Bike Walk Bus to Uptown Farmers market
Leave the car behind and make your way to the Uptown Farmers Market this Thursday!
Grab freshly picked produce, catch some live music and enjoy the feel-good bonus of getting here on foot, by bike or by bus. Good for you. Good for the planet.
Planning to bike to the market? Once you arrive, stop by the Uptown Farmers Market North Welcome Tent where the first 10 cyclists to visit (helmet required!) will score a Midtown Greenway Coalition water bottle!
Thursdays, 4 to 7:30 p.m. in September
Please note earlier closing time for the remaining markets.
Taking the bus? Download your free Metro Transit pass here for market day! Use the Metro Transit Trip Planner and enter Lagoon Cinema as your destination for the best route from your location. Stop by the Metro Transit information table while you're at the market to say hello and thank them for their support!! Close enough to walk? Even better! However you get here, we'll see you Thursday, 4–8 p.m. at MoZaic Plaza (Lagoon & Girard), right next to Lagoon Cinema.
Thank you Metro Transit for supporting the Uptown Farmers Market!
Fabulous bus panel artwork by Mark Herman markhermanstudio.com
Below photo credit: intersection.com
FRESH EATS. Our food vendors and more!
FRESH EATS. Our food vendors and more!
Here’s some of what's in season and available this week!
Pumpkins, Poblano peppers, banana peppers, Serrano peppers, Anaheim peppers, carrots, hard squash: butternut, buttercup, acorn, spaghetti, carnival, delicate, Hubbard and orange buttercup, sweet corn, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, green tomatoes, radishes, cucumbers, curly kale, Lacinato kale, kohlrabi, collard greens, yellow squash, zucchini, beets, micro-greens, cabbage, broccoli, red potatoes, yellow potatoes, onions, green beans, green peppers, jalapeno peppers, cauliflower, eggplant, cabbage
Watermelon, strawberries, raspberries
Cheese, bread, cookies
Honey, hummus, chunk pickles, kimchi, fermented garlic, jams, marmalade
This week's vendors!
Farmers Svihel Vegetable Farm • Wisconsin Cheese Outlet
Food Makers/Bakers/Pet Goods Bare Honey • Feline Grove • G’s Nutz • Namaste Cafe • Oh, Yeah! Cookie Company • Sweet Street MN • Veganwitt • Yummytizers
Crafts/Artists/Body Care Aaron Noble Soap • Bennett Graham Sculpture to Wear • PaChia Blooms • Tiny Girl Gang MPLS
Prepared Food/Food Trucks Banh Sizzle • K Express Food Truck • Momodosa • Saigon Brew • Summer Lakes Beverage • Sweet Joon • Wild Harvest Lemonade
LIVE BEATS!
Shop, stroll then pull up a chair for the old-time roots blue music of Matt Yetter (above) from 4:45 to 7:15pm.
Grab dinner, enjoy the music, and make a night of it!
GET CREATIVE WITH NATURE!
Art, food scraps & fall fun at this Thursday’s market
Get creative with Gifting Grove and experiment with natural watercolors made from food scraps! All supplies are provided and you’ll get to take your one-of-a-kind artwork home with you.
Gifting Grove is a nonprofit creating opportunities to explore a gift economy—a more sustainable, joyful way of living rooted in connection, creativity and sharing. This hands-on activity is a fun way to experience that spirit firsthand.
You can also check out Gifting Grove’s current community exhibit, Regenerative Creativity, at True North Studio through September 27.
COMING UP: September 27 Closeout Celebration: Live Art Making & Silent Auction
FALL CREATIONS TAKE FLIGHT!
ARTrageous Adventures will also be at this week’s market with a Festive Fall Monarch Butterfly Planter Stake Creation Station, celebrating the monarchs’ annual fall migration to Mexico. Stop by and create your own colorful garden stake while learning more about these amazing travelers.
Track the monarch migration here.
#ThursdayAreForUptown invites the whole community to plan a night on the town in Uptown and the Uptown Farmers Market is a great place to start!
This Week’s #ThursdaysAreForUptown is packed with neighborhood favorites, live music and plenty of ways to get involved. Start your evening by stocking up at the Uptown Farmers Market. Every week features kids activities, so it’s the perfect destination for after-school. Celebrate Hwatu Night at Moona Moono. Keep the night moving with Tubthumping Thursdays at Bryant Lake Bowl or an open mic and live music at the Green Room. Cap things off with Trivia Night at Lake and Irving. Sing your heart out at karaoke at L2 at Tii Cup and enjoy $5 boba shots.
UFM HITS THE BIG SCREEN!
This Wednesday, September 16, Uptown Movie Club presents The Condor Daughter—and the Uptown Farmers Market trailer will be playing before the movie!
The trailer features an original song about the market by Maygen & The Birdwatcher. We’re thrilled to see UFM making its way to the big screen!
The Uptown Farmers Market Salad Recipe!
Pick up ingredients this week at the market for this fresh salad!
Salad ingredients:
one pint of green beans, blanched and cut into one inch pieces
one pint of cherry or grape tomatoes, halved
small red onion, cut into thin half rings
two ears corn on the cob, boiled and cut off the cob
one red or yellow pepper, chopped
Vinaigrette:
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
juice of one lemon
1 teaspoon honey
1 or two garlic cloves finely chopped
1 teaspoon Dijon Mustard
Salt and pepper to taste
1/2 cup fresh basil, chopped
Prepare the vinaigrette: Whisk the oil, lemon juice, mustard, garlic and honey in a medium sized bowl until emulsified. Season with salt and pepper. Set aside.
Prepare the salad: Combine all of the veggies in a bowl, toss with the vinaigrette and sprinkle on the basil. Serve immediately.
Enjoy!
WE’D LIKE YOUR FEEDBACK
Share your thoughts on the Uptown Farmers Market Help shape the future of the Uptown Farmers Market! Your feedback will help us better understand how people use and experience the market and support future programming, community engagement and grant funding.
It takes just a few minutes, is completely voluntary and your responses will remain confidential. Thanks for helping us make the Uptown Farmers Market even better!
Click here to tell us what you think! Submission deadline: October 2nd!
Questions? Visit the Uptown Farmers Market website.
GOOD VIBES! We’re on a mission to help nourish a vibrant, healthy community by bringing fresh local produce to Uptown, along with artisan baked goods, ready-to-love meals, live music and a whole lot more.
Uptown Farmers Market is a project of the Uptown Farmers Market Collaborative, led and fiscally held by East Isles Neighborhood Association in collaboration with 7 other neighborhood associations including East Bde Maka Ska, Cedar Isles Dean, East Isles, The Wedge, Lowry Hill, West Maka Ska, South Uptown and Kenwood.