panic in the park

Is it finally here?!  Huzzah!!!

Greetings dear friends of Greenpoint Food Market!

The month of May is whizzing by right before our eyes and we MUST share our excitement for summer. The outdoor concerts, the beach, the stink of garbage and toxic waste, the sticky skin touching you in the subway, pale skins and painfully scantily dressed revelers. We. Can’t. Wait. Last month we celebrated with a Spring Awakening, this month we’ve created the theme A Picnic in the Park to share the awesomeness of warm weather in combination with some delicious foodstuffs. (thank you Skimkim for the idea!) The market is hosted by the Church of Messiah, situated right across the street from the ever beautiful McGolrick Park and we would love to see you walk in, grab some goodies and take a stroll around the park and enjoy your edible purchases. Bring a blanket, bring a frisbee, bring suntan lotion, and bring a fork!

We are too grateful and ecstatic to present a whopping 47 vendors this month, all hail from various ends of the food spectrum, guaranteeing to gratify cravings for every taste bud you possess. Below is a roster of what you’ll find, please take a moment to SPREAD the love, your kind words and anticipation is what makes this market function!

Join the facebook group, share the invite, and loosen that belt! See you May 22nd!

Ricochilito

You Can’t Eat Bread!?

Canary Yellow Kitchen

Woodside Bakehouse

Electric Blue Baking

Sweeties New York  Pastry Co.

Tempeh Brooklyn

Kombucha Brooklyn

A Park

The ABCD’s of Cooking

Dixie Spanish

Mama O’s Kimchee

Baked by Bub

Red Cook

I Heart Keenwah

Milkmade Ice Cream

Chocri

Granola Lab

Robicellis

Fanny & Jane

DP Chutney Collective

Wee Bites

Sourpuss Pickles

La Tia Faby

Bean & Apple

Sweetie Pies Brooklyn

Empanadas DPM

Lizzie Biscuits

Cobra Pate

Kings County Jerky Co.

Nuts + Nuts

Mother’s Irish Bread Muffins

Luminous Kitchen

Small Scale Foods

Pumpkin & Honeybunny

Skimkim

Janet’s Rum Cakes

Creme

Mombucha

Molly’s Chocolates

Anarchy in a Jar

Brooklyn Brine

Rapscallion Cultured Vegetables

Token Confections

Brooklyn Lyceum Spring Food & Craft Market

Biiiiiig market in Park Slope/Gowanus…

The Brooklyn Lyceum Food & Craft market was to date the largest market Mombucha’s been a part of and the crowds were thronging.

The Lyceum is a former NYC Public Bath turned performance venue and cafe, with 10,000 sf of useable space right in Park Slope Brooklyn and a terrific location right atop the subway. Our huge raw space with multiple levels lends itself beautifully to events like this, as it is both cavernous and cozy.  Cafe treats, Intelligentsia coffee, beer, food vendors, and a central location make it the perfect crafty marketplace. – BKCraftCentral.com.

The organizers placed most of us food/bev makers in the high tower of the third floor which proved to be a familiar atmosphere of fellow Greenpoint Food Marketeers.  There’s Georgie Castle of Fine & Raw Chocolate on the left.  I even got to meet Eric Childs, owner of Kombucha Brooklyn, which turned into a respectful brothers-in-arms meeting of the fermented minds.

The triumvirate of tea was well represented and even more well received.

Best thing was bartering for this awesome t-shirt from Yoko Kikuchi, owner of Tambey’s Kitchen, a maker of homemade organic cat food.  Yum and thanks!

shapeing, sculpting, and scobies

This had to be experienced to be believed – a maximo intenso workout in a hair salon infused with Mombucha.  Whuuh?

This is how it went down…

My very much in shape friend, hyper-talented hair stylist, and proprietor of The Parlour Brooklyn in Greenpoint, Nackie (below right), is old friends with a guy named Tim (below left) who’s built like a damn action figure.

Anyway, he’s a kick ass trainer and the two of them had the kick ass idea to clear the styling floor twice a week, lay out some yoga mats, and let Tim go to town on a very small group of hardcore worker-outers.

This was seriously like one of the most intense workouts I’ve ever experienced but the rewards were almost immediate.  Tim has us on our backs, hands, knees, squatting, doing push-ups, kicking, hopping, bending, curtsying and climbing all to some 160 BPM driving dance music.

Nackie’s brilliant idea to invite me down to sample some Mombucha to these health heads prior to the class (that’s Rebecca intently reading the kombucha Wiki) went off without a hitch.

I don’t think I would’ve made it through Tim’s boot camp had it not been for the sips of sunshine from those jugs.  Thanks Nack!  I’ll be back.

colour lovers

Green – White – Black

Yum.

teafecta

The flavor waves are happening in threes over here at the Mombucha labs.  Peep out the array-0, hey-o!

- The three-headed hydra of health.

- What could this many hued mystery be?

- Why, it’s Mombucha’s newest flavor, Thé Vert!  Mild and a little earthy, somewhere between the sweet ‘n mellow Thé Blanc and bold ‘n raw original Ruth’s Blend in flavor.

All three are available now.  Drop a line to mombucha@gmail.com or friend us on Facebook or Twitter and we’ll have some biked over to you lickity split.

spring a-bakin’-ing

Can’t hardly WAIT!  I’ll admit my supply is modest this go-round but Mombucha is but a mere a cog in the wonderful, whimsical machine that is the GFM.

Indulge!

Greetings friends of Greenpoint Food Market!

We hope you are staying high and dry during Spring’s glorious love showers and celebrating the season for renewal, growth, and life.

April 10th, we will present the next market with uncontainable excitement as we present SPRING AWAKENING. Join us for a hippiefied day of flowers, patchouli, butterflies and eat some vegan granola bars!

This just might be our BIGGEST market day yet, the church will be PACKED with all sorts of goodies from ice cream to pork buns, vegan pate to bacon marmalade. People’s Champs will be performing between 2 – 3pm, mixing jazz, soul, funk, hip-hop, dub and samba to create new hybrids. Fellow Greenpointer Cowboy Mark will be at the makeshift dj booth pumpin’ some beats.

It is PIVOTAL that we see you at GFM on April 10th. We thrive on your curiosity, your hunger, your tastebuds, and your support. Please go on and SPREAD the love to all your friends and family. Join our FACEBOOK group if you haven’t done so already, an event invite has been set up there as well.

And below is a full roster of vendors you’ll find sharing their homemade deliciousness at Greenpoint Food Market. YUM.

Thank you and see you then!

Anarchy in a Jar

Brooklyn Brine

Sugarbuilt

Taza Chocolate

Skimkim

Arirang Kimchi

Red Cook

Green Pirate Juice Truck

Bacon Marmalade

Marshmallow Crack

Bullfrog Eats

Creme

Electric Blue Baking

Milkmade Ice Cream

Sandwich Friend

Mombucha

Crazy, Salty, Sweet

Lizzie Biscuits

Rapscallion Cultured Vegetables

Token Confections

Sourpuss Pickles

Kings County Jerky Co.

Cobra Pate

The Soup Spoon

Regal Vegan

Bean & Apple

Morta di Fame

Creme Fatale

La Tia Faby

Fanny & Jane

Afternoon Delights

DP Chutney Collective

Wee Bites

Molly’s Chocolates

Pumpkin & Honeybunny

Banchan Terroir

Woodside Bakehouse

Goobie Dust Confections

Lidzertort Bakery

You Can’t Eat Bread?

I Heart Keenwah

Nuts + Nuts

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logolution

I’m kind of a freak about design which is why it’s helpful to have other freaky friends capable of executing label designs and such.  These came from my brain but, as everything here at Mombucha HQ, it’s a gradual, painstaking, introspective work in progress that, after 90 days, will lead to pure joy bliss filled with light.

- Hooray for the array!

- Still toying with the name of this white tea blend.  Thinking “Whitey” might work.  Any suggestions would be amazing.

- The original originals.