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October 30th Halloween Bingo & Upcoming Charity Event

10/28/2021

Tomball Farmers Market's special Halloween event just your kiddos this Saturday October 30th, from 9 to 1! Just Print this bingo card and bring it with you to our farmers market this weekend for your kids!

While they are trick or treating they can also hunt and find the following items placed at booths through out the market. Vendors will mark their bingo cards when they find the items listed below at each booth!

The first 200 kids who get stamped for regular bingo can bring their cards to our Information Booth for a special goody bag!

The first 3 kids who can find EVERYTHING on their bingo card and get their card stamped & bring their cards to the Information Booth will WIN one of 3 special BINGO HALLOWEEN BUCKETS!!

Our Halloween events are always a lot of fun!

Tomball Farmers Market
Charity Food Drive & Raffle
with TEAM
November 6th, 13th & 20th

TEAM gave us a list of their most needed food items. All donations go towards helping the under served members right here in Tomball!

Bring your donations to the Tomball Farmers Market Information Booth each Saturday listed above!

For every non-perishable food item donated, you will receive a raffle ticket.
For every $1 donated you will receive 2 raffle tickets. (square accepted)

All raffle entries will be drawn on Nov 20th after the Tomball Miracle on Main St. Parade! All raffle ticket entries are for chances to win gift certificates for local Old Town Tomball retail shops.

I am happy to announce that Atkinson Farms and Rain Song Farms will be back this weekend! Keanu's Cookies & J'Lynn Designs will be back as well. Come early to get the best selection!

Vendors NOT Attending this weekend:

Dapper Goat Dairy
Miya's Munchies
The Pies

Remember we will only be open 2 weekends in December.
December 4th & December 18th!

The Tomball GermanFest is December 10th - 12th so TFM will be closed!

December 25th TFM will be closed!
So our vendors and staff can be with their families for Christmas!

Please support local and shop early for all your holiday needs.

We can't wait to serve you!
Tomball Farmers Market
~Amanda Kelly, Market Manager

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October 23rd, 2021 Tomball Farmers Market

10/20/2021

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International Make A difference Day
October 23rd, 2021

I am a suburbs girl and I never really thought about where my food comes from until I joined the Tomball Farmers Market over 6 years ago. I just wanted to make a little extra income filling in for a vendor who needed more staffing. Now as Market Manager for TFM my knowledge continues to grow. The most eye opening thing I learned was when myself and other board members attended the Southern Family Farmers & Food Systems Conference put on by the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance back in August about soil.

If we do nothing to fix how big farms are robbing our soil of nutrients by over-tilling methods we only have about 60 HARVESTS LEFT world wide!! Soil Conservation has become more critically important in the last 10 years as nations have seen an increased problem of dust storms, flooding issues and crops struggling to take root.

Making the cost of everything we eat go up and food shortages increasing around the world including here in the United States.

Dust storm in Australia. Photo: Ian Armstrong

2012 Map Graphic: Philippe Rekacewicz, UNEP/GRID-Arendal

Pictures and information borrowed from the Columbia Climate School in this informative article Why Soil Matters.

"Soil acts as a buffer against pollutants such as heavy metals and excess nutrients. Moreover, soil is critical in helping slow climate change—as the largest carbon sink on land, it stores over three times more carbon than forests and other vegetation."
- Columbia Climate School

Photo credit: The Flourishing Times by Brandi McRill

Phot credit: Texas Farm & Ranch Freedom Alliance.

Photo credit: Rain Song Farms

All this may seem daunting and overwhelming and you may think that there is no way for you to help. I certainly did and have been learning how I can help.

There are several ways you can make small changes TODAY that will have a big impact.

Our TFM Board President from The Flourishing Times wrote a wonderful guest blog post on the 5 LOCAL ways you can change our future! She also created a Farm to Kitchen Collective to make it easier for families who can't always get out to a local farmers market and have busy lives to be able to have access to fresh local foods weekly.

You can also TAKE ACTION by contacting your local Senator and State Representative and urge them both to support using $10 million of the ARPA funds for a “healthy soils” grant program to be administered by the Soil & Water Conservation Board.

"Allocating $10 million in ARPA funds makes financial sense. Helping farmers cover the up-front costs of implementing these healthy soil measures could help hundreds of them improve their land and save the State and taxpayers many times that amount of money in flood reduction and other benefits."
-FARFA

This is one of the many reason Tomball Farmers Market requires our all our farmers and all other vendors to produce it, craft it and grow it within 150 miles of Tomball, TX.

Supporting our local rural farmers helps them be able to provide a healthy and productive food supply locally using sustainable/regenerative methods.

As our farmers prepare for their local fall harvest we will have several of our produce farmers out this weekend.

Vendors who will be out this weekend:

Atkinson Farms (returning October 30th)
Rain Song Farms (returning October 30th)
Theiss Family Farms (seasonal farmer)
Keanu's Cookies (Coming every other weekend)
Indulge Bakery (will be back October 30th with $1 Macs!!)
Miya's Munchies (will be back October 30th)
What's Crackalackin (will be back October 30th)

We have 3 New Visiting Vendors this Weekend!
Bougie's Hydroponic Gardens
Circle of Love Wreaths
Love Always Art

Bring your kids and fur babies out October 30th for our Halloween Bingo Event! We will have a bingo hunt for your kiddos for special prizes for regular bingo and 3 special prizes for the first 3 kids to get black out bingo!

As always we can't wait to see you!
Tomball Farmers Market
~Amanda Kelly, Market Manager

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Oct 16th, Tomball Farmers Market NewsLetter

10/14/2021

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We are really excited for this weekend! It's going to an incredible weekend to come out and enjoy everything Old Town Tomball and our Tomball Farmers Market has to offer! The weather is going to be outstanding!

We have so many options for everyone in your family to enjoy including your fur family members. Remember to come early to get the best Fall produce selection from our farmers. All our vendors work hard every week to bring you truly unique and fresh local products!

All our vendors are within 150 miles of Tomball and produce, craft and/or grow everything here locally.

Buying at our local farmers market also means not having to wait for products to arrive from over seas and it's truly local! Our produce will never be on a shipping container, doesn't come from other states or countries and supports our local rural farmers.

Many of us have grown up hearing eat local honey because it will help with allergies, illnesses and etc... (Local bees have feasted and pollinated off of our local rural farms all year.)

So, the same is true for eating produce and meats that comes from truly local rural farmers. Rural farmers are also gentler to our environment and give back to the earth instead of only taking from it. It's important that we fix our ecosystems before it's too late to do so. Rural farmers do just that.

This weekend we are really excited that Keanu's Cookies will be back with us. Please check the map as their location has moved slightly! They will be coming every other week so make sure you stock up for the weekends they are off!

We also have a new vendor visiting this weekend! Panaaron Artisan Bakery! They will have warm breakfast baked goods for you this weekend. You can find them next to Joseph with Hive Mind this weekend.

Vendors out this weekend:
Atkinson Farms (They will return Oct 30th)
Miya's Munchies (They will return next weekend)

As always we can't wait to see you! We hope you have a fantastic weekend planned!

Tomball Farmers Market
Amanda Kelly, Market Manager

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Tomball Farmers Market October 9th, 2021

10/6/2021

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This weekend is shaping up to be a beautiful weekend to enjoy the Tomball Farmers Market and the surrounding local shops & restaurants that are within walking distance to our market.

Grab lunch from the market & have a picnic at the Depot Park. Tomball Farmers Market & Old Town Tomball is always a wonderful family outing!

Pro Tip:
Bring an extra bag for your market goodies. We hear all the time that our patrons ran out of bag space.

With small businesses struggling over the last 2 years & the US facing all the supply chain issues right before the Holidays, it's never been a better time to support your local small businesses instead of shopping the big box stores.

Our vendors work so hard at their crafts to bring you truly unique items every week.

Our vendors are vetted by our fabulous Vendor Committee so you can rely on everything at our market being home grown, produced locally & hand crafted all within 150 miles of Tomball.

Did you know we offer donation based water to Patrons & Vendors.
The money raised by your donations goes towards the following:

Helps pay for the NEW events we've been doing at the market.
Helped pay for the new kids play area items we've added.
We will be ADOPTING FAMILY(S) for Christmas in partnership with the Renewal Center in Tomball. (more info to come)
TFM contributed water donations and food for Hurricane Relief for our Neighbors in Louisiana on behalf of our vendors. I matched whatever vendors donated with TFM donations.
Helps us raise money for our Future Community Garden with the City of Tomball.
Purchasing more bottled water & ice each week.

City of Tomball October events:

10.08.2021:
Drive-Boo (5 pm to 7 pm)
1331 Ulrich Rd Tomball, TX

10.16.2021:
Bluegrass Tomball Festival
11 AM - 5 PM
Tomball Depot

Fall Frenzy & Chili Cook-off
10 AM - 2 PM
1603 Baker Drive Tomball, TX

Tomball Farmers Market Events:

10.30.2021
Trick or Treat at TFM

11.06.2021 - 11.20.2021
TFM & TEAM 1st Annual Food Drive & Raffle

11.27.2021 - 12.18.2021
TFM & The Renewal Center 1st Annual Toy Drive

12.4.2021
TFM Christmas Market

We will have 2 Community Guests this weekend:

Texas AgriLife Master Gardeners as an Education Booth, educating everyone on the importance of gardening, amending our soil & providing other great resources.

The Tomball Rotary is a Non-Profit selling tickets for a raffle to win a Red Corvette and providing information about all the wonderful things our Tomball Rotary does in our community.

Here are the Vendors not attending this weekend:

Keanu's Cookies
J'Lynn Designs
Miya's Munchies
Verdegreens

As always we can't wait to see you.
Tomball Farmers Market
~Amanda Kelly Market Manager

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