Coming Up Saturday, July 4


Matthews Community
FARMERS' MARKET
Local Folks, Local Farms, Local Food
Celebrating our 18th year
Open Year Round on North Trade Street in Historic Downtown Matthews, NC
  The Matthews Community Farmers' Market is the largest, most diverse producer-only farmers' market in the greater Charlotte area. Customers  buy food directly from local farmers - that's as fresh, tasty and nutritious as it gets.
All food and other market products are produced within 50 miles of Matthews. The market provides the community with locally raised foods as marketgoers help preserve the tradition of small farms in the area.  Customers make a direct connection with the source of their food and get to know the person or farm family who grows it.
During our regular season market, enjoy cooking demonstrations by top local chefs, relaxing live music and farm craft presentations. You can even bring your culinary questions to our expertly staffed Ask-A-Chef table. Check out our special events schedule, which is always full of family-friendly activities.
   While we enjoy our canine friends, the fact remains that we are a food-based marketplace. For sanitary, health and safety reasons, we ask that you leave your dogs at home.  Guide dogs and dogs that provide services are welcome with their human handlers. Thank you!
What's In Season Locally
On Saturday,
July 4, look for :

From 7:15am-noon
every Saturday
April through November
Winter market : every other Saturday, 8-10am December- March

This page was last updated: June 29, 2009
Headliners:
Also:
Greens: arugula,  Swiss chard,  salad mix,  field and greenhouse grown lettuces, microgreens (mixed, cilantro, arugula, curly cress, celery and basil)
Fruits and Vegetables:  raspberries, green beans, lima beans,  okra, kohlrabi,  onions,  potatoes (fingerling, kennebec, red, blue, yukon gold
Herbs:
Cut herbs: a wide assortment of basils, bay laurel, chives, dill, wide assortment of mints, oregano, par-cel, cutting celery, parsley, rosemary,  assortment of sages, stevia,  sorrel,  sweet marjoram,  tarragons, thymes, kafir lime leaves
Meats: pastured pork, grassfed beef, ostrich
Other farm products: eggs from free-range chickens, soft goat cheese, pecans, loofahs, bird house gourds
Baked goods and candiescookies, brownies, cakes and tarts, toffees and barks,  truffles, pastries, pound cakes, cookies, brownies, cinnamon rolls, muffins, scones, artisan yeast breads, Middle Eastern flat breads, salad croutons 
Other products: jams,  granola, hot pepper products, handmade baskets, handmade pottery,  soaps, rubs and lotions, bird feeders and bird houses, carniverous plants.
Cut Flowers: lilies rudbeckia, yarrow,  baptista, dianthus, delphinium, loose strife, zinnias, cosmos, gladiolas, verbena

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Farm Tour
Chef Gene Briggs of Blue restaurant presents a cooking demonstration.
  Start your Independence Day holiday with a fun trip to the farmers' market!
    The farmers' market will be open regular hours - 7:15am  until noon - and our farmers will have the first big sweet corn harvest of the season piled on their tables.  Come get all the super fresh, locally grown  fixin's for your July 4 menu.
    Shake off the heat with a cool walk through our misting tent  - a special treat just for July 4, courtesy of market volunteer Bruce MacDonald. It's sure to be a hit with kids. Meanwhile, enjoy our 8:30am cooking demonstration by
See a story by Chris Clackum of  NBC  News  on the advantages of buying produce directly from farmers through their
CSA programs.  Included are  interviews with market farmer Sam Koenigsberg of New Town Farms and a shareholder from Carl Wagner's Carlea Farms.        Watch now.
We'd Love To Have Your Vote!
    Vote for your favorite farmers market in two different national contests.
     The first contest,  is run jointly by national organizations Care2.com and Local Harvest. The market that receives the most votes wins $5,000. Learn more about the Love Your Farmers' Market Contest and cast your vote.
       The second contest  is being run by American Farmland Trust.  Learn more about the  America's Favorite Farmers Markets contest and cast your vote.
See Dragon Garden Tour Photos
Paul Verica, executive chef at the Club at Longview. Get a seat in the chef tent by 8:30am so you don't miss any of his wonderful creations.         Be sure to spend some time at our music platform listening to the

toe-tapping string band tunes of Carol and Pat Raedy and Friends, beginning at 8:30am
July Special Events

July 11 - Canning and Preserving Day
July 18 - Annual Sweet Corn Roast
July 25 - Tomato Tasting Day and
               Best Market Tomato                                Contest