The weekend gets underway with a bang tonight with the monthly Artwalk and the annual Summer Streets happening simultaneously. Greenwood Avenue North will be closed to cars from North 67th to 87th streets so people can play in the streets. Check out the map of all the activities happening – including whiffle ball, hula hooping, live music, live painting, free electric bike rides, children’s obstacle course, coffee tasting contest, art fair, circus performers and aerial artists, dancing demonstrations, and a doggie wedding.
74th and Greenwood was packed at last year’s Summer Streets.
Plus, the Phinney Farmers Market at the Phinney Neighborhood Association will be open an extra hour, until 8 p.m., and bring a can of food and help the Greenwood Food Bank build Seattle’s largest can food pyramid, in front of Ken’s Market at 73rd and Greenwood.
Bring your old car seat to the Phinney Farmers Market at 6532 Phinney Ave. N. for recycling. It’s sponsored by CoolMom. Cost is $10 to cover the cost of recycling, but you’ll get a $10 coupon to use at Childish Things on Holman Road.
Author Erika Madden will sign her newly-released historical fiction novel “Year of the Angels” in front of Balderdash Books, 8536 Greenwood Ave. N. from 6-9 p.m. Friday.
Friday is open mic night at Woodland Park Presbyterian Church, 225 N. 70th st., starting at 6:15 p.m.
Seattle Public Theatre performs “Pirates of Penzance” Friday-Sunday at the Bathhouse Theater on Green Lake. Free, but donations accepted for the youth scholarship fund. Shows are 7 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday.
Ginny Reilly of Reilly and Maloney performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday, and “Seattle’s Bard” Jim Page performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Couth Buzzard Books Espresso Buono Café, 8310 Greenwood Ave. N.
The 3rd annual Party in the Park is from 12-4 p.m. Sunday at Greenwood Park, North 87th Street between Evanston & Fremont avenues. Bring a picnic and enjoy three bands, and see the official opening of the new Community Garden.
Check out our Events calendar any time for what’s happening around the neighborhood.
The Phinney Farmers Market ends this Friday. The market is open from 3-7 p.m. in the lower parking lot of the Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave. N.
The Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance (NFMA) promotes the use of Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards (food stamps) at area farmers markets. Now, NFMA is giving EBT users $10 in Market Bucks per day when they purchase at least $10 with their EBT cards. The promotion runs from this Wednesday through Oct.10.
The Market Bucks are unrestricted cash equivalents in $2 increments, and may be used at any of the NFMA’s seven neighborhood farmers markets until December 31st, 2010. “We’ve seen a dramatic increase in EBT use at our markets, up 60-200% at some of our larger markets like the U-District and West Seattle. But these customers are still a fraction of our customer base. It’s been a hard season for farmers, and many people are still out of work, so this is a way for us to support both groups,” says Chris Curtis, Executive Director of the NFMA.
EBT users can take advantage of the promotion at this Friday’s Phinney Farmers Market (the last in Phinney for the season) from 3-7 p.m., and the following other farmers markets:
Columbia City Farmers Market, Wednesdays, 3-7 p.m.: Sept. 29 and Oct. 6
Lake City Farmers Market, Thursdays, 3-7 p.m.: Sept. 30 and Oct. 7
If you’ve always wanted to decorate a vegetable and race it down a track, now’s your chance. The Zucchini 500 comes to the Phinney Farmers Market on Friday.
Shoppers of all ages can build their own squash race car and compete with other veggie vehicles. A zucchini, wooden wheels, racing adornments and an official time trial track will be provided. The races take place from 3:00 – 6:00 pm under the market’s special events tent. The event is free and open to the public.
Chef Joshua Theilen of Stumbling Goat Bistro will demo some of his recipes Friday at the Phinney Farmers Market.
According to the Phinney Neighborhood Association, Theilen uses market farmers for many of his recipes and will demo recipes using what’s fresh at the market.
The demo is free and begins at 4 p.m. Recipes will be distributed at the market and will be available online (link provided once we get it). To get a taste of what could be in store, check out the link for what’s fresh at area markets this week.
Today is the second week of the season for the Phinney Farmers Market, in the lower parking lot of the Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave. N. The market is open from 3-7 p.m. every Friday.
Several dozen vendors sell everything from produce to meat, eggs, ice cream, pastries, pasta, bread, edible plant starts, flowers, soups, nuts, cider, wine, chocolates, salmon and honey.
Children entertain themselves by sliding down the super fast slides on the hillside.
Vendors with ready-to-eat hot dinners are Patty Pan (grilled veggies, quesadillas, tamales), Pan Africa (chicken, lamb and vegetarian African dishes), and Veraci Pizza. See a full list of vendors and their products here.
King County Executive Dow Constantine rang a little bell just before 3 p.m. today, officially opening the Phinney Farmers Market for the season. “Where else do you get to visit with the person who grows your food?” he said.
Dozens of vendors are selling all kinds of produce, jams, meat, eggs, edible plant starts, flowers, soups, nuts, ice cream, pasta, pastries, bread, cider, wine, chocolates, salmon and honey.
Plus, you can eat a nice dinner right there at the market with food from Veraci Pizza, Pan Africa (chicken, lamb and vegetarian African dishes), and Patty Pan (grilled veggies, quesadillas, tamales).
See a full list of vendors and their products here. The Phinney Farmers Market is open from 3-7 p.m. every Friday through Oct. 1. Below, Constantine chats with Woodring Orchards proprietor Dale Nelson about his jams, juice and dressings.
Thanks to Ann Bowden at the Phinney Center for the photos.
Phinney’s Farmers Market opens the season next Friday, May 28, with dozens of vendors of fresh produce, cheese, bread, honey, cider, flowers and more, plus several ready-to-eat dinner options. The market is open from 3-7 p.m. every Friday through Oct. 1, in the lower parking lot of the Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave. N.
You’ll want to be here when the opening bell rings at 3 pm to scope out the early season offerings. Lots of our favorite farmers and producers will be back and the Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance has lined up some new and exciting vendors. Let’s show “our” market businesses plenty of love to get the season off to a strong start. As always, there will be weekly entertainment, plenty of ready-to-eat options, and friends and neighbors in abundance. To see what will be “ripe and ready” this week, check out http://www.seattlefarmersmarkets.org/ripe-n-ready/ripe-n-ready. It will get your taste buds going!
Phinney Ambassadors will again be staffing our booth under the blue canopy in the center aisle. Ambassadors have info about upcoming PNA events, hand out market “passports” that kids can get stamped each week (this year you can even leave it at the market if that’s more convenient), and sell merchandise. We’ll have 3 great designs of sturdy canvas shopping bags, PNA logo caps, and an assortment of farmers market t-shirts from previous years. For 2010 we are also featuring Phinney Ridge *star* hats and tees sized for men, women and kids. The PNA booth will be staffed from 2:30-5:30 each week. We are still looking for volunteers! If you’re interested in helping out, please contact alis@phinneycenter.org.
Phinney resident and chef Tamara Murphy just published her first book, “Tender: farmers, cooks, eaters,” which focuses on supporting farmers, farmers’ markets and local eating. Murphy is the owner and chef of Brasa and Elliot Bay Café and winner of the prestigious James Beard award in 1995.
A real force in the national culinary community, Tamara has traveled the country to share the important message of local sustainable food. Regionally, she has created events such as An Incredible Feast – Where the Farmer’s are the Stars (pairing farmers and chefs to raise awareness and funds for local family farms), The Good Farmer Fund (to help local farmers gain direct access to emergency funding during crop or farm loss due to disastrous events), and Burning Beast (where chefs come together in a creative setting to raise awareness for local farmers). TENDER explores simple ways to enjoy eating, cooking and choosing our food.
Neighborhood photographer David Chui published his first book, “Journey of an Apple: From Lake Chelan to Hong Kong,” which is available at Santoro’s Books in Phinney Ridge.
A one-of-a-kind look behind-the-scenes at the twists and turns of growing and shipping our state’s signature fruit, Journey of an Apple features 105 color photographs and profiles the colorful people and locations responsible for bringing Washington apples to a hungry world.
Spanning the seasons, and shot over several years on two continents, the book is both an informal look at the intricacies of modern agribusiness and an immigrant’s personal quest to reconcile his native Hong Kong with a new life in the Pacific Northwest. Employed in the produce industry for 14 years, Chui has a light-hearted touch and puts a very human face on global trade.
The Phinney Center reports that one of the large green and white sandwich board signs used to advertise the Phinney Farmers Market on Fridays has gone missing. It was usually at the intersection of 3rd Avenue NW and NW 65th Street, but it disappeared after the last market on Oct. 2 before it could be picked up for storage until next season.
If you see the sign (it previously wandered into a nearby yard), either bring it to the Phinney Neighborhood Center or call us at 783-2244 and someone will come and get it.
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