From email announcement:

The Food
APPLES! Sweet Potatoes! GREEN BEANS! Eggplant! BLACKBERRIES!
Tomatoes, Peppers, Shi’itakes, Criminis, Onions, Shallots, Garlic, and soon COLLARDS, Cabbages, KALES, etc. Made the first Chicken & Eggplant, Lima Bean Stew this weekend… yes, I did!

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Afraid you’ll buy too much? Ask your vendor how to freeze their goodies! Here is a basic guide to freezing vegetables and fruits from Organic Gardening (I wouldn’t use the sugar with the fruit, but otherwise I thought this a good guide).

GOT A FAVORITE VENDOR?
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WHAT ELSE?
Face painting with Louis, 4 – 6 pm
Children’s Art activity in the Grace Arents Community Garden with Emily, 4 – 5:30 pm.
Byrd House Market IS a Family Affair!
“Rebecca Johnson (in photo above) picked out tomatoes while her children, Lulu, 7, and Hunter, 4, selected (and tasted) small sweet peppers at the Amy’s Garden stand at the Byrd House Market in Richmond recently. “It’s a cool place to bring them” rather than always going to the grocery store, Johnson said. ” But she didn’t exactly shy away from the cartons of small red and orange peppers. Enjoy the rest of the story here.
The Extras
Thanks to Leslie Lytle and the participants of the 2nd Let’s Talk Breastfeeding event at BHM. Got something to add or a question about nutrition and your baby’s first foods or about YOUR foods while waiting for that bundle of joy? Plan to attend the next one on Oct. 14. Mama food, Papa food and Baby food demos with seasonal fresh foods.
The Gray Haven Project
“The impact of human trafficking on individuals is complex and requires a comprehensive array of restorative services. In 2012, The Gray Haven opened Virginia’s first drop-in center to serve as a safe place for human trafficking victims.”
SNAP @ THE MARKET
Use Your Credit, Debit or SNAP EBT Cards!
The $10 Student Deal is now for
Faculty and Staff, too!
Show your University ID to a participating vendor (Agriberry, Origins Farm, The Byrd Farm, Epic Gardens, Tomten Farm) and ask about their deal of the day!
Visit byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com
for directions and more.

SAVE THE DATE: Oct. 21
National Food Day at Byrd House Market! Celebrating food and the people who grow it, pack it, drive it, sell it, store it, cook it, and serve it to us at Byrd House Farmers Market, in the 3rd annual collaboration with Virginia Commonwealth University’s Wellness Resource Center. Details for the week coming soon!
Real JUST Food @ BYRD HOUSE MARKET
Take this quiz: 14 Questions That Could Save Your Life and the Planet!

Today’s Richmond Times Dispatch newspaper had an article about the Byrd House Market. Excerpt:

The here was the weekly Byrd House Market, a fresh-food bonanza sponsored every Tuesday, May through October, by the William Byrd Community House.
For decades, the nonprofit organization has provided educational, development and nutritional programs for kids in the city.
It has a library, runs after-school programs and summer camps, hosts dinners — often featuring food grown on site — and generally makes itself available to meet the needs of its community.
Since about 2007, the organization has run the farmers market on the yard that spreads out behind its building on Cherry Street.
About two dozen vendors set up each week, offering a wide variety of locally grown fruits and vegetables, meat, flowers and prepared foods. Earlier in the season, some vendors also were selling locally grown plants.
In keeping with the Byrd mission of trying to uplift its community, the market was the first in the area to accept food stamps.
“We’ve always tried to promote better, healthier lifestyles, and this really fit into that,” said Peggy Friedenberg, who was chair of the Byrd board when the market started.
Friedenberg also said the market is a novelty among the many of its kind in the area: “We’re the only one on grass,” she said.
Hicks, who sets up as Amy’s Garden, said she has been coming six years now for one reason.
“Community,” she said. “There’s good support here.”
Ana Edwards, the manager of the Byrd House Market, looked around the small lot, tucked in along Idlewood Avenue between the Downtown Expressway and Hollywood Cemetery, and said the location was what made the market what it has become.