Farmer Foodshare Challenge Day. The 3rd Annual Farmer Foodshare Challenge! Ten local farmers' markets joined together to raise over a 3000 pounds of fresh, nutritious local food and funds to buy food for people at risk of hunger in our community! The Hillsborough Farmers Market customers and vendors raised more than 100 pounds of this total and generated on $200 Saturday alone to help buy food from the market during the winter months. Customers got one of the 35 Wilco totebags given out for their donations. Thank you all and thank our new volunteers Di An and William for their help!
Hillsborough Farmers Market Launches Farmer Foodshare "Farm to Family" Program. Farmer Foodshare is a non-profit organization that provides fresh, healthy, locally grown food to people in the community who are at risk of hunger and malnutrition. HFM shoppers buy food from farmers at the market and donate the food, or they give cash that Farmer Foodshare volunteers use to buy food from farmers on shoppers' behalves. Farmers also donate excess fresh food at the end of market each Saturday. This program will run every Saturday from 8 to noon at the Hillsborough Farmers Market.
Farmer Foodshare both provides food to the hungry and supports farmers financially. One in four children in the local area is considered food insecure---that is, they often have inadequate food to meet their basic daily needs.
The recipient organization for food donated from the Hillsborough Farmers Market will be Friends of the Orange County Department of Social Services. During a soft launch of the HFM program on August 20 the donors and farmers donated nearly 60 pounds of fresh produce! They begin distributing the food immediately after each Saturday market. Thank you Dorothy Warren and Friends. The formal launch of the program was Saturday, August 27 (during Hurricane Irene!) where we had another 100 pounds purchased with cash donations or provided directly by farmers! And, Sept 3 produced a whopping 217 pounds...thanks much to Joanne and Kaily for volunteering that day. You may a huge difference. Thanks to all our many customer-donors and farmers.
--Volunteers wishing to participate in this program, please contact the Hillsborough Farmers Market at teamHFM@yahoo.com or come to the Home Depot Parking lot this Saturday morning and say hello.
--Read more on Farmer Foodshare at www.farmerfoodshare.org/about-menu/ Saturday August 20, 2011 was Children's Day at the HFM. Kids got to hear Karyn Drum read from her children's Broccoli Bob and the Organic Outlaws, The Percolators played from 9-12, kids got their faces painted, competed in a chalk-drawing contest and got to sample free sungold tomatoes. We'll do it next year! Karyn's book remains for sale at the HFM market tent.
July and August Dog Days of Summer are filled with Tomatoes! Heirloom, cherry, and more. They are in full swing now.
Blueberry Day Big Success at the Hillsborough Farmers Market! July 16, 2011. It's peak blueberry season, and Hillborough Farmers Market (HFM) vendors Blythe Farms, RambleRill Farm, and Holly Ridge Gardens were busily picking blueberries to sell for the Blueberry Day. In celebration of all things blueberry, the HFM had free all-you-can-eat blueberry pancakes and other blueberry goodies made by four-star chef and entrepreneur Bob Compton and featuring blueberries from Blythe Farms. The demand was overwhelming and we ran out of pancakes before noon! Breakfasts fit for a king!
Thanks to all who helped with the Hillsborough Farmers Market 25th Anniversary Celebration, July 9, 2011 Big thank yous to Maple View Farm for bringing the ice cream..the sundaes were a big hit, and all who helped with balloons, set up/take down and more. Thank you! 
Congratulations to Nancy Williams who won the HFM 25th Anniversary t-shirt and Barbara Guidos who won the HFM gift basket. July 9, 2011
Hillsborough Farmers Market Celebrating its 25th Year! Regular 2011 Market Began April 2, 2011