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Market Sponsors

We offer our sincere gratitude to the following Market Sponsors for their support:

2011 Market Donors

And to the following donors who so graciously donated in 2011: 2011 Donor List

Sponsors & Donors

If you’re reading this, you probably agree that the St. Helena Farmers’ Market is a community treasure.  With community support, we have been able to maintain a vibrant market for twenty-five years! Your generosity makes it possible for us to have music at every market and biweekly cooking demos by local chefs and food writers—and tastings, clowns, and face painting on occasion.  Our new educational outreach to schools, through our non-profit wing, couldn’t have happened without donations and market sponsorship.

Our volunteer board works hard and exercises careful fiscal management, but we cannot survive and grow without your support.

We’re not picky.  We’ll gladly take anything you offer. Here are the donor and sponsor opportunities:

  • The Mulch Group ($5 to 99) —You’re a large group who we count on to nurture the Market and keep it running.
  • The Red Wagon Group ($ 100 to 249) —You’re a dedicated Market-goer who wants to make shopping more fun and easier for everyone.
  • The Saffron Group ($ 250 and up) —You’re as treasured as gold.  You’re one of those people who really dig the Market and want to make sure it is one of the Bay Area’s best small markets.
     
  • Seasonal Sponsorship ($ 750 or $ 1,000 per season) — a chance to help keep the Market a happening place—and give your business some visibility.  Sponsor Benefits include a reserved parking space at every Friday market, promotion of your company on market signage, website and fundraising events and promotion of your company literature at the market's General Store. For $1,000 sponsorship you will also receive a booth at the market for 2 days per market season (market product rules apply) and a wine tasting/star gazing evening for a party of up to eight at the Jaffe residence/observatory. Scroll down for contact information on becoming a sponsor. 

We are committed to helping our community learn about the benefits of eating locally grown and sustainable food products. Many of our programs are for children. Here are some of the programs your money will help keep going:

Educational Outreach Programs (Approximate Cost: $10,000)

  • School Outreach: School-aged children are a crucial audience for our educational outreach efforts because engaging them directly with tasty and nutritious food is the first step in establishing a pattern of improved eating as adults. For real, long-term change in our food system, we must help to create the next generation of thoughtful food consumers. Throughout the school year the Farmers’ Market has assisted in providing engaging and thought-provoking nutrition education, hands-on cooking, and “meet-the-farmer” classroom visits. 
     
  • Market Classroom: Local primary and elementary students were invited to visit Amanda Tuttle, our educator, at the market for short lessons on nutrition, what's growing now, and our five senses, which ends with a market scavenger hunt. This May, local classes attended “A Seed's Story”, a new program that explores the journey of fresh vegetables, from seed to table.
  • Expanded Educational Programs: A greater outreach to food insecure families in our community, and a Farm to Cafeteria Program working with our public schools are also goals for the St. Helena Farmers’ Market.
  • 2011 “Eat our Veggies” Art Competition: Fifty Grade 3-5 Students from four St. Helena
    Schools participated in the annual “Eat Your Veggies” Art Competition providing a creative    
    platform for the discussion of healthy eating.
  • A “Seed- to-Table” Journey: Our market, under the guidance of the Culinary Institute of
    America's young chefs and growers, took the St. Helena High School food science class on a
    Seed-to-Table journey. In the classroom, high school students and CIA students germinated
    seeds and then planted the seedlings in the ground. This project concluded with a Chef’s Demo
    by CIA students at the market.

Online Classroom:  
We are adding educational materials to our new website and newsletters, which include classroom activities and lessons about nutrition, farming, and healthy eating.  Approximate cost: $1,500

The Chefs' Table:
An ongoing program that needs your support.  Each chef's demo costs about $150.  We are planning two demos per month this season, which will cost $1,800.

Special Event Sponsorship:
Educational tastings and programs add richness and fun to the market. Approximate cost: $300/event (approximately 5 events per season)

To be a Sponsor, please contact:
Gary Jaffe This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Norm Mitroff  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

You Can Make Your Donation Here

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Every little bit helps!
Thank you.

The St. Helena Farmers’ Market is a 501 (c) (3) Charitable Organization (tax ID 35-2367794) so your donations are fully tax deductible.