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Fennel and Mushroom Salad Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 fennel bulb, quartered, cored, and sliced very thin
• 4 ounces Cremini mushrooms, cleaned and sliced thin
• 4 ounces white mushrooms, cleaned and sliced thin
• 1/2 cup Italian flat leaf parsley leaves, roughly chopped
• 2 Tbs red wine vinegar
• 2 Tbs extra-virgin olive oil
• 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
• 1/8 tsp freshly ground black pepper
• 6 Romaine lettuce leaves

Directions

1. Place the fennel, mushrooms, and parsley in a large bowl.
2. Whisk together the vinegar, olive oil, salt, and pepper.
3. Add the dressing to the bowl and toss well.
4. Place the lettuce leaves on a serving plate. Place the salad in the middle of the lettuce.
5. Serve the salad at room temperature.

This mushroom recipe and others can be found here.

Bring your bike to Windsor Cycles this weekend at the market!

Show us your wheels, Windsor!

Join us for Windsor Cycles this Saturday (July 10) at the Downtown Windsor Farmers’ Market.

• FREE tune ups by One Good Earth Cycles
• Wear a bike helmet get a free ballot for our draw
• Local cycling information & maps

Don’t forget your panniers and back pack so you can stock up on the best local fruit, veggies, baked goods, fish, and beef.  Enjoy a snack and take in the entertainment including the Windsor Symphony Orchestra.

Saturday, July 10 – 8am to 1pm

We hope you’re all enjoying this great week and hope to see you at the market for all of your Canada Day BBQ needs.  Join us Saturday from 8-1 for these great picks:

• corn fed beef from Hylander Farms
• growing selection of veggies (grilled zucchini and beets anyone?  Yum!)
• amazing ingredients for side dishes and great salads (lettuce, herbs, cukes, raspberries, beans, peas & more!)
• super snacks: flavoured nuts, kettle corn, pies, cookies, diabetic-friendly goodies

Maybe you are gardening this weekend instead?  Have your thought/heard about worm castings?  Check out the Worm Poo booth to learn about this excellent, all-natural fertilizer!

Worm Poo - Excellent, natural fertilizer! Photo by John Stefani

There’s lots to see and do at the market so come on by.  Don’t forget to arrive early to get the pick of the county!

See you at the market!

Week three at the Downtown Windsor Farmers’ Market starts at 8am tomorrow!

Local Raspberries - Photo by Kari Gignac

Stock up on great produce this week:

• raspberries
• cherries
• herbs
• lettuce
• potatoes

There’s lots of natural and organic produce and don’t forget that you can ask the vendors questions about anything they sell…they ARE the producers/growers!

Is the market your new meeting place? We welcome you to sit and enjoy the atmosphere from one of the many tables while you grab a drink (the coffee, tea and smoothies are ready at 8am!) or a meal and enjoy the entertainment.

Handmade Pens - Photo by Kari Gignac

School’s almost done. Did you remember a gift for teacher? Check out unique gift ideas at the market this week including handmade pens.

We still have some seasonal fruit & vegetable cards available at our information booth so pick up your copy and say hello. Volunteers are also around every Saturday wearing bright green shirts.

So stop in tomorrow for sampling, shopping and socializing. The first hour of parking in the garage is free! See you at the market!

Join us for an exciting second week at the Downtown Windsor Farmers’ Market tomorrow starting at 8am!

Our food vendors have coffee, freshly brewed tea and breakfast treats to get your day started and prepared food is available all day (hot dogs, sandwiches and more!) if you want to sit down at one of the picnic tables and have lunch.

What will our vendors bring? It’s always exciting to see what has come into season each week. Stop in at our information booth to pick up your seasonal fruit & vegetable reference card that will help you plan your visits.

Don’t forget about Dad! Locally Yours will have Father’s Day gift baskets ready to go and our other artisans will have some unique gift ideas too. Maybe bring Dad with you and treat him to a snack while you are entertained by our buskers!

Did you miss anything at your last visit? After stopping at your favourite vendors be sure to look for vendors who are new to the market this season. Now you can get steaks at the market, pick up some fresh fish and take the kids for a pony ride!

The parking garage is right across the road and the first hour of parking is free. The vendors are under the canopy so even with the slight chance of rain, the county’s best will be safe and waiting for you to discover it!

See you at the market!

Thank you to everyone for a spectacular opening day!  The market was buzzing with activity all day long and the produce was flying off of the tables.

Leslie Balsillie from The Fruit Wagon sold out of produce by 10am. 20 flats of strawberries gone in a flash!

We hope that you were able to join us and that you had a great time.  We look forward to seeing you again and seeing what produce the vendors bring with them as the food comes into season.

Congratulations to Jagruti Patel for winning our draw.  Jagruit wins a beautiful gift basket of local products from Locally Yours.

It’s opening day tomorrow!

The market will have more than 30 local vendors, celebrating the best of Windsor and Essex County with fresh, local produce, area artisans and entrepreneurs, baked goods and prepared foods, and live entertainment.

New vendors this year include meat, fish, gluten-free baked goods, pony rides and more.

In addition, specially for opening day, we will have master gardeners and others celebrating Spring in Windsor with perennials, local native plants, and gardening wisdom!

Click here to see a complete list of vendors on opening day.

There will also be a drawing for a door prize from one of our vendors, Locally Yours.

See you at the market!

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