Check out what’s in store at the Queen Anne Farmers Market and Interbay Farmers Market this week.

At the Queen Anne Farmers Market:

• 4 p.m. – At the Chef Tent: Chef demo with Matt Fortner, chef de cuisine at How To Cook A Wolf (Read Leslie Kelly’s 3-part interview with Matt at Grillaxin)
• 5 to 7 p.m. – At the Music Tent: Live music by Squirrel Butter, an old-time variety duet by Charlie Beck and Charmaine “Lady Li-Lei” Slaven (Appalachian, early country, jugband and blues with banjo, fiddle, guitar, and Lady Li-Lei’s amazing dancing feet!)
• 5 to 7 p.m. – At the Talent Show Stage: Queen Anne Performing Arts hosts “Queen Anne’s Got Talent!”, a show featuring young and old from right here on the hill
• 5:30 p.m. – At the Chef Tent: Kids Cooking event with Executive Chef Anthony and Head Chef Natalie of 5 Spot
• Check out what’s fresh at the Queen Anne market this week

At the Interbay Farmers Market:

• 4 p.m. – Chef Demo with Chef Branden Karow of Ballard’s Staple & Fancy
• Check out what’s fresh at the Interbay market this week

As always the Queen Anne Farmers Market will take place from 3 to 7:30 p.m. at W Crockett Street and Queen Anne Ave N. The Interbay Farmers Market will take place from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Interbay Urban Center, located at 1819 15th Ave. W.

The Queen Anne and Interbay farmers markets will be full of festive food-related activities this afternoon at their respective locations. Let’s just hope it doesn’t rain! Check out the schedules for both market below.

At the Queen Anne Farmers Market:

• 4 p.m. – Chef Demo with 5 Spot chefs Anthony and Natalie
• 4 to 4:30 p.m. – Choir Performance with the Queen Anne Performing Arts Market Singers
• 5 to 7 p.m. – Live music by “rockin’ guitar playin’ and singin’ gal” Kate-Lynne Logan
• Check out what’s fresh at the market this week.

At the Interbay Farmers Market:

• 4 to 5 p.m. – Cooking Demonstration with Chef Dan Osser of Whole Foods Market Interbay
• Check out what’s fresh at the market this week.

As always the Queen Anne Farmers Market will take place from 3 to 7:30 p.m. at W Crockett Street and Queen Anne Ave N. The Interbay Farmers Market will take place from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Interbay Urban Center, located at 1819 15th Ave. W.

Blue skies arrived just in time for the opening of the Queen Anne Farmers Market, which kicks off its 5th season from 3 to 7:30 p.m. today, Thursday, June 2 at W Crockett Street and Queen Anne Ave N. (Watch out for drizzle though – despite the fact that it’s June, rain is still in the forecast for today).

Rain or shine the market will be bustling with over 40 farmers and food vendors, adult and kids cooking demonstrations, and live music.

Check out what’s on the schedule for Opening Day:

• 3 p.m. – Live Music: Mariachi Monarcas of Seattle, sponsored by Umpqua Bank;
• Welcome – George Counts, M.D., Market Founder & Secretary, QANRG;
  
• John Hay Elementary Chorus;
  
• Remarks by: Richard Conlin, Seattle City Council President, Senator Jeanne Kohl Welles, and Representative Reuven Carlyle

• 4 p.m. – Market musician: Vincent Mtz & the Great Blue Yonder
• 4 p.m. – Chef Demo: Seth Caswell, Emmer & Rye
• 5:30 p.m. – Kids Cooking Class

In addition to the market’s popular returning vendors, a number of ready-made food trucks will also be swinging by, including the ever popular Parfait artisan ice cream, Anita’s Crepes, Maximum/Minimus, and a few new ones including Seattle Salads (fresh salads and wraps) and Where Ya At Matt? (Creole soul food). Check out the full list of vendors this year here.

Looking to stock with fresh eats at the market today? Here’s what’s fresh at the market this week: asparagus, spinach, spring greens, peonies, red rhubarb, organic herbs, and more.

Season sponsors include Metropolitan Market; Umpqua
Bank; Rene Stern, Windermere Real Estate; and HomeStreet Bank.

There are only four weeks left of the Queen Anne Farmers Market, so make sure to swing by before the season’s over! Here’s the lineup for today’s market:

• 3 to 5 p.m.—Live Music
• 4 p.m.—Chef Demo by and Book Signing with Tender: farmers, cooks, eaters author Tamara Murphy
• 5 p.m.—Kids’ Cooking Class with Hsiao-Ching Chou, of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution-Seattle
• 5 to 7 p.m.—Music by Troupeau Acadiens (Cajun dance music with Virginia Hand, Claudia Anastasio, Chris Russ, and William Sansbury)
• 6 p.m.—Cooking Demo with Angelica Lenning of Angelica’s Chef Service

The featured nonprofit at the market this week is the Sacred Heart Shelter. As always, the market will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. on W Crockett Street, at Queen Anne Ave N.

It’s tomato day at the Queen Anne Farmers Market this week! Check out the lineup:

• 3 to 5 p.m.—Music by James O’Keefe
• 4 p.m.—Chef Demo with Kathleen Andersen Ramm of Senor Moose
• 5 to 7 p.m.—Music by Vince Mtz. & The Great Blue Yonder (at the west end of the market)
• 5 p.m.—Cooking Demo with Leslie Kelly of Whining & Dining
• 6 p.m.—Book Signing with Dining in Seattle: Past & Present authors Andrea Lott and Andrea Umbach
• 6:30 p.m.—Holy Tomato! Contest: Judges will be handing out prizes for Best Overall, Best Savory, Best Sweet, and Most Creative (winners announced at 7 p.m.)

The featured nonprofit this week is the Alaskan Way Viaduct Project. As always, the Queen Anne Farmers Market is taking place from 3 to 7 p.m. on W Crockett Street at Queen Anne Ave N.

There’s nothing like Thursdays at the Queen Anne Farmers Market. Check out what’s going on this week:

Thursday, July 29

• 3 to 5 p.m.—Music by Tinker’s Dram
• 4 p.m.—Chef Demo with Natalie Divergigeles of the 5 Spot
• 5:30 p.m.—Special Event: Join a live taping of the food and comedy podcast Spilled Milk with food writers and authors Matthew Amster-Burton, of Hungry Monkey, and Molly Wizenberg, of Orangette.net and A Homemade Life.
• 6 to 7 p.m.—Music by Dustin James
• 6 p.m.—Gluten-Free Cooking Demo with Jeanne Sauvage of Four Chickens

The featured nonprofit this week is the Queen Anne Community Center. As always the market will be from 3 to 7 p.m. on W. Crockett Street at Queen Anne Ave N.

Are you ready for another week at the Queen Anne Farmers Market? Check out the lineup here:

Thursday, July 22

• 3 to 5 p.m. – Music by Squirrel Butter
• 4 p.m. – Chef Demo with Craig Serbousek (of Queen Anne restaurants Betty and Crow).
• 5 p.m. – Canning Demo with Canvolution‘s Kim O’Donnel and Jeanne Sauvage
• 5 to 7 p.m. – Music by Hal Merrill (pedal steel guitar)
• 6 p.m. – Cooking Demo with Chef Reinvented‘s Becky Selengut

The featured sponsor this week is the Metropolitan Market. The featured nonprofits is the Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce and Department of Neighborhoods: Queen Anne/Magnolia Neighborhood Service Center.

As always, the market will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. at W Crockett Street at Queen Anne Ave N.

The weather is expected to be a perfect 75 degrees out tomorrow—ideal farmer’s market weather, if you ask me (not like last week’s whopping 97!) Check out the lineup:

Thursday, July 15

• 3 to 5 p.m. – Music by Dustin James
• 3:30 p.m. – Kids Cooking Class with Toi Sennhauser
• 5 p.m. – Chef Demo with Conscious Feast‘s Nicole Aloni (who also happens to be the author of The Backyard Bartender and Secrets From A Caterer’s Kitchen)
• 5 to 7 p.m. – Music by Red Dog
• 6 p.m. – Cooking Demo with Jay Friedman ( Gastrolust and Edible Seattle) and Akiko Kino

The featured nonprofit at the market this week is the Seattle Children’s Theatre. As always, the Queen Anne Farmers Market will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. on W Crockett Street at Queen Anne Ave N.