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Historic Lewes Farmers Market Announces 2018 Scholarship Recipients

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Historic Lewes Farmers Market Announces 2018 Scholarship Recipients

For 11 years, the Historic Lewes Farmers Market has awarded scholarships to small-scale Delmarva farmers to attend sustainable farming conferences including these conferences in the Mid-Atlantic: the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) Annual Farming for the Future Conference held February 7-10, 2018 in State College, PA; Future Harvest CASA Conference held January 11-13, 2018 in College Park, MD; the Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Conference held January 30-February 1, 2017 in Hershey, … Continue Reading ...

Historic Lewes Farmers Market Announces 2017 Scholarship Recipients

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 For 10 years, the Historic Lewes Farmers Market has awarded scholarships to small-scale Delmarva farmers to attend sustainable farming conferences including these conferences in the Mid-Atlantic: the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) Annual Farming for the Future Conference held February 1-4, 2017 in State College, PA; Future Harvest CASA Conference held January 12-14, 2017 in College Park, MD; and the Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Conference held January 31-February 2,  2017 in Hershey, PA.

 This year, scholarships were awarded to … Continue Reading ...

Tomato Festival Recipes!!

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On Saturday, August 5, 14 of our vendors will pair with 14 local star chefs. The chefs will create unique recipes for our Market attendees to sample. Here are some recipes from last year  for you to try in your own kitchen. Local tomatoes are the best!  Thank you to everyone that supported our 2016 Tomato Festival, and those supporting the 2017 Tomato Festival this year!

 

Charred Tomato & Crab Salsa , Local Sweet Corn, Shaved Red Onion, Celery

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Jean-Martin Fortier, The Market Gardener, Speaks at HLFM Sustainable Farmers Productivity Workshop

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Earlier this month, the HLFM hosted a packed house of farmers at our Sustainable Farmers Productivity Workshop. Jean-Martin Fortier, farmer, educator and author of The Market Gardener, as well as Gordon Johnson from the University of Delaware Cooperative Extension were the key speakers at this workshop.

Jean-Martin Fortier discussed intelligent farm design and soil biology. He is helping small farmers everywhere to farm more efficiently. Fortier and his wife, Maude-Helene Desroches, operate an organic market garden in Quebec, “Les Jardins … Continue Reading ...

Welcome To Your Market.

Where Fresh Food is Rooted in Community.
The Historic Lewes Farmers Market (HLFM) is a non-profit organization with a producer-only farmers market located in Lewes, Delaware. The HLFM provides a family-friendly, community gathering place where consumers may purchase the freshest local foods available. It also provides alternative educational and marketing opportunities for emerging farmers and others to help create local and sustainable food systems that are environmentally sound, economically viable and socially responsible and which improve the variety, freshness, nutritional value and distribution of fresh farmland foods to the community. Welcome To Your Market--Where Fresh Food is Rooted in Community.