Fwd: This Week at the Allen Street Farmers Market: Our Annual Kid's Festival, Featuring Face Painting, Storytelling, and a Performance by Genna & Jesse!

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From: Allen Street Farmers Market <li...@allenneighborhoodcenter.org>
Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:43 AM
Subject: This Week at the Allen Street Farmers Market: Our Annual Kid's Festival, Featuring Face Painting, Storytelling, and a Performance by Genna & Jesse!
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*The Allen Street Farmers Market can be found during the outdoor season on the corner of E. Kalamazoo and Allen St in Lansing, just west of Allen Neighborhood Center (1619 E. Kalamazoo)*   This Week: Our Annual Kid's Festival, Featuring Face Painting, Story Telling, Good Bites Food Truck, and a Performance by Genna & Jesse! Wednesday, July 23 2:30 - 7:00 pm   Join us this Wednesday for a fun-filled afternoon put together with our youngest market-goers in mind! There will be tasty berry smoothie samples to try, games to play and prizes to win, a face painting station, and storytelling by Linda the Librarian from Foster Library from 3 to 4. Grown ups and children alike will love Genna & Jesse, a internationally touring act who will perform for us from 4-6! And as always, there will be a wide selection of locally grown and prepared produce, cheese, breads, baked goods, and more. Grab a snack or a meal from Good Bites food truck or Red's Smokehouse and make a day of it at the Allen Street Farmers Market!  * Want to show your ASFM love? Become a member of our Yard Sign Corps! Help us advertise by putting out an ASFM yard sign every Wednesday morning to help passersby remember that Wednesday is market day on the Eastside! Visit the outreach table in the middle of the market to get your sign and get started.     The Double Up Food Bucks (DUFB) program has started! All SNAP-recipients are eligible to participate. For any amount up to $20 in EBT (in multiples of 2), the bank will match that amount in DUFB. Learn more about this too-good-to-be-true program here.   Here are just a few offerings from each of our farmers and vendors:  American Delicacy Fresh Mushrooms: portabella, shiitake, crimini, and oyster, dried mushrooms, gourmet mushroom butter CBI's Giving Tree Farm Sweet onions, carrots, celery, tomatoes, peppers, cilantro, thyme Green Eagle Farm Beans, garlic, zucchini, basil, parsley, cucumbers Hillcrest Farms Bell peppers, new potatoes, beets, garlic, eggs Khoua's Veggies Baby bok choi, yu choi, amaranth, basil, beans  Mac's Market Peas, zucchini, cousa squash, currants, black raspberries, blueberries, cherries, pickles Nightengale Family Farms Tomatoes, gooseberries, beets, zucchini, summer squash, beans Tomac Pumpkin Patch Cherry tomatoes, summer squash, kale, maple syrup, jam Urbandale Tomatoes, summer squash, cucumbers, basil Vang's Beans, peas, flowers, herbs, amaranth, lettuce Wildflower Eco Farm Greenhouse tomatoes, mustard greens, cabbage Wooden Shoe Herb Farm Fresh herbs, dried herbs, herb cookies, candles, soaps   Applegarth Honey Local Honey Capital Village Trade Cooperative Cucumbers, zucchini, Mini pies, herbal teas, crafts The Country Mill Apple Cider Slushies! Glory Bee Sweet Treats Hummingbird bread, chocolate chip cookies, scotcheroos, banana power cookies Good Bites Farm-to-table ingredients in delicious salads, sandwiches, and more Hickory Knoll Farms Creamery Award-winning goat  and cow milk cheeses including feta, drunken goat, 4 flavors of chevre, and delicious-smelling goat's milk soap from Touch of Eden, goat and rabbit meat by order JW Kettle Corn Sweet, salty, crunchy- the perfect snack! Kolache Kitchen Bratwurst, Czech pastries, Cabbage Rolls, Pierogies Ofilia's El Burrito  Ready-to-eat burritos, chips and salsa, and enchiladas and tamales to take home Stone Circle Bakehouse Focaccia and other delicious bread varieties Tannin Cornetti, savory lunch rolls (meat and veggie options), lemonade, handmade pasta, fresh mozzarella ~ Featuring ~ Good Bites Food Truck Operating out of the Allen Market Place Kitchen from noon till 7. Offerings include pulled pork nachos, smoked portabella & spinach dip sandwiches, BLT's, bacon brownies, bbq baked beans, and more!    Genna & Jesse will perform 4-6!     A word on market currency: Got to the market only to realize you're out of cash? No worries! Visit our Market Bank where you can use your debit or credit card to get the amount you need to make your purchases in Market Money Tokens, worth $5 each. All of our vendors accept these and they are used just like cash. For example: if you buy a $4 item from a vendor with one Market Money Token, they will simply give you a $1 back in cash. Don't worry about having to run to the ATM before coming to the market! Similarly, EBT cards can be used to purchase EBT tokens, worth $1 each. With EBT tokens, however, you cannot buy something for  $1.50 with 2 EBT tokens and get .50 back in change - you would need to use .50 of your own change. Questions? Just stop by the bank table and our friendly banker, Aris, will be happy to help!   See you at the Market! Lizy Ferguson, Market Manager  517-999-3911 Li...@allenneighborhoodcenter.org  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

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