October 1, 2011, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market: Bread Festival

Mill City Farmers Market and the Mill City Museum are teaming up again to create an exciting celebration of bread-baking in America! This event will be the first of an annual event spotlighting the healthy goodness and nourishment of bread-baking.

Sponsored by:
The Gold Medal brand’s heritage and quality have earned the trust of both scratch and professional bakers alike. For over 125 years, we have remained dedicated to sourcing and milling top-grade wheat. We are committed to delivering the best quality flour for your home-baked breads, cookies, pie crusts, cakes, and brownies.

Produce Planner:
Winter squash, pumpkins, okra, grapes, peppers, tomatoes, collard greens, kale, onions, carrots, spinach, bok choy, lemongrass, herbs, salad mix, beets, zucchini, garlic, potatoes, watermelon, cucumbers, arugula, eggplant, edamame, turnips, rutabaga parsnips, brussel sprouts and much more!

WHAT’S NEW:
- What’s the best compliment to bread? BUTTER! Local D’Lish General Store will be sampling the delicious butter from Hope Creamery.
- Ames Farm has a beautiful new crop of apples for all your baking and munching needs! Some of their varieties include Sweet Sixteen, Honeycrisp, and Chestnut Crab.
- The bakers from Solomon’s Snacks & Bakery are bringing fall flavors in their pastries and baked goods, with lovely pumpkin muffins and sweet potato tarts!
- Prairie Hollow Farm has their first pumpkins of the season, as well as some beautiful deep purple grapes, and fresh oyster mushrooms.
- Sunrise Flour Mill is selling a new variety of organic, open-pollinated cornmeal. It makes polenta-like you’ve never tasted before, and has potential to be incorporated into all sorts of cold-season comfort foods—delicious!
- Mill City Farmers Market will not be selling turkeys from Wild Acres Farm this year. You can find these lovely birds at Kramarczuk’s and Clancey’s Meats

Baking Contest:
Calling all Bakers! Enter your home-baked bread in our first ever bread-baking contest! Enter in the Quick Bread or Yeast Bread categories and have your goodies judged by a panel of experts. For more info follow this link.

Mill City Bakes, 9:30am and 10:15am:
Be awed by the wholesome goodness created by local baking masters, Zoe Francois and Jeff Hertberg, authors of Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day and Salty Tart’s, Michelle Gayer in outdoor ovens courtesy of Lorenzo’s Ovens

Grain Art Activity for Kids, 1:00am – 1:00pm (while supplies last): Were you inspired by the crop art at the MN State Fair? Try your hand at this historic craft and learn more about whole grains!

Community Booth:
Compatible Technology International is a nonprofit organization that alleviates hunger and poverty in the developing world by designing and distributing simple, life-changing food and water technologies. They will demo grain grinders, their “tools for harvest, hope for the hungry.”

Live Music, 11:00am – 1:00pm:
Hear the classics from Potluck & the Hot Dishes

Art Market, all day: Featuring Weavers Guild, ceramics by Matthew Krousey, Spring Finn & Co., and Stirsby.