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Bring your friends and family this Saturday, January 2, 2010 from 8 am until noon to 218 N. Center Street, Thomaston, GA—enjoy Bluebird Market in a new Fun Place for Fresh Food Ideas at the Downtown Train Depot.
‘All aboard the Bluebird Express’ for an arts and harvest train ride into 2010. 
We have so much exciting news coming to you this week and into spring! Let’s start 2010 together at the very beginning…a very good place to start!
Since last summer on June 6, 2009, Bluebird Market has been growing each and every Saturday from 8 am until noon. Join us this Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 as we celebrate ‘All the Best’ Local Flavors at the former Thomaston Train Depot!
This location is rich in local and Georgia heritage and we are so honored and fortunate to bring Bluebird growers, artisans and bakers into this historic and fun venue.
Bring your old-fashioned hand carved train whistles to celebrate a new chapter for Bluebird Market with local fun, friends and foods.
For those of you who don’t know the Train Depot has benefited from recent renovations by Andy York of Ponderosa Steakhouse which is open on Thurs., Fri., and Saturday evenings currently. In former years, the Depot also housed Akins Feed and Seed.
Come and set up in the parking lot and front porch with Georgia Made Georgia Grown products! The cost remains the same as always…no charge to set up and only $5.00 AFTER you sell over $20.00 of products. The former downtown depot will be open for Bluebird Market inside but if Saturday is as beautiful, bright and sunny like today, you will want to be outside at 218 North Center Street, in Thomaston, meeting and greeting all the friends and shoppers that pass by on this central street of our downtown business community. This part of downtown Thomaston formerly had a farmers market venue across the street in the United Bank parking lot and we love the convenience a local market in this neighborhood will again bring to loyal patrons.
It is an honor for us to experience and be embraced with growth in our community. The market has brought over 50 warm and friendly artisans, bakers, growers, culinary experts, and hundreds of area patrons who come out each week for fresh and local arts and harvest.
Join us at the Historic Downtown Train Depot this Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 and please stop by Cook’s Market and tell Andy York thank you for his work to preserve this lovely part of our local culture.
Please feel free to email: bluebirdmarket@gmail.com
Storybook American Town People Have Sparkled and Grown in 2009 at Bluebird Market.
Turning the pages in our ‘Storybook American Town’ in 2009, we found the coolest small town people glowing with local talent.
It is because of local people that our neighborhood market experienced phenomenal growth in 2009.
We are totally intrigued and wondering, “What will happen next?” What is our 2010 destination? Farmers Markets across our country are growing and Bluebird Market is growing too.
You are invited to be a part as a fascinating story is unfolding for our local efforts. Recapping 2009, we discover over 50 local vendors and hundreds of patrons brought us ‘All the Best’ genuine charm to our neighborhood open air Bluebird Market. Do you know what has become the jewel in the crown of local communities across our country? Farmers Markets have almost doubled during this decade! Local food systems continue growing as our country rebuilds on local foundations. Market squares in American villages are filled weekly as social gatherings for local fun, friends and foods. Across our country and especially in our hometown, we are re-establishing the value of what makes our nation strong around our market squares. In a hurried world, we are choosing ‘Slow Foods.’ Residents cherish the value of local people, local farmers, and local landscapes.
Our hometown is being polished into a picture-perfect Currier and Ives lifestyle. In Thomaston, people continue to come out and show how the pages in a cheerful fairy tale story should read! Our family loved Beatrix Potter garden stories of Peter Rabbit and friends. Thus our effort in 2009, was to plant a vegetable garden. What fun it is to bring charming stories to life.
Writing fascinating pages in our local market story in 2009, there were artisans, cottage bakers, growers, patrons, business leaders, chefs and more bringing artisan breads, herbs, veggies, flowers, and Georgia made artworks. The community garden brought a local harvest to over 40 families that signed up at Taste of Thomaston for free organic vegetables. This garden was made possible by generous donations of seeds, soil and plants by C W Enterprises, B & B Feed & Seed, Georgia Greenhouses and more.
Among the hundreds of faithful patrons that came out weekly for farm fresh local veggies and artworks were the Clayton Family and the Versemann Family. Alice Versemann made canning cool again and showed us all the tips she has learned from generations of canners. Carla Clayton encouraged us to connect online with social networks like Twitter with a live demonstration on the big screen. BluebirdMarket.com now has nearly 10,000 online readers and over 1,800 Twitter followers. Click bluebirdmarket.com Live Traffic Feed to see where people who visit our little market are from around the world.
There were numerous cooking shows in 2009 from talented local caterers and chefs like how to make a Crisp Apple Strudel by Cathy Kreismanis and the Art of Gingerbread Cottages by Linda Hayward. We were taught how to make a delicious garden soup by Bess Mayo. Bob James’ revealed his secret to a great pot of chili, and how to bake on a pizza stone to make garden focaccia. Bob Baskin not only gave us his recipe for Divinely Sweet Ambrosia, but also was the source of grove fresh oranges through the holiday season. Mr. Holland brought us apples from his Apple Farm along with his recipe for Apple Salad. Each week has been a learning experience with the spotlight on abundant undiscovered talents of our local growers, artisans, cooks and bakers.
Seeking a healthy lifestyle of organic and green living has been the focus of our eco-friendliest market with produce brought by family farmers, like James Family Farm. You may tour this working farm like we did on Christmas Eve and sign up for fresh boxes of CSA produce harvested weekly.
During the 2009 holidays, the cozy Christmas Market thrived each Saturday morning as friends gathered for sounds of music, and tastes of steaming hot cocoa, mulled cider, teas and soft warm gingerbread at the Sleighbell Arts Market. TUAC embraced the self-taught Bluebird Artisan Guild and featured Bluebird artist works in the TUAC Mistletoe Gallery Gift Shop. Artwork found for sale there includes jewelry, beadwork, warm woolen mittens, stained glass, paintings, a local children’s storybook, handmade soaps, handstitched quilts, pure spa salts, and much more from Middle Georgia artisan countryside studios.
Step into a real ‘Storybook American Town’ market. The focus at Bluebird Market is local arts, baking, gardening, botany, a Children’s Bookshop with local authors and over 20,000 titles through Usborne Books. We are so appreciative for the Story Time that sweet spirited, Miss Honey, Kara Beth Huddleston gave children for a love of reading experience with a Dino Dig, walks through the community garden, pet day and weekly themes just for little BEE-a-Readers.
It’s been a good year in 2009 because of beautiful people bringing arts and harvest to enrich our collective local experience at Bluebird Garden and Market. So what is our 2010 destination? Let’s start at the very beginning this Saturday, January 2nd….read more on www.bluebirdmarket.com.
Greens like turnips greens, kale, collards and mustard on New Year’s Day traditionally represent prosperity and wealth for the coming year. For a fortunate beginning to a New Year, enjoy Southern Caviar with Greens…delicious and nutritious.
Choose a healthy path for 2010 and start the year by taking a step in the right direction with farm fresh greens from James Family Farm and Bluebird CSA.
Christmas Eve on James Family Farm.
Bluebird Market is a local organic co-op where artisans and growers market their goods. Hatch and grow your business at the Bluebird Market. We are an incubator for local small business owners in Middle Georgia. This is a Bluebird Victory Garden community gardening sustainability initiative.
Join our efforts for local growers and artisans…buy local for your business by dealing with local market vendors. Shop the market for your business and family. Saturdays 8 am until noon, 215 Barnesville Street, Thomaston, GA.
All the best to your healthy happiness in 2010. Bluebird Market is honored to bring your family all the best in full or half shares of the Bluebird CSA…farm fresh flowers, stone ground grains, garden veggies, herbs, fruits, nuts, berries, melons, lettuces, preserves, jellies, Georgia Roasted coffees, heirloom organics, Ark of Taste products, and much more.
We are so grateful to everyone who requested this program in 2009. Stay tuned for all the fun as we launch the much anticipated Bluebird CSA and celebrate together our growing farmers market community. Farm fresh eggs in homemade eggnog for a toast to healthy happiness in 2010.
Check out Farmer Neil Taylor’s CSA for our best practices model of bringing all the best farm fresh veggies. We appreciate the honest-to-goodness wisdom of Farmer Neil and thank him for his gift of heirloom tomatoes to our local community garden.
Email: bluebirdmarket@gmail.com
As we focus on healthy prosperous actions in the new decade, we like to think about delicious ways of eating fresh! Bluebird Market is a fun place to find fresh and seasonal local foods.
We are so fortunate to be in the growing Farmers Market Industry. In the last decade, Farmers Markets have almost doubled in number in our country according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The impact local farmers markets are making is stunning with numbers that show the potential of authentic fresh food local markets. Downtown districts and historic places are seeking farmers markets to bring vibrancy and fresh foods to people each week at local venues.
One best practices market has over 70 vendors that bring an array of fresh flowers, herbs, fruits, and veggies each week to local people. These markets are thriving and enrich communities and are in top demand across our country. It is an exciting time if you are an authentic grower or farmer with fresh produce. When supermarkets are not structured to deal with local farmers by their very nature, farmers markets offer shoppers all of the finest foods that are grown locally and fresh picked.
If you have a plot of land, I encourage you to put it to its highest and best use.
1-Grow Flowers…Plant flower seeds and sell zinnias, sunflowers and more this summer at the market.
2-Grow Herbs…. Plant fresh mint, Stevia, or fresh basil and develop a client base for fresh herbs that bring us such delicious flavors.
3- Grow Heirloom Vegetable Varieties…Investigate Ark of Taste products like Cherokee PurpleTomatoes and Heirloom products to determine if you might like to grow these varieties and offer them to others in our local market.
Bluebird Market is a fresh foods market! Last summer through the fall and ongoing now we have organic and fresh herbs, flowers, veggies and fruits. We are heading into a new decade aftr having a bountiful first year with many terrific demonstrations on healthy ways to prepare fresh foods. It is so much fun to come out each week and see the Kitchen Show! I am totally amazed at our local culinary experts who are bringing all of the unique, delicious and simple ways to prepare fresh and local foods for our families.
For those who want a fun place with fresh food ideas, Bluebird Market has a new centrally located marketplace in the historic downtown train depot. The Ponderosa is open and now operates on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Thanks to the vision of Andy York, owner of the Ponderosa establishment, Bluebird Market is bringing it’s thriving community of fresh and local food items to this centrally located downtown venue at 218 E. Center Street. If you know of people that are local growers…like a friend who has pecan trees or apple trees and would like to market their produce, please encourage them to come by the train depot on Saturday mornings from 8 am until noon.
Bluebird Market is such a fun place for fresh food ideas. We are thrilled as this new decade begins to now be in this historic downtown venue that is centrally located. Visit Bluebird Market in the historic train depot for a fun place to find fresh food ideas and all the best in local flavors.
Enrich your life Saturdays, 8 am until noon, at Bluebird Market, a fun place to find fresh food ideas, 218 N. Center Street. Explore with us each week to discover simple ways we can affordably contribute to sustainable and renewable eco-friendly living. Find resources online at www.yougottabekidding.org and www.bluebirdmarket.com. Email EE questions to: bluebirdmarket@gmail.com.
According to the Massachusetts Dept. of Ag Resources, “ farmers’ markets can help bring activity into public spaces, often being used by city planners as a way to revitalize downtown areas, or to preserve the historic heritage of old buildings, public squares and parks.”
Potential Local impact of farmers markets can be valuable to communities. Studies show that the 125 farmers’ markets represented by Farmers’ Markets Ontario have annual sales of $645 million, and have an economic impact on the province of $1.9 billion.
Because Bluebird Market is a fun place to get fresh food ideas, one aim is to boost vibrancy of our local historic downtown community.
There are many details that separate great farmers’ markets from struggling or mediocre markets according to the Universtity of Florida Extension. Here are the top 8 ways to develop a great farmers market.
Find Bluebird Market friends and enjoy a fun place for fresh food ideas…this Saturday, January 2, 2010…Fresh Omega 3 Rich Eggnog
Bluebird Market
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
8 am until noon
218 N. Center Street, Thomaston
For “All the Best’ healthy happiness focus on properity and fortune this New Year’s…enjoy Bluebird CSA collard greens in this delicious and nutritious favorite recipe.
Find the easy recipe for Southern Caviar Collard Wraps in the Bluebird Recipe Box on Culinate.
We’ll toast on January 2nd with a fabulous way to celebrate using certified farm-fresh eggs from Bluebird CSA boxes. Make a punch bowl of fluffy, rich eggnog that whips up in minutes. Serve in mini stemmed glasses.
Visit Bluebird Market Culinate Recipe Box for a New Year’s Eggnog with optional homemade vanilla ice cream, Peach Brandy that cooks the eggs, vanilla bean extract, and whole nutmeg, grated on top.
Coming soon…easy egg frittata’s with garden veggies.
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