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2010 Market Dates May 29 June 12, June 26, July 10, July 24, August 7, August 21, September 4, September 18, October 2, October 16, October 30 8am to Noon Cheverly Community Center 6401 Forest Road, Cheverly, MD |
Our Vendors Include... |
Cheverly Community Market |
EAT WELL * LIVE WELL * CELEBRATE COMMUNITY |
Pottery by Rose Fennell, Cheverly, MD Potter Rose Fennell works out of her pottery studio in the quiet suburban comfort of Cheverly, MD. She is a member of the Langley Park Potters, a community studio in Montgomery County, Maryland. She is dedicated to creating handcrafted pottery pieces that are unique and high quality, never using molds or jigs. Almost all work is thrown on the wheel, although some pieces are hand-built using slap or pinch methods. Rose specializes in functional pottery such as bowls, plates, mugs and other types of dinnerware. She also enjoys adding just a dash of whimsy in most things she creates, such as the "Pick-It" toothpick holders or the personalized dog and cat food dishes. |
Shlagel Farms, Waldorf, MD A third generation family farm operated by Russ & Eileen Shlagel and their five children. The farm is located on the northern edge of Waldorf, in Charles County, Maryland, just out of earshot of commuter traffic on US 301. You can hear the cows calling to each other and smell the sweet pungent aroma of ripening strawberries. The farm is open to the public in the spring for strawberry picking and greenhouse flowers and bedding plants. In the fall, the farm offers mums and seasonal vegetables.Shlagel Farms specializes in vegetable production, selling wholesale to Washington, DC area stores and farmer's markets. They also raise quality hay for the pleasure horse trade, as well as field corn and soybeans to feed their herd of Angus beef cattle. The farm is open to the public in spring for visitors to enjoy a day in the country relaxing with family and picking strawberries |
Rebert Farms, Gettysburg, PA A third-generation family farm located in the mountains of Ortanna, Pennsylvania, the Reberts specialize in all types of fruit including cantaloupe, watermelon, strawberries, blackberries, red, yellow, and black raspberries, blueberries, apricots, peaches, nectarines, dark and white sweet cherries, sour cherries, eight different types of plums, and more than 25 varieties of apples. |
C&E Farms, Glen Dale, MD C&E is the only surviving farm from development in Glen Dale, Maryland. It is an oasis among recent development, about eight miles from Cheverly, and just a mile from the new Vista Gardens shopping center on Martin Luther King Avenue. Emma and her husband, C.C., both grew up on farms in North Carolina. They moved to New Carrollton and outgrew their suburban garden before rescuing a 15-acre farm in Glenn Dale in 1995. In addition to caring for their extended family part-time, they are part-time farmers specializing in pick-your-own ethnic produce such as callalloo, black-eyed peas, and sweet potato greens. They also grow herbs, beans, beets, blackberries, flowers, pears, tomatoes, walnuts and corn. |
New Starts Farm, Washington, DC Tom Baldwin is a retired science teacher (Mckinley Tech and Roosevelt High School). He raises selected plants in two small greenhouses in his backyard in Northeast DC. In the summer, Tom goes to his family farm, "New Starts," in upstate New York and grows a family vegetable garden, pastured chickens (free range) and also fall mums for sale in September and October. In May, Tom will have various herbs, flowers, and hanging baskets for sale. |
Cheverly Breadbasket Featuring Firehook Bakery & Moctec Mexican Foods. Washington, DC 's Firehook Bakery was established in December 1992 with one simple goal: quality. Since then, Firehook has been offering customers the best and most authentic bakery goods. Brian P. Murphy, a native Washingtonian and loyal customer coined the phrase "Washington Born, Washington Bread" to describe Firehook.The high fashion magazine W has included Firehook in its short list of top five bakers in the world, alongside the quintessential Parisian bread baker Poilane, as well as bakeries in Milan and London, New York and Los Angeles. Moctec Enterprizes of Hyattsville, MD is the only tortilla factory on the East Coast still making tortillas from whole corn. Tortillas are made in Hyasttville the old-fashioned way without additives |
Martha's Jams Cheverly, MD Finally, you don't have to hope that Martha Allen will share one of her delicious specialty jams that can turn ordinary toast into a culinary treat. Even better on French toast, ice cream, or pound cake. |
Simple Pleasures Ice Cream Bowie, MD A family owned business operating in Bowie since October 2000. Created by mother and daughter team Terri M. Russell and Santa Maria Perrin, Simple Pleasures is committed to providing our customers with the highest quality products, excellent service, and competitive pricing. We offer a diverse menu of confections, including homemade ice cream in all flavors, incredible Italian Ices, sherberts, sorbets, and scrumptious gourmet cakes and pies, special occasion cakes customized to your event, cappuccino, espresso, coffee, gourmet teas, and more. |
Liz Esposito, Cookies to Cocktails, LLC Project Manager turned baker extraordinaire, Liz Esposito traded in her spreadsheets for spatulas! She will be bringing an array of tasty treats to this year's market. Market-goers can look forward to an assortment of delectable homemade cupcakes, cookies, brownies, her famous cake pops, and a few test kitchen surprises. She also makes custom cakes and desserts for all occasions. |
Golden Leaf Farms Brandywine, MD is a family owned and operated apiary and vineyard. Joseph Romano, beekeeper, and his wife Jo-Ann have been producing pure, 100% all-natural honey for six years. They do not pasteurize or pressure-filter their honey so customers will get the most flavorful honey the bees have to offer. |
Pax River Alpacas Upper Marlboro, MD Pax River has some of the nicest yarn you'll ever touch. These fibers are strong and warm, and wonderful to knit (or felt) with. Be sure to stop by, say hi to Sue and her family and meet the alpacas! |
photo: kathryn andrews |
photo courtesy of the reberts family |
photo: sara nix/Howard County Times |
photo: liz esposito |
photo: kathryn andrews |
photo: kathryn andrews |
photos: kathryn andrews |
photo: kathryn andrews |
Al Pong's Orchard, Fulton, MD Al and and his wife May raise oriental persimmons, white peaches, Fuji and Gala apples, and Asian pears and fragrant landscaping plants, such as the Chinese tree peony at their 24 acre property in Fulton MD. A retired electrical engineer, Al applies strategic and creative thinking in propegating, planting, and irrigating his plants. Lucky customers can buy and take home gogi berry, pink lemon, sweet pomegranate, fig, lime, meyer lemon or prickly pear plants that Al grows and brings to our market. |
photo: kathryn andrews |
Circle C Oyster Ranch Ridge, MD Richard Pelz, a fisheries biologist, nurtures sanctuary reefs to restore not only native Eastern oysters, but the Chesapeake Bay. Circle C's oysters are not only local, they're top quality. Rather than pay top dollar for them at McCormick and Schmick, come buy them direct at the market. This year, Circle C will also bring live Chesapeake Bay crabs -- truly a local treat! |
Mystic Water Soap College Park, MD Riverdale Park soapmaker Michelle Burns learned the art of making soap by the traditional cold process method while living in Italy. Her home-based company, Mystic Water Soap, offers a wide array of beautiful, fragrant, long-lasting olive oil soaps that are rich in natural glycerin. Original formulas feature infused oils, goats milk, herbs, wild Tussah silk, sea salt and colored clays from around the world, with unscented soap also available. In addition, Michelle makes Dead Sea bath salts, lip balms, whipped shea butter, lotion bars and perfume oils which she sells, along with essential oils and bath accessories. |
Eve's Cheese, Kent County, MD Eve’s Cheese is made with milk from Fawnwood Farm, a third generation Kent County family farm. The cows at Mason’s Fawnwood Farm graze on rich Eastern Shore farmland. The farm’s herd is comprised of Jersey, Guernsey, Brown Swiss and Milking Shorthorn Cows. This mixture of cows gives Eve’s Cheese its unique flavor and unsurpassed quality. The milk contains no antibiotics or chemical compounds to increase milk production. Eve’s Cheese is not mass produced, instead the emphasis is placed on producing a quality cheese at a reasonable price. |
At Caprikorn Farms we start with our freshest goat milk from goats allowed to browse as nature intended. This natural diet produces milk of exceptional flavor - perfect for cheese. Our raw goat milk cheeses are handmade in small batches in the tradition of the best artisanal farmstead cheeses. We are Maryland's first and only On-Farm-Home Licensed Goat Cheese Processor. |
Simply Sausage Stanley Feder learned the finer points of sausage making by doing two short apprenticeships with Jan Van der Lieck, a European-trained Master of Sausage Making (Wurstmeister). During 2004 Stan made sausages part-time at 2941 Restaurant in Falls Church, VA. Stan learned the basics by reading and making charcuterie — sausages, pâtés, salt pork, and pancetta — at home for over thirty years. In 2007 José Andres sent Stan to Catalunya, Spain, to learn about Spanish sausages from a family of traditional sausage-makers. Stan has always had a strong interest in locally produced and traditional foods. Stan is a member of Slow Food and a charter member of the National Capital Chapter of the American Institute of Wine and Food. |
Radix Farm, Upper Marlboro, MD Radix Farm uses no synthetic chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs). We don’t buy seeds produced by Monsanto or its subsidiaries. We are not certified organic, but we follow organic practices while concentrating on building a healthy ecosystem .Kristin Carbone, the owner and grower for Radix Farm, has been growing vegetables and herbs for the past ten years in various capacities. We are excited to be part of the few remaining farms in Upper Marlboro and in Prince Georges County, and even more excited to be reclaiming some of that space with organic practices. We plant buffers between our fields and the conventionally grown fields and differentiate all equipment that we use. We welcome any questions you have about how we grow – farming practices should be transparent to the customer. |
Two Oceans Seafood and Carriage House Farms, Stevenson, MD In addition to being a farmer on a 82-acre farm north of Baltimore, Gaylord Clark also specializes in sustainably fished and farmed species. He has decades of experience and extensive knowledge of fish handling and fisheries management in the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Chesapeake Bay. In the 1980's he worked on the very first frozen-at-sea vessel to work the Atlantic waters. He maintains his own boat, the Jack of Hearts, for fishing wild salmon in Alaska during the summers, |
photo: monica mohindra |