Duvall Farmers Market
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The Official e-Newsletter of the Duvall Farmers Market
Week of June 19th
What another great Thursday we had last week at the Duvall
Farmers Market! It was so nice to finally get a break in the
weather and feel the kiss of sunshine on our faces!
 We
are so pleased to announce that the Duvall Farmers Market
had another record breaking week! Our volunteer counters
recorded a whopping 704 Localvores who came to the Market
again this week to shop! Vendors also increased their sales
by 388% in comparison to our recorded sales in 2007. This is
truly an amazing and exciting season of growth for the
Duvall Farmers Market and we could not get these numbers
without your support!
The Duvall Farmers Market has welcomed many visitors coming
to visit the Market! We warmly welcome our visitors from
Carnation, Woodinville, Monroe, Everett, Redmond, Kirkland
and Snohomish. We also have welcomed those who have also
come to visit the market from California, Montana, New
Hampshire, Florida, Texas and as far east as New York City
and Canada!
 This
week, the Duvall Farmers Market is saying, "SAVE THE
DINOSAURS!". You can save fuel by shopping locally at
your friendly Duvall Farmers Market for all your produce,
fruit, bakery goods, raw varietal honey, fresh floral
bouquets, live herb plants and lavender.
The Market also features Organic Pet treats, beautiful
jewelry, and much more! Guaranteed all from Washington
State! By shopping direct you also support our local economy
and in turn support our local business community. One hand
can feed another if we all work together!
If you have not had the chance to visit the Duvall Farmers
Market yet, you are missing out on a lot of fun and
excitement! Rain or Shine, the market is open every Thursday
from 3 - 7 pm; June 5 thru October 2. Located on 1st and
Stella Street.
Tip for the Week!
When visiting your local Farmers Market, remember that most
vendors do not have Debit or Credit capabilities. Some may,
but it is not guaranteed. All vendors will accept cash or
checks.
At the Information Booth
This Week
 Stop
by the Information Booth and purchase a 100% Organic Cotton
Shopping Bag.
This heavy
duty bag has the Duvall Farmers Market logo on it and is
machine washable. A great bag to do your weekly shopping at
the Market each week, use as a book bag, knitting bag or
beach bag! A great way to show support to the Duvall Farmers
Market as all proceeds go to benefit the Market!
Kid's Activity Booth
 Sunflowers
& Pumpkins
Hey kids! Don't forget to
take photos of your Sunflowers and Pumpkins as they begin to
poke their little heads out of the soil! You may drop off
photos at the Information Booth or send them directly by
email to Laurie Gilbertson, Director at
DuvallFarmersMarket@msn.com.
We will post your progress at the Market, our
website and our e-newsletter!
Featured This Week
Interested in manga or comics? Wondering what on earth a
manga is?
Stop by the Children's Activity Booth at the
Duvall Farmers Market this week and "Draw Your Own Comic!"
While you're at it, chat with owner, Jae Holt, about manga
and other graphic novel topics.
MamaManga is the place to find news and events related to
the graphic novel industry and have online discussions on
related topics. But the keyword to this experience is SAFE.
The goal of MamaManga is to be a trusted source of
entertainment and information about Japanese pop culture and
graphic novels. This is the place where you can talk -
parent-to-parent, fan-to-fan, newbie-to-expert, and any
combination in between. Visit www.mamamanga.com - Mama knows
Manga at
www.mamamanga.com
Sponsor a Kid's
Activity/Craft
 The
Duvall Farmers Market has a few spots available for you or
your business to sponsor a Kid's Activity/Craft. This
special booth was introduced at the Duvall Farmers Market on
Opening Day 2006. The market has seen over 100 children each
night at the Duvall Farmers Market!
Those who sponsor a weekly activity receives
honorable mention, your web link/email contact on the
e-newsletter and listing on our Sponsorship page on our
website. Business owners/Organizations are also able to hang
your banner/sign and have available your brochures or
business cards.
Please contact the Market Director today if
you are interested!
Musicians Corner
 We
wish to thank the Cherry Valley Elementary School Choir,
Band and special Trios and Individual children who performed
for us this past week! We were impressed as to how
professional they were and it was a joy to listen to them
all perform! Thank you again to Music Teacher, Jonna Farley
for sharing the love of music with our community!
On Stage this Week! Angela Reed is returning to Duvall to
perform! We are honored to have Angela return again to the
Duvall Farmers Market. For more information or to listen to
Angela's music, visit her site at
www.AngelaReed.com
Weekly Drawing
 Don't
forget to stop by the Information Booth and fill out your
Weekly Drawing slip! Those entering nightly have the chance
of winning the special market giveaway for that night. The
drawing takes place at 7:00 pm each night and you do not
need to be present to win.
Each week, one name is drawn and the winner is announced in
this e-newsletter or by phone/email. The more you visit the
market, the more chances you have of winning one of three
market bags filled with goodies from the market on October 2!
This Week's Winner
is... Tavia Gonce
Congratulations, Tavia! You have won a Lavender or Herb
plant from Trinity Lavender Farm! Stop by the Information
Booth to claim your prize!
Come meet our Farmers, Artisans and
Food Vendors this week!
Farms (The Duvall Farmers Market is a Pesticide-Free Zone)
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Acma Orchards (Cherries, Apples, Pears, Peaches, Asparagus)
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Blue Dog
Farm
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Full
Circle Farm (Certified Organic)
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Xee Yang
Garden (will return in two weeks)
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Cha New
Life Garden
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Kao Lee
Garden
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Yer Lor
Garden
-
Lee's
Fresh Produce
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Trinity
Lavender Farm
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Honey
Bee Hives
Artisans
Foods
Recipe Corner
Did you know?
Purchase your Bing Cherries from
Acma Orchards and Honey from Honey Bee Hives to make this
very easy, but fancy recipe:
Cherries Poached in Red Wine with Mascarpone Cream
Recipe from Food and Wine
 This
mascarpone cheese mixed with honey makes a luscious topping
for poached cherries. You can serve the dessert either warm
or cold. Use the same mascarpone cheese and honey
combination with any seasonal fruits like peaches, pears,
apples, raspberries, blueberries and more!
Ingredients
2 1/4 cups red wine (you can substitute red wine for
non-alcoholic red wine)
1 cup sugar
1 - 1" x 3" strip of orange zest (outer orange portion of
the peeling)
2 pounds of sweet cherries, halved and pitted
1 cup Mascarpone cheese
2 1/2 tablespoons honey
Directions
In a medium stainless-steel
saucepan, combine the wine, sugar and orange zest. Bring to
a simmer over medium high heat. Add the cherries and return
to a simmer. Reduce heat and simmer, partially covered,
until the cherries are just tender, about 5 minutes.
Transfer to a bowl so the cherries don't overcook.
In a small bowl, combine the mascarpone with the honey.
Remove the strip of orange zest from the cherries. Serve
warm cherries and syrup in bowls or stemmed glasses. Top
with a large dollop of the mascarpone cream.
Variations
The warm cherries and poaching liquid are great alone -
without the mascarpone cream or you may use whipped cream.
Here's some interesting Facts about
Sweet Cherries:
 Fresh
cherries are loaded with several types of key antioxidants,
according to research review by doctors Cynthia Thomson at
the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Chieri Kubota at
the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of
Arizona. Who summarized reports from around the world, their
review provides the most thorough look yet at cherries'
healthful characteristics.
Cherries are considered a "nutrient-dense" food, in that for
a relatively low caloric intake, the consumer receives a
significant amount of quality nutrients and phytochemicals.
In addition to nutrients found in sweet cherries, there are
a wide variety of bioactive food components that have been
associated with improved health. Antioxidants are vital
because they can cancel out the cell-damaging effects of
"free radicals" which are linked to cancer and a host of
age-related illnesses, such as cardiovascular disease,
arthritis and Alzheimer's.
The sweet cherry, like the Bing and Rainier are especially
rich in a component called anthocyanin. In fact, one cup of
fresh sweet cherries contains 80.2 milligrams - part flavanoid family of phytochemical
- compared with 12 mg for
plums and 38.7 mg for raspberries and 44.9 mg for grapes.
Research has also found the Bing variety, the most popular,
is especially high in anthocyanin and that the compound's
level tends to increase as cherries ripen.
So get on down to the Duvall Farmers Market this week and
purchase your Anthocyanin (Bing Cherries!) while you can!
Bing Cherry season should last for another two weeks!
For all you canners out there! Try
this one...
 Canning
our Northwest Fresh Sweet Cherries is easy!
Select firm, ripe NW sweet cherries like the Bing, found at
the Duvall Farmers Market this week.
Rinse, drain and remove the
stem. You may also remove the pit, if you desire (Trinity
Farm leaves the pit in!). Pack cherries into clean hot
canning jars and cover with medium-hot syrup, leaving 1/2 inch
headspace at top of jar.
Seal according to the
manufacturer's directions. Place jars on rack in canner.
Process 25 minutes for points and quarts in boiling water
bath with boiling water two inches above jar topes. Remove
jars from the canner. Cool away from drafts. Remove rings
from sealed jars for at least 12 hours. At high altitudes
processing times vary. For more information, see the USDA
Information Bulletin #539, or call your local county
cooperative extension office.
All
about Honey Bees!
 Stop
by Honey Bee Hives booth this week and meet Kelly Louvier, a
5th generation Bee Keeper. Kelly has offered to help educate
us on why it is so important to support local bee keepers
(also known as Apiarist). She operates 20 - 25 hives and her
specialty is getting true varietal honey which comes from
single nectar sources such as blueberry, raspberry, and
lavender.
Kelly processes her own honey
and sells her honey, soaps, candies, and more! Kelly prides
herself in processing her own honey in order to maintain
quality assurance.
The past two weeks she has
brought her observation hive and has enjoyed educating
everyone on why the Honey Bee is so important to our valley!
Inside the Observation Hive are 3 - 4 thousands bees and you
are able to see the queen in action! The next time you think
about calling that yard service to spray for pest, think
about this!
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It takes the whole life of a
Honey Bee to make just one thimble full of honey.
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Honey bees are the only insects
that produce a food consumed by humans.
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Honey Bees like to stay under 2
miles per flight, but they will go up to 10 - 15 miles for
nectar and pollen.
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Honey is produced in one of the
busiest yet most efficient factories in the world. The
Beehive!
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Honey bees are social insects
with a marked division of labor among the various bees in
the hive. A colony contains one queen, 500 - 1000 drones and
about 30,000 to 60,000 workers.
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A productive queen will lay up
to 3,000 eggs in a single day.
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It takes up to 4,000,000 flower
visits to get 1lb of honey and if you put that in travel
time, that would be 6 times around the world.
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Woodinville, Redmond and Duvall
have experienced significant loss this winter. More research
is being conducted but the conclusion is not just one simple
solution but the most obvious is that environmental factors
play a huge part. As we continue to develop our countryside
and our farming communities are taken away, natural foraging
for the honeybee becomes difficult as natural plants, weeds,
and flowering fruit trees and vegetation for the bee is
removed. If they don't have something to eat, they will die.
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Using Sprays on your grass and
garden to kill off pests are also killing off our honeybees.
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Without the Honey bee to
pollinate, we loose our flowers, fruits and veggies as
pollination will not occur.
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Without the Honey Bee, we loose
our food source.
Local
verses Commercial
 Local
honey means that it comes from nectar sources (flowers) in
the area you live and breath. Pollen is released by all
flowers, trees and grasses...some of these cause allergies.
Consuming local honey and pollen
from the area you live and or work will give you micro doses
of pollen within the honey and will reduce your allergy
symptoms. Also, even if allergies are not a problem the
honey and pollen carry nutrients that are beneficial.
Commercial honey, like clover honey is usually blended to
make the taste uniform and consists of many beekeepers
honeys, heated to at least 160 degrees to kill any living
organisms in the honey so that it will not crystallize on
the store shelves. Honey in the store can be a few years
old. Usually local honey is fresh and still maintains its
unique flavor because no heat has been used to alter the
true taste
RAW vs. Heated
RAW honey is not heated, and minimal to no filtering allows
pollen and nectar sources to remain intact and provides over
300 different elements in nature that makes up raw honey.
Chemicals & Antibiotics
No chemicals means that the beekeeper you are getting honey
from does not treat their honeybees or hives with chemicals,
pesticides, mitacides or antibiotics. Many beekeepers use
these products to keep sick bees alive and reuse the
equipment that is carrying chemicals and disease.
Varietal honey is extracted as single nectar sources such as
blueberry, lavender, or blackberry. They have come from a
single crop or source and it does not have artificial
flavoring added.
Did you know?
 Honey
is a source of carbohydrates - mainly fructose (about 38.5%)
and glucose (about 31.0%). The remaining carbohydrates
include maltose, sucrose and other complex carbohydrates.
On average, honey is 17.1 %
water. Honey also contains a wide array of vitamins, such as
vitamin B6, thiamin, niacin, magnesium, manganese,
phosphorus, potassium, sodium and zinc as well as several
different amino acids have been identified in honey. (Some
of these compounds exist in quantities less than 10 percent
of the recommended daily requirement).
Uses
There are many uses for honey.
Honey can be used in many forms of culinary use. Did you
know that honey also can be used on small wounds like cuts
and burns because it also contains naturally occurring
Hydrogen Peroxide which draws out any infection while
providing extra moisture.
Upcoming Events
 June
26: Executive Chef Eric Wright in the Market. Chef
Wright graduated from the Culinary Arts at Seattle Central
Community College and has worked in many Seattle area
restaurants for over 20 years.
Recently
he was the Executive Chef at Cactus Restaurants and he is
now the Executive Chef and founding member of the Snoqualmie
Valley Slow Food Convivium.
Executive Chef Wright also works with the Grange Cafe in
Historic Duvall as a Consultant/Chef.
Jeff Coult Performs; Children's Activity Booth: Sponsored by
the NW Arts Center
July 3: Charlie Spring Performs
www.CharlieSpring.com;
the Master Gardner will be at the Duvall Farmers Market on
this day! Shop for all of your 4th of July foods!
July 10: Todd Carter-Koeppen performs
www.ToddCarterKoeppen.com; Kids' Activity Booth
sponsored by Foothill's Farm Fiber.
July 24: Jam and Jelly Competition
August 14: Salsa-licious Competition
September 11: Emergency Preparedness Day
September 18: Pie Competition
Be a Localvore
and support your Duvall Farmers Market!
Buy Local ~ Eat Fresh ~ Stay Healthy!
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