Saturdays 9 - 1 pm • January 11 - April 12, 2014

Email: corvallisindoorwintermarket@gmail.com

Thursday, January 31, 2013

February 2 Vendor List

Alsea Acres6
Buster's Treats9
Claude Winter20
Crooked Furrow Farm33*
CSC Youth Garden36*
Glass by Debra Klang25
Denison Farms LLC11
Earth's Rising34*
Filberts R Us3
Four Generation Crafts27
Gathering Together Farm7
Green Gables18/19
Heavenly Harvest and Horseshoe Lake Farm15
Honey Tree Apiaries29
Honeystone Candles16
Krazy Lady Farms4
My Pharm2
Northwest Natural Beef21
Norton Creek Products1
Pacific Sourdough30,31
Pine Needle Baskets24
Soupcycle10
Specially Made17
Sweet Home Farms28
The Bread Board5
The Mandala Lady8
The Mushroomery22
Timberwolf Farm26
Wilt Farms Inc/Sunset Valley Organics12/13
Wood Family Farm14
Zia Southwest Cuisine37/38*
* Outside the hall


Friday, January 25, 2013

Honeystone's 1-2-3 Sale


HONEYSTONE IS BACK!!  
To celebrate our return to the Market, we are offering some great discounts...Think 1-2-3...

All figurines under $5 are discounted by $1!  
And all purchases $5- $10 receive $2 off!!
And all candle purchases over $10 get $3 off!!!

See you at the Corvallis Indoor Winter Market this Saturday.

Thursday, January 24, 2013

The Best Cookie

So, last week I walked around the venue a couple of times after I got my little table of pottery garden tiles set up. With all the vendors, and only the entrance door remaining open it was surprising how quickly the place warmed up. Within 45 minutes it was cheerful, bustling and noisy with talk, business transactions and the bright ribbon of Celtic music unreeling in the background.

Now I came to the market to sell – not to buy. I live on a farm just north of Eugene and produce and home canned goods are always available to me. Thank you just the same. Since I sell stoneware tiles at the Eugene Saturday Market, Easter through Christmas, I felt like the Corvallis Indoor Winter Market was like taking the show on the road until we were ready to head back to Broadway and the Big Time, and I wasn’t there to buy.

But I hadn’t eaten yet.  And I happened to be set up across the aisle from a bakery booth that seemed to specialize in patisserie goods and artisan breads.  They sell things like Bourbon Bars, Apricot Fruit Gems in Puff Pastries (I had to swallow hard here to stop drooling) and Chocolate Grenache Tortes. My booth partner saw my face on her way out to parking the car. “Buy soon,” she said under her breath, noticing my eyes glazing over as I stared at the Apple turnover; “most days they sell out early.”

I hesitated, thoughts of budgets and resolve and such like fading under the moist, jeweled glories lining the glass case in front of me. In what seemed like a hypnotic trance I bought a Bourbon Bar and a huge Lemon Shortbread Sandwich cookie, and I only snapped out of it when I noticed customer activity over at booth.  Vaguely ashamed of my easy suggestibility I stashed the cookie in my book bag and got on with work.

I forgot my little treasure until late that afternoon when I had picked up my car at the booth partners and was driving home. I had to stop at a train crossing, and bored; I reached into the book bag on the passenger seat and pulled out the paper bag holding the Lemon Shortbread cookie. I unwrapped, I bit, I munched—My eyes almost exploded. Oh god, oh god, oh my gawd. The fresh lemon! The real butter! The superfine sugar the cookie had been coated in before baking, for an extra touch of crisp sweetness—These people were to my previous experience with bakers what the Justice League of America was to everyday keepers of law and order.  These were Heroes, and baking cookies was one of their superpowers.

For the first time in memory I was grateful to be there parked in front of one of those slow, lumbering freight trains. In the frosty early-gathering winter dark, I marveled at each fresh bite of that luscious cookie. I finished it just before the caboose sailed by, filled by then with so much lemony warmth I glowed – I believe I could’ve made it home without bothering with headlights.

That cookie cost three dollars. I already have one covered in this week’s budget.

Dan is one of the new vendors how is sharing a booth space with one of our long-time vendors.  He is a graphic artist who has been a vendor at the Saturday Market for over 30 years and has been making ceramics garden tiles for over 20 years that are so durable that they will be around longer then we are. Dan has one of those minds that can express himself at the drop of a hat.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

January 26 Vendor List

Alsea Acres6
Buster's Treats9
Claude Winter20
Crooked Furrow Farm33*
CSC Youth Garden35*
Glass by Debra Klung/Dan Young25
Denison Farms LLC11
Earth's Rising34*
Filberts R Us/Krazy3
Four Generation Crafts27
Gathering Together Farm7
Green Gables18/19
Heavenly Harvest and Horseshoe Lake Farm15
Hentze Family Farm26,28
Honey Tree Apiaries29
Honeystone Candles16
My Pharm2
Northwest Natural Beef21
Norton Creek Products1
Pacific Sourdough30,31
Pine Needle Baskets24
Rockferrets by design4
Soupcycle10
Specially Made17
Sweet Home Farms26
The Bread Board5
The Mandala Lady8
The Mushroomery22
Timberwolf Farm23
Wilt Farms Inc/Sunset Valley Organics12
Wood Family Farm13/14
Zia Southwest Cuisine37/38*
* Outside the hall


Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Guest Post: SoupCycle

From our vendor SoupCycle:

SoupCycle is a Portland/Corvallis small business that delivers soup, salads, and bread to subscribers (or SoupScribers) at their homes and offices—by bike!  Started by two friends with a passion for tasty, healthy food and for bicycle advocacy, SoupCycle now has over 800 customers in the two cities.  Our organic soups are created by SoupCycle’s talented chef in our certified kitchen, using fresh, local ingredients.  If you would like to join SoupVallis, come see us at the Indoor Winter Market, where you can taste the week’s 3 soups, sign up to have meals delivered to you every week (in the Corvallis city limits), or buy a quart of deliciousness to take home.  

Thursday, January 17, 2013

January 19 Vendor List

Alsea Acres6
Beverly Bridgman8
Buster's Treats9
Claude Winter20
Crooked Furrow Farm33*
CSC Youth Garden35*
Denison Farms LLC11
Earth's Rising34*
Filberts R Us/Krazy3
Four Generation Crafts27
Gathering Together Farm7
Glass by Debra Klung25
GreenGables18/19
Heavenly Harvest15
Honey Tree Apiaries29
Kings Valley Gardens16
My Pharm2
Northwest Natural Beef21
Norton Creek Products1
Pacific Sourdough30,31
Pine Needle Baskets24
Rockferrets by design4
Soupcycle10
Specially Made17
Sweet Home Farms26
The Bread Board5
The Mandala Lady28
The Mushroomery22
Timberwolf Farm23
Wilt Farms Inc/Sunset Valley Organics12
Wood Family Farm13/14
Zia Southwest Cuisine37/38*
* Outside the hall


Wednesday, January 16, 2013

SNAP Program at CIWM

Grocery shoppers can now use their federal food benefits to buy fresh, local food at the Corvallis Indoor Winter Market. Adults and families who are enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly called food stamps) can use their Oregon Trail card at the farmers’ market to purchase fruits and vegetables, plant starts, meat, dairy and bread. Through Ten Rivers Food Web’s That’s My Farmer SNAP Incentive Program, people who spend at least $6 of their SNAP benefits at the market will receive an extra $6 in market tokens that are redeemable for fresh foods.

Hunger is a persistent issue in Corvallis and Benton County. Over 10,000 county residents, including 3,000 children, rely on SNAP each month. Despite the assistance, many people still cannot afford healthy, fresh food – SNAP benefits cover less than half the cost of an average meal. The That’s My Farmer SNAP Incentive Program helps low-income shoppers stretch their benefits and put more fresh fruits and vegetables on their families’ tables.

Dan Rejto, an AmeriCorps VISTA with Ten Rivers Food Web, says, “Since the SNAP incentive program was piloted in the Corvallis outdoor market, the number of low-income people buying fresh food each week from local vendors has increased by 177%.” To keep funding this program Zia will be selling coffee at the Corvallis Indoor Winter Market with all the proceeds funding the SNAP incentive. Stop by and buy some warm coffee.

Monday, January 14, 2013

Vendor Post: Daniel Conan Young

Dan is one of the new vendors who is sharing a booth space with one of our long-time vendors. He is a graphic artist who has been a vendor at the Saturday Market for over 30 years and has been making ceramics garden tiles for over 20 years that are so durable that they will be around a lot longer than we will be.
Dan has one of those minds that can easily express himself at the drop of a hat. He wrote this for our blog while at the Market on Saturday, January 12.
Dan Wrote:
The old saying is “the first time you do something is twice as hard as the next time, because next time you’ll know what to expect.”  Looking back on my first time vending at the Corvallis Indoor Winter Market, I’d say “Right on, old saying.”
For starters, my heater and defroster in the minivan died a coughing, lingering death the week before I lost my job, which was the week before the Market began, which was on the same day the Artic Front came in and covered us with glittering nasty Pogonip (freezing) fog.
I am amazed that instead of going right back to bed at 5:45 A.M. in the black, icy morning, I got up got dressed (4 layers) and spent 15 minutes cursing the ½” of permafrost I had to scrap off the windshield.
Fortunately, that was the hardest thing I had to do all day; I had a ride to the show, I enjoyed set-up (indoor winter shows are new to me) and even the odd little details (non-stop Celtic music; the men’s room is painted the same acid yellow as a bile attack) were enjoyable.
No sales – (a lot of I’ll be back next Saturday) – but that’s okay, because I’ll be back, too.
Daniel Conan Young, Barbarian Studio.    – January 12, 2013

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

January 12 Vendor List

VendorBooth #
Alsea Acres6
Beverly Bridgman8
Buster's Treats9
Crooked Furrow Farm33*
CSC Youth Garden35*
Debra Klang & Dan Young25
Denison Farms LLC11
Earth's Rising34*
Filberts R Us3
Four Generation Crafts27
Gathering Together Farm7
Green Gables18/19
Heavenly Harvest15
Hentze Family Farm26/28
Honey Tree Apiaries29
Horseshoe Lake Farm15
Kings Valley Gardens16
Krazy Woman Ranch3
Mudmom20
My Pharm1/2
Northwest Natural Beef21
Norton Creek Products1/2
Pacific Sourdough30/31
Pine Needle Baskets24
Rockferrets by Design4
Soul 2 Grow39*
Soupcycle10
Specially Made17
Sweet Home Farms32*
The Bread Board5
The Mushroomery22
Timberwolf Farm23
Wilt Farms12
Wood Family Farm13,14
Zia Southwest Cuisine37/38*
                                                 * Outside


Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Market Season 2013



Well it's that time of year again! We are excited to start the Winter farmers market season here in Corvallis. Opening Day is January 12. We will be there from 9-1 every Saturday until mid April. Make sure you check our blog for weekly vendor specials and features! We look forward to seeing you next Saturday!