Happenings at Downtown Farmers Market April 19

Join us Fridays, 11am-2pm! 5th Street Arcades 530 Euclid Avenue Downtown Cleveland

Planning your backyard garden for this summer?  DFM is selling seeds from Ohio Heirloom Seeds at the customer service table each week. We've got a variety of tomatoes, peppers, herbs, lettuces, carrots & more! Seed packets are $3.00 and all proceeds benefit the market. Thanks for your support! Interested in becoming a vendor at DFM? Email ashleyshaw@downtownclevelandmarket.org or visit our website for more information.  Tomorrow at Downtown Farmers Market! Vendor Highlights Por Bar Farms Baby leaf lettuce, kale, beets, carrots, radishes, scallions, oregano, and thyme The Farm at Chatham Lea Spinach, lettuce, the last of the leeks, kale, fresh-baked bread, a variety of baked goods, and Sherry's trail mix, peanut butter and granola Harvest in Christ Joe returns this week with carrots, spinach, and scallions SpiceHound A variety of herbs, spices, unique salts, and more - everything's $1.00! Check out Kevin's new products here: http://spicehoundcleveland.com/current-product-list.html Blaze Gourmet SHS-TCT - "Salsas/Hot Sauces/Tortilla Chips/Trivia" Ohio Farm Direct A variety of grass-fed organic cheeses Kernels by Chrissie Kernels by Chrissie has a new flavor this week!! No, no Mexican chocolate this week, but another South of the Border Flavor returns... Back by popular demand, and in plenty of time for Cinco de Mayo, CHIPOTLE LIME KETTLE CORN! Chrissie will also be taking orders for Mother's Day. Mention that you subscribe to our newsletter and save $5 off your Mother's Day order of $30 or more! (Chrissie's kettle corn is made from non-GMO Ohio corn) Chutney Rolls Made-to-order Indian rolls on naan bread and samosas Artist Terry Mitchell Unique, handmade jewelry  Live Music - Steev Inglish Blues musician Steev Inglish will be performing at the market, 11:30-1:30pm http://www.steevinglish.com Vendor Profile: Harvest in Christ Harvest In Christ is a Cleveland-based urban agriculture operation with a plot in Slavic Village and another at Kinsman Farm, committed to organic, natural and sustainable farming principles. This year's season extension included low tunnels. Plans for this summer include steady part-time employment of a Slavic Village resident. This is our first year at Kinsman Farm. We have a few hens (layers), and have proposed the idea of building "Chicken City" at Kinsman Farm: a collaborative chicken keeping and marketing effort between Kinsman Farm members. This year, we intend to market a wide variety of vegetables, husk cherries, and strawberries. The drive of Harvest In Christ includes the conviction that faith without work in creation of a sustainable, fair, natural and organic food system is dead.     We're indoors at the 5th Street Arcades through May 2013! (formerly Colonial Marketplace, 530 Euclid Ave)  You can find us every Friday 11am-2pm in the 5th Street Arcades between East 4th and East 6th Streets, Euclid and Prospect Avenues.  “Produce Perks” accepted: EBT users will receive “Produce Perks,” a dollar for dollar bonus (up to $10) to be spent on fresh fruits and vegetables. Produce Perks are available at area farmers markets while supplies last. Please stop by the information table for more information or to use your card.  EBT, WIC, senior coupons and debit cards are accepted. CCFPC Forum: "City Kitchens: Dreaming Up, Building Out, and Sharing the Spaces that Grow our Local Food Entrepreneurs" You're invited to attend the next Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Food Policy Coalitions forum, “City Kitchens: dreaming up, building out and sharing the spaces that grow our local food entrepreneurs,” on May 21st at 5:30pm in the Great Lakes Brewing Company’s Tasting Room.  Commercially licensed and affordable kitchen space is a great need among Cleveland community members and food businesses.  During Mayor Jackson's first Sustainable Cleveland 2019 Summit, a community kitchen working group began to conceptualize plans to bring a shared commercial kitchen facility to Cleveland.  We are excited to share what we’ve learned though our research, engagement and discuss existing kitchen projects that will continue the cause of increasing access to licensed and affordable kitchen space in Cleveland. Kitchen Project Panelists: Cleveland Crops Innovation Kitchen Cleveland Culinary Launch and Kitchen CornUcopia Place and Bridgeport Café Hildebrandt Food Truck Commissary This is a free event however registration is required.  Please register here. This event will include light appetizers generously provided by Great Lakes Brewing Company as well as a cash bar.  Want even more access to local food downtown?  Downtown residents and employees now have even more access to local food. Fresh Fork Market is adding a pick-up at 5th Street Arcades this season. Registration for the 2013 summer season is open. Visit freshforkmarket.com for more information.

Follow Downtown Farmers Market! Facebook | Twitter | Blogspot For more information, please contact: Ashley Shaw, Market Manager Downtown Farmers Market at Public Square downtownclevelandmarket@gmail.com (440)-821-0254

Happenings at Downtown Farmers Market April 12

Friday, April 12, 2013

Join us Fridays, 11am-2pm! 5th Street Arcades 530 Euclid Avenue Downtown Cleveland

Planning your backyard garden for this summer?  DFM is selling seeds from Ohio Heirloom Seeds at the customer service table each week. We've got a variety of tomatoes, peppers, herbs, lettuces, carrots & more! Seed packets are $3.00 and all proceeds benefit the market. Thanks for your support! Interested in becoming a vendor at DFM? Email ashleyshaw@downtownclevelandmarket.org or visit our website for more information.  Today at Downtown Farmers Market! Vendor Highlights The Farm at Chatham Lea Spinach, kale, leeks, fresh-baked bread, dried hot peppers, a variety of baked goods, and Sherry's trail mix, peanut butter and granola SpiceHound A variety of herbs, spices, unique salts, and more - everything's $1.00! Check out Kevin's new products here: http://spicehoundcleveland.com/current-product-list.html Blaze Gourmet Blaze Gourmet Salsa & Sauces will be available from "Mild' to 'Wild. Samples, Smiles, and TRIVIA to 'Save $$$ Instantly' Ohio Farm Direct A variety of grass-fed organic cheeses Kernels by Chrissie A variety of kettle corn made from non-GMO Ohio corn Chutney Rolls Made-to-order Indian rolls on naan bread and samosas Artist Terry Mitchell Unique, handmade earrings Live Music - Brent Kirby! Brent Kirby will be performing at the market today, 11:30-1:30pm http://www.brentkirby.com/   We're indoors at the 5th Street Arcades through May 2013! (formerly Colonial Marketplace, 530 Euclid Ave)  You can find us every Friday 11am-2pm in the 5th Street Arcades between East 4th and East 6th Streets, Euclid and Prospect Avenues.  “Produce Perks” accepted: EBT users will receive “Produce Perks,” a dollar for dollar bonus (up to $10) to be spent on fresh fruits and vegetables. Produce Perks are available at area farmers markets while supplies last. Please stop by the information table for more information or to use your card. EBT, WIC, senior coupons and debit cards are accepted.

Follow Downtown Farmers Market! Facebook | Twitter | Blogspot For more information, please contact: Ashley Shaw, Market Manager Downtown Farmers Market at Public Square downtownclevelandmarket@gmail.com (440)-821-0254

Spring Mushroom Growing Workshop 4/27 & 4/28

Spring Mushroom Growing Workshop   with Kilindi Iyi of Detriot & Kai Wingo of Kai's Cultured Mushrooms Saturday, April 27, 10 - 4 PM & Sunday, April 28, 12 - 4 PM at Possibilitarian Garden & Kai's Cultured Mushroom Farm Mushroom cultivation, at its heart, is energizing tissue culture and maximizing spawn production.  Mushroom strains can be cloned, expanded, and maintained on sterilized media. That may sound complicated, but in actuality mushroom cultivation can be easy, fun and rewarding.  On Saturday, April 27 from 10 - 4 pm and Sunday, April 28 from 12 - 4 pm in the Buckeye neighborhood of Cleveland, we will be holding a workshop to make mushroom growing accessible to everyone.  The workshop will begin at Possbilitarian Garden, 2909 E 117th St, Cleveland and travel to Kai's Cultured Mushroom Farm at 2765 E 127th St. Aimed at anyone with an interest, this two-day workshop will cover the best ways to cultivate delicious gourmet and medicinal mushrooms at home, in the garden, farm, woodland or permaculture plot. We will begin to explore how mushrooms meet our needs from providing everything from food, soil development, water remediation, to relief from tumors, ulcers, arthritis and diabetes. The focus of the course will be on using simple methods suitable to growing Shiitake, Oyster, Lions Mane, and Garden Giant mushrooms without the need for expensive equipment. We believe that most gardens and food systems are under-served by omitting the cultivation of fungi. This hands-on workshop will mobilize mushroom growers into integrating fungi by getting to know them and learning how to interact with them.  Participants of this workshop will have the knowledge to expand techniques into the space they have available- from a city flat to a five-acre woodland - and get growing for personal use or sale to chefs and farmers markets.  Everyone will participate in hands-on mushroom growing techniques including making straw grow bags & inoculating logs.  All workshop participants will go home with their own mushroom growing kit. Class topics include: life cycle of fungi; identifying edible fungi; mushroom compost; mushroom nutrition; spawn production; growing conditions; growing outside; woodland mushroom farming (logs, wood chips, and composts); indoor production; inexpensive start-up options for beginners (small and large scale); variety of cultivation techniques; organic pest management. Much of the workshop will happen outdoors, do dress appropriately!  The workshop will happen rain or shine.  Bring a chair.

COST OF WORKSHOP*+ 2-Day EARLY BIRD by April 5th : $100 2-Day Registration: $125 1-Day Registration: $80 *Cost of workshop includes mushroom growing kit and light vegetarian lunch. +Special Rate for Buckeye Residents & scholarships may be available, inquiry early, as they are limited. PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. To register, go to Eventbrite athttp://springmushroomworkshop.eventbrite.com or call Kai at (216) 561-3200. Kilindi Iyi has been cultivating mushrooms for more than 30 years. His fascination with mushrooms goes back to the early seventies. In recent years, he has been teaching others to grow medicinal and gourmet mushrooms for business and hobby purposes. His favorite varieties of mushrooms are Shiitake, Oyster, Lion’s Mane, and Maitake. Living in Detroit, Kilindi shares his mushroom knowledge with urban farmers and gardeners adding the rich culture of mushroom cultivation as a welcomed addendum to gardens in the city.  Kilindi also gives a historical background into the antiquity of mushrooms and how our environment is enhanced by mushrooms paring with plants in the natural world. Kilindi’s goal is to find new sustainable ways of growing mushrooms organically.  What started out as a hobby has blossomed into a committed mission to help the urban setting utilize mushroom cultivation as a tool for a better world. --------------- A native of Cleveland, Kai Wingo has been growing mushrooms for three years.  Her passion is sharing the understated value of fungi in urban agriculture.  In its inaugural year, Kai's Cultured Mushroom Farm is taking root in Buckeye at 2765 E 127th, Cleveland.  You can find Kai's Cultured Mushrooms for sale at the Coit Road & Wade Oval Wednesday's farmer's market. For more info, contact Kai atkaiwingo72@gmail.com or (216) 561-3200. This workshop is presented with support from Kultured Mushrooms, Upstream Permaculture, Green Triangle, Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association (OEFFA), Healthy Eating & Active Living (HEAL), Neighborhood Connections and Possibilitarian Garden.

Copyright © 2013 Possibilitarian Project, All rights reserved.  Possibilitarian Project includes urban permaculture gardening, puppet shows, and grassroots community-building. We thought you may be interested to hear what is happening! Our mailing address is: Possibilitarian Project 2909 E 117th St Cleveland, Oh 44105