We have some surprises in store for you this season! The Second Friday of each month will continue to be our KSEE Concert Nights with: The Brad Wilson Band, Rockville, Joe Lenigan, 51 Aces and The Marie Wilson Band. On those nights we will be including ArtHop on Pollasky in the block south of Fifth Street. This will also include Food Trucks from around the Central Valley!

We have two new organic farms participating in the market – Ferrer Farms and Blossom Bluff Orchards, as well as Benzler Farms from past years. Returning this year are some of our favorite growers: Shasky Farms, Sumner Peck, Smiling Oranges, Top of the Hill and Paloutzian Farms (to name just a few!). In our specialty area we have Glacier Bay Shaved Ice and Scoop’s famous ice cream returning, and new vendor Butternut Baking Co. joining our regular crew of amazing, tasty gourmet and specialty vendors.

For our concert series we have crowd favorites lined up! To see a complete list please visit our Band Page. Remnants will be playing two market nights, as well as Country Love, Morgan Canyon Band and new to the market, Country & Wolves. We are definitely going to “TURNIP THE BEET” this year at the Old Town Clovis Farmers Market!

Cooking teams of up to four are welcome. A small fee of $25 per cook is charged, which helps to make up the “purse” for the Grand Cash Prize. Amateur and first time cooks, professional cooks, and “juniors” are all welcome. Learn from the pros! It’s a great hobby!

Period Artisans will be on hand to demonstrate the skills and arts of the era, including lacemaking, rug hooking, blacksmithing, saddlemaking etc. Music, food, entertainment and Dutch Oven cooking!

Cowboy poets needed as well! If you’ve got a poem, come read it at the event!

Tickets are available for food sampling. You can purchase them below via Paypal at $10 per ticket, or you can purchase them in Old Town at Heart’s Delight, Bear Creek Gifts and Fifth Street Antiques.

Follow us on Facebook for more information, or call the office (559) 298-5774 with any questions you may have.

Applications are available here.

Valley Wine Lovers – presale tickets are now closed!

This event will be held on Saturday, May 4th, 2013 from 5pm-8:30pm in Old Town Clovis! We have some great wineries lined up for you including Twin Poms, Simonian and Ficklin for our sweet wines; Farmers Fury, JK Wines, Jackson DelGrillo, Robert Hall, Black Box Shiraz and Tolasa Winery from Paso/SLO; ApCal, California  Honey Wine, Cook’s Sparkling Moscato, Engelmann, LoMac, O’Neill Vintners, Ramos Torres, Rex Goliath, San Joaquin, and Sumner Peck  are our locals and Dubacano from Mexico.

Enjoy a beautiful spring evening in Old Town’s  welcoming atmosphere you’ve come to enjoy year after year — this is our 7th Wine Walk!

Day of the event: $30 each (no exceptions)
Limited tickets will be sold the day of the event so buy early!

They are available for purchase here (through Paypal) up until midnight on Friday night, and also at The Old Hotel Bistro & Hearts Delight, Dave Shivers State Farm Agent, Fifth Street Antiques and at Bear Creek Gifts .

Participants who purchase tickets through Paypal will be put on a “Will Call” list – you will not receive actual tickets. For questions please call the office at (559) 298-5774.

Proceeds benefit Clovis Kiwanis Scholarship Foundation and BOOT’s Scholarship Fund.  Thank you to Wawona Packing for storing and cleaning our wine glasses; Best Party Rentals for washing and pressing our linens and to Constellation Brands for the donation of wine for our event!

We have a great line up of wineries and more to come! We are asking our Old Town restaurants and caterers to participate in the providing of food sampling. Pollasky between 4th and 5th will close at 4PM for the event.

Find the application on our website here.  New Vendor deadline is May 1.

Put on by Cora and Bill Shipley.

This sweeping law proposes to amend multiple areas of the civil and government codes to create a new protected class of individuals and confer them a wide variety of “rights,” including the right to access and occupy virtually any public space in the state, including sidewalks, parks, bus stops and plazas in our Downtowns, shopping center common areas, and even foyers of office buildings.

The bill specifically prohibits property owners and managers, business owners, BID agents, and security contractors from “restricting homeless individuals from moving freely in public spaces,” and would prevent “unreasonable searches and seizures” of personal property including removal of tents and searching of bags if the action is based on the “perceived housing status” of the individual.

As the Sacramento Bee editorialized, this bill would create a “nightmare scenario” wherein businesses are powerless to remove homeless individuals from impeding their daily activities. Here is the Bee editorial, “Ammiano bill on homeless is an embarrassment (01/05/2013).”

We are already working with a coalition of business groups, property owners, small business advocates, and local government groups to explain how this bill will negatively impact public spaces in the state. Although it is extremely early in the process and the bill has not been assigned to committee, grassroots contacts are already underway to leadership offices.

The L.A. Times has also weighed in, stating in its own editorial entitled “Homeless rights bill is wrong (01/11/13),” – “Ammiano’s bill is part of a heated debate that has been underway in cities for many years: how to balance the rights of homeless people who are down on their luck or mentally ill or drug addicted against the rights of residents and business owners to clean streets and safe, habitable neighborhoods.”

At this point we ask that all of our members be aware of this bill and take any opportunity you can to educate policymakers at the local and state levels about the difficulties we already face keeping our properties clean and safe.

• June 28 – The Raisin Party!
• July 19 – The Peach Party!
• July 26 – The North American Pole Vault Championships!
• September 27 – The Pistachio Party!

Check back often for the Band line-up and other special Farmers Market news!

Cooking teams of up to four are welcome. A small fee is charged per cook which makes up the “purse” for the Grand Cash Prize. First time cooks, professional cooks and amateurs and a junior division – all are welcome. Learn from the pros! It’s a great hobby!

Period Artisans will be on hand to demonstrate the skills and arts of the era, including lacemaking, rug hooking, blacksmithing, saddlemaking etc. Music, food, entertainment and Dutch Oven cooking!

Cowboy poets needed as well! If you’ve got a poem, come read it at the event!

Tickets will be available in April for food sampling. They’ll be sold online with Pay Pal @ oldtownclovis.org and at Hearts Delight, Bear Creek Gifts and Fifth Street Antiques, all located in Old Town.

Follow us on Facebook for more information, or call the office (559) 298-5774 for Cook applications.

This is the first of four shows we will be having in Old Town this year. Two are Antiques and Collectibles (March 24th & September 29th) and two are “Glorious Junk Days” (May 26th & October 20th) . . . .the Glorious Junk Days are more “relaxed” and we accept dealers with flea market finds, repurposed items, “shabby chic” and newer items than the traditional Antiques & Collectibles Fairs. The price to participate in the GJDs is reduced and application forms can be found on our web site under Vendor Event Applications.

Dealers: we’ll have coffee brewing and donuts ready for your early morning arrival! Please line up on Pollasky facing North, south of Bullard. Please DO NOT enter the area from any other direction. Check-in is at Bullard and Pollasky only. We promise to get you through quickly!

For the Public: in addition to hours of shopping, our food vendors will be there to serve you! We’ll have something for everyone . . . hamburgers & corn dogs, pizza, Mexican food, tri-tip sandwiches, kettle corn and shaved ice! Many of Old Town’s stores and restaurants will be open as well.

One of the best features of this event is the free appraisals offered by Kathy Osterberg-Sobelman starting at 9am to 11am and from 1pm to 3pm at our Information booth, located near 433 Pollasky Avenue. Bring your one item for a free appraisal! This is a great opportunity to have an item you value checked out to see if it has “worth” beyond a sentimental value! Kathy will tell you the history of your item and is a walking encyclopedia! Don’t miss this great experience!

Let’s have a great Fair!
Sunday, March 24th
8AM-4PM