The West End Farmers Market Celebrates National Farmers Market Week

The West End Farmers Market will be celebrating National Farmers Market Week on Sunday, August 7.

The farmers market meets at Ben Brenman Park, 4800 Brenman Park Drive, from 8 am to 1 pm.

To celebrate there will be:

• Face painting by Rain Young
• Magician David Meneses
• Canning demonstrations by Lucy and Bonita Bolden of Eden Good at 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.
• Philip Blalock, Executive Director of the National Association of Farmers’ Market Nutrition Programs (NAFMNP) is scheduled to speak at 10 a.m.
• "How to incorporate fresh fruit & vegetables into every meal" cooking demonstration by Brenda Coleman, Health Coach of Sow. Harvest. Share.  at 11 a.m.

*NAFMNP is the nation’s only organization that links States, the District of Columbia, Indian Tribal Organizations, Territories and others with a stake in USDA’s Farmers’ Market Nutrition Programs (including local fruit and vegetable growers and low-income families and seniors) with a shared mission to ensuring that farmers throughout the United States have an expanded opportunity to sell their fresh produce directly to the public through their local farmers’ markets. In 2010, their efforts resulted in an average of $2,800 of additional income each for more than 16,000 farmers.