{"id":84305,"date":"2017-09-05T09:34:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T13:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=84305"},"modified":"2017-09-04T22:46:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T02:46:02","slug":"apple-fest-is-sept-13-in-norwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=84305","title":{"rendered":"Apple Fest is Sept. 13 in Norwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2312\"><span id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2313\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=84306\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84306\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-84306 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/apple-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/apple-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/apple-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/apple-400x200.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/apple.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Norwich Farmers Market is hosting an apple fest on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_262892712\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Wednesday, September 13<\/span><\/span>, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in East Park, Norwich, highlighting county producers and farmers markets with games and prizes (including apple scented candles from A Little Herbal Shoppe, lamb from Lamb\u2019s Quarters Organic Farm, apple-themed crafts from Country Fixin\u2019s, and many more).<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2315\"><span id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2316\"><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2318\"><span id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2319\">Representatives from Ag &amp; Mkts Farmers Market Nutritional Program (FMNP-Sr and FMNP-WIC), and Eat Smart New York will be doing food demonstrations and education featuring local products and giving out free recipes.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2321\"><span id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2322\"><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2324\"><span id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2325\">Food producers from all over the county are invited to sell that day and promote their farm businesses and all county farmers markets (call 334-4928 to register).\u00a0 Information will be available for farmers and consumers on how to access various governmental programs which promote healthy and local eating (e.g., FMNP, WIC V&amp;F, Health Bucks, FreshConnect, SNAP\/EBT).<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2327\"><span id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2328\"><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2330\"><span id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2331\">Senior citizens can apply for FMNP-Sr coupons through the local Area Agency on Aging, and WIC recipients can apply for FMNP-WIC and WIC V&amp;F through Opportunities for Chenango.\u00a0 Several vendors at the market are authorized to accept these coupons.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2333\"><span id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2334\"><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2336\"><span id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2337\">USDA has provided food stamp recipients access to farmers markets for the last 4four years and can be used at the\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_262892714\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Wednesday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0market.\u00a0 The\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_262892715\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Wednesday\u00a0<\/span><\/span>market now also accepts VISA and Master Card.<u><\/u><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2342\" dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"m_6601813417752833636yui_3_16_0_1_1504466427029_2343\">Shopping at open air markets has never been easier, and the county has one in Coventry on Sundays, New Berlin on Tuesdays, Norwich on Wednesdays, Coventry on Thursdays, Earlville on Fridays, and Oxford on Saturdays.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwich Farmers Market is hosting an apple fest on\u00a0Wednesday, September 13, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in East Park, Norwich, highlighting county producers and farmers markets with games and prizes (including apple scented candles from A Little Herbal Shoppe, lamb from Lamb\u2019s Quarters Organic Farm, apple-themed crafts from Country Fixin\u2019s, and many more). \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23679,23816,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agfarming","category-ff","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}