Below is a list of the 2011 Vendors.
For current and prospective vendors:
The Market Manager is Ellen Peterson. Periodic vendors must call Ellen by the Monday before each session to keep us apprised of your attendance, at (360) 710-7670. Please speak with Alan or Ellen to discuss the wooden tokens/bank machine and the WIC/Senior vouchers programs.
To be a vendor, click on the links below:
Arts & Crafts Vendor Application
Farmers, Ready-to-Eat Foods, and Produce Re-Sellers
Market Rules: Read Me
One, important aspect of these 'Market Rules' I want to emphasize. The essential mission statement (on the home page) is to support local agriculture, and access for Suquamish residents to fresh foods. So food vendors must source your ingredients from within the State of Washington whenever possible, and, for something like sugar, from what grew within the Northwest. There are multiple ways of finding locally grown scratch ingredients, with quite a number of organizations dedicated to supporting the local foods 'movement', such as www.foodhub.org See also the Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network website: http://wsffn.org/
For non-profits and government outreach groups, there are no market fees, and the two application forms linked to here are inapposite. Simply call Ellen Peterson at least a week in advance to say you will be coming, at (360) 710-7670.
The most common question is what it costs to be a vendor. In 2011 there was a daily fee of 10% of that session's income for those who earned more than $50 in that session.
In addition, an annual membership fee of $45 applies to vendors who sell at three or more sessions. This membership fee income is being set aside in the Kitsap Bank account to pay for the 2013 market's insurance premium.
Suquamish Tribe members do not need to pay any of the market fees. This is in thanks for the 2009 Appendix X grant of $5000 and the continued use of the field and bathrooms, Tribal trust property, to host the market.
Please complete your application either on the computer or after printing it, and send to either:
trunkey4@hotmail.com, subject line 'Market vendor application'
or mail:
PO Box 374
Suquamish WA 98392
For more information, call 697-6817
Entertainment:
Ramblin' Bob, his favored stage name, plays the Banjo, frequently with Ralph also on the banjo.
Education:
Master Gardeners of WSU Extension will be attending every market session. They can answer gardening questions on a wide array of topics- pruning, diseases, design, plant selection.
Produce:
Terra Bella Farm, Rachel Fesler-Schnitzer, grows a wide variety of vegetables on their Bainbridge farm.
Wyckels Farm, Andrea Wigglesworth, open pollinated & heirloom vegetables from near Silverdale.
Some Like It Hott: Charlie Bodony, Grows a variety of peppers in his Port Townsend greenhouse, dries and smokes them with alder, and grinds them: www.aldersmoked.com
Hansville Creamery, Lindsey & Vicky McGarrity, raw goat milk, goat cheese, and three kinds of soap: www.HansvilleCreamery.com
Terrapin Farms, Vegetables and fruit: they grow in Toppenish, in a Poulsbo greenhouse, resell from other Washington growers, and also grow outdoors in Kitsap www.TerrapinFarms.com
Lunch & Dinner:
Sandy’s Gourmet Indulgence, Sandy and Russ Gross, chocolates and caramels, www.SandysGourmetIndulgence.com
Jones Family Farm: (Penny, Kirk, & their son Mike), Barbecue pork ribs, shishkebabs,soups, quesadillas, salads and other ready-to-eat things partly from their own farm, and their garden produce of strawberries, and other in-season harvests.
Crimson Cove Smoked Salmon & Cheese: Jody & Mark DeSalvo, smokes wild caught sockeye, but smokes these cheeses too: Their signature Alder Smoked Blue; Cheddar; Pepper Jack; Gouda; Swiss; and Goat (Jack, Cheddar). www.crimsoncove.com/
Viking Ice Cream: Thormod Skald uses Twin Brooks Dairy milk to make an ice cream/frozen yogurt.
Chabon Tiger, Makes traditional Indian tacos and elephant ears.
Artisans:
Steve Old Coyote: Traditional Suquamish mask, dance rattle, and other carvings
www.melsbellsjewelry.etsy.com
Made In Manette, Carolee Valentine makes soaps, handsewn clothing
Textile Art, Matt Worden, is a tailor making women’s handbags.
Leon Jones, knife sharpening and walking sticks, has wheels, steels, and stones for kitchen knives
Room 3 Designs, Tiffany Westlund, will have her jewelry as well as her partner’s metal sculpture, made three blocks away.
Ornamentals and Nursery Plants:
Bill Ellington: Grows hothouse plants such as hibiscus & other exotics as well as unusual outdoor trees and plants.
Greener Gardens: Tom Mitchell, has northwest natives & unusual exotics as well as annual flower & some vegetable starts
Al's Peonies and Other Flowers: Raspberries & blueberry bushes, peonies, and more
