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Happy May, Local Food Lovers!
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Place your order from Western Maine Market today or early tomorrow morning for pick-up or delivery this Friday or Saturday.
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Fiddlehead Festival, Outdoor Markets,
& WMM's Summer Schedule
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Farmington's Friday farmers' market opens for the season this Friday, the 1st of May. It will be held each Friday through October, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 181 Front Street, between the NEW Farmington Food Co-op (former Better Living Center) and Narrow Gauge Cinemas.
The Maine Fiddlehead Festival will be held RAIN OR SHINE this Saturday the 2nd of May, 10 am - 3 pm, on the UMF campus. It may move indoors if need be. Learn more here: www.dailybulldog.com/happenings/umf-celebrates-local-food-with-13th-annual-fiddlehead-festival/
Farmington Farmers' Market vendors will be among the other vendors at the Fiddlehead Festival this Saturday, and Western Maine Market orders will be available for pick-up at the Rasmussen Farm booth there.
Next week and for the rest of the summer find Farmington's Saturday farmers' market 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the district courthouse parking lot, 129 Main Street. The indoor winter market has closed for the season.
Starting this week, Western Maine Market is operating on its summer schedule.
WMM order pick-up will be available at both Farmington markets, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. on Fridays and 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturdays.
Friday deliveries and other pick-up options will move to about two hours later in the afternoon than on our Winter schedule. It may be 4 pm before we get to Kingfield and 4:30 before we get to CV/ Stratton or Phillips. |
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Greek Olive & Rosemary Bread
Menu Group: Food
Section: Baked Goods
Category: Bread
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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A long-time favorite at our home and with our dinner guests. Crusty free-form loaf. Made with Maine Grains flour, water, Greek olives, homegrown rosemary, yeast, and sea salt.
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Amaretto Ricotta Cheesecake
Menu Group: Food
Section: Baked Goods
Category: Cheesecake
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Ricotta replaces cream cheese in this recipe, making it lighter and significantly lower in fat than our regular cheesecake. Amaretto di Saronno liqueur provides an almond-like flavor but without nuts.
Made with ricotta cheese*, sugar, local eggs, lemon zest, Amaretto, flour, vanilla, and salt.
Crust: graham crackers, butter.
Contains milk, eggs, wheat, and soy.
Maine sales tax included in price.
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STRAWBERRY Cafe-style muffin
Menu Group: Food
Section: Baked Goods
Category: Muffins
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Vendor: Happy Snowman Alpaca Farm
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Ingredients: Strawberries, all purpose FLOUR, sugar, vegetable oil, EGGS, strawberry emulsion, baking powder, baking soda, and sea salt.
Allergens: Eggs, Wheat
Large cafe-style muffins made with real strawberries.
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Apple Pie - crumb topping
Menu Group: Food
Section: Baked Goods
Category: Pies
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Mixed local &/or organic apples baked in our all-butter crust made with Maine Grains flour.
Filling: apples, sugar, flour, lemon juice, & nutmeg. Crumb topping: flour, butter, sugar. Crust: flour, butter, water, sugar, salt.
Contains milk & wheat.
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Greek Yogurt
Menu Group: Food
Section: Dairy
Category: Yogurt
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Vendor: Depot Street Dairy
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Greek Yogurt: Whole milk Greek yogurt from our own herd of Normande cows. Milk, culture. Unsweetened.
Goat Milk Yogurt - Greek: Thick and creamy Greek yogurt made with our Guernsey goat milk. Milk, culture and rennet. Unsweetened.
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Eggs
Menu Group: Food
Section: Eggs
Category: Chicken
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Vendor: Happy Snowman Alpaca Farm
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Beef
Menu Group: Food
Section: Meat
Category: Beef
Vendor: Cedar Post Farm
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Bologna (made with beef and pork): preserved with nitrates
Ground Beef
Heart: halved or quarttered
Marrow bones (2" cut): Great for roasting and making broth.
Pepperoni: preserved with nitrates
Stew Beef
Summer Sausage: Delicious with cheese and crackers! Precooked and ready to eat. It is preserved with nitrates.
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Pork
Menu Group: Food
Section: Meat
Category: Pork
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Vendor: Cedar Post Farm
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Our pigs are raised outside and allowed to browse in movable pens throughout the spring, summer, and fall. Once winter comes, they move into the barn. They are fed high quality pig feed as well as hay, browse, fresh fruits and veggies, and their favorite, goat milk.
Canadian Bacon: preserved with nitrates
Country Ribs
Ground Pork
Pork Belly
Pork Chops (2 per pack)
Sausage:
- Breakfast Sausage (bulk, not links)
- Chorizo Links
- Garlic sausage bulk
- Italian Hot Sausage Links
Smoked Hamsteak
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Fresh lion's mane mushrooms
Menu Group: Food
Section: Mushrooms
Category: Other
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Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm
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Grown with love in New Vineyard Maine. Superb flavor, texture, and medicine for your brain too! Enjoy the flaky-crab like texture of this delectable mushroom. Lion's mane is also used medicinally to fight against cognitive decline and neurodegenerative disorders. Yes, medicine should taste this good!
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Fresh oyster mushroom medley
Menu Group: Food
Section: Mushrooms
Category: Oyster
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Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm
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Grown with love in New Vineyard Maine. Our oyster mushroom medley is a seasonal mix of oyster mushrooms. Expect a combination of blue, gray, dove, phoenix, elm, and tree oysters! All have excellent mild oyster mushroom flavor and delicate texture.
Grown from pure culture on local hardwood sawdust.
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New! Rhubarb Jelly
Menu Group: Food
Section: Preserved Foods
Category: Jams Jellies Butters & Spreads
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
Gorgeous pink color and a delicate flavor that is both sweet and "rhubarby savory"! Truly a different experience!
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Small carrots
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Carrots
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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newly harvested, mixed colors
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Heirloom baby lettuce mix
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Lettuce Baby
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Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm
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Heirloom cut leaf lettuce mix. A wonderful mix of colors and textures.
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Baby potato medley
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Potatoes
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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A colorful mix of small potatoes, about the size of golf balls. Enjoy the lovely colors and the range of potato flavors & textures.
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Lotion
Menu Group: Personal Care
Section: Hand and Body
Category: Creams and Lotions
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Vendor: Cedar Post Farm
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Lavender: Lavender: Our lotion includes Avocado, Apricot Kernel and Rice Bran oils, Aloe, and Oat Extract It is nourishing, but absorbs quickly. Scented with Lavender Essential Oil
Ingredients: Water, Avocado, Rice Bran, and Apricot Kernel Oils, Emulsifying Wax, Stearic Acid, Oat, Aloe, Lavender Essential Oil, Optiphen
Lilac
Rosemary Lavender: A gentle, moisturizing, and quick absorbing lotion. This lotion contains Rosemary, Lavender, and Litsea Cubeba essential oils for an earthy scent with a touch of citrus.
Ingredients: Water, Avocado, Rice Bran, and Apricot Oils, Emulsifying Wax, Stearic Acid, Oat and Aloe extracts, and essential oils
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Lavender Balm
Menu Group: Personal Care
Section: Hand and Body
Category: Creams and Lotions
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Vendor: Cedar Post Farm
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Chamomile and Calendula infused Olive and Avocado oils, Beeswax, Cocoa Butter, Castor Oil, Shea Butter, and Lavender Essential Oil.
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Goat Milk soap
Menu Group: Personal Care
Section: Soap
Category: Bar Soap
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Vendor: Cedar Post Farm
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A gentle, cleansing bar soap made with milk from our goats.
Ingredients: Goat milk, Olive, Palm, Coconut, and Sweet Almond oils, Sodium Hydroxide, Fragrance, Mica
Apple Sage
Cranberry Frost
Lilac
Oatmeal and Honey
Woodsman
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PLANTS
Blueberry starter pack
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Berry Plants
Category: Blueberry
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Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm
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3 plants - A great way to start your blueberry patch. Includes 1 plant each of the varieties 'Patriot', 'Northland', and 'Blue Ray'. Plants are 2+ yr old, 8" min, grown in 8" tree pots. These varieties span the growing season and work well to pollenate each other.
Patriot. Early Season. Plants are vigorous and upright, but only medium in height. The fruit is large and has excellent flavor. 'Patriot' was developed in Maine and has excellent cold hardiness; the plants are resistant to root rot.
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Elderberry, potted
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Berry Plants
Category: Elderberry
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Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm
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Adams Elderberry, 2 yrs, #2 pot: Cultivar elderberry selection. Grows 8-10' H, 8-10' spread. Adams is particularly vigorous and produces large berries that make for easy picking.
Johns Elderberry, 2 yrs, #2 pot: Cultivar elderberry selection. Grows 8-10' H, 8-10' spread. The Johns variety of elderberry originated in the Nova Scotia Experiment Station. It has large berries that make up large clusters. Johns ripens slightly before Adams, and is a highly vigorous grower.
York Elderberry, 2 yrs, #2 pot: Cultivar elderberry selection. Grows 8-10' H, 8-10' spread. York produces heavy crops of extra large fruit clusters, maturing 1 to 2 weeks after Adams. Fruit is high in vitamin C & individual fruits are the largest of any variety.
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Wild type elderberry, bare root
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Berry Plants
Category: Elderberry
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Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm
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Wild type elderberry, bare root, 15-24": Native elderberry from choice wild specimens collected throughout central and western Maine. Elders are vigorous fast growing native plants, well suited to low lands and wet soils. They produce an abundance of small edible and medicinal berries. Great for making syrup, wine, and jam. The flowers are also widely used for making immune boosting tinctures. Plant in full sun or partial shade along woodland edges.
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Serviceberry seedling, bare root 18-30"
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Trees Fruit
Category: Cherry
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Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm
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Serviceberry, also known as juneberry or saskatoon are hardy native plants with a shrub to small tree habit. Abundant spring blooms give way to summer fruits with a taste something akin to a blueberry. Very productive and hardy. Highly versatile and will tolerate a wide range of soil and sun conditions.
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American plum seedling, bare root, 18-30"
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Trees Fruit
Category: Plum
Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm
American plum (prunus americana) are native plants with a large shrub to small tree form. These mildly sucker and can form thickets if not pruned back. Fragrant white spring blossoms give way to small tart stone fruits in late summer. Fruit quality varies from tree to tree, but all make excellent jellies, jams and pies.
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American hazelnut seedling, bare root, 15-18"
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Trees Ornamental
Category: American Elm
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Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm
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American hazelnut (corylus americana) is a productive native shrub that produces nuts adored by both people and wildlife. These will top out around 8-12ft in height and breadth at maturity. Plants produce both male and female flowers, but plant at least two for best pollination. Tolerant of many soil types. Plant in full sun or part shade on woodland edges.
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Butternut tree seedling, bare root, 18-24"+
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Trees Ornamental
Category: American Elm
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Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm
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Butternut (juglans cinera) and black walnut (juglans nigra) are both native trees highly valued for both their nuts and timber. Long lived tree species that can top 60-80ft at full maturity.
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