Market vendors participating this Sunday, May 31

Farms* and Nurseries: Grow It
Gran Mary's Herb Garden
Alita's Garden
R.R.J.'s Enterprise
Red Dragon Nursery
Off the Beaten Path
Brothers Peonies Inc.

Herr Family Farm
Cheng's Farm
Hmong Farm
United Farm

Farms* and Nurseries: Eat It
Winters Farms
Family Table Farm
GardenRipe
Full of Life Farm

Eat While You Shop
Ken and June's Hazelnuts (packaged to go)
Canby Asparagus Farms
The Village Waffle Baker
Humdinger Kettle Corn (packaged to go) -- back this week (for real)
J Gelati Italian Ice
Haagerson's Catering/The Rib Slayer
Lucy's Tropical Juice
Sweetreats (packaged to go)

White Rabbit Bakery (gluten free, packaged to go) -- new this week

Artisans and Crafters
Knot Traditional Woodworking
Goldenwood Soap (goat milk soaps and lotions)
Miabell's Vegan Soaps and Mineral Bath Salts
Paradise Alpaca Ranch -- moving next to the Ribslayer
Carmen's Creations
The Birdhouse Factory

Local Business
Massage Temps Northwest

Sage Rural Delivery Corp. (get your subscription to the Oregonian)

Love the Market?  Live at Villebois
Arbor at Villebois -- visit their booth at the market
Costa Pacific Homes -- visit them in the Village Center across from the market entrance

*Most of our farmers will not join us until June or July, when most Oregon produce is able to be harvested. At that time, we'll have lots of fresh vegtables, fruits...and berries!

Stay tuned: this Sunday's vendors will be announced Friday morning!

In the coming weeks, we'll have a coffee cart and a winery joining us, too!

This Sunday's entertainment: buy produce, dance the day away

Getting us started in the morning: Richie "King Juju" Bean 

Bean started playing guitar in the late '70s in his hometown of Reno, where he and his bass playing and drumming buddies Mike & Mark had a teenage band called "The Forbidden Blues Band." Richie had to learn to sing, since he was the chief songwriter. They played house parties, casino lounges, Moose lodges and anywhere else that would let them set up and play. They didn't play any actual blues, but it was an image that interested them. Instead they played original music, mostly written by Bean.  "Headlights" and "Ain't No Middle Ground" are two of Richies early songs first performed by the FBB. 

After a short stint in California in the mid '80s, he landed in Portland, Ore., where he got married, started a business, and started bands called "Hidden Agenda" and "The Legends" with singer Louanne Jolly. When they broke up, he began studying blues music, and started "The Roseland Blues Band" with Mickie Will and Vern Williams. He was a founding member of "The Hudson Rocket Band," where he stayed for more than five years, before moving on to lead "King Juju & The Beats" & "The King Juju Trio" for several years. 

Along the way he has opened for Walter Trout, Smokin' Joe Kubek, Little Charlie & The Nightcats, and jammed with or sat in with Lee Oscar, The Party Kings, Kinzel & Hyde, Jim Mesi and many others. In 2007 Richie decided to start a new band which played a larger variety of retro style music as well as originals, and the Catillacs were born!


...and in the afternoon spot: Michele van Kleef!
Michele has been singing for as long as she can remember. After piano and voice lessons, theater and musicals through high school, she went to Oregon State University and minored in Vocal Performance.

Soon after graduating, she joined the very successful, NW-based Indie band Calobo. They started out playing the NW Colleges, house parties and local bars. After everyone was done with school they decided to go full time in 1994 and toured the country for the next 6 years. They played the Wetlands in NYC, House of Blues in Chicago, The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, and the epic music festival, Bumbershoot, on the Stadium Stage in Seattle. When all was said and done, Calobo released 5 full length records, the final being recorded Live at the Crystal Ballroom in our hometown of Portland, Ore.

After Calobo, Michele joined up with LazyBones Recordings as Mackabella in Seattle. They released the self-titled album Mackabella in 2001. Many of these songs have been placed in the TV/Film Industry. Willing has had the most placements: a movie trailer for the Johnny Cash story Walk the Line, and spoof of the same film, Walk Hard, among many others. Additional recent song placements includes VH1, Fox, NBC, T-Mobile, 90210, Lifetime, MTV, South of Nowhere, and Roswell.

Michele took some time off to start a family, but is thrilled to be playing music again. She's been focusing on her own songs that are true from her heart, sometimes funny, and she is more than ready to share them.

Market Vendors Participating this Sunday, May 24

Farms* and Nurseries: Grow It
Gran Mary's Herb Garden
Alita's Garden
R.R.J.'s Enterprise
Red Dragon Nursery -- new this week
Off the Beaten Path
Brothers Peonies Inc.

Farms* and Nurseries: Eat It
Winters Farms
Family Table Farm
GardenRipe
Herr Family Farm
Cheng's Farm
Hmong Farm
United Farm
Full of Life Farm

Eat While You Shop
Ken and June's Hazelnuts (packaged to go)
Canby Asparagus Farms
The Village Waffle Baker
Humdinger Kettle Corn (packaged to go) -- back this week
J Gelati Italian Ice
Haagerson's Catering/The Rib Slayer
Lucy's Tropical Juice
Sweetreats (packaged to go)

Artisans and Crafters
Knot Traditional Woodworking -- back this week
Goldenwood Soap (goat milk soaps and lotions)
Miabell's Vegan Soaps and Mineral Bath Salts
Paradise Alpaca Ranch
Sandi Grubbs, Artist -- back this week
Carmen's Creations
The Birdhouse Factory -- new this week
Crystal Elegance -- new this week

Local Business

Massage Temps Northwest

*Most of our farmers will not join us until June or July, when most Oregon produce is able to be harvested. At that time, we'll have lots of fresh vegtables, fruits...and berries!

Help us improve the market: attend the June 9 community meeting

Please note the date change to Tuesday, June 9.

We're about a month into our first season, and market management would like to meet with community members and business leaders to discuss how things have been going thus far, what's in store, and what tweaks we can make to help spread the word (and to improve the market itself). Please join us from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 9, at the Miraval Building in the Villebois Village Center, located at 28900 SW Villebois Drive in Wilsonville (driving directions). On the agenda:

• The market experience (flow, seating, etc.)
• Volunteer feedback, needs, training
• Directional signage
• Feedback on vendors, product offerings, product mix
• Friend of the Market program
• Publicity and promotions (where should we focus resources?)

Are we missing an agenda item? Leave us a comment, and we can add it to the discussion!

Villebois Sunday Market featured on the COVER of the Sunday Oregonian's Home and Rentals section

Fresh from the Farm: Markets sweeten a listing's appeal
by Jan Behrs, a freelance writer for the Oregonian
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Villebois Sunday Market's Canby Asparagus Farm featured in the Oregonian

Canby Asparagus Farms' Casa de Tamales -- its downtown Milwaukie restaurant -- was featured in the Oregonian's A&E section this week as one of the four best places in the Portland Metro area to find a tamale...and you can find them each week at the Villebois Sunday Market!

So if you live in Wilsonville, and you want great tamales (there are even two varieties with asparagus in them!), deep-fried asparagus, honking huge Spanish omelets (that are out of this world...and can feed three people), empanadas, or even your more traditional tacos, burritos, chile rellenos, and enchiladas, you don't have to drive all the way out to Milwaukie! Just come down to the corner of SW Villebois Road and SW Barber Drive between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. and satisfy your craving for top-notch Mexican cuisine.


Click on the story headline below to read the full article on Canby Asparagus Farm:

Fork it over! Four great tamale joints
by Camas Davis, special to the Oregonian
Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 8:17 a.m.


Did this article make you hungry? In addition to Canby Asparagus Farm, the Villebois Sunday Market also offers high-end cuisine at affordable prices:

• Villebois' own, the Village Waffle Baker, which has a variety of sweet and savory Belgian waffle sandwiches and paninis (they even have beignets!);
• Ribslayer to go, which offers Italian sausage sandwiches, pulled pork sandwiches, lamb burgers...and more;
• Lucy's Tropical Juice, which offers fresh squeezed fruit juice with fresh chunks of fruit to munch on after the juice is gone. Hot tip: the orange juice has eight -- yes, that's eight -- oranges squeezed to order (equals more than 500 mg of vitamin C); and
• J. Gelati Italian Ice, which offers several flavors of Italian ice cream (the mango is exceptionally yummy!).

We still need a few volunteers for this Sunday

If you are able to volunteer for the market this Sunday, we could use you! Please email VilleboisSundayMarket@gmail.com with the position/time you are able to fill, or please comment below this post.

Morning Shift (9:45 a.m. to 12 p.m.)
(1) Green Team
(2) Market Watch
(2) Activity Tent
(1) Parking/Traffic Control

Afternoon Shift (12 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.)
(1) Market Greeters
(1) Vendor Liaison
(1) Welcome Tent
(2) Green Team
(2) Market Watch
(2) Activity Tent
(1) Parking/Traffic Control

Missed Opening Day? Check these out!

Ritchie Bean serenades shoppers as they eat waffles from the Village Waffle Baker and sandwiches from Ribslayer to Go.

Canby Asparagus Farms serves some of the best tamales around, giving 300 away to shoppers on opening day.

Bundles of asparagus for sale at Winters Farms' booth.

Craig Haagenson (of Ribslayer to Go) presents one of his sandwiches to Suzanne Montgomery, the Villebois Sunday Market Historian (she's taking the photo).  Like Craig's lamb burgers, ribs and sausages?  He caters!  Stop by his booth on Sunday to learn more, and be sure to come Sunday, May 17, when Craig will be doing cooking demonstrations next to his BBQ!

Eileen Winters of Winters Farms helps a shopper select produce from her booth.  Did you see that photo of her asparagus (above)?  Yum!!!

 

Shoppers looking at the hanging baskets at RRJ Enterprises' booth.

(They have some killer deals!)

Villebois' own Bill and Lisa Jensen, who run the Village Waffle Baker, prepare sauces (including a deliciously tart lemon curd) to spread atop Belgian waffles for shoppers craving something both savory and sweet.  The Jensens also offer seasonal paninis, and later this season, depending on customer demand, they'll also offer crepes and beignets!  If you, like me, adore those powdery French doughnuts, please stop by their booth and tell them so.  They can't make them just for me, after all!  :-)

Shoppers look at the variety of goat milk soaps offered by Goldenwood Soap.  This Sunday, May 10, Goldenwood Soap will be bringing their goats to the market.  Moms, after you walk in the parade (at 12:30 p.m.), be sure to take the little ones over to the goats in Crafter's Alley.  It's sure to be a furry, soapy experience!

A big thank you to Suzanne Montgomery

for taking these beautiful photos!

If you would like to share the photos or videos you've taken at the market, please email them to VilleboisSundayMarket@gmail.com.  We would be happy to post them to our blog.

Villebois Sunday Market celebrates mothers this Sunday, May 10

This next market day is Mother's Day, and to celebrate, a gal in the neighborhood suggested that we have a Mother's Day Parade, so that's just what we're going to do! 

The Mother's Day Parade will begin at 12:30 p.m., will start at the end of Barber Street and will conclude at the end of Mont Blanc Street, where all our lovely crafters are.  We have invited vendors who are mothers and mothers of vendors, to participate as well, so come on down and get appreciated!

In addition to the parade, we will have a few prizes for moms this Sunday (enter at the Welcome Tent).  Wendi of Sweetreats, who is also a mom, is donating a lemon pound cake!  Can you say yum?

The final word here? We're all about moms this Sunday, and be sure to wave and clap when the parade passes your booth!

Volunteers still needed for Sunday, May 10

If you are able to volunteer for the market this Sunday, we could use you!  Please email VilleboisSundayMarket@gmail.com with the position/time you are able to fill, or please comment below this post.

Morning Shift (9:45 a.m. to 12 p.m.)

(1) Green Team

(2) Market Watch

(2) Activity Tent

(1) Parking/Traffic Control

Afternoon Shift (12 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.)

(2) Market Greeters

(1) Vendor Liaison

(2) Welcome Tent

(2) Green Team

(2) Market Watch

(2) Activity Tent

(1) Parking/Traffic Control

Villebois Sunday Market featured in OregonLive!

Villebois market gets its start this weekend

by Cathie Ericson, special to the Oregonian

Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 7:00 AM