An overview of the events and fun upcoming at the Espanola Farmers Market!

Join us on Monday, September 4^th for our Labor Day Free Chile Roasting & Heirloom Chile Cook-Off during regular Monday Market hours, 10am-5pm.

Customers can enjoy free chile roasting for a bushel of chile purchased at the Market and also shop as usual among the vendor stalls.

We will be displaying heirloom chile samples from various farmers with information about the source of the seeds, usually a grandparent or other relative.

At 1 pm, students who have participated in our summer Cooking-Up Traditions programs will help judge the various chile stews and other chile dishes that some farmers have prepared. After awarding the prizes, we invite our visitors to share in tasting the dishes.

We will also have two booths with information about sustainable agriculture innovations and about the long-time Garlic Festival and other agriculture-related programs of Northern New Mexico College. We will also be cooking in a solar oven and in the horno in the Wildflower Garden area and enjoying fiddle and accordion music.

This annual event is part of Alimento/ Towa eh Huu’tsong’yo- a collaborative three-day series of events starting on Friday evening, September 1^st with a dance performance and art opening at 6pm  at the Center for Arts, Northern New Mexico College, 921 Paseo de Onate. Market manager Sabra Moore will be displaying some of the Farm Story Banners with the stories of growers at the Espanola Farmers Market alongside a painted house-shaped sculpture. In addition to enjoying the performances  of Holy Faith Break Dancers, Coco Daca Dance Project and Mina Fajardo Flamenco, you can read some of the farmers’ stories and enjoy the paintings of Roger Montoya and the sculpture of Rozanne Swentzell. The evening is free.

 

On Saturday September 2^nd, there are two celebrations- the Regeneration Festival sponsored by Tewa Women United at Espanola Healing Foods Oasis near Valdez Park off Railroad Avenue is from 2-6pm. You can also stop by the Fifth Anniversary Celebration of the Espanola Community Market at 310 Paseo de Onate from 12-6pm.

Follow the trail illustrated on the leaflet to Espanola Farmers Market for our annual Labor Day Free Chile Roasting & Heirloom Chile Cook Off on September 4, 2017.

We are happy to be celebrating our shared commitments to local healthy food and caretaking for our environment with our neighbor organizations  along or near Railroad Avenue.

A weekend of events, including upcoming chile roasting at Española Farmers Market!

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A weekend celebration of community nourishment starting Friday, September 1 through Saturday, September 2, and then on Monday, September 4, 2017. Here are the details:

Friday, September 1, 6-9 p.m. Opening event. Center for the Arts, Northern New Mexico College, 921 Paseo de Onate. Art opening: Roger Montoya, Sabra Moore, Roxanne Swentzell. Dance performance: Holy Faith Break Dancers. Coco Daco Dance Project, Mina Fajardo Flamenco. 

Saturday, September 2, 12-4 p.m. at 310 Paseo de Onate. The Espanola Community Market, fifth anniversary celebration.

Saturday, September 2, 2-6 p.m. Vietnam Veterans Memorial Road near Valdez Park. Espanola Healing Foods Oasis Regeneration Festival. Espanola Tewa Women United. Tree planting and solar oven.

Monday, September 4, 12-5 p.m. Espanola Farmers Market, North Railroad Avenue. Labor Day Free Chile Roasting and Heirloom Chile Cook-off. Sustainable agricultural information booths and Key Line plow demonstration. Plus music and horno and solar oven.

SPECIAL EVENTS AT THE FARMERS' MARKET! Bring huge shopping bags for your chiles, corn, and other fresh produce!

Stop by the YouTube channel for the Española Farmers Market.

What are you planning for dinner? Stop by the farmers' market!

The Española Farmers Market YouTube channel has captured a lot of the market fun over the years.

The bathroom construction is in progress and we appreciate people understanding how this has affected our parking. But how wonderful it will be to have actual working bathrooms soon! Friday markets haven't materialized for this season, although Monday Market is brim-full with 29 vendors last week and the very first chiles coming in! Corn will be here soon. The market opens at 10 am. The period of nine to ten is only for vendor set-up.

When you visit us early on Monday mornings, you'll get the pick of the crop for dinner during the week. We've waited all year for the summer market, and now it's here. Take advantage of it! We have all the same perks and benefits as during other season markets.

This year has special quirks with the planting and harvest. Slight variations in weather can make a huge difference. Visit us, and plan what's for dinner. And check our YouTube channel for images of past markets. We have music, we have free books for children, and special deals!

Musicians right before and after lunch make the farmers' market colorful, fun, and playful. Double up continues. Try us. You'll like us! The growers are your friends and neighbors!