BCFA is pleased to announce our 2022 Farm Tours! Gravity Hill Farm Wednesday, June 1 Potluck: 6pm, Tour: 7pm 67 Pleasant Valley Rd Titusville, NJ 08650 Gravity Hill Farm was founded in 2005, the farm has shifted from a market farm to focus on food justice and...
Volunteers are needed Saturdays through November 19 for a number of tasks, including: Set Up - from 8-9AM - volunteer will help set up Market Welcome Tent, weights, signs, merchandise table, help vendors with tent set up if neededTake down - from 12-12:45PM -...
BCFA is excited to share our program called Feed a Family Support a Family Farm! The program aims to expand access to healthy local produce by providing excess produce from local farmers at Doylestown and Wrightstown Farmers Market to limited resource members of...
1. We need volunteers to help our vendors set up their tents and bring things from their cars to their tent at set up time (7am) and at break down time (1:01pm). This volunteer or volunteers can stay the whole market day with us if you choose and help us with other...
More than 40 local farmers attended this year’s Farmer’s Forum! Hosted by the Bucks County Foodshed Alliance on March 2, 2022 at the Heritage Conservancy’s Aldie Mansion in Doylestown. The event featured Sam Malriat of the internationally renowned Rodale Institute...
It is 16 degrees outside, continuing into February what was a brutally cold January for southeastern Pennsylvania. The ground is frozen solid. Historically, the only local foods available this time of year were root and storage vegetables. Oh, how the times they...
On August 4th we enjoyed a tranquil and informative evening with Adam Dusen of Hundred Fruit Farm in Buckingham. With the help of one very friendly duck named Gerald, Adam led us throughout his permaculture orchard where sheep graze among a variety of nut and fruit...
Article by Lisa Braud The saying goes, “know your farmer, know your food” and on July 7th, we had the pleasure of meeting the team behind Spring Creek Farm and learning more about their farm, products, and practices. The weather was perfect and we had a huge...
“Knee high by the fourth of July” is what we expect… but Trauger’s farm in Kintnersville had local corn for us at the Doylestown Farmers Market already on July 3rd! How do they achieve that miracle of modern agriculture? Generations of farming, continual...
Dear friend,This year was anything but normal.Even a simple trip to the grocery store was no longer something to take for granted.But it was a great year for our farmers’ markets!The news was full of stories about food shortages. This created a real awareness of...
