May 9th: Opening Day and Mother's Day Celebration
Welcome back to the Market! Check out the new vendors and greet your old favorites! Bring your family for a day of fun and pick up your FREE market shopping bag, compliments of presenting sponsor, Target!
Mini-Farm and Baby Name Contest:
8am - 1pm, A special Mini-Farm for Mother's Day! Vera, our goat has just given birth to a little doe! We will be having a raffle to choose her name! Take a chance, help support our mini-farm and win a prize!
Kids - Get Growing!:
8am - 1pm (while supplies last), Make a garden gift for mom! Paint a pot and plant a flower for mom.
Cooking Demo:
10am, Breakfast for Mom! Join Renewing the Countryside's Brett Olson and his kids Axel and Olivia for recipes sure to make mom's day!
Cookbook Sale:
10:30am-1pm, Join Renewing the Countrysidefor your copy of The Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook on sale at the Farmers Market for a special event rate of $25 per copy - it makes a great Mother's Day gift! The Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook is a love song to local food. Through narrating the stories of 31 Minnesota chefs and restaurants, the Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook offers 100 recipes that celebrate cooking with local, sustainably grown food. The passion of these chefs, and the farmers they work with, sings throughout the pages.
Entertainment, sponsored by MOSAIC:
11am-1pm, Collide*A*Scope preview featuring Voice of Culture Drum and Dance and the musical groups Felonious Bosch and the International Fiddle Conspiracy. Collide*A*Scope is a performing arts festival in North Minneapolis and a program of SPARK theater+dance.
Live Music: 9am - 12noon, A diverse mix of classical and modern tunes for guitar and violin from Karen Thomas and Steve Haskin.
