The North Side is bringing something fresh to the farmers market concept with a new program that combines live music, family fun and, well, even more food than what the farmers are already selling.
Fresh Fridays, which launched in July of this year, will continue 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Fridays through Sept. 4 at the Northside Farmers Market at Cedar Avenue and East Ohio Street in
Historic Deutschtown. It is already schedule to return next summer. Fresh Fridays is sponsored by the
Charm Bracelet Project Fund through the support of the Grable Foundation, and supported by Allegheny General Hospital, Allegheny Center Alliance Church, Elm Street/Historic Deutschtown and
CitiParks Farmers Market.
The weekly event features performances by the The Krunk Movement, a student-led music and health initiative, as well as interactive family activities presented by North Side cultural organizations including Artists Image Resources, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-Allegheny, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, Manchester Craftsman's Guild, National Aviary, R.U.S.T. (Radical Underground Silkscreening Team), the Andy Warhol Museum and more. There's also a weekly chef's table, where experts from North Side restaurants prepare and share simple summer dishes with ingredients available at that week's market. Restaurants represented include the Park House, Monterey Pub, Children's Museum Café, Legends, Amani International Coffeehouse and Café, Hoi Polloi: Coffeehouse and Vegetarian Café, Cafe at the Lofts and more.
"Our hope is that people will sample the food and then check out those restaurants," says Joey-Linn H. Ulrich with
Northside Leadership Conference. "Ultimately, we want people to come to the event and connect to the neighborhood and its history and people, and then come back and visit again. Maybe even move here."
Writer:
Caralyn GreenSource: Joey-Linn H. Ulrich, Northside Leadership Conference
Photo courtesy the Charm Bracelet Project Fund