Updated July 30th, 2024
National Farmers Market Week, Sunset at the Market and more
National Farmers Market Week Celebration – August 4 – 10
Now in its 25th year, this annual celebration highlights the vital role farmers markets play in our nation’s food system. With fun events, programs, contests, activities and more, the week helps to boost market attendance and visibility as well as highlight the value markets bring to their communities.
Be sure to stop by the Market’s east dining area to see the special quilt made with community input in 2023 to celebrate National Farmers Market week. A special thank you to Market vendor, Marie’s Mobile Mending, for making this fun community quilt with us!
The 2nd Street Market will also do a special celebration of the region’s farmers and our local food system during Sunset at the Market on August 8, 2024, from 5:30 to 8:30 PM, with celebrations closing on Saturday, August 10 at the Levitt Pavilion, with the Market in tandem with the Food Equity Coalition’s event Nourishing Montgomery County: A Celebration of the Local Food System. Dayton RTA will be providing bus service between the Market and the Levitt Pavilion from 10 AM to 2 PM for this event.
In conjunction with the celebration, Ohio WIC will be on site at the Market on Saturday, August 10, 2024, to hand out WIC Farmers Market Coupons to their qualifying recipients.
Sunset at the Market
The Market will open from 5:30 to 8:30 PM on Thursday, August 8 for shopping and sharing in the Farmer’s Market Week celebration with activities that include live music with a performance by Harmonica Neil, live culinary tasting by Market vendors, melon tasting with melons varieties grown by our local farmers and beeswax wrapped candle making by Hive Products for $5. Be sure to join us as we celebrate our Market community and give thanks to our local farmers.
Program Schedule
- 5:45 to 6:30 PM: How to juice for better health with Choice Juice Boxx.
- 6:45 to 7:15 PM: Different ways to incorporate nutrient dense microgreens into your meals with Dayton Microgreens.
- 7:30 to 8:15 PM: How to make mozzarella cheese with Saint Anne’s Cheese Co. and Rosebuds Real Food.
2nd Street Market program series highlights Hispanic Heritage in September
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage month by dining at the 2nd Street Market. Join Chef Santiago Herrera from Napales Mexican Street Food as he presents tapas or small bites from his native Mexico. The tapas will consist of Black Bean Molletes, Cucumber Guacamole, Chicken Tinga, Cochinita Pibil Enchilada and Tres Leches Cake for dessert. Chef Herrera will also demonstrate for you how to make his signature guacamole at home. Tickets are $35. Register for this event
Welcome La Petite Kitchen to the 2nd Street Market
The 2nd Street Market welcomes Chef Donald Whitcomb and Le Petite Kitchen as the newest addition to the prepared vendor family. Chef Donny has an impressive background in the culinary space spanning from management, entrepreneurship to Culinary Institute of America trained chef. Donald has been fortunate to work for some of the best chefs and restaurateurs in the country, including Cincinnati’s own Jean-Robert De Cavel. He met his life partner and co-operator Cindi Koetzle over a basket of frites, and the two have been in love with food and each other ever since.
La Petite Kitchen was born out of inspiration from Donald’s culinary adventures growing up with a Belgian mother and American dad. As a Euro-American kitchen, they specialize in European and American comfort food with a splash of childhood memories. With a well-crafted bistro menu to choose from, Market goer favorites this month include the euro smash burger and carbonade, the national dish of Belgium.
PROGRAMS/WORKSHOPS
- August 9, (11 AM to 1:30 PM): Dayton Metro Library Book Mobile
- August 9, (11:30 AM to 12:30 PM): Transition Garden: Summer to Fall
- August 23, (11 AM to 1:30 PM): Dayton Metro Library Book Mobile
- September 7, (9 AM to 3 PM): The Food Bank is at the Market
- September 12, (5:30 to 8:30 PM): Hispanic Heritage Dinner: Tapas
- Saturdays, 10 AM to 1 PM, Sundays 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM: Music at the Market. View schedule and list of musicians.
COMMUNITY NEWS
September is Hunger Action Month, a nationwide campaign by Feeding America. Help raise awareness and bring your non-perishables to the Market to help eliminate hunger in our community or purchase items from our Market vendors and donate. The Dayton Food Bank, or a partner organization will be on site at the Market every weekend in September to take your donations. Ongoing are donation barrels located at the Market’s North side entrance and in the east dining room.
