Happenings @ the Freight Shed: Market Morning February 1, 2014

This Saturday at the Bath Farmers Market, visit the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust’s table to learn about the fun array of upcoming events. Specifically, the 4^th Annual Winter Read, a community book discussion group. 

This season’s selection is  Taste, Memory: Forgotten Foods, Lost Flavors, and Why They Matter by local author, David Buchanan. 

The reader joins gardeners, preservationists, environmentalists, farmers, and cooks on a journey to rediscover the role of forgotten varieties of food in our farming fields and at our dinner tables. It’s a fascinating read that brings together the author’s love of food, farming, and discovering New England’s unique agricultural and culinary history.

Will with his Irish Bouzouki and in the foreground, Michele on the fiddle
Photo courtesy of  www.twistedstrings.net

Also, we welcome back Twisted Strings, an acoustic duo who entertain us with a wide array of tunes with Celtic roots and featuring Michele Roy on fiddle and Will West on the guitar and Irish bouzouki! 

Not sure what an Irish bouzouki is? Well come on down to check it out!

For more information regarding what's going on at the Bath Farmers Market, be sure to check out their weekly newsletter, News from the Bath Farmers Market -- you can either sign up to subscribe or catch it on their Facebook Page. 

Are you interested in learning more about the Bath Freight Shed? Thought so! Well please visit our website and if you're able to make a donation or become a Member, you can do that there as well! Not able to make a donation right now but want to help out? Well, we have lots of opportunities for volunteers either on a regular basis or just now and then. You can email Merry Chapin or call her at 207-443-5669 for more information.

Look for the Market Information Booth where you can also purchase your Market Money Tokens and if you're a SNAP customer, this is the booth to visit to take advantage of SNAP Incentive Program where fore every $4 you purchase by swiping your EBT card, you earn an extra dollar! Swipe $16 and you get an extra $4 in tokens -- extending your purchase power!

You can also purchase Bath Farmers Market Gift Certificates at the Information Booth -- a gift that gives year-round!

The Winter Season at the Freight Shed is a Wrap!

Join us this Saturday, April 27th, as we celebrate a great winter season at the Freight Shed. 

Thanks to the Bath Farmers Market for their faith in this project and to all the customers new and old who made this place such a vibrant fun place to be on Saturday mornings.

Thanks to all the community partners and artists who shared their work with us in the community room and thank you to all the musicians who serenaded us!

Thanks to all the volunteers who spruced up the place, added layers of insulation in various forms, thanks to the board members who work so hard to make this venture viable and something that can be sustained and an extra special thank you to Jay Coffey who saw the sunrise every Saturday for six months to get the space heated up and ready for the day and would be at the Freight Shed at a moments notice to help out!

This weekend we wrap up the season with an exhibit of Keith Spiro's photographs of the Goranson Farm. We are so grateful to the farmers and food producers for all their hard hard work that fuels this community. Keith's photographs connect us with the beauty of the place and the people.

Thanks to all of you who have become members, bought bricks and Kickstarted just a year ago! There will be lots happening this summer and many ways to participate! Please stay posted.

Wiebke

Bath Shed Fundraising Hits the Bricks

Alex Lear, The Forecaster

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 11:10 am

BATH — Fundraising bricks to pay for improvements to a 19th century freight shed are available for order.

The City Council gave unanimous consent Jan. 2 to a proposal from the Bath Freight Shed Alliance to include the bricks in a sidewalk to be constructed this year along Commercial Street.

The bricks cost $150 each. An order form is available at bathfreightshed.blogspot.com, from bathfreightshed@gmail.com, or at the Bath Winter Farmers Market, which runs Saturdays through April at the shed from 9 a.m.-noon. Forms are also available at the real estate office of Sharon Drake, 136 Front Street.

The group, which plans to donate the bricks to the city, is selling engraved space on the bricks to charter members as part of its membership drive. Each brick will have two engraved lines, with space for 20 characters and spaces on each line.

The shed improvements, which could cost between $18,000 and $23,000, include repairs to the building's Commercial Street-side sill and its foundation wall. The work would run concurrently with excavation of the Commercial Street side of the shed for construction of the sidewalk.

Restoration of the shed's exterior is planned as a later project.

The shed is also the construction site of the Virginia, a replica of a historic pinnace built at the Popham colony in 1607-1608.

The sidewalk work will be funded primarily through federal funds distributed by the Maine Department of Transportation, and should go out to bid in late spring and be constructed this summer, City Planner Andrew Deci said last month.

Direct link: http://www.theforecaster.net/news/print/2013/02/20/bath-shed-fundraising-hits-bricks/151788

Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear@theforecaster.net. Follow him on Twitter: @learics.

Link to our Buy-a-Brick Charter Membership Form