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Health & Fitness

Last Indoor Tommorow; First Outdoor May 24th

MOTHER'S DAY

& MAY FLOWERS

 

Tomorrow ideas for Mother's Day should spring to mind as we welcome a number of vendors with items mom would love. Shawangunk Growers will have a wide selection of hardy perennials and bulbs. Find mom a rare, native, or new perennial for her flower beds. Also in with beautiful flowers mom would like is Simply Planted Greenhouses. They have combinations of flowering annuals that would look great on her deck in a planter. Explore through the Market tomorrow to find unique body care items such as goats milk soaps and lotions from Butterfield Farm, and beeswax soaps from Hudson River Apiaries. Find Mother's Day brunch options such as Red Barn's decorative savory tarts, Dutch Desserts fruit tarts, or Newgate Farms perfect scones. Spoonful of Sugar will have gluten-free Mother's Day "baby-cakes", which are stunningly decorated with latticed icing and rose shapes. You can of course also get the fresh eggs, bacon, vegetables and meats to go home and make mom a great meal Sunday too. Whatever your plans are the Pleasantville Farmers Market can help your time with mom be extra special this weekend.

To review all vendors in attendance at tomorrow's Market check our up-to-date, interactive
Map of the Market.

Visiting School Groups Tomorrow:
Kids wild about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math? "Friends of STEM" is a community group providing programs to help Pleasantville Middle School students have fun while developing STEM skills and awareness of STEM career paths. Friends of STEM will visit tomorrow with several students, highlighting volunteer opportunities for adults interested in working with enthusiastic young people. Also visiting are students from our Pleasantville High School Science Research Program. Stop by to learn from these students about their exciting projects.

TOOL DRIVE
For The Pleasantville Community Garden

Do you have extra or unused gardening tools in your garage or shed? The Pleasantville Community Garden is looking for donations of usable quality garden tools. Here's what they need: full-size shovels, trowels, pitchforks, watering cans, large buckets, medium plastic bins with lids (for transporting vegetables to food pantries), work gloves, pruning shears, garden hand rakes (cultivators), and bulb diggers. If you would like to donate any of these items, please bring them to the Market tomorrow from 9:30am - 12:00pm. Not around this weekend? You can contact the Pleasantville Community Garden to arrange a donation by visiting www.pvillegarden.org



Asparagus! Ramps! Fiddleheads!


Newgate Farm is bringing wild fiddleheads. Newgate, Cowberry Crossing Farm, Conant Valley Jams and perhaps few more vendors will have fresh ramps. Conant Valley Jam has two wild ramp pestos, and Healing Home Foods has a ramp hummus. Cowberry Crossing Farm also will have spring nettles. Pretty wild!

Things are getting greener:
Little Seed Gardens is back with their terrific greens and sprouts and Cowberry Crossing Farm now has their own salad mixes as well. Madura will arrive with field asparagus, rhubarb and French breakfast radishes this week.

Leanin' green in your energy choices?
Green Mountain Energy
has been with us all winter, and will continue to be a weekly presence at the summer market as well. If you have been intrigued but haven't yet learned what they can offer, stop by tomorrow to speak with their representative. While doing so, thank them for their support of the Market. As a Market Sponsor they were a vital part of the first Pleasantville Farmers Market being a success.


What a FINE fine school district it is!


Tomorrow marks the end of the indoor season. And we'd like to thank the Pleasantville Union Free School District Board of Education and administration for their generosity, hospitality, and community spirit. It cannot be overstated how much farmers and area residents appreciated the cozy Middle School, and its dedicated support staff, through such a long cold winter.
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