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All Our Winter Markets
Saturday
Clark Park
43rd Street and Baltimore Avenue
10 a.m. to 2 pm.
Open year round!
Fitler Square
23rd and Pine streets
9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Open year round!
What will you find at our winter markets?
Well, the unpredictable winter weather makes the winter market line-up a little unpredictable, too, but most weeks you'll find the following vendors -- and their delicious foods -- at market.
At
Clark Park Farmers' Market
43rd Street and Baltimore Avenue
10 a.m. to 2 pm.
Open year round!
Eden Garden Farm
Travels: From Dillsburg, PA, 120 miles to Clark Park
Attends: Saturday, year-round
The Christophel family knows apples – and apple cider, which they press in their barn every week for market. During the winter, they also bring sweet potatoes, white potatoes, cabbage, onions and giant winter squash. Try the hubbard squash. It might break your knife cutting into it, but it has some of the sweetest, squashiest flavor you’ll ever find.
Specialties: Apples and cider, hubbard squash and sweet potatoes; strawberries and asparagus in the spring.
Forest View Bakery
Travels: From Lancaster, PA, 72 miles to Clark Park
Attends: Saturday, year-round
Amish baked goods and groceries. Homemade jellies and preserves, pickles and castup. Plus: Some of the doughiest, softest cookies you can find (chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, ginger, molasses and the Lancaster favorite snickerdoodles), apple dumplings, famous Amish whoopee pies (our favorite way of eating them is sticking them in the fridge and making ice cream sandwiches), seasonal sweet breads, pies and fresh slicing breads.
Specialties: Whoopee pies, sweet breads, sticky buns, apple dumplings and pickled watermelon rinds.
Hails Family Farm
Travels: From Wyalusing, PA, 162 miles to Clark Park
Attends: Saturday, year-round
Fresh milk and dairy products, cheese, yogurts, butter and, if you’re lucky, eggnog. This is some of the freshest and healthiest milk you can find in Philadelphia and Paul Hails uses it as the base for all of his dairy products. Paul also sells grass-fed beef and eggs.
Specialties: Whole milk, chocolate milk, yogurt and cheeses, especially the sharp cheddar and muenster.
Landisdale Farm
Travels: From Jonestown, PA, 102 miles from Clark Park
Attends: Saturday, year-round
Certified organic produce and grass-fed beef. In the winter, you’ll find lots of hearty fruits and vegetables that won’t freeze in the fields and store well in the fridge: carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, kale, turnips, rutabagas, potatoes, parsnips, onions, beets, chard, kohlrabi, sweet potatoes, winter squashes and more. Come spring, you’ll see the first green at the market on the Landisdale tables.
Specialties: Cauliflower, broccoli, sweet potatoes, heirloom carrots, kohlrabi, winter squashes and grass-fed beef.
Livengood’s Family Produce
Travels: From Lancaster, PA, 70 miles to Clark Park
Attends: December to April
Earl Livengood is a legend among farmers. He’s been coming to Philadelphia to sell his organic fruits and vegetables for over four decades now. On sale at his stand in the winter: a wide variety of potatoes, kale, celeriac, beets, winter squashes, collards, chard, chestnuts, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower and grass-fed beef and pasture-raised pork.
Specialties: Cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kale, potatoes and pasture-raised pork.
Margerum Herbs, etc.
Travels: From Thorofare, PA, 15 miles to Clark Park
Attends: Saturday, year-round
Using fruits and veggies grown on their family farm, Noelle Margerum and her sister Carole follow old family recipes to make their jams, jellies and preserves. You’ll also find a wide variety of spices, herbs, tea mixes, dried beans and lentils, honey sticks and dried fruits. Shop here for local winter fruits and vegetables, like parsnips, onions, apples and winter squashes.
Specialties: Homemade jellies, jams and preserves. Some of our favorites: sour cherry, pear honey, elderberry and strawberry.
Market Day Canele
Attends: Saturday, year-round
A taste of Bordeaux in the heart of West Philly. Fresh whole milk, eggs, sugar, flour, rum, butter, Tahitian vanilla and orange zest are combined and baked in special fluted molds brushed with a bit of beeswax. You’ve never tasted anything like these caneles.
Mountain View Poultry
Travels: From Walnutport, PA, 72 miles to Clark Park
Attends: Alternating Saturdays through May
Barb Shelly brings organic poultry, sausages, broths, chilies and eggs to market. Her chickens and turkeys are raised in an open pasture without the use of antibiotics or any other chemicals. Barb is also one mean cook. Try her barbecue chicken or her homemade sausages.
Specialties: Whole chicken and chicken parts, turkeys, turkey sausages and barbecue chicken.
Pennypack Farm
Travels: From Horsham, PA, 30 miles to Clark Park
Attends: Alternating Saturdays through winter; every Saturdays starting in May
Pennypack Farm is community-based farming at its best. Horsham residents and neighbors sign up for the farm’s CSA and volunteer in the fields, weeding the rows and picking the food that they will eventually take home to their families. On sale at their farm stand during the winter: hearty winter greens, Griggstown sausage, locally made hummus, Lancaster cheeses and other local products.
Specialties: Try the dinosaur kale, sometimes called lacinato kale, or the chiaggo beets, sometimes called candy-stripe beets for their intertwining rings of white and red; also pick up a package of local Griggstown sausage.
Slow Rise Bakery
Travels: From Lancaster, PA, 82 miles to Clark Park
Attends: Saturday, year-round
Customers line up for baker Brian Hernon’s bread before he arrives at market and often spends the first twenty minutes selling out of his minivan to patient customers craving their favorite Slow Rise Bread. Seven Grain, Organic Whole Wheat, Sunflower Flax, Organic Sprouted Wheat, Maple Oat, Walnut Raisin, Jalapeno Cheddar – each one has its own fan base. Ask Brian what his newest experiments are for the week and you might go home with a loaf of pumpernickel bread made the old-fashion way, overnight in the hot ovens.
Specialties: Four Seed Cookies, baguettes, sourdoughs, all of his sliced bread flavors.
PLUS:
Honest Tom’s Taco Shop
Attends: Saturday, year-round
What’s that big line waiting for at the corner of 43rd and Chester? That’s Honest Tom’s Taco Shop and that’s Honest Tom himself taking orders in the window of his psychedelic truck. He rolled onto the scene a couple years ago with a simple idea: take the food from the market and put it in a taco. If you get to the market early enough, you might see Tom shopping. Just this winter, he joined forces with local sausage-maker Renaissance Sausage and has added a sausage taco to his menu.
Specialties: Breakfast taco, Stumptown French-pressed coffee
Melange Tea Cart
Attends: Saturday, year-round
“This is not a hot dog cart,” says the sign on the hot dog cart on the corner of 43rd and Chester. This is the Melange Tea Cart, run by tea scholar and beverage alchemist Boris Ginsburgs. Boris has a daily selection of over fifteen teas, all with their own history and story. Each tea is made to order so it is served at the peak of its aromas and flavors. Boris also makes one of the finest cups of coffee in the city, brewed with no electricity using tubes and vessels normally found in a mad scientist laboratory.
Specialties: Rare international teas, Café L’aub coffee and interesting conversation.
At
Fitler Square Farmers' Market
23rd and Pine Streets
19 a.m. to 2 pm.
Open year round!
Big Sky Bakery
Travels: From North Wilmington, DE, 24 miles to Fitler Square
Attends: Saturday, year-round
Everybody has their favorite Big Sky bread. Just ask the people waiting in line for their recommendations. Big Sky specializes in European rustic breads, sandwich slicing breads, granola and sourdoughs. Each loaf starts with fresh, natural ingredients and is baked using traditional methods with no preservatives. (Store this bread in the fridge; it will stay fresh and last longer.)
Specialties: Whole Wheat Three Seed and Honey Wheat – their best selling breads, rustic sourdough, granolas and whole grain cookies.
Brogue Hydroponics
Travels: From Brogue, PA, 86 miles to Fitler Square
Attends: Saturday, year-round
Brogue Hydroponics specializes in building enclosed, recycling water systems on the farm to grow their fruits and vegetables hydroponically. That means we can buy fresh, crisp lettuce and flavorful herbs all year round. Regular customers of the Fitler Square market know spring is right around the corner when the Kilgores start bringing the first of their greenhouse strawberries. If you don’t get to the market early enough, though, you’ll only hear about them.
Specialties: Butterhead lettuce; fresh herbs especially the mint, rosemary and sage; and microgreens and edible flowers.
Highland Orchards
Travels: From Wilmington, DE, 25 miles to Fitler Square
Attends: Saturday, year-round
Highland Orchards has been coming to the Fitler Square Farmers’ Market for over six years and brings a steady supply of fresh, seasonal fruits and vegetables all year-round. The variety at this stand will keep you browsing up and down the tables: jams and preserves, baked goods, pies, breads, eggs, poultry, cider and honey.
Specialties: The apples and cider are always amazing but you must try the apple cider donuts.
Joe Coffee
Attends: Saturday, year-round
Roastmaster Joe Cesa has been roasting coffee in Philadelphia since 2002. All of Joe’s coffee beans come from farms that use responsible growing methods and fair trade channels. From medium roast to French roast, it’s all delicious; in fact, Joe himself delivers tubs of his house blend to The Food Trust office every month.
Specialties: Joe’s House Blend uses South and Central American beans; his Peruvian beans are roasted until they are dark and oily and the coffee comes out smooth and dark with a caramel finish.
Natural Meadows Farm
Travels: From Mt. Pleasant Mills, PA, 150 miles to Fitler Square
Attends: Saturday, year-round
Natural Meadows Farm brings you beef, pork, chicken and fresh eggs, turkey, duck and goose from the meadows of central Pennsylvania. No pesticides, herbicides, industrial fertilizers, growth hormones or unnecessary antibiotics. Farmer Mark Skinner specializes in raising heritage-breed animals, which means animals that have an older genetic lineage than the factory-farmed livestock cultivated for mass food production; think “heirloom” animals.
Specialties: Yes, those are real eggs on the stand even though you may never have seen eggs that are blue, green and pink outside of Easter.
Sunny Side Goat Dairy
Travels: Elysburg, PA, 130 miles to Fitler Square
Attends: Saturday, year-round
Sunny Side Goat Dairy joined the Fitler Square market in 2010 and quickly became one of our favorite vendors, thanks to their goat cheese chevre, one of the creamiest, grassiest cheeses you’ll ever taste. Sunny Side has also converted some of us to raw goat milk, which we’ve been told is a great dairy substitute for the lactose-intolerant. Expect to see new items for sale in 2011, including naturally raised duck and pasture-raised pork.
Specialties: Goat cheese chevre, goat gouda, goat yogurt and raw goat milk.
Two Gander Farm
Travels: From Oley, PA, 55 miles to Fitler Square
Attends: Saturday, year-round
Two Gander Farm joined the Fitler Square market last year, selling seasonal, organically grown fruits and vegetables. The farm specializes in winter squash, heirloom tomatoes, garlic – and honey. Three acres of the farm are dedicated to growing the wildflowers to attract honeybees to their 60 hives.
Specialties: The wildflower honey is aromatic, the locust honey goes great with tea and toast, but it’s their buckwheat honey – dark, thick and smoky – that you will eat by the spoonful.
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