The third Winter Market of the 2012 season took place at the Veterans' Memorial Auditorium on Saturday morning, March 10th, featuring products from a variety of local vendors. Designed as an opportunity to showcase local products, the market featured local vendors offering cheese, bread, oatmeal, jam and honey in addition to jewelry and photographs . "Our offerings are expanding every month and vendors are starting to seek us out" commented market coordinator Annemarie Sharkey. The event also featured a cooking demonstration by Chef Bill Walker of the Tradewinds Restaurant at B.M.C. Durfee High School. This was another opportunity to teach ways of cooking healthy foods using fresh produce like what is featured on the "Look Who's Cooking" show on FRED-TV cable television. Click here for a copy of the granola recipe he made. Click here for the video of the event. Click here for a Herald News article about the market. Click here for photos of the January market and here for the February market. Click here for a notice of upcoming market dates. Contact Annemarie Sharkey at CD-REC at 508-679-0922 for more information or to reserve a free space to sell your local products.

(Top row, left) Market Coordinator Annemarie Sharkey chats with Maryellen Kurkulos of Fall River at the information table. (Top row, center) Michael Coughlin of the DPH Local Public Health Coordination Office and a Fall River resident picks out a loaf of fresh-baked bread from Mary Mehri of the Main Street Cafe and Bakery. (Top row, right) Nancy and Bill Anderson of Tiverton, RI, look over jams for sale. (Row two, left) Ann Jang shops with her daughters Jinnae and Jaellin. (Row two, right) Chef Bill Walker of the Tradewinds Restaurant at B.M.C. Durfee High School answers questions about his granola recipe. (Row three, left) Shoppers line up to look at photographs by Amy Codego of Somerset. (Row three, center) Jennifer Rosa, Patrice Shaw and Carolyn Staley are on hand to pass out free shopping bags and give-aways from H&R Block. (Row three, right) Shoppers look over the PMS bars at the Beach House Bakery table. (Bottom row, left and center) Paula Harrison of HealthFirst Family Care Center watches as her granddaughters Ava and Addison McDermott take advantage of the gym to have some fun before she chats with Wendy Garf-Lipp of United Neighbors of Fall River. (Bottom row, right) Nancy Salibi, right, hands a bag of her handmade jewelry to a customer.