The Haymaker Farmers Market board of directors met recently to make a few adjustments to the market rules and application. Please review carefully before submitting your application.
2012 Rules and Regulations – Word doc.
2012 Rules and Regulations – PDF.
We’ve had a wonderful break, but are excited to get the winter market rolling again, and we hope that you haven’t forgotten about us while we’ve been resting up for the coming season! It’s an all-star lineup at Kent Roosevelt High School starting this Saturday from 9am to noon with lots of fresh produce (several high tunnels in production with salad greens, kale, collards, beet greens, spinach, green garlic, parsley, dill, cilantro), plus baked goods, preserves, cheese, flour, cornmeal, dried beans, and so much more. We’ll be set up again in the big, sunny atrium by the school auditorium. You can park in the circular drive in front of the school, or in any of the parking lots and enter through the cafeteria side – both doors will be open, with signs pointing you in the right direction.
We continue our SNAP program, so customers can swipe their Ohio Direction Card for tokens to spend with any vendor selling approved food items, or you can use your credit or debit card to buy tokens to use for any purchase with every vendor. Visit the market info table by the front entrance for more information, and to buy a snazzy market tee or recycled cotton canvas shopping tote.
Remaining Haymaker Winter Market Dates
At Kent Roosevelt High School in the auditorium lobby, 9am – noon:
March 17
March 24
April 7
April 21
May 5
Because our farmers need a weekly outlet for their high tunnel produce, we will set up outdoors at Franklin Avenue market site on the dates we could not use the high school, also from 9am – noon.
March 31
April 14
April 28
May 12
May 19
May 26 official outdoor 2012 season begins!
Thank you to everyone who came out to visit the first holiday market last week – it was a wonderful turnout, with lovely music and a festive and convivial atmosphere. We return again this week for the final market of 2011 with more of the same wonderful local products, before we take our shortest winter break ever. We’ll be back at Kent Roosevelt High School on March 17, ready to fill your plate with the best local food in Portage County.
In case you missed it, Lisa Abraham wrote a great piece about preparing a full holiday meal with the food she purchased at last week’s holiday market in this week’s food section of the Akron Beacon Journal. Be sure to click through the photo slide show – they’re gorgeous, then scroll down to some delightful recipes that you might want to incorporate into your holiday meal planning when you shop the market this week.
Remember, the market table will have roomy shopping totes for sale that will make an excellent gift bag to fill with local goods! We accept the Ohio Direction Card and credit/debit cards at the market info table – swipe your card and receive tokens to use to make your purchases.
4th Annual Haymaker
Holiday Market
Saturday Dec. 17, 9am – 2pm
11 South River St., Kent
Please bring a canned or other nonperishable food item
to donate to the food drive (at the market table) to benefit Kent Social Services!
December 17
9:15 – 10:30 Peggy Coyle and Brad Bolton
11:00 – 12:00 Elliot Ingersoll
12:30 – 1:45 Jon Mosey
VENDORS:
Amy Strainer upcycled natural toys & kids clothing
Backerei – baked goods
Blue Sage Farm – dried flowers, wreaths, swags, children’s books
Trailing Edge Farm – scones, fresh sprouts, ornaments
Bernie Chaykowski – produce
Creekside Gardens – honey, honey pots, garlic
Birdsong Farm OEFFA certified organic produce
Bittner’s Bees – honey and honey products
Black Dog Acres – honey, handmade artisan dog biscuits, dried herbs
Bonny’s Bread – whole grain breads
Breakneck Acres – OEFFA certified whole wheat flour, cornmeal, dried beans
Chris’ Kitchen jellies – jams, jellies, soy candles
Crystal Roe – jewelry
Deb Butler – baked goods, art prints
Demi Runn – jewelry
Dessert First – gluten free baked goods,
Goodell Maple Farm – maple syrup and maple products
Isaac Mills Bakery – traditional Spanish breads
Jessica & Shands – decorated cookies & candies
KC Coffee Co. – locally roasted coffee beans
Lucky Penny Creamery – chevre & feta
McCoy’s Custom Catering – chips & salsa, grain salads, hummus, guacamole, soups
Melanie Garan – handmade soaps
Ohio City Pasta – fresh handmade pastas, raviolis, sauces
Ohio Farm Direct – grassfed cheeses
Ornery Goat Dairy – chevre, feta, goat milk egg nog
Out of a Garden – handmade frozen vegetable patties
Peggy Varney Rock Spring Soap – soap and candles
Pierogies of Cleveland – handmade frozen pierogies
Rootstown Organic – herbal tonic, produce
Salt of the Earth Farm – pointsettias, grassfed meat & eggs, prepared hot food
Shmookies Cookies – gourmet specialty cookies, decorated cookies
Specialty Sweets by Molly – doughnuts, fritters, vegan cheese, savory crackers, raw & vegan treats
Sugar Luv – handmade candies
Swain Perennials – dried arrangements, holiday decorations, jewelry
Woven in Exile – handwoven bags
We’re thrilled to announce the first annual Haymaker WInter Market, with huge thanks to Jim Soyars and Kent City Schools for hosting us this winter in the Roosevelt High School foyer by the auditorium. Both entrances will be open (cafeteria and auditorium), with parking available in front or in back.
We’ve got three farmers (two OEFFA certified organic) growing excellent produce under high tunnels (unheated greenhouses), so there will be plenty of salad greens, kale, chard, turnips, carrots, beets, potatoes, winter squash and apples. Plus baked goods, jellies & jams, pierogies, grassfed meats and cheeses, eggs, goat cheese, goat milk, handmade fresh pasta, veggie patties, dried beans, corn meal, wheat flour, soups, chips & salsa, hummus, grain salads, locally roasted coffee, and more!
The market will run from 9am to noon in the foyer on these Saturdays 9am – noon:
Nov. 5 – RHS Arts & Crafts Fair in the cafeteria and gym until 5pm
Nov. 12
Nov 19 – Food Drive Challenge in the Cafeteria from 8:00am – 2:00pm
Dec. 3
March 17
March 24
April 7
April 21
May 5
May 19 – We move back outdoors to the Franklin Ave. site
Haymaker will take a break for January and February, but local food will be available at the Kent Winter Market run by Katrina Kohout at Lucky Penny Creamery on Temple Ave. in Kent – open Saturdays 9am-4pm.
4th Annual Holiday Markets
Dec. 10 & 17
9am – 1pm
11 South River Street downtown Kent, Ohio.
Sponsored by Attorneys Williams, Welser, Kratcoski and Can LLC.
Canned food drive both dates to benefit Kent Social Services
30+ vendors – local food items, handmade gift items, and more!
This Saturday, August 20, Haymaker Farmers Market welcomes the return of Pierogies of Cleveland, who will sell their handmade pierogies either frozen to take home, or griddle-cooked on site for lunch.
What’s in season? EVERYTHING! peaches, plums, blueberries, blackberries, green beans, yellow wax beans, sweet corn, kale, chard, garlic, onions, potatoes (yellow, red, purple, fingerling), kohlrabi, baby bok choy, broccoli raab, green onions, snow peas, edamame, shelling peas, beets, turnips, carrots, eggplant, lettuce, mixed salad greens, arugula, mizuna, cucumbers, zucchini, yellow squash, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, peppers (sweet and hot), basil, dill, parsley, cilantro, mint, rosemary, thyme, sage, oregano, tarragon, apples, maple syrup, honey, cider.
What’s in season? Fresh cut basil (oooh, pesto!), green beans and yellow wax beans, many varieties of head lettuce and cut salad greens, kale, chard, beets, turnips, shelling peas, snow peas, new potatoes, kale, garlic, high tunnel cukes, zucchini, and tomatoes, black raspberries, red raspberries, cherries.
We have a limited supply (soon to be replenished) of Haymaker Farmers Market T-shirts for sale at the market table under the bridge. Tees are $15.
The free live Music @ the Market series for July 9 is Peggy and Brad swing guitar and vocals from 10 a.m. to noon under the bridge.
The annual spring member meeting will be held on Saturday, April 30, at 2pm at the Kent Free Library meeting room.
If you are interested in vending at the Kent market, please read the HFM 2011 Rules and Regulations. You can click to download the 2011 Vendor Application here.
We’ll be electing the 9 member board of directors, and the officers of the corporation at our meeting on the 30th. If you would like to help shape the future of the market, please consider running.
The 2011 market season begins on May 28 and runs every Saturday, rain or shine, from 9am – 1pm until October 29. The Music @ the Market and Children @ the Market series’ will continue. Stay tuned for our schedule of events!
If you are interested in volunteering to help out at the market’s information table for an hour or two during market hours on Saturdays – answering questions, handing out flyers, and selling t-shirts, hats, and totes, please contact the market manager, Kelly Ferry at haymakermarket@gmail.com, or 330.472.5801.
Friends,
HFM annual spring meeting took place Saturday March 27th at Kent Free Library. The board of directors passed along decisions which were then formally voted on by the general membership. A new board of directors was elected and opening date and fee structure were approved. For more information click on the link for a Word document transcript of the meeting minutes.
Fritz Seefeldt.
Friends,
Dave Ruller has always been supportive of our market here in Kent and I wanted to pass along his most recent “Kent 360″ blog update that features our proposed mural project. Artist Elaine Hullihen and I met with Dave this past week and discussed the public art project and how the city fits into the picture. There are still many details that will need to be sketched in as things progress, but I believe we’re quite a few brush strokes closer than two weeks ago. I appreciate the role that Dave plays in facilitating positive change in our diverse city and look forward toward more city/market interaction in the future.
Please feel free to comment and reply. This market is about all of you, the vendors, friends and members of our community.
Fritz Seefeldt.
My mention of the Haymaker Farmer’s Market interest in an art mural on the columns beneath the Haymaker Bridge earlier in the week sparked a fair amount of interest from folks. People seemed to feel that the Market was on to something good and they were letting me know that we (aka the City) needs to do more to promote public art projects like this since art runs deep in Kent’s DNA — both formally with the art education programs and professional galleries like the KSU Gallery and the McKay Bricker Gallery, and at the other end of the spectrum with a glom of indie artists randomly found around town doing their own thing in unexpected places (like streetcorners or at the Professor’s Pub).
I tend to agree that the City needs to do whatever it can to advance the arts — both the formal and informal forms of creative expression. I don’t make that statement to be politically correct or for some philanthropic agenda, rather if we’re serious about selling the Kent experience as an eclectic mix of characters, places and sensory stimuli then art has to be part of the community conversation and stake it’s claim at the alter of eccentric Kent. The adjectives and descriptors of art — quirky, surprising, confusing, thought provoking, and even shocking — also happen to pop up when talking about many aspects of Kent so in that regard art resonates and even amplifies the Kent ethos (or milieu for the high brow artists among us.)
Our efforts to market the Kent lifestyle is not unique to us — it’s the core of a lot of city development efforts. Those bold Texans in Austin have taken it so far as to proudly adopt the tag line “Keep Austin Wierd” in a national campaign to be the world headquarters of everything odd. You can’t help but admire the lengths they’ve gone to realize their aspiration — the video of the 6?4? cowboy walking down the street in his raw hide boots and matching thong did me in but clearly they have no fear in embracing their unique sense of style.
Another ambitious city that has embraced the off-beat is Asheville North Carolina. They’ve carved themselves a unique place in the mountains of North Carolina that is equal parts hippie and hill-billy – and it works really well. Great art, great street scene, great restaurants and a surprising mix of people of all kinds of dispositions.
It turns out that Asheville is one of the sources of inspiration for the Kent art mural project that has been adopted by the Haymaker Farmer’s Market. They’ve got their own infrastructure art thing 
going on.
