This week: Open Eye Theatre returns, plus sweet corn, tomatoes, and more!

Posted July 12, 2012 at 3:40 pm

 

Come to the market hungry for fresh food, knowledge, and entertainment!

Enjoy entertainment and education for customers of all ages this week at the market. This Saturday, Open Eye Figure Theatre returns with its portable puppet show on its Two Wheel Tour, plus a variety of musicians will perform between puppet shows. Master Gardeners will be available to give gardening tips and answer your toughest questions, and Martha Zemur will lead lessons and activities about herbivores, omnivores, carnivores, and locavores. On Tuesday, learn about the mighty Mississippi river with 1Mississippi and shop for a healthy dinner ingredients like sweet corn, artisan bread, raspberries, cabbage, and more.

 

What’s Available

This Saturday find:
~Sweet corn, blueberries, cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, spinach, beets, zucchini, kale, radishes, raspberries, kohlrabi, broccoli, green beans, lettuce, cabbage, cilantro, dill, mint, meat, eggs, jams and jellies, artisan bread, lamb, cheese, butter, yogurt, flower bouquets, bedding plants (vegetables, herbs, and flowers)
~Coffee, scones, cookies, tacos, breakfast sandwiches, omelets, tarts, tamales, iced tea, soda, arepas, hamburgers, popsicles, boiled peanuts
~Ceramics, soaps and lotions, birdhouses, and stained glass

This Tuesday find:
~Tomatoes, potatoes, raspberries, beets, cucumbers, zucchini, carrots, kale, broccoli, radishes, lettuce, kohlrabi, cabbage, herbs, flower bouquets, artisan bread, jams and jellies, bedding plants (vegetables, herbs, and flowers)
~Coffee and coffee drinks, iced tea, smoothies, brats, hamburgers, popsicles, cookies and cakes

 

This week at the market:

Saturday, July 14

Community Tables:
Master Gardeners
WAMM (Women Against Military Madness)

10:00am-12:00pm Second Saturday Community Activity
Stop by and investigate what kind of eater you are. Omnivore, herbivore, carnivore, locavore? Eating local food makes us community heroes because our support goes directly to local growers and makers. Celebrate being a local hero with others, and make a Locavore, Local Hero award to wear. Everyone is welcome to join in.

Market Entertainers:
9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00 Open Eye Figure Theatre’s Two Wheel Tour
9:15, 10:15 Colonel Mustard
11:15 Susan Zeni

Tuesday, July 17

Community Table:
1 Mississippi

Market Musician:
4:00-6:00pm: Carlos Quinche

 

Watch a MN2020 video story filmed at our Tuesday market

You may recognize the faces of Midtown shoppers and vendors interviewed at the market on Tuesday last week. They’re featured in this short video story about EBT usage at our market. Learn more about using EBT at the market and about the $5 Market Bucks EBT incentive program.

The video story is by MN2020, a MN nonpartisan think tank. Find the full article with the video here.