On Saturday, February 25, 2012  Goshen Clay Artist’s Guild will host their annual Empty Bowl Project at Goshen Farmer’s Market.  Dinner will include a choice of delicious soups, breads, and desserts donated by local restaurants.  Guests are invited to choose their own beautiful handmade soup bowl from hundreds donated by Guild Members and area potters.  At the end of the evening, take the bowl home as a keepsake of a wonderful evening.

Event proceeds benefit Interfaith Hospitality Network, which provides emergency shelter to homeless families.

Details

• Where – Goshen Farmer’s Market
• Date – Saturday, February 25, 2012
• Time – 5pm to 8pm
• Cost – $15 per person, which includes a handmade pottery bowl

Join us Saturday, October 22, when we will say a big “thank you” to our customers for your continuing support of the market and local farming.  The fun will take place throughout regular market hours (8am to 1pm).

Enjoy:

• Music by Red Tail Ring and The Hard Travelin’ Boys.

• Free refreshments provided by Rachel’s Bread, The Electric Brew, and Constant Spring.

• Door prizes including farmer’s market t-shirts, gift certificates, and market merchandise.

We had a great summer season, and this is our chance to show our appreciation and give something back to our great customers.  It won’t be a party without YOU, so save the date and help us celebrate!

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has declared the second week in August to be National Farmer’s Market Week!  Mayor Kauffman has proclaimed it Farmer’s Market Week in Goshen as well — you can read his proclamation here. 

Since 2000, when the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) first proclaimed National Farmers Market Week, the number of farmer’s markets has grown 150%, from 2,863 in 2000 to 7,175 in 2011. As these numbers increase, farmers markets are bolstering local economies, improving community health, and bringing diverse groups of people together through a shared social space.

Goshen Farmer’s Market will be celebrating this accomplishment with door prizes & live music throughout the week.  Be sure to join us!  

Enjoy a ‘virtual tour’ of three of the Market’s farms:

• Blue Heron (Tom & Cas)
• Clay Bottom (Ben & Rachel)
• Creekside (Dean & Vera)

All three farms are so pretty in person that the pictures hardly do them justice… but they’ll give you a taste of the love and effort that goes into bringing your food to market!  Click to view the slideshow.

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Have you ever wished you could visit the farms where your food is grown? Well, here’s your chance! Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center and Goshen College are sponsoring a bus tour of Creekside Farm (Dean and Vera), Clay Bottom Farm (Ben and Rachel), and Blue Heron Farm (Tom and Cass) on Thursday, June 23. The cost is only $15 per adult and $5 per child, and includes lunch at the Goshen College cafeteria.  To register or find out more, contact Jennifer Schrock at jenniferhs@goshen.edu or 260.799.5869.

Avoid waiting in line—get tickets now for the musical Godspell, a production of Faith Mennonite Church, Goshen. Performances are 7 p.m. on June 4 and 5 at the Goshen Theater, 216 S. Main St. This production is an effort of the whole congregation, with Phoebe Brubaker serving as director and Kent Dutchersmith as music director. During the performances, a freewill offering will be taken for the Goshen Farmer’s Market ‘Share the Bounty’ Program, which makes locally grown produce available to people with lower incomes. Tickets are $5/seat (general admission) and can be purchased in Goshen at Better World Books (118 E. Washington St.) and Graber Designs (208 S. Main St.) and in Elkhart at the Mennonite Cooperative Bookstore at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (3003 Benham Ave.). On performance evenings, tickets will be sold starting at 6 p.m. at the theater; the doors will open at 6:30 p.m. Check it out on Facebook: Godspell.GoshenTheater

We will kick off the 2011 season of our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) basket program on May 14!  Come celebrate with us , and register to win door prizes including t-shirts, books by Joel Salatin and David Kline, a Farmer’s Market gift certificate, and Market merchandise.  Options and prices remain the same as last year.  You can find more information on our CSA page.