Farmers’ Market Update for Saturday, May 28
Participating Farms and Grillmasters Festival Vendors
Aimee’s Blue Ribbon Spices Dips, herbs, rubs, mixes, soups, spices, seasonings, all natural, no msg, gluten-free and Ohio Proud.
Anderson Orchard This week I shall be bringing asparagus, potted Asiatic lilies, preying mantis egg cases, hostas, ostrich ferns and PEONIES!
Black Swamp Gourmet Habanero barbeque sauces.
Bridgman Farm We’ll have dozens of plants for gardens. Our heirloom, hybrid and cherry tomato plants come in a rainbow of colors and flavors. We’ll also have red and green Romaine and leaf lettuces, watermelon, muskmelon, cucumber, eggplant and squash plants.
CaJohns Flavor & Fire Award winning salsas, hot sauces and rubs.
Crazy Uncle Jester’s Inferno World Hotter than hot sauces.
Ehmann & Sons Greenhouse Annuals, perennials and hanging baskets.
Folck Family Farm Family raised pork sausage, bacon, liver, heart, jams made by Cindy in our farm kitchen: red raspberry,black raspberry, blackberry and mixed berry. Plus, tomato plants started back in January: heirlooms very limited.
Heartbreaking Dawns Artisan sauces and seasonings.
Honeyrun Farm Potted herbs, fall and summer honey, honeysticks, handcrafted soap,
beeswax candles, and freshly harvested this week… bee pollen.Ohio Farm Direct Whole milk cheeses including cheddar, mozzarella, baby swiss, pepper jack, garlic and herb, tomato basil pinenut and lemon zest. All beef trail bologna, summer sausage and beef sticks, too. What makes them stand out is the wonderful nutrition and taste that comes from the 100 percent grassfed cows.
Oink Moo Cluck Farms We will be bringing our beef, pork and chicken.
Ole Ray’s Sauces Gourmet sauces and seasonings.
Patter Fam Sauces Sauces and seasonings.
Race City Sauce Works Sauces galore!
Rock Dove Farm We will have salad mix, parsley, scallions and radishes.
Rhoads Farm Market Homegrown strawberries will be available and in good supply. You are invited to visit www.rhoadsfarminc.com to see the crop in production and place any advance orders.
Silver Bridge Coffee Company Small batch fresh roasted coffee.
Somerset Greenhouse I will have flowering perennial plants, premium annuals like Coleus, Bacopa and Wave Petunias for planting in pots or the landscape, herb plants, mixed planters, hanging baskets and lettuce.
Summer Thyme Farm We will be bringing potted herbs, herb planters, tomatoes,
peppers, perennial sedum mixs, succulent planters, hanging basket tomatoes and strawberries. We will also have some 6″ bananas, 6″ varigated brugmansia and silver edge lavender. Lots of fun and interesting plant material as always!!
Toad Hill Farm I will have arugula, lettuce and spinach.
Wishwell Farms Produce We will have tomatoes, asparagus, herbs, maybe lettuce and spinach if we can get in the muddy field and veggie plants.
Grillmasters Festival this weekend!
Grillmasters Festival Schedule of Activities
Saturday, May 28
• 8 a.m., Farmers Market opens
• 9 – 11 a.m., music by Ira Chaiffetz
• 9 a.m., Cooking demonstration Janel Hedgepeth of Renaissance Hotel
• 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., Face Painting by Rita
• 10 a.m., Amateur BBQ Sauce Contest (SPOTS AVAILABLE!)
• 11 a.m.- 1 p.m., music by Angela Perley
• 11 a.m., Cooking demonstration by Josh Cook of Barrio Tapas
• 11 a.m.- 1 p.m., Columbus Dog Connection foster parents with adoptable dogs
• 12 p.m., Thrilla at the Grilla, four chefs face off for the title “BBQ Master”: David MacLennan (Latitude 41), Josh Cook (Barrio), Andy Fields (Due Amici), John McLaughlin (Heartbreaking Dawns)
• 1 – 3 p.m., music by Loosely Strung
• 3 - 5 p.m., music by the Shaw Brothers
• 1 p.m., Cooking demonstration byJim Budros, Co-Founder of City BBQ
• 2 p.m., Cooking demonstration by Heartbreaking Dawns
• 3 p.m., Cooking demonstration by Race City Sauce Works
• 4 p.m., Cooking demonstration by Patter Fam Sauces
Sunday, May 29
• 12 p.m., North Market and outdoor vendors open
• 12 – 2 p.m., music by One More Time String Band
• 12 – 3 p.m., Mark Wood’s Cowboy Fun Show
• 12: 30 p.m., Salsa Fresca Contest (SPOTS AVAILABLE!)
• 1:15 p.m., Cooking demonstration by Brian Cook, Columbus Brewing Company
• 2 p.m., Cooking demonstration by John Hard, CaJohn’s Flavor & Fire
• 2 – 4 p.m., music by the Folkwood Players
• 2:45 p.m., Cooking demonstration by Andy Fields of Due Amici
• 3:30 p.m., Cooking demonstration by Justin Evy of Barley’s Brewing Company Restaurant
Red Cross Blood Drive this Saturday
Summer is a critical time for blood donations. On any given day, the blood supply is fragile. The Central Ohio Blood Services Region supports patients at 39 hospitals across 27 counties. Approximately 650 blood donors are needed every day to meet the needs of the patients served by this region.
We make it easy for you to give at the North Market. Our blood drive will be this Saturday in the Dispatch Kitchen on the second floor. You will receive free parking in our lot and a special treat as a North Market blood donor. We still have appointments available at 9:15AM, 9:30AM, 9:45AM, 10AM, 10:45AM, 11:15AM, 11:45AM, 1:45PM, 2:15PM, 2:30PM and 2:45PM and walk-ins are always welcome. To schedule an appointment please email info@northmarket.com with your preferred appoinment time, date of birth, cell number and blood type (if you know it).
North Market CLOSED on Memorial Day
Stock up on your Memorial Day cookout supplies on Saturday and Sunday this weekend because the North Market will be CLOSED on Monday in observance of Memorial Day. We will resume regular hours on Tuesday, May 31.
Participating Farms
After 23 years at the North Market Farmers’ Market selling the herbs, tomatoes, peppers, beans and greens lovingly grown in her Gahanna Garden, Clelia Combs has retired from her summer Saturday post. Born in Italy, Clelia grew up with a father who tended a garden that provided herbs, vegetables and fruit for his family of ten children to enjoy. She came to the United States in 1962 as a “war bride.” Clelia’s heritage was evident in the produce growing in her garden. She began years ago with a focus on herbs hence the name, “Combs Fresh Herbs.” 
North Market will celebrate its sixth Grillmasters Festival over Memorial Day Weekend. The Saturday and Sunday event will emphasize grilling, techniques and sauces as well as putting a little bite into your recipes with spices and hot sauces. North Market Grillmasters Festival will take place May 28 and 29 and feature special barbeque and fiery foods vendors, cooking demonstrations, culinary contests, live music and entertainment for the kiddies.
Saturday and be augmented by special barbeque and fiery foods vendors including 
North Market will celebrate its fifth Grillmasters Festival over Memorial Day Weekend. The event has been expanded to two days this year and will emphasize grilling, techniques and sauces (the smoke) as well as putting a little bite into your recipes with spices and hot sauces (the fire). North Market Grillmasters Festival will take place May 29 and 30 and feature special barbeque and fiery foods vendors, cooking demonstrations, culinary contests, live music and entertainment for the kiddies. 
On Saturday, customers are invited to demonstrate their BBQ prowess in an Amateur Barbeque Sauce Contest that will be judged by local BBQ sauce makers. First prize is $50 in North Market gift certificates. Returning in the “professional” category is the popular, “Thrilla at the Grilla.” A couple chefs are given their own hibachis and charcoal then use their imagination as far as what they whip up on the grill. Our discerning judges will choose a champion and the public can taste their creations. The winner will take home the title “Baron of Barbeque” and $200 in North Market gift certificates. On Sunday the activities of the day will commence with an amateur Salsa Fresco Contest with another winner taking home $50 in North Market gift certificates.
10 a.m., Amateur BBQ Sauce Contest
