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Final 2015 Farmers’ Market is November 21st

Saturday, November 21, will mark the final Tappahannock Farmers' Market for the year. Building on the success of the previous six markets of 2015, this final holiday market will not only offer late fall bounty of the fields and the many delicious meats, seafood, and baked goods, but crafts focusing on Thanksgiving and Christmas décor and gifts for every taste. In preparation for the holidays, vendors are offering evergreen wreaths, sprays, centerpieces, dwarf spruce, potted trees, table top trees, decorative container trees and many varieties of seasonal live plants. As usual WRAR will be broadcasting live during the market interviewing visitors and vendors and bringing our community together.

Practice Run for Halloween

The next Farmers' Market in Tappahannock will be held on Saturday, October 17^th from 9:00 a.m. till 1:00 p.m. Just follow the little princesses, superheroes, ghosts, and spiders who will be headed there for the annual Halloween Parade which will start at 10:00 a.m.  This will definitely be a colorful market with seasonal colors evident in the produce, flowers, and children's costumes. 

For more information, CLICK HERE

Tappahannock Farmer's Market September 19th

The next Farmers' Market in Tappahannock will be held on Saturday, September 19, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the heart of the downtown Tappahannock Historic District. Come early, stay late, and take home all you'll need to make delicious dishes, add the right wines, decorate your home or yourself, and find the perfect gift.  You can enjoy snacks and lunch in a shady spot on a cooler September day.  You'll also have the opportunity to meet artists and craftsmen, hear musicians, and get plenty of free advice and stories from the vendors and other community organizations.

For more information CLICK HERE

Tappahannock Mid-Summer Farmers’ Market August 15th

On Saturday, August 15th, 2015, between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., park your car in downtown Tappahannock and walk up the street to the two square blocks of Tappahannock Farmers' Market.  Everything you'll find there is locally grown, created, crafted or prepared by people who understand that there are many ways to use their talents to enrich our local community.  It is definitely shopping local and shopping healthy at its very best!

For more information CLICK HERE!

Farmers Market Returns in July

The Tappahannock Farmers Market will return to downtown Tappahannock on Saturday, July 18, from 9:00 to 1:00.   Having been displaced by RivahFest in June, everyone is eagerly anticipating the return of the farmers with an overflow of wonderful mid-summer produce.  There will also be the usual varieties of crafts, art, music, wine, desserts, seafood and meats – all homemade of course!

For more information, CLICK HERE!

Northern Neck Master Gardeners

The Northern Neck Master Gardeners will once again be at the market with materials on what to do in the month of May in your garden including information on ticks and tick-borne disease; the International year of soil sponsored by USDA as well as answers to all of your gardening questions. Rain barrels are on sale to guard against summer droughts as well as information on what plants to use for shoreline maintenance. Special this month is the schedule for the "Go Wild" day at the Hutchinson tract just north of Tappahannock. Stop by and say hello – all the Master Gardeners love to talk about gardening!!!

Kirsten Hazler Sings to the Market

Kirsten Hazler is this month's featured musician.  Inspired by countless nights harmonizing with a Dylanesque friend, Haze bought her first guitar and started writing songs at age 25  A decade later, she released the album Recovery with her band Cycle of Addiction in Athens, Georgia.  Now based in Richmond, Virginia, Haze performs regularly as half of the duo Haze & Dacey.  Haze covers a variety of artists including Patty Griffin, Joni Mitchell, and Kathleen Edwards.  Her own songwriting is driven by good intentions, messy entanglements, and ditched resolutions; guilt and forgiveness; sweet-talking boys and tortured, troubled men; beautiful broken women and the girls they used to be.  Take time to listen and enjoy!

Artist for May: Sally Honenberger and TAG

As this month's Featured Artist, local photographer and writer Sarah "Sally" Honenberger will offer a selection from Tappahannock Art Guild artists including original photos and her latest river country novel, MINDING HENRY LEWIS, 2015 winner of the Virginia Professional Communicators contest. Honenberger's fiction has won numerous national awards, including first place in New Millenium, SouthLit, and the Antietam Review, nominations for the Library of Virginia Award, second in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Competition, and semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest. Her first Rappahannock River novel CATCHER, CAUGHT is a Pen/Faulkner selection for its Writers in Schools program. More TAG artwork will be available at the Prince Street gallery during expanded Famers Market hours from 9 to 4. The Women's Club Youth Art show just opened in the gallery along with a show by watercolorist Jackie Leavitt and oil painter Carol Wollstein. Original photo "Summer Bedtime" by Sarah Collins Honenberger, the Rte 17 Wildlife Refuge barn at sunset.

Jerry Dance - Guest Artist April 18

Jerry Dance is a self taught Artist born and raise in Blackstone Virginia. He enjoys painting Old Time VA Country scenes with a 1940's and early 1950's timeline. Jerry's Grand parents raised Tobacco and Clydesdale horses on their Va farm for over 50 years and the time Jerry spent there every summer since he was only 5 years old had a great influence on his Art and appreciation for old county living beauty . Jerry Dance Art Work is one of a kind and has Won many National and international Art Awards Honors for his Bold impressionism Art Style .Jerry Dance is a Artist that definitely paints from his heart on canvas .

Lovers Retreat has Goat Camembert!

Bobby Wilson manages a herd of goats on the Lovers Retreat farm in Saluda that produces some of the finest Virginia goat cheeses including chevre, herb, garlic/chive, tomato/basil and chipolte. Latest addition to the Lovers Retreat cheese collection is the goat milk Camembert. Check him out in booth #11 on Cross Street and take advantage of his tasty cheese samplings!

April 18th Music by Richard Patureau

Welcome back to Tappahannock Farmers' Market, local singer-songwriter Richard Patureau who is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but lived for many years in Austin Texas. He is a past winner of the Austin Songwriters' Competition, one of the largest songwriting contest in America.  His songs have been recorded by many other artists as well as being featured on the soundtrack to the motion picture "Zephyr". As a performer, Richard has opened for such artists as Marty Stuart, Becky Hobbs and Billy Joe Shaver. His album, recorded a number of years ago, received extensive air play in the state of Texas, as well as most of the Southwest. Richard has been in semi-retirement, from music, for the past few years but still plays on occasion at events such as festivals and songwriter showcases.  His music has a traditional country feel and is flavored by the occasional bluegrass or gospel song.
Always remaining true to his country roots, Richard's performances feature not only his music but also great writers such as Hank Williams and Merle Haggard. Richard lives in Warsaw Virginia.

Market Location Changes in 2015

The expected construction and development of the Courthouse Green has been deferred until 2016. The market will continue using as it always has done Cross Street, Fountain Green and Courthouse Green. Check the  farmers'  market booth  layout map: http://www.tappahannockmarket.com/pdflib/tfm-booth-map.pdf

Vendors for September TFM

Check the September market listing for your favorite vendors at http://www.tappahannockmarket.com/tfm-vendors-2014-sept.htm

Guest Artist: Cecilia Aquino

Cecilia Aquino pursued her B.A. in Studio Art and B.S. in Business Administration-concentration in Marketing at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Before graduation, she took internships in the field at the Greater Reston Arts Center in Reston, VA and studied "Orvieto and the Art History of Central Italy" in Orvieto, Italy. Cecilia works in mediums of painting, drawing and mixed media and has done commissions around the East Coast. Recently she began using iPhone cases as a canvas for her art and has been participating in painting demonstrations, and teaching cork and canvas classes. Most recent exhibitions have been at The NightGallery inLeesburg, Torpedo Factory's Target Gallery, Art Jamz, Mayflowers, Greater Reston Arts Center, and the Ronald Reagan Building.  
"Portrays portraiture through a visual interchange of abnormality and mixed media throughout" I explore the variety of ways people externalize emotion. These portraits embody the vulnerability and strength that are present in human beings. By capturing the features and then by enhancing and distorting the faces gives the portrait a sense of freedom through interpretation. Both the elements and characters in my work communicate stories that are open to the viewer's imagination. Inspired by the action of taking away the realistic aspect of a self-portrait and focusing on human abnormality, traditions, fashion and culture. Through the organic overlay of sand texture and color I am able to make features stand out at the points of transition where emotion changes. 

Guest Artist: Anna Raff

Anna Raff has painted her entire life. She grew up in Virginia after her parents immigrated from England when she was six years old. The landscapes, rivers, valleys, and mountains of Virginia inspired her earliest works. She studied at the Corcoran Museum under French Impressionists and later in London, Paris, New York, Quebec, and throughout the United States. Presently, a series on the Rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay are her subjects. She is living on the Rappahannock River, enjoying its wildlife and skies.  In 2002 a very large exhibit of 5' x 8' oils was presented in Washington, D.C. for 3 months. The series is called "From Sea to Shining Sea" American Series. There are over 2,000 major works throughout the world that "Anna Christina Pryce" has sold—predominately oil on canvas. A three year project painted in Quebec, Canada, a large church mural (16,000 sq. feet), is her only acrylic work. It was sponsored by Nobel and raised well over 200,000 Canadian dollars. Creating 7 companies in her lifetime, most design related, she helped raise 6 children and enjoys 2 grandchildren. "It is very nice to come back to Virginia. It is home, its beauty inspiring and its peacefulness restful. I'm hoping to concentrate my efforts on Virginia's landscapes in order to create a pictorial history of the way it looks today—for posterity and in order to make a significant difference in the protection of its environment.

Ask a Northern Neck Master Gardener!

Ask a Master Gardener at the Market - Every Market you have the opportunity to solve a garden problem with the help of the Northern Neck Master Gardeners - here are Priscilla Wellford, Martha Franks, Darlene Nelson and Diane Hagler (not shown Diane Kean). The Northern Neck Master Gardeners’ booth provides research-based answers to all of your gardening questions each month.. In September they will have information on preparing your lawn for next year by applying the correct ...amount of fertilizer this fall. The first step to a beautiful lawn is to have a soil test done. The Master Gardeners have soil test kits available to tell you how to determine the number of tests you need, where to send the kit and how to read the information you will receive back from Virginia Tech’s Soil Test Lab. For everyone with a garden, now is the time to prepare your garden for the winter. What needs to be cut down and what needs to be left until spring are common questions we will be happy to answer. Fall is the perfect time to transplant and divide perennials so you may want to find out what perennials are recommended for this area and what plants are “Natives”.

Toby Calloway and Larry Heatwole feature in Market Music!

This month's Virginia-born musicians have woven music into their entire lives.  Guitarist Larry Heatwole toured with The Platters, One Step Away, the United States Air Force Band, and Fat Ammons Band.  Singer Toby Calloway got his start early at The Little Ole Opry in Mathews before joining The Silver Dollar Band.  They are both teachers now and have performed together since 2001.