[Durham INC] Durham Roots Farmer's Market at Northgate Mall!

[Will Wilson]

Please forward on to your neighborhoods (unless it's one of the few I 
already send to):

It's our Grand Opening! Come and get your locally grown food and plants 
at the Durham Roots Farmer's Market at Northgate Mall (Gregson Street 
entrance) on Saturday, April 22nd from 8am to Noon! Durham County's 
Farmland Preservation Board initiated the Durham Roots Farmer's Market 
at Northgate because preserving Durham County's farms means providing 
more sales opportunities for Durham County farmers and 
horticulturalists. We heartily welcome everyone from small and beginning 
to large and established producers, as well as church, school, and 
community gardens.

Come and meet our new market manager, Fran Castillo, and check out our 
new website at http://www.durhamroots.org/. Northgate Mall's Esmerelda's 
Cafe will be selling coffee & pastries from Ninth St Bakery, and we'll 
also have live music, a cooking demo, and fun giveaways.

Confirmed vendors for Saturday include:

Architectural Trees - cucumber, tomato, & pepper starts, hanging 
baskets, baby fig bushes, spice bowls, coleus, impatiens, geraniums, a 
few young dwarf Japanese maples, dwarf ginkgo trees

Bull City Farm - Animal Welfare Approved locally raised meats

Chickpea Farm - leaf lettuce, kale, spinach, radishes, turnips, snap 
peas, eggs

Dandie's Farm - green leaf lettuce, radish, kale, spinach, rainbow 
chard, spearmint, & vinca 4 packs

Jubilee Family Farm - tomato starts, herb starts, pepper jelly, bamboo 
stakes

Prodigal Farm - will have many beautiful goat cheeses:  the nationally 
award-winning Field of Creams; Candide; Hunkadora; Piedmont Provencal; 
marinated feta; fresh goat cheese (plain and sundry flavors); and a 
variety of cuts of pastured, Animal Welfare Approved goat meat

The above lists are always subject to change, and some products are in 
short supply. Enter Northgate at the Gregson Street entrance near the 
theaters and you'll see the market on the right. Hours are 8am to noon 
on Saturday.

After the Market head to the Plaza at Northgate for the Wonders of 
Learning/Scrap Exchange Materials Day. This all ages crafting event will 
feature make and take crafts, more live music & food trucks.

We love animals, but please -- no pets at the market (service animals 
are OK)!

For last minute information check out and like our Facebook page, and 
join our email list at "bit.ly/1VfDSPZ".

Please come out and support our vendors and Durham's farmland 
preservation efforts!