What's Happening at the Market - Thursday, July 24th Edition

Thank you to all of our wonderful sponsors!

Thursday, July 24th, 2025

4:00PM - 7:00PM

Evergreen Rotary Park, 1400 Park Ave, Bremerton WA

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The market is for more than shopping...it's a place to hang out! Music at the Market this week is The Love Grubs.

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Vendors at the Market Thursday, July 24th:

Farmers

• Davis Flower Farm

• Forest Frog Farm

• Fuentes Fresh Farm

• North Mason Mushroom Farm

• Taylor's Honey Farm

• Urban Petals

 Artists/Crafters

• CAPstudioBoutique

• de Lessart Studio

• Diane's Dezines

• Practical Sewing

Prepared Foods

• Aloha Taste

• AK Island Lumpia

• Aunty Dolly's West African Cuisine

• Cafe Rendezvous

• Emett's Market Magic

• Sugar Bear Cotton Candy

• Super Secret Pizza

• The Bustling Bean

• Viking Ice Cream

Processed Foods

• Heathens Bakery

• Los Encantos World Bakery

• Monica's Waterfront Bakery

• Taste of the South

Breweries/Wineries

• Seabeck Cellars

Community/Sponsor Booths:

• Bremerton Youth Art Hive

• Catholic Community Services of WA

• Kitsap Harvest

• Kitsap Regional Library

• League of Women Voters of Kitsap

• PAWS of Bremerton

• WSU Master Gardeners

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Vendor Map for Thursday, July 24th

You can download the market map here.

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Music at the Market

This week we welcome a new musical act to the Bremerton Community Farmers Market...The Love Grubs! Elise Dahlberg and Brian Hassler are a loving musical duo with a unique synergy and an eclectic collection of originally composed material. Using keyboard, guitar, and vocal harmonies, they sing/play contemporary folk/rock/pop written from the heart. Enjoy a beautiful sunny afternoon at the park with some lovely original music! Thanks as always to our generous sponsor Bremerton Typewriter Company!

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Vendor Spotlight at the Market

This Thursday's vendor spotlight is Aunty Dolly's West African Cuisine, a family-run gem serving up the bold, unforgettable flavors of Liberian and Ghanaian food for the past 8 years! Founded by sisters Keisha and Prudence, Aunty Dolly's is all about celebrating culture through food, with recipes passed down through generations and made fresh with love. Read about them in this article, then visit their booth at our market this Thursday, July 24th, to indulge in a bold and flavorful culinary experience.

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Community Booths at the Market

Be sure and stop by one of the many community booths at the market this week:

• Bremerton Youth Art Hive - A creative collective for Bremerton’s next generation of Artists!

• Catholic Community Services of WA - Committed to serving individuals, children, families and communities struggling with poverty and the effects of intolerance and racism. CCS serves people in need, regardless of religious affiliation, race, or economic status.

• Kitsap Harvest - Feeding families from front yards, food banks, farms, and...farmers markets. How can you help?

• Kitsap Regional Library - Summer Learning 2025: Dive Into Discovery

• League of Women Voters of Kitsap - Find out about the candidates, measures, and sign-up to vote.

• PAWS of Bremerton - Learn about cat adoptions, how to find a veterinarian, and lower price flea treatments. 

• WSU Master Gardeners - Volunteers who are actively engaged in teaching research-based gardening and environmental stewardship practices.

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Looking for ways to get to our market on public transit? Our friends at Kitsap Transit put together this handy guide! Follow them to get their full guide for how to get to our neighboring farmers markets as well!

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Park it at the Market

We know finding a spot to park for the market isn't always easy so wanted to share a place to park you might not know about and a few places to watch out for. 

Our neighbors just a couple blocks away on Park street, Kitsap Community Resources (KCR), have very graciously allowed parking in their lot after 4:30pm. We greatly appreciate their generosity to us and our community where they do so much for so many! 

CJ's Evergreen General Store is another fantastic advocate of our market and community, please remember that the 30-minute parking directly in front of the store is for their customers only.

And we kindly ask you to be considerate neighbors by parking only in designated areas. Note that the boating area has only four designated parking spots for market parking. Vehicles parked outside these four spots in the boating area may be ticketed by Parking Enforcement. Yikes!

Thanks so much and we look forward to seeing you for another stellar market day! 

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Kitsap Harvest at the Market

The mission at Kitsap Harvest is to minimize produce waste and provide fresh, nutritious, and locally sourced fruits and vegetables directly to low-income housing, senior centers, recovery facilities, shelters, and soup kitchens within Kitsap County. The Grow-A-Row program bolsters this mission by inviting gardeners of all levels, from experts to enthusiasts, to cultivate and contribute surplus produce. Weekly donation stations are established throughout the county for collections, including at the Bremerton Community Farmers Market.

Engage in the fight against food insecurity and food waste by supporting the growth of Kitsap County's capacity for sustainable, community driven care. For additional details, visit Programs – Kitsap Harvest or inquire at the market's information booth.

REDUCE FOOD WASTE. DONATE FRESH PRODUCE.

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Don't Forget Your Market Tokens

You know those market tokens you've been holding onto? Those tokens are MONEY! The $5 tokens are as good as cash, and all vendors accept them. The $1 tokens are exclusively for SNAP recipients and can be used for purchases typically made with an EBT card. If you have any SNAP Market Match coupons, don't leave them behind. We will honor expired ones, and they can be used with our produce farmers and produce reseller vendors. Bring those tokens to the market and shop!