Dear Minneapolis Market Sponsors and Volunteers,

Happy Summer!  I hope that everyone gets the chance to relax and be outside in this beautiful Minnesota Summer.  It has been a busy few months at the Minneapolis Market.  I apologize for the tardiness of my update, but summer vacation has gotten the best of me and I haven’t found a lot of time at my computer

The Minneapolis Market has recently partnered with Big River Farms to provide local and organic produce to our members.  Each week we get a delivery of fresh vegetables and herbs and the variety and quality has been tremendous.  Big River Farms has gone out of their way to set up a special delivery just for us.  A big thank you to Melanie and everyone at Big River Farms for their work and support.  They also have a great background and story, you can find more about them at their website, http://www.mnfoodassociation.org/default.aspx.

The members of the market seem to really enjoy having fresh, organic produce along with the other food that is available to them at the Market.  Every week we get to see new produce and share the excitement with the members.  Just this last week I was volunteering and we had the most amazing beets, green beens, lettuce, cauliflower, squash and some things I didn’t even recognize.  It is fun to unpack the boxes from Big River Farms to see what great produce the members will get to choose from each week.  We’d also like to thank Flip Charities for their generous donation to the Minneapolis Market to cover our costs for the fresh produce from Big River Farms.

Another exciting event at the Market this month were our Upper Room Kids visit.  Flood Kids a chance for the kids to experience what it means to put their faith into action as they explore what it means to serve others. The vision of Flood Kids is to “let what we do in here fill the streets out there.” Flood Kids visited the Minneapolis Market in July and learned about how the Market works and how it is helping to serve others in our city.  The kids also helped by cleaning & organizing the market as well as making some gift bags for kids that visited the Market.  Make sure to check out the pictures of the kids who received the bags one Thursday evening.  The smiles on their faces were not hard to capture.

Thanks again for your continued support of the Minneapolis Market.  We are recruiting volunteers for an additonal shift we created at the Market.  If you would like to volunteer to work for the shifts listed below (some are Thursdays and some are Saturdays) please visit http://www.minneapolismarket.org/volunteer/ to sign up for these shifts.

Molly Schroeder
Minneapols Market Sponsorship Coordinator
molschroeder@gmail.com