The Byrd House Market Weekly - May 14, 2007

Your source of news for the coming Market week

May is GREENS Month!

For JoLinda Sander’s Kale recipe:
http://www.byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com/

MARKET HAPPENINGS

Visit the Byrd House Market Acoustic Bluegrass &

Every Tuesday 3:30- 7pm Old-Time Jam
May thru October Musicians invited to come and
play!
Rain or Shine 4-7PM
FREE PARKING
Laptop Librarian
Market Vendors
Tuesday, May 15th Great FREE Kid’s Activities
Storytelling in the Garden
• Bread for the People - fresh baked breads Animal Balloons, Crafts & More!
• CCL Farm - free range brown eggs & free range
pork & chicken Polka Dot Arts
• Faith Farm - grass fed beef, pastured pork & Waldorf School
chicken, farm fresh eggs, shitake mushrooms, St. Andrew’s Church
raw honey, goat cheese Laptop Librarian
• Grower’s Exchange - Strawberries, potted
plants, cut flowers Richmond Audubon Society
• Bill Heath - radishes, spring onions, turnip &
kale greens, vegetable plants
• Hidden Knoll – Peony flowers, goat’s milk soap
• Koralee's Coffee House - Indonesian Coffee
Beans and Tea; fresh brewed coffee and tea,
iced coffee and tea, bags of roasted beans and
boxes of tea
• Made on China Street - felted wool handbags,
hats, vases, slippers, bowls, etc. cards, prints &
variety of interesting papers
• Perennial Pleasures Plant Pharm – cut flower
boquets – peonies (mostly pinks), blue or yellow Strawberries Are Here!
Baptisia, sweet May Queen Dasies & medium
Get em’ quick before they’re all gone!
mixed boquets. Pots of Rosemary and Annuals
including begonias, zinnias, cosmos, cleomes
• Pleitez Produce - Strawberries
• Seashells & Beads – seashell inspired jewelry,
lampshade ornaments & more
• Simply Delicious - pouncake slices, cookies,
brownies, pie slices FREE Raffle
• Mike Wiblin - herb plants (11 different basil Contest to Win
varieties), radishes, spring onions, greens and BODACIOUS
lettuces Market Basket!
• John Wise & Chris Pool- plants & whimsical art Raffle ticket must
• Wildwood Carver – handcarved wooden bowls, be turned in at
spoons and ladles Last Week’s Market Basket Raffle Winner Market Info Booth
Lauren Coleman (Left) with Deb Cuny
 Volunteers Needed!! We need volunteers to help with various market tasks including
Market Set up and Take down; Customer counts & surveys; Market Information Booth;
serving as Volunteer Rovers etc. For more information, download the Volunteer Form at
http://www.esnips.com/web/VOLUNTEERINFORMATION

Know more…
from the Laptop Librarian
The 2007 Farm Bill – How You Can Be Involved and Make a Difference

Congress is at this very moment revising the 2007 Farm Bill, a process that is
done every five years. For the growth and support of Farmers Markets and
family farms to continue, several issues must be addressed and supported in
the 2007 Farm Bill. For more information on these issues, read the Project For
Public Spaces Issue Paper, How the Farm Bill can Support Farmers Markets and Healthy
Communities:
http://www.pps.org/markets/info/pm_squared/pm_squared_may2007/farm_bill

It’s not too late for you to voice your opinion and make a difference. Here’s How:
• Send an email to Congress through the Farm & Food Policy’s web service -
http://www.healthyfarmbill.org/ and say that you support changes in the Farm Bill that
support Health, Fresh and Local Food. It takes less than a minute to fill out and submit
this easy form!
• Next, send a message to VA Representative Bob Goodlatte (R, 6th Congressional
District), the Ranking Republican on the House Agriculture Committee.
http://www.house.gov/goodlatte/contact.htm
• Contact VA Senators Jim Webb and John Warner:
http://webb.senate.gov/contact/ Interested in finding out more about
http://warner.senate.gov/contact/contactme.cfm Government Farm Subsidies:
• Contact your local Representative- to find out who Environmental Working Group Farm
Subsidies: http://www.ewg.org/farm/
your local representative is: Select a state or enter a zipcode to see
http://www.house.gov/writerep/ who gets farm subsidies in our
area. There are a variety of ways to
To learn more about the 2007 Farm Bill, go
search this database; browse by
to Purdue University 2007 Farm Bill Issues and
commodities, conservation and disaster
Analysis. You can read the latest articles about
programs; browse by the top payment
the bill, and links to more resources.
concentrations or top regions.
http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/farmbill

The Byrd House Market Goes to Washington, D.C

The Byrd House Market traveled to Capital Hill on May 4th
to attend Project for Public Spaces’ (PPS) 4th Annual
Briefing and Reception, FARMERS MARKETS & PUBLIC
MARKETS: ADVANCING THEIR ROLE IN URBAN & RURAL
COMMUNITIES. Four of our vendors - Bread for the
People, Pleitez Produce, Simply Delicious and Bill Heath
Produce - contributed produce or baked goods, which
were then made by the DC Kitchen Caterers into
delicious appetizers at the reception! Finishing touches to
the event were added by Market Vendor Perennial
Pleasures Plant Pharm (photo to left), who created the
most beautiful flower centerpieces!

Walk, Ride, Bike, Drive to the Market

William Byrd Community House @ South Linden St & Idlewood Ave • I -195 Downtown
Expressway South • Exit 186 (Belvidere St) • Next to Grace Arents Community Garden
More information
www.byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com
byrdhousemarket@gmail.com
804-643-2717, ext Byrd House Market