PRINCETON, NJ Stores and Shopping Guide Announcement
NEW VENDORS, NEW RECYCLING OPPORTUNITIES AT THE PENNINGTON FARMERS MARKET
There’s always something new at the Pennington Farmers Market. In July, two new vendors joined the Market – Nine Acre Farm and HerbNZest; and the Solutions Corner announced the expansion of their recycling activities to include foam egg cartons, pantyhose, and used golf balls. You can learn about these and other activities at the new Market website, which also launched in July: www.PenningtonFarmersMarket.com
Nine Acre Farm participated in the Farmers Market in its first year, but the adverse weather conditions of 2010 ruined the sunflower crop, so they missed last season. Now Sonya Sappington is back with her stunning sunflowers and selling out every weekend.
HerbNZest is a new company offering fruit and vegetable spreads made from simple natural ingredients enhanced by a pairing of herbs and spices. At the Market each week you can try free samples of their Chive Tomato Mustard Spread and the Basil Peach Raisin Spread. Founder, Deboleena Dutta, has enjoyed the Pennington Farmers Market experience and praised it for “the market's spirit created by a combination of vendors, events, music and customers!”
The Solutions Corner at the Farmers Market addresses a wide range of environmental problems and suggests simple ways that each of us can address these issues. Foremost among these problems is the shocking amount of material that is dumped in landfills, with one solution being the recycling of more materials to keep them from becoming trash. Pennington Farmers Market customers are adept at sorting materials at home to be placed at the curbside for pick up (paper, cardboard, glass, cans, and #1 and #2 plastics). But that still leaves a lot of material in the trash can. So, at the Farmers Market there is a collection of #5 plastics (yogurt containers, flower pots, and lots of other hard plastics) on the last Saturday of the month. These materials are sent to Preserve, a company that turns this material into kitchenware and other long-lasting products. The Market has also been collecting wine bottle corks to be made into cork tiles.
Now the recycling effort is being expanded. Joann Held, Solutions Corner manager, announced, “Beginning in August new materials are being added to the list of recyclables at the Pennington Farmers Market. In addition to the #5 plastics and wine bottle corks, we will be collecting pantyhose, foam egg cartons, and used golf balls. Bring them to the Market on the last Saturday of each month, and we will make sure they are recycled into new and useful products.”
For Vendor information, contact Jenni Spencer (Market Manager) at (609) 647-8240; for Recycling information contact Joann Held (Solutions Corner) at (609) 737-0867.
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The mission of the Pennington Farmers Market is to provide growers and producers within fifty miles of Pennington, New Jersey an opportunity to sell directly to the public; to promote the nutritional, environmental, and community health benefits of sustainable living; and to create a unique atmosphere in which to appreciate the agriculture, arts, culture, and character of Hopewell Valley.
