and would like to thank everyone for coming out and supporting all of our fabulous vendors. We could not have been such a success without you.

Stay tuned for a complete list of where you can find your favorite vendors during the rest of the year, so that you can continue loving their products.

Come show the last of your seasonal support for your local products, fresh produce, and friendly vendors. Don't forget to thank them for all that they do!

THANK YOU!

Some market pictures to remind you of what a wonderful season we have had...

Produce galore from Zahradka Family Farm

Thrifty finds at Go-Gos ReTread Threads

Freshly baked bread from Hamilton Bakery

Some of our fantastic dinner selections

People enjoying a lovely late summer evening at the market

A boy hula-hooping away during the market

Our visiting musician from Hawaii, Bo

I told you, I love apples

So, I promise this is going to be my last apple specific market post... I just can't help but share all the fabulous things that you can do with apples!

Photograph by: Delancey Nelson

The market can provide you with three of the most important ingredients in the following recipe: apples, eggs, and flour

Apples: Tony Fetters Fruit Farm can provide you with a wide range of apple selections, and if you are nice he will even let you sample them to find the perfect apple for your usage

Eggs: There is always at least one vendor selling eggs, with the possibility of three different vendors each week: Sunnyside Farm, Liberty Delights, and Ferguson Family Farm

Flour: Sunnyside Farm is generously providing our market customers with delicious Yeehaw Farm flour. This is one of a kind wheat flour, that has been grown on the family farm for more then 60 years without the aid of chemicals, not even approved for organic application types, at anytime! This whole wheat flour will give you a whole new perspective on flour.

Delicious Apple Muffins

Recipe adapted from Deborah Madison's: Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone

2 1/2 Cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 - 3/4 Cup packed light brown sugar

2 eggs, lightly beaten

1 1/3 Cup buttermilk

1/3 Cup canola oil or melted butter

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 375 degrees

Grease muffin tins

Mix dry ingredients in one bowl

Mix wet ingredients in another bowl

Mix the two bowls together - but don't beat the batter

Stir into batter

1 Cup apples, diced

1 teaspoon lemon or orange zest

Raisins and Walnuts are other fun options to add to these muffins

Spoon into muffin pans and bake until well risen and slightly brown, approximately 25min.

Enjoy, perhaps with some scrambled eggs...

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2 More Weeks of the Tuesday Market at Lauraville

If you still haven't made it, now is your chance to come check it out.

Pick up some dinner after work from one of our wonderful artisanal vendors.

Pick up a gift for yourself at one of the artists tents.

And, of course, grab your local fruits and vegetables for the week from our farmers.