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Riding Your Bike to the Farmers’ Market

May 15, 2018 By marketeditor

By Himanee Gupta-Carlson

 

Saratoga’s Bikeatoga group encourages people to get out of their cars and onto their bikes in the spirit of easing traffic as well as promoting good health, fitness, and fun. Now, the organization is partnering with the Saratoga Farmers’ Market to bring more bicycling enthusiasts this summer to High Rock Park.

Starting tomorrow, market goers will be able to buy a $5 Bicycle Benefits sticker at the market shed. These stickers will entitle purchasers to a $2 coin redeemable at a vendor’s stall of their choice each time they visit the market via bicycle.

The partnership brings the market into the community’s Bicycle Benefits program, a project that Bikeatoga’s Ian Klepetar founded in Saratoga about a decade ago. That project has since expanded nationwide. Its goal, says Klepetar, is to help build safer and healthier communities via bikes.

“Getting more people to realize their great ability to move with their own power is meaningful in a number of ways,” says Klepetar. “It creates a way to address the city’s biggest issues: safer streets, healthier humans, and noise, visual, and air pollution caused by vehicular traffic.”

The Saratoga Farmers’ Market shares similar health goals, which makes joining the Bicycle Benefits program a natural fit.

“Our vendors will benefit from having more bikers at the market,” says market administrator Julia Howard. “And by giving people an incentive to bicycle to the market, we will be able to ease traffic around High Rock Park.”

How Bicycle Benefits works is simple. Bicyclists affix their stickers to their helmets. Then, when they visit the market on Wednesdays and Saturdays, they can stop by the market shed at the south end of the High Rock pavilion and show the sticker to a market staff member or volunteer on duty. One $2 coin will be offered per day.

Those who purchase Bicycle Benefits stickers at the market also will be able to obtain discounts at other businesses who participate in the program.

Market regulars who live outside Saratoga can participate even if biking from home isn’t feasible by parking away from downtown where congestion is less and biking into the market.

The Saratoga Farmers’ Market is 3-6 p.m. Wednesdays and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays at High Rock Park. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and check us out on the FreshFoodNY app. E-mail friends@saratogafarmers.org for volunteer opportunities.

Filed Under: Featured Article, News Tagged With: Bicycle Benefits, Bikeatoga, biking program, health, High Rock Park, Saratoga Farmers' Market, wellness

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Who’s excited for summer markets? We sure are! K Who’s excited for summer markets? We sure are! Keep reading below for the full official list of 2021 summer vendors. Here’s a reminder that we will be in two locations for the summer season starting May 1st:

-Every Saturday 9-1 in the Wilton Mall parking lot
-Every Wednesday 3-6 at High Rock Park

Saturday Vendors:

518 Farms
Argyle Cheese Factory
Balet Flowers & Design, LLC
Ballston Lake Apiaries
Big Breath Wellness
Bunker Hill Organic LLC
Burger Farm
Capital Greens NY 
Charlton Woodworking
Daily Fresh
Dancing Ewe Farm
Elihu Farm
Euro Delicacies
Feathered Antler
Fossil Stone Farms
Freddy’s Rockin’ Hummus
Giovanni Fresco
Gómez Veggie Ville
Grandma Apple’s Cheesecakes, LLC
Grazin Acres Farm
Green Jeans Market Farm
Hebron Valley Veal
Junbucha
Kokinda Farm
Leaning Birch Farm
Left Field
Longlesson Farm
Lovin’ Mama Farm
M & A Farm
Mariaville Mushroom Men
Mirage Waterless LLC
Moon Cycle Seed Company
Moxie Ridge Farm
Mrs Londons
Muddy Trail Jerky Co.
Mugzy’s Barkery
Native Farm Flowers
Nettle Meadow
Night Work Bread
Old Tavern Farm
Old World Farm
Owl Wood Farm
Petra Pocket Pies
Pleasant Valley Farms
Puckers Gourmet
Pura Vida Fisheries, Inc
R&G Cheesemakers 
Ramble Creek Farm
Saratoga Apple
Saratoga Chocolate Co. 
Saratoga Crackers
Saratoga Garlic Company
Saratoga Peanut Butter Co.
Saratoga Spicery
Saratoga Suds ‘n’ Stuff
Scotch Ridge Berry Farm
Slate Valley Farms
Slovonian European Cafe
Slyboro Cider House
Something’s Brewing
Springbrook Hollow Farm Distillery
Squash Villa Farm
Talmadge’s Vegetables
The Chocolate Spoon
The Food Florist
The Smoothie Shoppe INC
TogaNola Snack Company, LLC
Underwood’s Greenhouse/Shushan Valley Hydro Farm
Vashiti’s Kitchen Delights
Yankee Distillers LLC

Wednesday Vendors:

Burger Farm
Euro Delicacies
Gifford Farms
Gómez Veggie Ville
Left Field
Mister Edge Sharpening
Nine Pine Soup and Design
Old World Farm
Owl Wood Farm
Saratoga Apple
Saratoga Garlic Company
Scotch Ridge Berry Farm
Squash Villa Farm
The Chocolate Spoon
The Food Florist
The Mushroom Shop
Underwood’s Greenhouse/Shushan Valley Hydro Farm
Vashiti’s Kitchen Delights
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Find @saratogagarlic at our winter market every Saturday from 9:30-1:30 at the Wilton Mall and starting in May at our summer markets (Saturday 9-1 at Wilton Mall and Wednesday 3-6 at High Rock Park)
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This Saturday will be a great one: Owl Wood Farm's This Saturday will be a great one: Owl Wood Farm's fresh veggies are back! Plus find discounts on @nettlemeadowfarm cheeses, new flavors of infused maple syrup at @slatevalleyfarms, and more. Stop by the market 9:30am-1:30pm - we'll be outdoors again in the Bon-Ton/Bow Tie parking lot!

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We are honored to be nominated as one of the Best We are honored to be nominated as one of the Best Farmers’ Markets in the Saratoga Region for Saratoga Today’s Best of 2021! Thank you to everyone who continues to shop local and show their support!

You can vote for us once a day daily until 4/22 under the “Fun & Leisure” category using the link below:
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