Northwest Crossing Saturday Farmers Market 2023

Welcome to the 2023 market season!

It’s presented, once again, by the fine people at Cascade Hasson Sotheby’s International Realty. We are so excited about our market turning 15 this year! For this community, in so many ways, we see this market as a sudden “burst” announcing the coming of summer. In our market guide, you will find all that symbolizes what we love about this special event. Our market is bursting with color, waking up our senses, reminding us that local and health and joy are only a once a weekend, Saturday, celebration away! And we can’t think of a better way to WAKE UP on Saturday mornings then to the sights and sounds of this brilliant market!

We'd like to thank our new and returning farmers and food artisans who bring healthful, regionally produced foods to our community, and to the thousands of people who come each month to support our vendors, the wonderful neighboring NWX businesses, shop for their families, and enjoy their time in at the market.

For the past couple years, since the onset of The Pandemic, communities are seeking a return to all things local and to a sense of the healthy connections that farmers markets bring. And so, we’d like to give great thanks to you, the many fine neighbors and merchants of Northwest Crossing, the solid, regular contingent of greater Bendites, and the sprinkling of tourists, who have marked this event as a weekly ritual, as we are pleased to report that this market is solid, solid, solid!

This market, and its farm-to-table way of life, has been connecting families and farmers with artisans and small business owners for fifteen years now. We love how the market brings attendees closer to their food sources, promotes healthy living, and celebrates this amazing neighborhood and its many awesome shops and businesses!

Look for fresh produce, meats, cheeses, eggs, flowers, hand-crafted items, and tasty food and drink each week. So, please join us, each Saturday, 10am – 2pm, from June 3rd to September 16th ~ we can’t wait to see you!

A HUGE

The NorthWest Crossing Saturday Farmers Market would not be possible without help from the following partners, sponsors and supporters:

2023 VENDORS

EVERY

SATURDAY JUNE 3 RD — SEPTEMBER 16 TH

FRUIT & VEGETABLES

Marquam Hill Berries

Paradise Produce

Plant it Earth

Rooper Ranch

Sungrounded Farm

The Vegetable Man Produce

Zajac Farms

Cultivate Farms

Fibonacci

Badlands Produce

Deschutes Canyon Garlic

The Bitter Juniper

Zodiac Farms

Deschutes Gourmet Mushrooms

MEAT/EGGS/DAIRY/SEAFOOD

1875 Beef

Boujee Bacon

Brandywine Fisheries

Dans Smoked Salmon

Empty Bowl

Fibonacci

Glimfeather Farms

North 44

Ono Ranch

Torstens Fine Meats

Vaquero Valley Ranch

Wild Pacific

Windy Acres Dairy

FOOD COURT

Blissful Spoon

Masa Empanadas

Simply Smoothies and Shaved Ice

The Bob

McKees Sweets

Quesabirria

Mimis Bagels

Zorba Greek

MH-11

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

Bend Food Project

High Desert Food & Farm Alliance

Hearthside Family Medicine

Mathnasium

POD52 Athletics

River Bend Kids

StretchLab

Sylvan Learning Center

Tumalo Family Medicine

NURSERIES

Centerpiece Gardens

Great Basin Nursery

Mt. View Farm

Petal Wagon

Purple Petal Lavender

Root Adorned

Sunshine Carnivores

Tumalo Lavender

GOURMET FOOD & BEVERAGES

503 Distilling

Altitude Beverages

Argo Farms

Ascend Mushrooms

Becerra’s on 6th Bistro

Bella Baker

Bend Sauce

BeRUNA Living Foods

Broadus Bees

Browny Bee Honey

Bend Simple Products

Blissful Spoon

Bohemian Roastery

Bontà Natural Artisan Gelato

Busy Izzy Foods

Catman Cellars

Coalition Tea

Compassion Kombucha

Crater Lake Spirits by Bendistillery

Dancing Jalapeno Fruit Spread

Dregs Vodka

Dry Canyon Salt Company

Farmhouse Pies

Fred Sauce

Forth Distilled Goods

Gompers

Grey Duck Ice Cream

High Peak

Isis’ Foods

Lazy Z Ranch

Limoncello and Co.

Mama Celia’s

Manuka Mana

Mission Farms CBD

Mythical Chocolate

Noosh

Not Bread

Nothing Bundt Cakes

Oh Ghee

Oregon Specialty & Wild Berry Jams

Oregon Spirit Distillers

Palmys

Plantlandia

Rawmona’s Kitchen

Rio Good

Roma Rosa

Royal Juice Company

Sakari Farms

Sand Lily Sparkling Wines

Smith Rock Nut Roasters

Sweet Valley Honey

The Aimsir Distilling Company

The Alchemical Rose

The Chocolate Company

The Doggie Bakery & Boutique

The Hummus Stop

Thinking Tree Spirits

Treeline Baking Co.

Tumalo Tea Company

Valley Wine Distribution

Wild Roots Spirits

West Coast Provisions

ARTISANS

Americana Woodworks

Bahko Eyewear

Becca Klassy Paints

Bella Threads

Bend Crafters Company

Bend Permanent Jewelry

Blossom’s Bath Bar

Blue Spruce Pottery

Branch + Barrel

Bister’s Butler

Cabin Creek Log Furniture Design

Canyon and Cove

Centered Syd Ceramics

Cold Stream Design Co.

Consciously Curly Co.

Cooper Art and Abode

Cosa Cura

Derive Jewelry

Drea Svea

El Yunque Creations

Elite Medi Spa

Fe Earth to Body

Feel Good Shorts

Fenarrio Views

Frolic on the Mountain

Genesi All Natural Skincare

Get the Camera

Glaze and Stitch

Harper Alex Designs

HeziArt

Hi kishe me

Hikerbooty

ISoMiMo

Jewelry by Imah

JonioDesign

Sam + Finn

Saturday Swimwear

Shine Mobile Boutique

South River Creative/Milisia Makris Fine

Art

Spruce Up Home & Style

Sticks and Stones Gems

Sweet Noggins

Tate & Adele

The Accessory Box Mobile Boutique

The Enchanted Forrest

The Flaming Wick Candle Co.

The Fraser Collection

The Grate Plate

The Loving Fungi

The Soap Dish

The Sugarpine Boutique

Triumph Outpost

Union Studio Metals

Via Luma

Vive Textiles

Wanderer Scrunchie Co.

Wildberry Jewelry

Wildflower Fashion

Truck

Za Zen

EVERY SATURDAY JUNE 3 RD — SEPTEMBER 16 TH PRESENTED BY

ERIN COLE-BAKER

Erin Cole-Baker was born in the USA and raised in the beach filled rural Northland of New Zealand. Her timeless, stunning songcraft is guided by her gorgeous voice, reminiscent of greats such as Patty Griffin, early Joni Mitchell and Emmy Lou Harris

Over the course of her career Erin released The Year of Hello and Goodbye (2007) as The Erins, four solo albums (Songs for Roy 2005, Talon and Spur 2009, Big Sky 2011 and Till the Feelings Right in 2018), and more recently three self produced singles born out of gathering gear and learning to record at home during the pandemic Late Summer 2021, I didn’t want to take your things (2022) and The Darkest (2022) which weaves a gorgeous bed of vocal harmony, warm electric guitar and synth, which complete her delicate acoustic fingerpicking.

MARKET MUSIC LOCAL PARTNER

HIGH DESERT FOOD AND FARM ALLIANCE

EVERYONE DESERVES GOOD FOOD

Jaymi is a young singer-songwriter who has been involved in the musical community of Bend, Oregon since she was eleven years old. Jaymi’s voice reflects folk and pop influences of Brandi Carlile, Joni Mitchell, and Noah Cyrus. She enjoys exploring various genres of music and putting her own twist on well-known pop, rock and country favorites. She also writes, records and releases her own music independently but prefers performing to producing music. Bend locals will recognize her music from festivals around town or at the weekly Northwest Crossing Saturday Market. When she isn’t making music, Jaymi can be found on a soccer field, running track or spending time with her friends.

THE BEND FOOD PROJECT SHARING

FOOD, BUILDING COMMUNITY

“1 in 7 Americans struggle with hunger. The Bend Food Project is an innovative, new way to fight hunger in our community. You want to help. We make it easy."

The Bend Food Project was started in October of 2015 by a small group of residents who wanted to help fight hunger in our area. Their mission is to build community by reducing food insecurity ~ one green bag at a time!

We are so thrilled to partner with The Bend Food Project to help bring hunger awareness to our community and provide an opportunity for them to sign up new food donors. At the last market, they shared with us that they signed up 26 new food donors which equates to around 2000 pounds of food in the upcoming year. Thank you, Bend Food Project for all you do in our community.

To find out how you can support, please visit their website for more information: https://bendfoodproject.com

What does it take to host a farmer’s market of this magnitude? It takes a West Bend Property Company, who 15 years ago began dedicating resources, staffing, and marketing/administrative support towards the vision that Bend should have a signature market outside of downtown to compliment the amazing Downtown Bend market. It takes the vision and tenacity of a decade’s worth of terrific market leaders. It takes a team of three to six operations staff, waking up at 5am closing streets, and putting the market to bed by cleaning up after the market, and in between setting up tents, tables, market umbrellas, fitting down linens, and placing key signage and zero waste stations, all into location. It takes a great market manager coordinating the pre-market vendor recruitment and registration, the marketing, and, jumping forward to onsite care such as chalking out booth spaces and greeting, warmly, some 200 + vendors with a smile at check-in. It takes a permit specialist to work with the City of Bend to make sure all i’s are dotted and t’s are crossed. It takes a combined effort between managers to procure and care for sponsors. It takes an event company owner to meddle less, and vision more. It takes a team. And this team is a great one!

Melissa has been coordinating and managing events in Oregon for the past 12 years. She has overseen events such as Munch and Music, Munch and Movies, Hullabaloo, the Bend Spring, Summer and Fall Festivals, and Clear Summer Nights just to name a few. This is her third consecutive year (5 years total) as the Market Director, and it is her pride and joy! Melissa’s favorite aspect of the job is getting up there early each Saturday, watching the Sunrise, knowing there is a fresh market on the horizon and witnessing the beauty of the streets filling up with vendors and patrons alike!

CASSIDY KING

JR. MARKET MANAGER

be part of this team and the Northwest Crossing community.

AVA KOZUB

JR. MARKET MANAGER

Ava Kozub, has been working at the market for almost 3 years. She and her family moved to Bend 5 years ago from Fresno California. She helps with setting up the tables, checking in vendors and anything else that is needed to get the market up and running. “Some of my favorite things to do are snowboarding, hiking, and hanging out with my friends.”

STEVEN WALKER

ASSISTANT TO OPERATIONS LEAD

This year marks 3 years on the operations side for the market. He was recently promoted to assistant lead manager due to his hard work and positive attitude. He has been a wildland firefighter for 10+ years and when he is not out fighting fired, you can be found working local events.

JESSICA YEOMAN

SOCIAL MEDIA

Last year, Jessi was baptized into the C3 Events family when she commandeered social media content for our market, Munch and Music free concert series and the Clear Summer Nights Concerts. She introduced Instagram and TikTok pages into these events social media presence and practiced a savvy, storytelling approach to social media. When she is not doing social media for these events, she can be found as the Market Director for the Bend Night Market on Friday Evenings!

Cassidy is 15 and an incoming sophomore at Summit High School. She has been working at the NWX Farmers Market for 3 years and really enjoys it! She has grown up in the event world and gotten to be involved in some other great events including, Munch and Music, Summer Festival and Clear Summer Nights. Her favorite thing about the NWX Farmers Market is how it really brings everyone together and is a great way to go spend your morning and or afternoon. “The NWX Farmers Market is a positive environment, and I am proud to be a part of it!”

ROB ROSE OPERATIONS LEAD

For the past 3 years, Rob has led our operations team. As a Marine Corps Veteran, he is skilled in leadership, dedication, and precision. His love for the market is shown in these attributes. Some of his favorite things are playing guitar, eating good food and he will be returning to school in the fall to focus on a degree in Computer Science.

IAN

BARKER OPERATIONS TEAM

You may recognize Ian from one of several local events he has worked since 2018. Ian is excited to be a part of this market and the inaugural year of the Bend Night Market. “Being here at the market helps to scratch the social itch developed while working from home all week!”

BRADLEY O’NEAL

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Bradley has been working for C3 events for over 15 years as an operations member, sign painter, driver, and as of 2013 as their go-to graphic designer. While he currently lives in Seattle, he is deeply grateful to continue contributing to events that help make Bend an outstanding community to live in and visit.

heather pearl, stilt walker, juggler, character

michelle majeski, steampunker scott nelson, strolling magician

One Mad Man central oregon aerial arts

victoria tolonen, director of shenanigans, steampunker