End Your Summer Vacation at Mount Airy Main Street Farmers' Market Healthy-Fit-Family Celebration! Wed, Aug. 30, 3-7PM!

What a colorful array of Cherry & Grape Tomatoes! Tomatoes in any variety, are great for your immune system, full of Vitamin C and a great source of Lycopene, a natural anti-carcinogenic agent found in the tomatoes' red pigment. 

Are you ready for your end-of-summer cookouts and anxious for another school-year to begin? We've got you covered at the Mount Airy Main Street Farmers' Market this Wednesday, August 30, 2017, 3-7PM! It's our Healthy-Fit-Family Celebration and it's happening right here in Mount Airy at the Municipal Parking Lot at the corner of Park Avenue and Cross Street!

Family Fitness: Get Movin'!  Walking, before and after a meal is NUMBER 1 on Parent's Magazine's 10 Ways to Exercise as a Family. So, if you're within walking distance, ditch that car and enjoy a family walk to the farmers' market to pick up your locally grown and produced ingredients for a healthy meal!

Music at the Market: 3:30-6:00 ~ Listen to the Music at the Mount Airy Main Street Farmers' Market! Adding the vibe to the market this Wednesday, August 30, is Scott Barrett, local musician extraordinaire! Scott has performed at numerous Mount Airy events, and now we have him performing at the market this Wednesday! We're sure you'll enjoy his renditions of classic hit tunes, from the Rolling Stones "Route 66" to The Doobie Brother's "Black Water," and many others, including his own.  

And, if you feel so inclined, we're sure Scott won't mind ... if you decide to some healthy exercisin' and dance to the Scott Barrett Mount Airy Main Street Farmers' Market vibin'!

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Fresh-Healthy Food Demo and Local Tastings:  3:30-5:30 ~ Want an idea or two about how to make something straight from the market? We'll have some farm-freshness at the market with a fresh food demo to show you how to prepare raw vegetables into a healthy salad! 

Five Minute Relaxation Exercise: Take 5 at  5:55 ~ Five minutes to relax, clear your mind and reset. Visualize. Breathe in the fresh air in hidden meadow.  Get comfortable on the lawn (standing, in a chair or on the grass). We'll have a five minute relaxation exercise, a technique for you to start your day or to use to do anytime morning, afternoon, evening.

Healthy Summertime Harvest: This Wednesday at
the farmers' market we'll still have a Healthy Summertime Harvest of fruits and vegetables, harvested at just the right ripeness for you to enjoy
​in time for your end of summer feasts!  Seasonal fruit, such as early apples and pears, Asian pears, blackberries, cantaloupes, honeydew, peaches, nectarines, plums and watermelon, may appear.  Veggies, such as green beans, carrots, CABBAGE, collards, CORN, onions, summer squash, cucumbers, kale, lettuces, MICROGREENS, onions, okra, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes at the market too! All this and plus everything you need for your Labor Day Weekend Cookouts, Steaks, Hot Dogs and Burgers ready for the grill, cheeses, wines as well as eggs, baked goods and some naturally sweet local honey!

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This Wednesday, August 30, our farmers and producers will be: 

The Meat Shack at Strohmer's Farm
Whispering Breeze Farm Cheese
Five Points Farm Market & Greenhouse
Pong's Orchard
D & S Microgreens
​​Linganore Winecellars ​

​​The Dough Whisperer
Cannon Apiary
​Bella Valeri’s Spicy Spaghetti Sauce
Emily's Digital Paintings
Grandma Shirley's Afghans

*Please note that Pizza Llama and Sugar Thumbs will not be at the market this Wednesday so that they can spend some quality time with their families. Both will return on Wednesday, September 6, well-rested (?) and happy to serve!

TODAY'S RECIPE. Today's recipe is Peach Salsa as brought to you by the Maryland Extension's Market to Mealtime program and as published in the  2014 Maryland WIC Farrmers' Market Cookbook  Find most of the locally grown and produced ingredients at the market today!  Recipes, Tips and the Harvest Calendar can be found on our Recipes page. ​

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Remember to Make it Memorable on Main! Shop. Dine. Tour & Enjoy! 
We hear there's an artist market today along Main Street!  Find time to visit them, enjoy their artwork and buy some too!

The Mount Airy Main Street Farmers' Market is a production of the Mount Airy Main Street Association in partnership with the Town of Mount Airy and made possible in part by the generosity of our Sponsors: Health Unlimited, Mt. Airy Children's Dental Associates,  MISCellaneous Distillery and Linganore Winecellars.

The Mount Airy Main Street Farmers' Market was formed in 2007 and is a production of the Mount Airy Main Street Association in partnership with the Town of Mount Airy.   The 2017 Mount Airy Main Street Farmers' Market runs on Wednesdays, May 17-September 27, 2017, 3 - 7 p.m. It is located in the historic Town of Mount Airy, Maryland in the Municipal Parking Lot at the corner of Park Avenue and Cross Street, Mount Airy, MD 21771. To learn about the Mount Airy Main Street Farmers' Market, please visit MountAiryMainStreetFarmersMarket.org or follow us on Facebook.