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Bluegrass Service This Sunday

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From email announcement:

On Sunday, October 5, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church will hold its 11:00 am Service of Communion outside at the Grace Arents Garden where the Byrd House Market is held. Music will have a bluegrass flavor, and prayers, chants and hymns will celebrate and give thanks for the wonder of creation. You are invited to bring photos or drawings of animals or things in creation that are special to you and/or that you would like to pray for and bless with special intention. You may also bring cut flowers to help decorate the altar. There will be no live pets at this service. All are welcome!

Byrd House Market This Afternoon

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From the email announcement:

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Autumn Food & Flowers
Roast chicken with apples… Sweet Potatoes and butter… Green beans in garlic and dill… Eggplant parmesano OR baba ganouj… Blackberry cobbler OR smoothie with maple syrup and cinnamon…
Plums, Apples, Tomatoes, Peppers, Shroomses, Shallots, Garlic, Collards, Cabbages, Kale, Chard, Late summer squashes of every ilk and shape.

Looking for something specific?
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Vendor Amy’s Organic Garden has a great blog full of recipes.
Amy’s Recipes! Enjoy!

FOOD NEWS: USDA Awards Over $52 Million in Grants to Grow Organic and Local Food Economies
Virginia received a total of $1,178,409 from three programs to fund 18 projects across the state: 7 projects received $623,923 from the Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP). 8 projects received $353,064 from the Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP), and VDACS received $201,422 from the Federal State Market Improvement Program (FSMIP). Click link above to read full release.

Got questions?
THE MARKET MAP will help you find the Market manager at the BHM Information Tent.

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Bread, baking…mmm
Margie’s Comforts Home Bakery
Sub Rosa Wood Fired Bakery
Wineberry Bakery

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Nonprofits@the Market
Boaz & Ruth
Capital Area Health Network

For Kids
Face Painting with Louis
4 – 6 pm
Bark & Leaf Rubbings with Emily:
4 – 5:30 pm
Corn Hole Toss Game – All Day
in the Grace Arents Community Garden

Next Week
Meet the Interns
Fall Simmers, Sauces & Sautes
Oct. 14 – Food for Mama is Food for Baby
Oct. 21 – National Food Day @ the Market (a little more info below)
Oct. 28 – Closing Day Deals & Raffles!

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!

GHTC’s Blessing of The Animals in Monroe Park Sunday

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From Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church’s website:

Our Annual Blessing of the Animals will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, September 28 in Monroe Park (rain or shine). Bring your pet (dogs, cats, lizards, hamsters, horses, chickens…) to receive a special blessing. Stuffed animals are also encouraged to attend.

This event is co-sponsored by the Richmond S.P.C.A. and they will bring their Tail Wag’N Adopt-a-Mobile. Join us for wonderful worship in the park and treats for the critters.

Here is a promotional flyer that you can download and print to give to neighbors, colleagues, friends and your vet!

This service honors the Feast Day of St. Francis-of-Assisi who is remembered for his love of all God’s creatures.

Byrd House Market This Afternoon

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From email announcement:

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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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Got something in mind?
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USE OUR PRODUCT SEARCH
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).
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GOT A FAVORITE VENDOR?
CHECK THE MARKET MAP
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.
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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!
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VCU, You did not build the city of Richmond

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I was glad to see this editorial in VCU’s student newspaper, the Commonwealth Times, in response to some t-shirt sloganeering.

Excerpt:

Although it might be frustrating and difficult to accept, you didn’t build that. Aside from the inhuman toil that created this country’s structural foundation, a myriad of factors built this city, including but not limited to taxpayer money, honest labor, legislation, committees, grassroots organizations and petitions.

It would behoove certain members of our community to educate themselves on the history of Richmond before asserting VCU’s dominance in the role of the construction of the city, whether the comment is meant metaphorically or otherwise. The city is a separate entity from VCU, and without Richmond, there would be no VCU. The fraudulent claim that “we built this city” downplays the city as a municipality and implies that Richmond is lucky to have us, when, indeed, it is we who are fortunate to have Richmond, a city underpinned by a shameful history, but working toward righting past wrongs and progressing itself into a thriving, truly diverse community.

Brown’s Island dam walk to be named for Potterfield

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Since our neighbor’s sudden, unexpected death this past April, people have found different ways to memorialize Tyler Potterfield. Now it looks like one of the more popular ideas is coming to fruition.

From Times Dispatch article:

The Richmond City Council is poised to officially name the upcoming Brown’s Island Dam Walk the “T. Tyler Potterfield Memorial Bridge” in honor of the late city planner who championed the project.
All nine council members have signed off on an ordinance to name the bridge for Potterfield, who died this year at age 55. Potterfield, who wrote a book on the Richmond landscape, worked for the city since 1991.

The ordinance the council intends to pass states: “One of the crowning achievements of Mr. Potterfield’s career culminated in the design of a historic dam structure as a bridge for pedestrians and bicycles extending from Brown’s Island to Manchester, connecting the north and south banks of the James River.”

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The ordinance is scheduled to come up for official passage on Oct. 13. The bridge is expected to be finished in about a year.

The Free Richmond Instrument Lending Library

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From the GirlsRockRVA website:

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The Free Richmond Instrument Lending Library (FRILL) is launching this Saturday at the Main Branch of the Richmond Public Library – 101 East Franklin Street – from noon-3pm.

Richmond youth ages 8-18 can check out instruments from the Girls Rock! collection for free – guitars, basses, keyboards, drumkits, and amplifiers – plus pick up instructional materials, learn how to set up the instrument at home, and check out the library’s holdings of sheet music and music instruction materials. You can have each item for a two-week period, with the option to renew for an additional two weeks. Instrument returns must take place during FRILL hours of operation, every other Saturday from noon-3pm at Richmond Public Library’s Main Branch.

What you need to bring: A Richmond Public Library card, and a parent or guardian if you are under 18, to sign the FRILL release form. Consider how you will transport items home, as some of them are big and heavy!

Our supplies are limited and will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. We hope to see you there early! Check out the flyer below to learn about the awesome People’s Library event happening at the same time as our FRILL launch – we are having a shared reception at 3 pm!

Byrd House Market in the Times Dispatch

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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.