Welcome to the Main Street Market! We specialize in growing and delivering fresh produce, coffee and organic products to the community of Kingston, Ontario.
Welcome to the Main Street Market!
Grand Opening May 20th 2012 9am-2pm
“The food movement is also about community, identity, pleasure and, most notably about carving out a new social and economic space removed from the influence of big corporations on the one side, and the government on the other…
One can get a taste of this social space simply by hanging around the farmers market, an activity that a great many people enjoy today regardless of whether they’re in the market for a bunch of carrots or a head of lettuce…there is a lot more going on in them than the exchange of money for food…
Someone is playing music, children are everywhere, sampling fresh produce, talking to farmers. Friends and acquaintances stop to chat. One sociologist calculated that people have ten times as many conversations at the farmers’ market than they do in the supermarket. Socially as well as sensually, the farmers’ market offers a rich and appealing environment.” Unknown source
Memorial Centre Farmers’ Market is Kingston’s new social space – get on the scene!
May 20th Spencer Evans, children’s activities, farm display. Coffee and Hungry Farmer cookies by Main Street Market. Also on our table:
- bread made with local flours (spelt, pumpernickel, peasant rye, curry)
- garlic greens
- preserves and dried herbs / spices
- seedlings (basil, toms, oregano, sage, thyme, parsley)
More news on Facebook, and the MCFM site, where you can find a full Vendor profile and product list
building food capacity
To increase the amount of food grown in Kingston is to increase the amount of local food eaten in Kingston. Being overrun with seedlings is a daily reminder of what building urban farm capacity looks like. This is what building farm capacity looks like! You can be part of it. Buy your share of the harvest at our online shop. Contact us to come out and join us in the mini-greenhouse, field, or at our table. Be part of building farm capacity.
weekly veggie basket 2012 CSA sales open at Seedy Saturday, K-ton ON
While “unicycle Phil” raced to promote local food with his attempt to beat the Guinness Record of 100miles in 6hrs44mins on a unicycle, we opened 2012 veggie basket sales, and delivered produce around the Memorial Centre ‘hood, by unicycle.
oysters are pearls
logs lie dormant
i lie waiting
for these poplar-planted pearls to
fruit again
the Gift of 3 Seasons
Give yourself or someone you know one of our CSA shares
and they’ll get more than one gift.
For more than one season.
You give once, but many times;
because, we’ll deliver the Freshest Food
over and over in 2012.
We can also arrange a Christmas hamper of seasonal
Winter produce and local farm products.
We offer downtown bicycle delivery in Kingston Ontario.
Saturday December 3rd we’ll be huddled round the woodstove to hear folk-pop duo Kyra and Tully launch their vinyl 12″ Wildlife. Doors open at 7:30pm, Dorothea Paas opens at 8pm. For Tickets use the contact form on this site.
WWOOF vid comp 2011 entry
Budding film-makers Justin and Ryan visited us this Summer – two of many WWOOFERS – and caught us on camera.
Juurikasviksiakeitto
Cooler days find me cooking up scandinavian soups such as the parsnip puree – a juurikasviksiakeitto, or root veg puree, pictured below. Adapted from Sundays at Moosewood, tonight I: sauteed 2 medium onions in 3 TBSP olive oil, then once it turned translucent added more olive oil and 3C parsnips, 2C potatoes, 1 celery root, TBSP fennel seed.
Meanwhile I put some of the celery leaves, discarded onion skin,a few cloves of garlic, 6 peppercorns, 12 coriander seed into 5.5C water and simmered it to make stock. To the browned saute I added 1 tsp dill seed, 2C non-dairy milk, tsp salt and 2.5C of the strained stock. The smell of dill and fennel seed popping is supreme. Simmered 20-30 mins.
Finally I took it off the heat, blended it with the hand-blender and ate it seated with friends, accompanied by fresh baked beet bread and sweet potato hash.
