Shopping Super-Local at Phelps Farmers Market

With a sizable showing of vendors from our immediate region represented, the Phelps Farmers Market is perhaps more local than most. Vendors often must drive for hours to get to their chosen markets while here they might take a few mile trip up Route 9.

The locavore movement is not “fringe” anymore – it’s even on the (admittedly long) list of bills the House and Senate didn’t get to vote on before summer break. Many actually think the Farm Bill promoting local (defined as within 400 miles) agriculture is sure to eventually pass with support from both ends of the political spectrum. You can read more on this in a recent NPR bit here.

Meanwhile, at this great market in Sleepy Hollow every Thursday at the entrance to Rockwood Hall from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., you can chat with your neighbors and your neighbor-vendors:

• Among many others, there’s Nyack’s True Food,
• Lindsay Fastiggi’s Spice Revolution shop which had a home in Dobbs Ferry until Hurricane Sandy flooded them out and she turned instead to farmers market locations,
• Briarcliff Manor's Rich Brownies and Besty's Bitties,
• the Pure Food Sisters of Mamaroneck,
• the Cookery’s DoughNation pizza truck, also out of Dobbs Ferry,
• and Irvington’s Red Barn Bakery.

See you at the market! Forgot your bags? Market sponsor Phelps is happy to provide you with their complimentary green totes and don't miss the delicious samples made simply from market fresh ingredients from market manager Rose Ellis. (Get last week's great recipe here.)