Winter Wednesday Market 2-6 pm thru mid-March

Winter Wednesday Market 2:00 to 6:00 pm  every week—rain or shine—through March 14, 2012 with winter produce, crafts and delicious food-to-go including tamales, soups, bolanis, and Indian food.

Pig Day's coming March 3

Pig out at the 21st annual Pig Day on Saturday, March 3rd! You'll find baby pigs, people in pig costumes, and pig-out eats galore from 8 am to 1 pom. Kids can explore a petting zoo of piglets and farm animals. Kids can make piggie crafts–ears, tales and piggie faces at booths sponsored by local Davis nursery schools. Peter Franklin and the Regal Beezers offer crowd-pleasing Americana music. Market food vendors will be offering: Caffé Italia's smoked, roasted pork robs and farm-fresh pizzas (bacon optional); Fat Face's breakfast sammies (with bacon or pulled pork); the Hotdogger's pigs-in-a-blanket and corn dogs; piggie cookies; and piggie pops (Upper Crust Bakery's sweet French bread in the shape of a pig's head on a stick). The Yolo County Food Bank also offers a farm breakfast of pancakes, eggs, bacon and juice with proceeds benefitting the local community. A craft faire at the north end of the market features unique crafts such as beeswax candles, goat's milk soap, pottery, quilted crafts and more. 

2012 Picnic in the Park season is Wednesdays, March 21 through October 24!

Picnic in the Park brings you 31 weeks of live music, Wednesdays 4:30 to 8:30, sponsored by Davis Food Co-op. Buy dinner from prepared food vendors, enjoy beer and wine at Davis Soroptomists' booth, listen to great music from local bands, and entertain your kids with Bounce houses, face-painting, clowns, Rocknasium's rock-climing wall and more. Great fun for the whole family. For a music schedule, go to our calendar page.

April 7th Book Release Party for

The Davis Farmers Market Cookbook

On Saturday, April 7th, Davis Farmers Market hosts a book release party for The Davis Farmers Market Cookbook (Mirabelle Press, $24.95). The cookbook's co-authors will be on hand to sign cookbooks, and cookbook gift card holders can redeem their gift cards for signed copies of the cookbook at the Market Shed. Market sellers and prepared food vendors will put the spotlight on recipes form the cookbook. Gift cards will continue to be on sale at Market Shed during market hours until March 31. 
Written by award-winning cookbook author Georgeanne Brennan, and regional food writer and former mayor of Davis, Ann M. Evans, the book celebrates one of California's earliest and most renowned markets and the food produced by California's small farms. The cookbook features more than 80 recipes, plus more than 50 full-color photos by award-winning photographer, Craig Lee. The cookbook's foreword is by Chez Panisse founder and food activist Alice Waters; "The story of the Davis Farmers Market" is written by Evans; and "Reflections of a Market Manager" is by Randii MacNear. The book includes eight recipes to adapt to the seasons, followed by four chapters–one for each season–each with about 20 recipes. Each season's recipes will take you through the meal from start to finish.

To read more about the cookbook in the November 9 issue of The Davis Enterprise, click here.

For a sneak peek, go to http://davisfarmersmarketcookbook.com/

Looking for another California farmers market?

Visit the California Certified Farmers Market site.