FACES & PLACES
LOCAL COLOR
JUNE 2007

New Hope Farmer’s Market
By Earl and June Bierman

A Farmers’ Market, sponsored by New Hope Parks and Recreation, opened a couple of weeks ago in New Hope at the parking lot of the American Legion at the south end of New Hope. The entrance is on New Street and there is plenty of free parking market shoppers. The market is open every Thursday (rain or shine!) from 3 to 7 pm , May through the Thursday before Thanksgiving.

Local and organically grown food is now the fastest growing sector of our food economy and for good reason. The average bite of food we eat travels 1500 miles before it reaches our tables. Yet it takes a tenth as much energy to grow foods locally. Most importantly, we are healthier when we eat organically grown vegetables and herbs. Eggs and poultry products taste better and are better for you when they come from free range chickens. For example, pastured chickens have 40% more vitamin A than conventionally raised chickens. And the fresh baked bread! Can it taste any better than being baked that morning locally?

Local farmers and small business owners offer fresh vegetables, herbs, herb and flower plants for your garden, plenty of garden advice, organic poultry & eggs, organic beef and bison, fresh organic cows milk and cows milk cheeses, handmade soaps, organic fair trade coffee, flowers, and specialty breads and pastry. Market Manager Susan Pierson hope to add more vendors as more people learn about and come to the market. Thursday before Thanksgiving

If you want to catch up on local gossip, the Farmer’s Market may be the best spot in town. You are sure to run into someone you know and, at the same time, will make new friends. Shoppers enjoy meeting their neighbors and catching up on the local news. The Market is a win-win situation. Please stop by!

Contact: Susan Pierson, Market Manager, 215.348.8471