at the market
WELCOME...Eat Fresh, Eat Local at the Upper Valley's premier fresh food market! We're open year round, located at 468 Woodstock Rd., Route 4, just outside the village of Woodstock. Click here for map.
Call us...802-457-3658 for more information. We serve sandwiches till 4 PM.
Our STORE HOURS: TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY 7:30 AM-7 PM. SUNDAY 9AM till 6 PM. We are closed on Mondays.
Important Farmers' Market Dates and Events in September:
IT'S HARVEST SEASON AT WFM!
SEPTEMBER IN-STORE ONLY SPECIALS!!!
Sugar Cookies! 20% OFF! Reg. $1.19, NOW $0.95!
Side Hill Farm's Maple Apple Drizzle! Reg. $6.69, NOW $5.99! The Maple Cranberry & Maple Blueberry flavors are also on sale!
Gormley's Apple Hickory Grill Sauce! Reg. $4.69, NOW $3.99!
SEPTEMBER FEATURES!!!
**VERMONT ARTISANAL FOODS! Shop our wide selection of "Made in Vermont" products. Support our local producers! LOCAL APPLES, CIDER, MAPLE SYRUP, CHEESE & SQUASH!
**Fall's Finest Produce: PUMPKINS FOR LABOR DAY WEEKEND!
**ITALIA!
Another shipment of premium quality, specialty ITALIAN IMPORTS has arrived! Simply amazing... and selling fast! Check it out!
SEPTEMBER DEMOS!!!
**Sat. Sept. 4th, 12-5: Sample one of our NEW ITALIA Arrivals! Bottega Calabria Bruschetta Dry Mix. We will sample Bruschetta using local tomatoes and Italia Olive Oil!
**Sat. Sept. 11th, 11-3: Laughing Lotus Farm of Barnard, VT: They plan on stopping by the Market to show their line of Kim Chi and Cooking Pastes. Definitely worth the trip...
**Sat. Sept. 18th: DOUBLE HEADER!! WOW!
11-3: Andy's Salsa of Waterbury, VT: Be prepared to sample tender pulled pork and their amazing BBQ sauce. Sweet and spicy and made with pure VT Maple Syrup!
12-5: Mollie is making breakfast! Sample waffles w/Side Hill Farm's Maple Apple Drizzle, with is on SALE in September!
**Sun. Sept. 19th, 11-3: Profoun Salsa...Think thick, consistent & super flavorful! Good stuff from Vergennes, Vermont!
**Sat. Sept. 25th, 11-3: VT Country Grillstone will be grilling outside using their Himalayan Seasoning Salts!
SEPTEMBER HAPPENINGS!
**We will be closed on Monday, September 6th.
**Market on the Green! Wed. September 29th, 3-6 p.m. Chef Michelle will be grilling PIZZA! Stop by and have a slice of the freshest pizza around! ALL LOCAL INGREDIENTS! Amazing Mach's Pizza Crusts, Local Basil, Mozzarella & Tomatoes...yum!
**GARDEN CENTER: Decorate for Fall NOW! MUMS ARE HERE! Fill in your Garden and Window Boxes...CABBAGE, KALES, HANGING MUMS and more! Many Perennials now on SALE...up to 50% OFF! PUMPKINS ARRIVING FOR LABOR DAY WEEKEND!
**Check out our Local Food Report for Fall's Finest Produce! SEE DETAILS...
**WFM is Hiring! Download an application and drop it off at the Market. See details...
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
**Woodstock's Chili Cook-Off! Saturday, October 2nd: Noon - 3 pm. Chef Michelle, (winner in 2007 & 2008), will be competing downtown with her infamous chili. Try it out beforehand at the Market. Make sure to stop by and support her!
**Columbus Day Weekend is big, big big at the Market! Harvestfest will be going strong. We will be open Monday, October 11th!
September Artisan Cheese Feature:
Gruyere Vieux AOC - Le Cret sur Semsales, Switzerland
JUST IN!!! A very special, 70 pound wheel of Gruyere from cheese maker Jean-Marie Dunand!
Gruyere Vieux is aged over 16 months & Swiss regulation requires that this cheese must stay within the AOC area of Switzerland throughout the aging process. The control and care each cheese receives produces cheese with a deep nutty flavor & long finish.
Q: Why is it shaped like a wheel and so large?
A: The development of Gruyere cheese in the mountainous region of Switzerland occurred as a result of cow herds being driven into the Alps in search of available pastures. Cheese making took place all summer long & required that cheese makers move their copper cauldrons & cheese making supplies regularly. Fundamental to all cheese making is salt, and moving large quantities of heavy salt higher and higher was arduous.
Cheese makers learned that using less salt meant applying special techniques to rid the milk of whey. Three principal methods of removing the whey were to cut the curd into very small pieces, heat the curd & then press the formed cheese.
Cheese was aged in the mountains and brought back down to the valley floor in the late fall. It was easier to move large cheeses rather than thousands of small pieces. Also, larger pieces aged more slowly, making it perfect to eat throughout the fall & winter months.
When the cows are brought back from the mountain pastures, small towns & villages in Switzerland have grand festivals & parade the herds down main streets. These celebrations are known as Desalpe. Resplendent in their traditional bells, cows are decked out with flower wreaths.
Lisa Battilana is our Executive Chef & Retail Representative of the Vermont Cheese Council Executive Board.
Looking to buy artisan cheese?
News from our kitchen !!
Check out our prepared foods MENUS online!
--Remember to call us to order all holidays meats now!
--We are now serving the best breakfast sandwiches in the Upper Valley! See breakfast menu and pricing.
-- Box Lunch Menu is available any time! Great for meetings and gatherings--and picnics in the summer. Please call the kitchen, 802-457-3658, press number 1 for the deli, for more information.
--Our Celebration Cake Menu is perfect for graduations, birthdays or celebrations of any kind. Please call our bakery at 457-3658 (and press number one for the deli) and we will walk you through the form. Don't feel you have to fill it out--feel free to call and we can fill it out together.
We are humbly honored...last June, Woodstock Farmers' Market got named RETAILER OF THE YEAR along with four other specialty foods businesses around the country by the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade (NASFT). We recieved our "food oscar" at the annual NASFT Fancy Food Show in NYC. Pretty cool stuff. Read more....
To get an idea of the importance of the award, check out a clip produced by the folks at NASFT...it's pretty cool... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7JyjWcXZRE )
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THE FARMERS' MARKET??
We are a unique fresh food market, OPEN ALL YEAR, located one mile west of the historic village of Woodstock. Here at WFM, our entire staff is relentless in the pursuit of great service, value and quality. Plus, WE LOVE FOOD! Our mission is to focus on artisan food and products; we believe that small batch food produced both locally and globally often tastes better and helps support local economies both here in Vermont and around the world.
We also pride ourselves on our work place and atmosphere...just one step in our front door and you'll feel it for yourself...the music is cranking, the produce is piled high, the cases are full of great food, the store is clean and, most importantly, we are happy and ready to serve you.
Nothing has really changed since our start in 1992, except the size of our building and staff. Now at 30 to 40 part and full time staffers, we are local food junkies who serve our community award winning food: our prepared foods and deli department serve outstanding breakfast, lunch, fabulous sandwiches, deli salads as well as hot entrees for dinner; our deli serves incredible local and world famous farmhouse cheeses, olives, sliced meats and other gourmet provisions, plus plenty of strong coffee and espresso beverages.
Our seafood and meat departments in our deli are the place to find the freshest seafood north of Boston and the best hand cut meats and all natural poultry in the Upper Valley. We also search for local or all natural meat suppliers whenever possible.
Our produce department serves the absolute freshest conventional, organic and local produce available while our garden center is home to zone hardy locally grown perennials and unique annuals including plenty of local pumpkins mums in the fall and holiday greenery and Christmas trees in the late fall.
And our grocery department keeps a wide array of specialty and everyday groceries on our shelves and speeds our guests through our checkout with the latest technology and pleasant, speedy service. We specialize in hard to find unique food products like olive oils, marinades, chocolates and jams from Vermont and the world all over. And we ship most of our food stuffs all over the world.
And our latest venture is the virtual world of shopping, WoodstockFarmersMarket.com, where we hope to duplicate our great service and great food on the world-wide web.
