special harvest celebration market

Fall Fests = The Best Fests


Coming up at Peachtree Road Farmers Market…

PRFM Fall Harvest Celebration
Friday, October 12: 4:00-7:30 p.m.
Market will also be open Sat. 10/13
Ain’t no party like a farmers market party, y’all. Get your weekend off to a delicious, fall-y start! Join us for a local beer tasting, food vendors, live music, kids’ activities, artists, pumpkins, and a full farmers market to boot. Check it—food vendors include Burge Organic Farms (two words: kettle corn), Crepe Masters, Dumpling Girl, Farm Burger, Hot Doggy Dogg, King of Pops, S&J Woodfire Pizza, Simply Fresh Salads, and Cuisine. Regular market vendors will there as well, including Red Queen Tarts, Pine Street Market, Fairywood Thicket, Spotted Trotter, Pure Bliss, Indigo Soaps, Sweet Auburn Bread Company, H&F Bread, Taj Ma Hound, Cookie Studio, Cardamom Hill Chai Tea, Izzy’s Cheese, and more! Perhaps enjoy your food and shopping whilst sippin’ on that beer of which we spoke? Sweetwater. Terrapin. Red Hare Brewing Company. Oh, and a little something from our friends at H&F Bottle Shop. And you thought the farmers market couldn’t get any more fun? Challenge accepted. See you FRIDAY 10/12.

3rd Annual Market Mash-up
Saturday, October 20
Silent Auction: 9:00–11:15 a.m.
Tasting: 10:00–11:00 a.m.
Last year’s Mash-up? Epic. This year’s Mash-up? It’s gonna be legen(wait for it)dary. Trilogies happen for a reason, after all. For the last two years, your favorite PRFM vendors have paired up to create some amazing dishes, and you won’t want to miss what they’ve got in store for you this year. Plus, the silent auction is back with some incredible lots—“all you can eat” courses with pairings from Local Three’s Chris Hall, anyone? Yes, please. The Market will be open as usual during the Mash-up, so come ready to shop, taste, and bid on great auction items! This fundraiser pays for PRFM’s city-of-Atlanta-required police officer—thanks in advance for helping us fund this part of the market so we don’t have to pass on the additional cost to our vendors by raising their fees. $5 tickets to taste all the dishes and vote for a favorite go on sale at 9:00 a.m. Celebrity food judges (Jennifer Zyman, Kim Severson, and Jenny Turknett) offer their comments plus shoppers’ and judges’ favorites will be announced at 11:00 a.m. After the silent auction closes at 11:15 a.m., PRFM will accept cash, check, debit card and Visa/MC for auction item payments.

Later this season…

Halloween Parade: 11:00 a.m. on October 27th
Chef Kevin Gillespie’s demo and cookbook signing: November 3rd
Holiday Artist Market: Nov. 24th & Dec. 15th (look for us inside)



- Jennifer Maley

We heart fall.


This week at PRFM…
Pumpkins? We’ve seen them. Breezes? We’ve  felt ‘em. Welcome, fall! We heart you.

Chef Demo with Todd Richards
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The Shed at Glenwood
10:00 a.m. on 9/29
Chef Demos are sponsored by
Whole Foods Market
They don’t let just anyone cook chicken and waffles with Al Roker on Today. And Chef Todd Richards isn’t just anyone—he’s the real deal, y’all. We’re so glad he returned to the A in 2008, after wowing Louisville as chef de cuisine at the Seelbach Hilton’s Oakroom (Kentucky’s only AAA Five-Diamond restaurant). Back in Atlanta, he’s helped bring us One Flew South, Rolling Bones BBQ, and some mighty fine dining at The Ritz-Carlton (downtown and Buckhead). Named one of “Four New Chefs to Watch in 2012” by Esquire, you can now find Chef Richards creating perfectly balanced bistro-inspired dishes in the kitchen of The Shed at Glenwood. PRFM is proud of his commitment to using naturally raised or grown ingredients and we’re in awe of his culinary talent (he’s also thrown down on Iron Chef America, after all)—so excited to welcome him to our demo tent this Saturday for some full-on fall flavors!

Foodie news you can use…

Field of Greens
The seventh annual festival celebrating local food will be held at Whippoorwill Hollow Organic Farm (in Covington) from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on September 30. For more info and to purchase tickets, visit www.fieldofgreensfestival.com. Tickets will also be on sale at PRFM this Saturday.

GA Conservancy's ecoBenefête
Tickets on sale at PRFM!

On Thursday, October 11, the Georgia Conservancy is honoring Will Harris of White Oak Pastures at their annual gala, ecoBenefête. Join the Conservancy in celebrating Will for his dedication to advancing organic and sustainable farming! Tickets will be on sale at PRFM this Saturday, September 29. Five percent of the proceeds generated from the sale of memberships, merchandise, and tickets at PRFM will be donated to the market's “Emergency Farmer Fund.” Founded in 1967, the Georgia Conservancy is the state’s oldest environmental organization dedicated to protecting Georgia land and water. For more information, visit georgiaconservancy.org.

Save that Date!
PRFM Fall Harvest Celebration
Friday, October 12: 4:00-7:30 p.m.
Join us for a local beer tasting, food vendors, live music, kids’ activities, artists, pumpkins, and a full farmers market. Check out our poster for more details.

- Jennifer Maley

Almost Fall Y'all


This week at PRFM...

Chef Demo with Drew Belline
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No. 246 – 10:00 a.m. on 9/22

Chef Demos are sponsored by
Whole Foods Market
You may recall from last year's post about Chef Drew Belline that he's not only a critically lauded chef who's worked with the likes of Charlie Palmer, Tom Colicchio, and team Anne Quatrano and Clifford Harrison, but he's also got some pretty cool hobbies: fly fishing and foraging for mushrooms. Since last year, when we learned these fun facts about Chef Drew, he's opened Decatur's favorite new hotspot, No. 246, with business partner Ford Fry. Like Fry, Belline is an avid believer in using local products at their peak (he forages for mushrooms, y'all), and hisItalian-inspired menu at246 is a showcase of these ingredients plus a pretty sweet wood-fired oven. You know what else is gonna be pretty sweet? This week's demo, of course.
 
Foodie news you can use…
 
Field of Greens
The seventh annual festival celebrating local food will be held at Whippoorwill Hollow Organic Farm (in Covington) from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on September 30. For more info and to purchase tickets, visit www.fieldofgreensfestival.com.
 
Save that Date!
PRFM Fall Harvest Celebration
Friday, October 12: 4:00-7:30 p.m.
Join us for a local beer tasting, food vendors, live music, kids’ activities, artists, pumpkins, and a full farmers market. Check out our poster for more details.
 
 
- Jennifer Maley