A tasty Wolfville weekend treat!

The Wolfville Farmers’ Market invites you to its third annual Tastes of the Valley event Saturday, July 26.

Tastes of the Valley, part of Wolfville’s Mud Creek Days, is a culinary celebration of fresh local food: 20 Valley chefs use Valley-farmed ingredients to make $3 taste concoctions to tantalize your taste buds.

Participating market vendors (serving from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.) include Eclectic Palate, Gaspereau Vineyards, Getaway Farm, Gourmandises Avenue Patisserie, The Ivy Deck Bistro, Jan’s Gluten-Free, Taj Mahal, Longspell Point Farm, Maple and Ewe Farm, Pumpkin Moon Herb Farm, Shani’s Farm, and Linda’s Scottish Shortbread, Oatcakes and other Baked Goods.

Participating restaurants (serving from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.) include the ArtCan Café, Between the Bushes, Le Caveau, Just Us!Cafe, Fronts Street Café, Kellocks, Union Street Café, Cocoa Pesto Bistro.

Purchase your Taste Tickets at the market info booth across from the music stage, where you can also get a menu, map and a ballot to vote for your favourite chef. Submit your ballot for a chance to win $100 towards a meal from your favourite chef.

The chefs have an opportunity to win one of two awards: The People’s Pick and the The Panel’s Pick. A panel of judges - including Bill Spurr (feature writer and food critic for The Chronicle Herald); Glenn Ells (Annapolis Valley farmer and author) and Amy Smith (feature writer for The Kings County Advertiser) will vote for the Panel’s Pick.

As well as the featured chefs, there will be live music from the Hupman Brothers and an additional 50 vendors (artisans, bakers, cheese makers, chocolatiers, fair trade coffee roasters, fish mongers, herbalists, florists, and of course, farmers!).

The market is located at the Robie Tufts Nature Centre on Front Street, Wolfville (until the end of October, when it moves indoors to the Acadia Student Union Building).

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