Happy New Year to all the faithful followers of the Cary Downtown Farmers’ Market – and you have followed us about for the last couple of years. Now we are asking you to follow us once more, this time maybe for good.

Next season – and that is coming up sooooon – on the first Saturday in April, the 7th, we will be MOVING AGAIN. Our new destination is back in the Cary Downtown, with many thanks to the Westbrook folks who have put us up in Chatham Square. We will be on the corner of Academy Street and Kildaire Farm Road/Dry Street, right across from the new Arts Center/ old Cary Academy, on the corner where everybody can see us.

There will be plenty of on-street parking, as well as various parking lots very close by, including the library.

We will be hoping to welcome back all our previous vendors, and maybe some of the Western Wake folks too, as well as any vendor newbies who are interested in selling at the market. If you’d like to be a vendor, please click on the link to download the combined application and market rules in PDF format. You can then print them – it’s only three pages.

New Year Changes & Updates

The new Cary Downtown Manager, Ed Gawf, and Doc Thorne of Heart of Cary Association will be helping us to get the word out about the new location. From Doc Thorne’s mailbox regarding this:

HoCA in Partnership with the Town will be placing a large 4X8 sign along the sidewalk in the new location of S. Academy (as soon as specs are provided), advising citizens the Farmer’s Market will be opening April 7th.

HoCA will promote a contest within the arts community (via Chambers Arts!) for DCFM from which four-different designs will be chosen and converted to 11X17 posters and door-hangers. Look for our new posters to come!

Ed says the Town will have and make its mobile Bandstage available at least for the April 7th opening as well as any other time entertainment is available. This will be a big step up (literally) for those folks we’ve had play music for us in the past, and who we hope will return to enliven the market. There will also be more of the public service events we’ve tried to sponsor, like the rabies shots event and pet adoption services.

See you April 7th!

I will be in Cary on Saturday, Dec 10th from 9-12. If for some reason this is not a good week for you and you would like to get some product, please let me know and maybe we can work something out to meet at another time during the week.

Fresh chickens are available this week!  These are the slow growing meat birds that most everyone loves.
Thank you all for being great loyal customers. We appreciate you coming out to visit us at the market. Our family wishes each of you a Very Merry CHRISTMAS!!  I will see you again in January, Lord willing.

Here is a list of what we have on hand of our pork products.  Please place an order to be sure I have what you’ll need.  All items are priced per pound.

Regular smoked Polish

Fresh Hocks     $4.00
Neck Stew Bones $1.00

Salted Pork Sides: AKA streak of lean/streak of fat        $4.00

Chickens $4.25/lb     FRESH this week!
Liver, hearts, gizzards $4/lb
Stew Chickens $5/ each
Eggs $4.00/doz

The Cary Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony
Location: Town Hall Campus by the Town Christmas Tree; 6 p.m.

Santa’s Workshop
Location: Herbert C. Young Community Center; 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Letters to Santa
Santa’s Mailbox will again be located in Town Hall starting on November 28, 2011.

Page-Walker Arts & History Center Holiday Open House
Location: Page-Walker Arts & History Center, 4-6 p.m.

Heart of the Holidays 1st annual Gingerbread House Competition
Create a gingerbread house yummy enough for an elves visit!

That’s the bad news.

The good news is – the craft vendors are all hanging out at Salem Gardens! Michelle’s shop is full of lovely things from Queen Beads (that’s Denise Kanyuh), Mind Your Beeswax (that’s Donna Walker) and other artists and craftspeople.

And she’s having an Open House this coming Sunday for everybody to use as a shopping day for the Christmas & Holiday Seasons. Come on by, have a little something to snack on & see what beautiful things all our Market craftspeople have made, including plants & arrangements, jewelry, shopping bags and beeswax candles, as well as many other things.

Save the date. Sunday, December 4, from 11am until 7pm, at Salem Gardens and Gift Shop.

The address is 1522 Salem Church Road, Apex Apex, NC 27513. To find us on Google Maps, click on the address link.

This will be his LAST Tuesday trip for the year, youall. He will continue to be here on Saturdays, and just because, some of the other vendors may occasionally join him.

If you need any veggies or salad fixins for the Thanksgiving Holiday – Come on down to the market to get them. This is what’s on the produce table today: