The 48th season of the Downtown Evanston Farmers Market begins on Saturday, May 6th at 7:30 a.m. As with every season, there are some changes.
Every year around this time, Market Manager Myra Gorman announces the new (happy!) and departing (Sad!) vendors for the Downtown Evanston Farmers Market. This happens after applications are sent out in the winter months, and after Friends and Myra collaborate on tastings and review of new vendor applications and their wares. This year, departing vendors opened 7 slots for new vendors, and Myra shared the news on the Evanston Markets Facebook Page.
We won’t “liberate” Myra’s copy, and you can read her news and her excellent descriptions of the new members of the DEFM family of vendors by clicking here.
We will provide the basic information in this post,, including links for all our new vendors so you can read all their interesting backstories at your leisure. Here’s our listing of the seven new vendors.
- Mima’s Toast Bar, featuring tons of toppings and bread from the most excellent Katich Bread.
- Gracie Pie Apothecary Soaps.. Gracie Pie Apothecary’s products are hand crafted in small batches in Kankakee, Illinois. All of their soap is hand made with local, free range goat’s milk from well loved goats.
- Will Power Your Day. An every other week vendor that will be located in the northwest corner of the market. They offer plant-based snacks that are ‘Explosively Delicious, Powerfully Nutritious.’
- Kikwetu Coffee Company. A family owned, Chicago-based, specialty coffee company, working directly and exclusively with small scale, quality-focused coffee farmers in Kenya.
- Green Cuisine specializes in fresh hand made Mediterranean products such as Hummus, Babaganuje, morracan carrots dip, fluffy pita clouds , variety of olives and more.
- Insanely Awesome Bakery. A cottage food bakery from a veteran Chicago chef/baker. Delicious food. Phenomenal technique.
- Lemaster Family Kitchen. Spice blends that are handmade, grinding whole chilies and spices for freshness and potency that’s impossible to find in a grocery.
In addition to these 7 newcomers, Downstate Donuts has recovered from the fire that hobbled their production capability and caused them to drop out of last season’s market. Their products are potato-based and quite remarkable.
The room for these new vendors is provided by several vendor departures — some with literally decades of participation in our market. The departing vendors include:
Bennisons Bakery
Marilyn’s Pies
Pasta Pappone
Thao Gardens
Luciano’s Empanadas
Green Fire Farm
Our calendar of events is updated. We’re triple-checking the full roster for this year’s market, and that will be updated 2 weeks before the Downtown Evanston Farmers Market resumes on Saturday, May 6 at 7:30 a.m.
