Title: TomatoFest
Location: At the Market
Description: A celebration of Summer\’s favorite vegetable. Samples, recipes, cooking and canning demonstrations. Plus stories for kids, games, and music.
Time: 8:00 – Noon
Date: July 17, 2010

Title: SquashFest
Location: At the Market
Description: Help us celebrate the season with pumpkin painting, games, stories, recipes, samples, and our Biggest Sweet Potato contest!
Date: 2009-10-17
Start Time: 8:00 am
End Time: Noon

Eno River Farmers Market Will Hold SquashFest on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009

Hillsborough, NC (October 3, 2009) – The Eno River Farmers Market at the Public Market House in historic downtown Hillsborough will celebrate SquashFest on Saturday, October 17 from 8 am – Noon.

The festival will feature more than a dozen varieties of squash, pumpkin, and sweet potato in every size, shape and color, all harvested by the market’s local farmers. Varieties include Blue Hubbard, Long Island Cheese, Acorn, Butternut and both orange and white sweet potatoes.

Recipes will be provided for soup, main dishes, side dishes and baked goods. Vendors will offer samples of recipes they have prepared.

There will also be activities for children, including pumpkin painting, and a reading of seasonal stories.

In addition, the market vendors will have their usual abundance of fresh, local vegetables.

The Eno River Farmers Market offers farm-fresh, organic produce, cheese, meat, eggs, baked goods, prepared foods, and crafts from local growers and producers. It is open to vendors who reside and produce the items they sell within a 60-mile radius of Hillsborough, NC. Vendors must be the original producer of their items.

Title: Pancakes and Pancake Books
Location: At the Market
Description: Join us for pancakes made from organic flour and free range eggs. Enjoy readings of classic childrens books about pancakes.
Date: 2009-09-05

Join us for blueberry pancakes, made from local pesticide-free blueberries, free-range
eggs, and organic flour. Come early and eat hearty.
Plus musical entertainment provided by the Percolators!

Saturday, August 8, 2009  8am – Noon