Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 06:04:29 -0700
From: Lexie Wolf
Subject: Family Farmer’s Market series Tuesdays in Silk Hope
Please join us on Tuesday afternoons this fall in Silk Hope for the Family Farmer?s Market! This grassroots project is a weekly interactive opportunity for kids and families to have fun learning about local foods.
This series is taking place on Tuesdays from 3-5 pm from from September 25 through October 30 at the Silk Hope Ruritan Club fairgrounds. During this time, one featured local producer will set up a mobile farm stand on the grounds and offer a kid-friendly (and sometimes kid-led) talk about their product. Parents can purchase the product during this time and other local foods producers are encouraged to attend as well.
Following the food demo, there will be an active group game or activity led by teachers and children from the afterschool program at Sonflower Seeds Preschool and Child Care in Silk Hope.
Plans are underway to expand the Family Farmer?s Market in the Spring of 2013 to a larger community market with multiple vendors. Young people who have grown their own vegetables, eggs or other farm products will be encouraged to sell their products at the Family Farmer?s Market (with parental supervision). Adult vendors are also welcome and the market will continue to have a featured vendor each week offering a lesson, demonstration or tasting for children who attend.
The Farmer?s Market is a grassroots community project with leadership from Sonflower Seeds Preschool and Childcare and the Chatham County Partnership for Children. The Silk Hope Ruritan Club has generously donated the use of their grounds. We hope that this community partnership will grow to include the support of other organizations and individuals who would like to help connect Chatham?s children and families with healthy local foods.
For further information or to get involved, contact Heidi Lineberry, Sonflower Seeds Preschool and Child Care at 919-548-4040 or ; or Lexie Wolf, Chatham County Partnership for Children, at 919-449-6120 or .
Lexie Wolf
Shape NC Coordinator
Chatham County Partnership for Children
919-449-6120
www.chathamkids.org