Wondering where some of our vendors have gone?

The Villebois Sunday Market has been fortunate enough to attract a number of high-quality vendors, and with the help of Costa Pacific and Arbor Homes, we were able to expand onto a gravel area off Villebois Drive. Unfortunately, it turns out that gravel is not wheelchair accessible, and so we have had to restructure our market map, reducing the number of available spaces to vendors.

As a market, we are committed to standing by our founding objectives:

• To provide an informal, social gathering place in an open-air setting;
• To provide a community-building event in the Villebois Village Center;
• To give the community access to a wide variety of fresh, local, in-season farm products direct from the producer; and
• To give local producers a centralized location to provide us with a wide variety of fresh, local, in-season farm products.

This means that we have had to re-evaluate some of our non-farmer vendors, so that we could make more space for farmers who sell produce. So, if you are missing a vendor who is no longer with us, please feel free to contact market management at villeboissundaymarket@gmail.com, and we will do our best to put you into contact with the vendor you miss.

We miss them, too.

The baby goats are here!

Goldenwood Farm, which sells goat milk soap at the market, recently celebrated the birth of two goats! Come to the market TODAY and this Sunday, August 9, to meet them yourself.

They might even let you milk the goats!

Now you can experience the market BEFORE Sunday!

Check out the video of the Villebois Sunday Market on YouTube!  It features both vendors and residents.

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!

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!).

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.

Open Call for Quality Oregon Vendors

Applications for Oregon and Washington produce, food and craft vendors are now being accepted by a new nonprofit, the Villebois Sunday Market.  The market, in the Villebois Village Center, in Wilsonville, Ore., is located at the corners of Villebois Village Drive and Barber Street and is slated to run from May 3 to October 18.  Vendor stalls start at $25/day with flexible dates and discounts available.  To receive application information, please contact villeboissundaymarket@gmail.com or call 503-241-3834.

This community nonprofit will operate on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and organizers hope to offer a variety of local entertainment, fresh seasonal produce, baked goods, arts and crafts and other Oregon farm-produced goods -- from cheese to honey to wine.  Additionally, local artisans, florists and nursery vendors are welcome to have stalls at the weekly event.

Convenient vendor loading and parking areas adjoin the market area, which is surrounded by hundreds of established single and multiple family residences in the heart of Wilsonville.

Locally owned Costa Pacific Communities, noted for its transit-friendly, award-winning communities is underwriting the costs for the Villebois Sunday Market.  The company received national attention for the planning and development of Orenco Station in Hillsboro, a 190-acre mixed-use community located along the Westside MAX light rail line.  In 1999, Orenco Station was named "Master Planned Community of the Year" by the National Association of Home Builders.  The Orenco Station Farmers Market started the same year.  The Orenco Station Sunday Market now has more than 75 vendors and operates year-round.  

For more information regarding the market and the Villebois community, please see www.villebois.com.