Health & Fitness
Local Farmer's Market To Open Soon & Historic Jitney Tour of Fort Lee
The Fort Lee Farmer's Market opens Sunday, June 26, at the Fort Lee Community Center Plaza - market runs every Sunday from 8am - 2pm through October 30. Jitney tour sign up is also June 26.
The Fort Lee Farmer’s Market opens the season on Sunday June 26 at 8AM in the plaza area of the Jack Alter Fort Lee Community Center at 1355 Inwood Terrace. This market runs every Sunday from 8AM to 2PM from June 26 through October 30.
Among our 2011 vendors are Sunden’s Stone Pointe Farm from Old Tappan. This wonderful family farm provides us fresh produce all summer long and their service is offered with a smile.
Once again we have Angela Logan and her Mortgage Apple Cakes at our market. Angela has received national media attention for her innovative company and for her wonderful delicious apple cakes. Stop by and say hi to Angela.
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This year a new vendor is Senor Peanut who will offer an array of nuts and other delectable items for our customers.
Another new vendor this year is Meredith Breads of Kingston, New York. This vendor will add a fresh bread element to our Farmer’s Market that is most welcome.
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Semi Sweet Desserts will provide something special and unique to our market.
Vesco Foods returns with fantastic items such as olives, olive oil, marinated mushrooms and sun dried tomatoes.
Mediterra is a new vendor who will offer authentic hummus.
FREE HISTORIC JITNEY TOUR OF FORT LEE SUNDAY JUNE 26
To celebrate the opening of our Farmer’s Market on June 26, the Fort Lee Film Commission and the Fort Lee Historical Society will sponsor a historic jitney tour of Fort Lee out of the Farmer’s Market. The Fort Lee Film Commission will be signing people up for free historic jitney tours of Fort Lee – sign up time is from 9-11AM at the Film Commission table in the Farmer’s Market on June 26. Tours will run from 11AM to 3PM and the sign up / tours are on a first come first serve basis.
The Fort Lee Film Commission recently won a Bergen County History Grant for the publication of a Film History Map of Fort Lee. This tour will concentrate on the locations on that map and we hope to have the map complete and ready to be issued to tour goers on June 26.
Among the stops along the way will be several important film locations on Main Street as well as in the Coytesville section of Fort Lee. The tour will also stop at the old Universal Studio location in West Fort Lee.
Please call the Fort Lee Office of Cultural & heritage Affairs at (201) 693-2763 for further details.
