The vendors for this week:

Growers

1. Rosewood Gardeners
2. Pumpkin Pond Farm
3. Moors End Farm
4. Nantucket Native
5. Bartlett’s Farm
6. Perennial Gardens
7. Nantucket Mushrooms

Artisans

1. Julija Mostykanova
2. KeelySmith Designs
3. Designs by Priscilla
4. Shannon Green Designs
5. Sconset Flair
6. Grey Lady Apothecary
7. Nantucket Mermaid
8. Patti Clinton’s Country Baskets
9. Van Vorst Tiles
10. Herrlooms Handwovens
11. Spiro Designs
12. Knit- By-Hand on Nantucket
13. Nantucket Needlework Designs
14. Keep it Native
15. Joy
16. The Pear
17. Bien Ecrit
18. Drift Away Soap
19. Clay Art Studio
20. Unique Nantucket Find
21. David Lazarus
22. Octumble
23. Nantucket Lite Candle & Soap Co.
24. Front Porch Studios
25. Mark Barrett
26. Angel’s Studio

Mix

1. Small Town Girl
2. Tedy’s Mix

Food Producers

1. Nantucket Bake Shop
2. Nantucket HoneyBee Co.
3. Nantucket Pasta Goddess

Non-Profits: Nantucket Marine Mammal and Hope in Bloom

Please remember to visit our downtown neighbors as well! The Starlight Theater & Cafe on North Union Street opens for movie ticket sales at 10:30 and for lunch at 11:30.

Straight Wharf Restaurant, Óran Mór Bistro, and American Seasons will host dinners this fall. The series benefits Sustainable Nantucket, and proceeds go towards our programs, campaigns and outreach including the Farmers & Artisans Market, Community Agriculture, and Sustainable Nantucket Youth Council.

Each restaurant will feature seasonal dishes highlighting locally grown ingredients in an effort to raise awareness about the importance of eating and buying locally. As well as supporting the work of Sustainable Nantucket, the series will also help SN continue to strengthen the connection between consumers and growers, food producers and chefs.

Tickets are sold through Sustainable Nantucket only and can be purchased online or by phone. Please note, there is a small additional fee for the ticket processing service we use.

Dinners will be held on Monday evenings this fall at:

Straight Wharf Restaurant – September 13  -  BUY TICKETS

Óran Mór Bistro - October 18  - BUY TICKETS

American Seasons – November 1  -  BUY TICKETS

Dinners begin at 7:00 PM. Tickets for the four-course dinners are $75 per person and the meal includes wine and beer. Gratuity is not included. Seats are limited and pre-paid reservations are required. Tickets can be purchased by clicking here or by calling 508-228-3399.

Through support for and education about local food production & organic practices, Sustainable Nantucket is cultivating a healthy community, economy and environment for the island.

While you’re at the Market, be sure to visit our neighbors at the Starlight Theater & Cafe on North Union Street!

This week at the Starlight:

The Cafe opens for lunch at 11:30 AM. At 11:00 AM the Starlight will be showing the kids movie “Despicable Me”.

Growers:

1. Rosewood Gardeners
2. Pumpkin Pond Farm
3. Moors End Farm
4. Nantucket Native
5. G. Morgan Browne
6. Bartlett’s Farm
7. Perennial Gardens

Artisans:

1. Tanglz Collection
2. Designs by Priscilla
3. Julia  Mostykanova
4. Keely Smith Designs
5. Ticklefish Designs
6. Meg Anderson
7. Drift Away Soap
8. Grey Lady Apothecary
9. Miki Lovett- Textile & Print Artist
10. One Lucky Cat
11. Patti Clinton’s Country Baskets
12. Clay Art Studio
13. Herrlooms Handwovens
14. Monica Flegg Designs
15. Island Quilts
16. Knit- By-Hand on Nantucket
17. Unique Nantucket Finds
18. Nantucket Needlework Designs
19. Spoon Home Textiles
20. Keep it Native
21. Higgledy Piggledy Patch
22. Front Porch Studios
23. Octumble
24. Nantucket Mermaid
25. Van Vorst Tiles
26. Island Quilts
27. Elisabeth Hazell
28. The Pear
29. Bien Ecrit
30. Mark Barrett
31. Kent’s Kards
32. Matt Oates
33. Nantucket Woodworking- David Murray

Mix:

1. Small Town Girl

Food Producers:

1. Nantucket HoneyBee Co.
2. Supernatural
3. Nantucket Pasta Goddess
4. Tedy’s Mix

Climate Initiative Table:

Sarah Oktay – UMass Field Station

Non-Profit Table:

The Land Council

Juggling for Joy – Marina Palumbo

Children’s Activity:

Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association – Face Painting!

Music:

Caleb Cressman and Band

Please join us as we learn about the challenges, creative solutions and successes experienced by other Massachusetts communities in developing their Farm to School programs.

Refreshments will be served.

Please consider purchasing locally grown food, flowers and plants first – you’ll be supporting island families, island businesses and the local economy while enjoying some of the most flavorful and nutritious foods available.

Check back here for updates throughout the season.

Nantucket Farms/Growers:

Call for hours and information.

Bartlett’s Farm, 33 Bartlett Farm Rd. 508-228-9403. Produce is available at the farm, at their truck on Main Street in the summer season, and in season at the Nantucket Farmers and Artisans Market.

G Morgan Brown – Produce available at Nantucket Farmers & Artisans Market.

Moors End Farm, 40 Polpis Road. 508-228-2674. Produce is available at the farm, and in season at the Nantucket Farmers & Artisans Market. Call for hours and information.

Nantucket HoneyBee Co., Local honey available at the Nantucket Farmers and Artisans Market.

Nantucket Native, 508-332-2121. Produce available in season at the Nantucket Farmers & Artisans Market.

Perennial Gardens, 165 Hummock Pond Rd. 508-246-7049. Produce available at the farm and in season at the Farmers & Artisans Market. CSA memberships are available. Perennial Gardens practices organic methods but is not certified organic.

Pumpkin Pond Farm – 25 Millbrook Rd. 508-332-4750. Produce is available at the farm and in season at the Nantucket Farmers and Artisans Market. Pumpkin Pond has been certified organic.

Rosewood Gardeners, 508-228-9252. By appointment or delivery and some Saturdays in season at the Nantucket Farmers and Artisans Market. Rosewood Gardeners practices organic methods, but is not certified organic. Call for more information.

Available the week of August 6, 2010 -

List available Friday afternoon (August 6). Please check back!

Wow, the New England weather has really been on our side this summer! We’re anticipating another warm and sunny day for tomorrow’s market – hope to see you there!

Here is the list of vendors that you will find at the Market tomorrow, Saturday, August 7.

Growers

1. Rosewood Gardeners
2. Pumpkin Pond Farm
3. Moors End Farm
4. Nantucket Native
5. G. Morgan Browne
6. Bartletts Farm
7. Perennial Gardens
8. Nantucket Mushrooms

Artisans

1. Keely Smith Designs
2. Julija Mostykanova
3. Designs by Priscilla
4. Shannon Green Designs
5. Sconset Flair
6. Heather MacKenzie
7. Drift Away Soap
8. Grey Lady Apothecary
9. Nantucket Mermaid
10. Patti Clinton’s Country Baskets
11. Van Vorst Tiles
12. Clay Art Studio
13. Spiro Designs
14. Island Weaves
15. Elisabeth Hazell
16. Keep it Native
17. Higgledy Piggledy Patch
18. Joy
19. Molly Productions
20. Front Porch Studios
21. The Pear
22. Bien Ecrit
23. Nantucket Woodworking
24. Octumble
25. Herrlooms Handwoven
26. David Lazarus
27. Angel’s Studio
28. Mark Barrett
29. Island Quilts
30. Weaving Room

Mix

1. Small Town Girl

Food Producers

1. Nantucket Bake Shop
2. Nantucket HoneyBee Co.
3. Tedy’s Mix
4. Nantucket Pasta Goddess
5. Center Street Bistro

Climate Initiative Table:

Sunny Daily- DIY Cleaning supplies demos and handout information.

Non-Profit Table:

Juggling for Joy – Marina Palumbo

Children’s Activity:

Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association

Music:

Shingles – 10-11:30

Q. Describe what you do and your process.

A. Using mltimedia computer graphics to produce inexpensive, easily printed, accessible “Nantucket” images with a sense of humor and history. The term Kitchen and Bath Art means…

Non pretentious, fun, no fancy frames, no canvas to maintain, no stress, original artwork. A simple “piece” of Nantucket. In fact, some of the work is meant to be disposable.

Q. What inspires you to do what you do?

A. Nantucket. The history, the mystery, the arts, the artist.

Q. Why Nantucket?

A. I am from NCY yet still sane.

Q. Why did you decide to sell your work at the Farmers & Artisans Market?

A. I love to chat with my fellow island beings.

Q. Is there anything else you want shoppers to know?

A. I am presently developing a musical story about Nantucket called “Dance with a Ghost” and will be performing songs from the show anywhere I can – all season – ad nauseam.

While Ellie Gottwald has been a painter for many years, she began selling her work a year ago. She specializes in small-scale watercolors, but does paint on a larger scale for cottage portraits and custom work. Ellie is never without her traveling paint set and pens, so she is always prepared when creative inspiration strikes.

Q. How would you describe your work?

A. I like to think of my Nantucket images as being the island as I remember it growing up summering in Sconset, so it’s an individual perspective, not one to please the masses. My stuff is simple and far from perfect, but it gives me such pleasure to just sit and paint – it’s so quiet.

Q. What new work do you have available this year?

A. A new series called “Tiny Boats” and an expanded portfolio from off-season custom work.

Q. Where do you get your inspiration?

A. I’m never at a loss to paint here, there is so much beauty and visual interest, plus it’s like meditation for me – and the process can’t be rushed.

Q. Why have you made Nantucket your home?

A. My summers were spent here growing up, my parents were married here, my daughters were born here, and Mark and I have had the Ships Inn since 1990…we may live elsewhere during the school here, but we wait for the ten week summer season here like we wait for Christmas. It’ll always be where our hearts are most content, and where we feel most connected to what’s important.

Q. Why did you decide to become an NFAM vendor?

A. I love selling my paintings at a lower price point, I’m not a trained artist, so it keeps me humble to sell them at my little card table. The custom work that comes out of the Market is bigger bucks and much more time consuming, but still fun. I love seeing people face to face and encouraging them to paint, too.

Q. What’s the best reason for NFAM shoppers to buy one of your paintings?

A. To take home something from Nantucket that will remind you of why you came here to begin with, without losing your shirt!

Q. Anything else you’d like shoppers to know?

A. Buy a watercolor, and then come have dinner at the Ships Inn…our staff is fantastic, and there’s an integrity to our food that never seizes to amaze me, and our rooms are sweet…