Within this Newsletter
- We're Studying the Market!- Celebrating the Rain, When That's What Mother Nature Tells Us To Do!
- Come and Celebrate Canada at the Market!
- See Us on Citytv and on-line at the Winnipeg Sun website!
- Did You Know ...
We're Studying the Market!
| Opening day on June 5th saw lots of exciting events, but our favourite was the attendance of Premier Greg Selinger to announce $32,300 from the province to help fund a study regarding the future for our market. The funding matches monies from Entreprises Riel, The St. Norbert Foundation, and the market itself. The goal of the study is to help determine what the future looks like for the market. It includes looking at long-term concepts like future growth of the market, how to make the market and the community fit together in a visual and active way, people flow in the market, and traffic flow entering and leaving the market, the visual aspects of the market, both during the market season and the off season. It also includes something called a geodesic survey, that will look at physical aspects of the site, for example the drainage when we have a heavy rain. The study includes a business plan aspect so that any changes are economically sustainable. |  |
Celebrating the Rain, When That's What Mother Nature Tells Us To Do!
| We don't love rain on market days (in fact, we wish it could be sunny and warm every market day all season long). Alas, the weather is something that's just out of our control. Because our site is low, and despite the addition of many cubic yards of gravel over the past couple of summers, there are still puddles at our market on rainy market days. Our study will help us figure out how to fix this problem. In the meantime, we plan to look for the up side, and celebrate fun footwear at the market. Here's our favourite pair from last week. If it's a rainy day, don your funky wet-weather wear, and we'll celebrate being at the market rain or shine! Then you can look for a photo of your feet in our next newsletter. |  |
Come and Celebrate Canada at the Market!
Get ready to wave your Canadian flags at the market! We have lots to celebrate in this great country, and the market loves to be part of Canada's big day. Many of our regular Saturday vendors will be there for you. And with a little help from our friends at the Behavioural Health Foundation, we'll have a teepee and Aboriginal drummers on site. At 10:30 am, we'll celebrate some Metis history with the Winnipeg Metis Infinity Square Dancers. There will be free birthday cake, and lots of enthusiastic wave flagging. Come join us for the fun!See Us on Citytv and on-line at the Winnipeg Sun website!
Writer Ian Shanley, from the Winnipeg Sun, will interview a different vendor from the SNFM every week, and post the interviews online at www.winnipegsun.com. Look for a feature called “Sun Speaks”. This week, Kyle Robins will talk about his amazing 11-layer Vineterta cakes.And ...
Breakfast Television Host Pay Chen will also help you meet our market vendors throughout the season, in interviews on that regular morning show. Plus Chef Ben Kramer, of Diversity Foods, will be on the show regularly, cooking up a selection of the great foods you can find at our market. The show runs weekdays from 6:00 am to 9:00 am. Here's a recipe Ben shared last week:
Soba Noodle Salad w/ Mizuna
2 cups Mizuna leaves, washed, stemmed, and chopped
2 carrots, sliced
4 thinly sliced green onions
½ cup of thinly sliced radishes
2 cups of cooked Soba noodles
1 tablespoon of toasted sesame oil
1 tsp fresh ginger, minced
1 garlic clove, minced
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp sesame seeds
Directions2 carrots, sliced
4 thinly sliced green onions
½ cup of thinly sliced radishes
2 cups of cooked Soba noodles
1 tablespoon of toasted sesame oil
1 tsp fresh ginger, minced
1 garlic clove, minced
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp sesame seeds
Combine Mizuna, carrots, green onions, radishes and noodles in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, combine garlic, ginger, sesame oil, and soy sauce. Whisk together and pour over noodles. Sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Did You Know ...
... that vendors donate remaining food items to the Behavioural Health Foundation at the end of each market day? The Behavioural Health Foundation is a non-profit organization providing quality behavioural health services of a wholistic nature to men, women, dependent children and youth. Participants in their addiction and co-occurring mental health treatment programs are given opportunities and training that help them make positive choices regarding overcoming addictive patterns and behaviours, building strong and beneficial relationships, and the importance of personal responsibility.BHF has two locations in Manitoba – the head office and Adult, Family and Female Youth programs are located at its St. Norbert location. The Male Youth program is offered at its facility in Selkirk.
If the BHF receives more food than they can use, they will send it on to other groups in need in downtown Winnipeg. This kind of help really adds up. In 2008, market vendors donated more than 10,000 pounds of food to Winnipeg Harvest!