Community Market, November 4, 2009
Have you heard about Ourlando’s Farm to Table Event? On November 15, Enzian Theater is graciously hosting this event aimed at jump-starting a truly local food system in Central Florida. Join the Ourlando Local Food Alliance on Sunday, November 15, from 12:30-2:30 to meet our local farmers and local food vendors, including some of the Audubon Park Community Market’s wonderful vendors. The event begins with passed hors d’oeuvre made with locally grown produce by Chef Josh Oakley, the executive chef of Enzian, followed with the showing of Food Fight. After the documentary, there will be plenty of time to meet and mingle with our local farmers and vendors. We will also be featuring the organically, fresh brewed beer of Orlando Brewery, fair trade coffee from Austin’s and assorted blends of tea from Dandelion Communitea. All of this is covered in the cost of each ticket, which can be purchased on the Enzian website.
Not sure you can swing the ticket price? Come to the Audubon Park Community Market this week and next for TWO chances to win gift baskets with tickets for you and a friend to attend the event! Stop by the Ourlando tent at the market for more details.
And while you’re there, you might be tempted to buy your dinner from ROOTS. This week they’re serving up:
Sweet and Sour Tempeh
Gainesville Tempeh smothered in a homemade sweet and sour sauce, and served with a generous portion of brown fried rice with homegrown eggplant, georgia zucchini, california carrots, and california snow peas
Red Thai Curry
Florida bell peppers, califorina carrots, homegrown eggplant, and homegrown basil simmed in coconut milk served with a side of brown basmati rice
You can enjoy live music from Tony Macaluso too!
See you at the community market!
Add comment November 4, 2009
Halloween at the Community Market (Wednesday, October 28th)
With Halloween right around the corner, the Audubon Park Community Market would like to join in on the fun! Costumes are encouraged, and there will be trick-or-treating for the kids at all the vendor sites! Bring your family along to the market for live music, beautiful local food, local art, Halloween activities and more! And if we get enough costumes for a contest, there will be a great prize in store for the winner!
We’ll have a few extra handmade vendors on hand with some Halloweeny wares, including ZombieHead, makers of grotesquely detailed, undead jewelry and accessories!
And come hungry, because ROOTS will be serving up seasonal dishes in celebration of Halloween, and they sound delicious!:
Pumpkin Soup: California pumpkins roasted and pureed with almonds and spiced with nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon served with a slice of homemade bread, and a side spinach salad with candied pecans
Lentil stew and cornbread: Stew of lentils, florida tomatoes, california potatoes, and california collards, served with a side of homemade corn bread
Might we also recommend the LOCAL PUMPKIN BUTTER from Big Wheel Provisions or the SMOKIN’ Barkolate from Chateau Confections?
We’ll see you at the market this Wednesday!
Add comment October 26, 2009
Community Market, October 21, 2009
Hello, Fall Weather (for real this time)!
Finally! It looks like we are going to have fabulous weather for this week’s market! Wednesday’s market should be even better, because we’ll have more of the same great stuff, plus cool, breezy weather. We’ll have music under the stars from Sarah Purser, Roger Docking, and Matthew Mendel, plus great food, art, and handmade.
We love local food!
This week, ROOTS is serving up two delicious entrees. They have been selling out every week, so come early!
We hope you all enjoyed the return of Chateau Confections last week! We are so please to have Donna and her beautiful, gourmet chocolates back at the market. And in case you didn’t notice, the market welcomed 2 new food vendors last week! Wild Ocean Seafood Market charmed us with their fresh, Florida-caught seafood. The smoked mullet was a sell-out hit, and we recommend that you try it! Some of you probably had the chance to try Marley’s homemade spring rolls and summer rolls, ready to take home and enjoy! We are very happy to welcome our new and returning food vendors.
Follow your favorite food vendors online!
Did you know that Big Wheel Provisions posts updates about their latest yuumy food on their Facebook page and Twitter? They often publish a list of items available for each week’s market, and will let you know what’s coming up. You can also visit our other local food vendors by clicking on the following links:
AE Foods: website.
Chateau Confections: website.
Homegrown Co-op: website and blog.
Wild Ocean Seafood Market: website and Twitter.
And of course, you can always talk to these great people in person, when you visit them at the market. See you there!
Add comment October 20, 2009
Community Market, October 14, 2009
We’ll be back out there this week for another night of outdoor fun and beautiful local food. In case you didn’t know, the market is proud to feature food that is truly locally grown or prepared, including but not limited to:
*ROOTS:
fresh, seasonal, vegan meals to enjoy on site or take home
*Big Wheel Provisions:
a full selection of items, all handmade, and locally sourced if at all possible. From Local Farm Fresh Eggs only hours old, to Local Free Range Heritage Breed Pork, Big Wheel will have an ever changing catalog of items for sale, including Big Wheel Charcuterie, Snacks, and Professional Quality Stocks and Sauces.
*Wild Ocean Seafood Market:
Wild Ocean Seafood Market has over six generations of fisherman, shrimpers, and shipwrights behind it.They strictly deal in East Coast Florida Shrimp and hand-process all of the shrimp. Depending on the season, they will carry Canaveral Whites, Browns, Hoppers, Rock, Key West Pinks and Royal Reds (all native to the Florida Coast). They also carry other wild-caught, regionally available seafood products.
*AE Foods:
a great selection of healthy, vegetarian dips, hummus, and sauces, including a popular spinach pesto hummus and a variety of flavorful hot sauces.
*Loco Miguel’s Salsa:
Delicious, fresh, locally-made salsa in mild and spicy flavors. Made every week from fresh ingredients and free of preservatives, this salsa is ready to take home and serve!
*Chateau Confections:
Exquisite, decadent handmade chocolate and chocolate products by Donna Moore. Visit her every week to sample her latest creations, from key lime pie barkolate to peanut butter fudge, available for sale in gift-ready packaging
*Dansk Farms:
Local, raw honey in from a variety of flowers and blossoms.
*Homegrown Co-op:
Visit the Homegrown Co-op’s table to learn about Orlando’s own local produce cooperative. Homegrown is at the market every week to fill you in on the co-op and sell their surplus organic produce and prepared food.
Come see how you can bring more local food into your life. If you’re staying for dinner, ROOTS is offering two entrees this week:
Mushroom and Wild Rice Soup
Orlando button mushrooms, florida green bell pepper, gerogia sweet onions, red wine, and wild rice served in a bowl
Chole Palak with Tempeh
Gainsville tempeh, chickpeas, califorina spinach, florida tomatoes curried and served over a bed of brown basmati rice
Add comment October 13, 2009
Seasonal Grand Opening!
The Audubon Park Community Market is welcoming the arrival of fall with its first outdoor market of the season on Wednesday, October 7th, from 6:00 to 10:00 PM. After taking shelter from a long, hot and rainy summer, the market is ready to move back outside Stardust Video and Coffee with a special opening event. The Seasonal Grand Opening will feature an evening of local evening of local goodness, including music, food, art, and more!
The Seasonal Grand Opening will feature the arrival of the Ourlando Local Kids corner. Different fun, creative activities will be available at the market each week, free of charge. For the opening night, Ourlando Local Kids will be feature Shine On Kids Yoga. The market will be adding to the fun with great raffle prizes provided by many of the wonderful vendors. A partial list of prizes you could take home includes:
- 1 pound of handmade chocolate from Chateau Confections
- dip from AE Foods
- salsa from Loco Miguel’s
- yummy local food from Big Wheel Provisions
- happy plants from Amanda Martin (Backyard Gardening)
- 10-minute massage gift certificates from Karmonic Hands
- a saturn returns cd and tarot card reading from Holly Riggs
- a stardust gift certificate
- a membership and t-shirt from the Audubon Park Garden District
- more to be announced at the market!
This week’s market will also feature the sets by Sarah Purser and Matt Mendel, with a DJ keeping the party going in between sets.
Come hungry, because ROOTS is serving up a “Sustain-B-Q”, featuring:
Bamboo skewers of georgia zucchini, pennsylvania button mushrooms, georgia sweet onions, and florida golden tomatoes basted in Big Wheel Provisions barbeque sauce with a baked califorina potato.
Seasonal Grand Opening Vendors and Organizations:
Ourlando
ROOTS
Big Wheel Provisions
Fresh, Locally Grown from Pam
Homegrown Coop
Loco Miguel’s Salsa
AE Foods
Chateau Confections
Orchid Nirvana
Backyard Gardening
Simblissity
Shine On Kids
Son of a Gun Vintage
Holly Riggs
Zombiehead Jewelry
Argyle Gifts
Simone Photography
KarieSue Creations
Maria Bolton Art
Karmonic Hands Massage
Rusted Chain Bicycle Collective
Audubon Park Garden District
Orange Juice Collective
Add comment October 6, 2009
Community Market, September 30, 2009
On the Menu from Roots this Week:
Eggplant Polenta
north italy slow cooked polenta patties of corn meal, homegrown basil, and oregano, topped with a marinara sauce, roasted homegrown eggplant, and chopped california spinach
Vendors at this Week’s Market:
ROOTS
Big Wheel Provisions
Simblissity Soaps and Bodycare
Orchid Nirvana
Backyard Gardening
Poet Tom’s Etched Recycled Glass
Karmonic Hands Massage
Joyas Jewelry (from recycled and salvaged materials!)
WPRK 91.5 FM (hundreds of used cds for sale as a fundraiser)
Add comment September 29, 2009
Community Market, September 23, 2009
What’s Happening at the Market this Week:
ROOTS will be serving up a tasty Thai green curry and lentil basmati pilaf, featuring florida fingerling potatoes, florida bell peppers, califorina onions and california broccoli cooked in a thai curry of florida lemongrass, florida chillis, ginger and other spices placed on a bed of brown basmati rice and lentils pilaf. Wash it down with a refreshing beverage from the Stardust bar.
No dinner at the market is complete without visiting all of our vendors to see what new and special products they have to offer.
This week you’ll get to visit:
Loco Miguel’s Salsa, with delicious options from mild to very spicy
Amanda from Backyard Gardening, offering native and Florida-friendly plants for inside and outside your home
Kristen of Orchid Nirvana, with a great selection of beautiful orchids in different sizes and colors to fit every budget
Simblissity Soaps, featuring beautiful, natural handmade body care from soap to conditioner to body lotion
Other People’s Property vintage clothing and accessories, and vintage reconstruction
WPRK 91.5 will be selling used cds at ridiculously good prices to raise funds for their independent radio station
Relaxing Massage from Jenny of Karmonic Hands
Etched recycled glass products from Poet Tom
Local, handmade ceramics from Joshua Freeman
Original screen-printed art and t-shirts from Danny Sheehan of Absent Muse
Handmade cutout paper designs, sculptures, and paintings from Loop Loop
Have you heard the news?
The Audubon Park Community Market is finally moving back OUTSIDE on OCTOBER 7, 2009. We are very excited to move our nights of local music, local food, local art, and local fun back into the great outdoors. If you can’t make it to the market this week or next, mark your calendar for October 7th. It’ll be an extra fun night, with special activities including a kid’s activity tent and raffle prizes from many of our fabulous vendors.
Add comment September 22, 2009
Community Market 09/09/09
For dinner tonight at the market:
Brown Rice Sushi
A selection of four different kinds of sushi, priced per roll
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Spicy Tempeh Sushi (with Gainesville tempeh marinated in chilies and sesame oil, California Carrots and Florida Cucumbers)
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California Roll (Florida avocado, California carrots and Florida cucumbers)
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Shiitake Roll (marinated and roasted shiitake mushrooms with cucumbers)
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Dessert Roll (lemon-seasoned rice and Washington apples)
Come join us for this delicious dinner, great art, music, handmade goods, and foods to take home with you!
Add comment September 9, 2009
Community Market August 19, 2009
We are happy to report that ROOTS is back at the market tonight and will be serving up a delicious vegan meal for you to enjoy as you listen to the music of Sean Evans and browse all the goods from our wonderful vendors. Come cozy up inside Stardust and enjoy the local goodness, rain or shine!
Local Food at the Market
AE Foods:
Locally Made Bean Dip, Hummus, and Hot Sauces
Joe’s Local Honey:
by Dansk Laboratories, also featuring Ginger’s Jellies
Big Wheel Provisions:
A selection of local, gourmet products, from mustard and pickles to snacks and sauces; as well as local eggs and meats
Feed Your Cravings By Pryor:
A Selection of Locally Created & Canned Salsas, Sauces, and Dips
Loco Miguel’s Salsa:
Fresh, locally prepared salsas
Queen Margaret’s Bakers Union:
Locally made brownies, muffins, cherry and nectarine turnovers, cupcakes and cookies; vegan brownies, pies, cookies and donuts
Farm Fresh Direct 2U
Local Eggs and Hydroponic Vegetable Selections From Christmas, FL available for sale at the market, more options by delivery
The Juice Guru:
Fresh juices to enjoy at the market or by delivery
ROOTS:
Restaurant Offering Options Towards Sustainability
Local Music This Week
Wenesday,
August 19th
Sean Evans
Add comment August 19, 2009
July 15, 2009: Community Market
This Week:
The Audubon Park Community Market Earned Some Friendly Nods in the Orlando Weekly’s “Best of Orlando.”
We are just delighted to see so many of the market’s great participants recognized in this year’s “Best of Orlando” issue of the Orlando Weekly. We know we have a lot more to do in order to make this market great for everyone, but it’s great to know that we are on the right track. Nods went out to Steve Moreau of (farmfresh2u.com) for providing the best local eggs, Suzy Grim of Backyard Gardening for her readymade organic gardens, and the Rusted Chain Bike Collective for providing free tuneups and information every week at the market.
We are very proud of all of our vendors who have stuck with us as the market grows and develops. Special thanks to everyone in the community who has continued to support us over these past 6 months. We are all looking forward to continuing to improve our offerings and bringing together our community.
Summertime means the best organic, locally grown fresh herbs!
When Summer rolls around in Florida, it usually means less locally-grown vegetables, thanks to the heat, heavy rains, and hungry insects. While some of your favorite vendors, such as Backyard Gardening may not have a lot of produce to offer, this is the time to bring some creativity into your cooking with fresh summer herbs. AJM & Backyard Gardening are now providing a selection of fresh-cut herbs from mint and basil, to lemongrass and rosemary. Stop by the Backyard Gardening tent to select the freshest herbs for making salads, teas, sauces, and other delicious dishes. Interested in growing your own? Suzy and Amanda offer starter plants and pre-planted large containers.
Local Food at the Market
AE Foods:
Locally Made Bean Dip, Hummus, and Hot Sauces
Joe’s Local Honey:
by Dansk Laboratories, also featuring Ginger’s Jellies
Feed Your Cravings By Pryor:
A Selection of Locally Created & Canned Salsas, Sauces, and Dips
Backyard Gardening:
Local Organic Herbs and Veggie Plant Starters to Grow at Home
My Yard Farm:
Tomatoes, Peppers, Collards, & Squash
Local Eggs and Hydroponic Vegetable Selections From Christmas, FL
Local Veggies, Bread, and Prepared Snacks from the Homegrown Co-op
The Juice Guru:
Fresh juices to enjoy at the market or by delivery
Add comment July 15, 2009
