WCM In Online & Other Media

 

This page will feature links to stories about our market from other media outlets besides local daily newspapers.

 

• September 21, 2008
  Nina Camic gets the behind-the-scenes tour of WCM's latest addition: Josie Pradella's TerraSource Gourmet Chocolates, based in Madison. You cannot miss Josie's purple tent Saturday mornings.
  http://ninacamic.blogspot.com/2008/09/when-times-are-tough-theres-always.html


• September 17, 2008
  The Espes and their Hawks Hill Elk Ranch are featured in 77 Square from The Capital Times.
  http://77square.com/food/features/story_305299


• September 13, 2008
  Nina the blogger/neighbor/shopper transmogrifies into author/celebrity/entrepreneur while sporting a fashionable green belted raincoat with a Parisian flair at early morning WCM. Be sure to check out Doug Moe's Wisconsin State Journal column about Nina that she links to.
  lhttp://ninacamic.blogspot.com/2008/09/loud-rooftops-and-sagging-umbrellas.html
  
  
• September 8, 2008
  Bloggger Nina Camic finds Dreamfarm just as you'd expect.
  http://ninacamic.blogspot.com/2008/09/for-love-of-goats.html
  
  
• July 19 & August 2, 2008
  What? You haven't bookmarked Nina's blog yet?
  http://ninacamic.blogspot.com/2008/07/celebrating.html
  
  Beautiful day in the neighborhood (scroll way down).
  http://ninacamic.blogspot.com/2008/08/wings-and-local-things.html
  
  
• July 15, 2008
  Nina Camic goes out of her way to praise (and photograph!) Sugar River Dairy.
  http://ninacamic.blogspot.com/2008/07/from-sugar-river-dairy.html
  
  
• July 15, 2008 Wisconsin State Journal
  Corn delayed, Sandy Kallio reports. Story contains interview with manager.
  http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/entertainment/296325
  
  
• July 14, 2008 Capital Times
  "Foodies go crackers for Potter's"
  http://www.madison.com/tct/mad/entertainment/296119
  
  
• July 12, 2008
  Blogosphere hatches another site. Meet Sara Ziemendorf.
  http://www.wisconsinnative.com/blogentry/19370-fresh-farm-food-abounds
  
  
• June 21, 2008
  WCM proclaimed June 21, 2008 Statz/Gassen Family Day. View the photos and read the proclamation honoring this WCM vending family.
  ../library/statz_gassen_tribute.pdf
  ../photos/statz_gassen_tribute/statz_gassen_tribute.html
  
  A trip to the Market is all in a day's play for biker dame Nina Camic. Check out her portrait of Jean Statz (in the blue plaid shirt).
  http://ninacamic.blogspot.com/2008/06/adjusting.html
  
  
  
• May 24, 2008
  In her What Geeks Eat blog, Vanessa continues to feed her family with fabulosity.
  http://www.whatgeekseat.com/wordpress/2008/05/26/what-i-bought-at-the-market-and-the-egg/
  
  
  
• May 2, 2008 Isthmus
  Nick Kirch of Blue Marble Dairy is featured in this week's Isthmus cover story. A WCM mention: "Between mid-April and early November, a growing customer base also flocks to his booth at the Westside Community Market in the parking lot of the Hill Farms Department of Transportation building."
  http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=22500
  
  
  
• April 19, 2008
  The Market and Nina are good neighbors.
  http://ninacamic.blogspot.com/2008_04_01_ninacamic_archive.html
  
  
  
• April 18, 2008
  WCM board member and neighborhood raconteur Barry Orton personally invites you to the market.
  http://www.waxingamerica.com/2008/04/farmers-markets.html
  
  
  
• April 16, 2008
  Interactive farmers' markets preview by Sandy Kallio and colleagues at Wisconsin State Journal. WCM is on the regional map with green dots. Ran in printed WSJ Taste section Wednesday, April 16.
  http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/entertainment/281689
  
  
  
• Early November (last 2007 market)
  Farmer to Nina: What I like is selling the plain, simple foods, that common people buy.
  http://ninacamic.blogspot.com/2007/11/hard-work.html
  
  
  http://www.whatgeekseat.com/wordpress/2007/11/03/mushroom-galette/
  
  
  
• Later October 2007
  Thanks, Nina, for the support. Looks like an all-WCM Nina blog. The squash look familiar. Can't miss our Joan.
  http://ninacamic.blogspot.com/2007/10/winter-market.html
  
  
  
• Late October 2007
  For her part, Vanessa will miss WCM. For our part, we will miss seeing familiar WCM foods so sumptuously photographed.You will not believe this photo was taken in South Central Wisconsin, of WCM products. You will swear it is from a French travel brochure. Touché.
  http://www.whatgeekseat.com/wordpress/2007/10/23/the-season-draws-to-a-close/
  
  
  
• Early October 2007
  WCM is favorite Madison market for area businessman. Likes the free parking. Digs LMNO Pies. Writes like he speaks - with an English accent.
  http://homesforsaleinwisconsin.org/farmers-markets-strong-in-madison-wisconsin/
  
  
  
• October 2007
  "... I’ll take you for a quick sunrise run to the Westside Community Market. It’s been a while. And the colors in the morning light were pretty near perfect."
  Ditto for blogger Nina Camic's photos.
  http://ninacamic.blogspot.com/2007/10/morning.html
  
  
  
• October 2007
  Pear pastry from Tart's gets blogger going. [Ed. note: I am always amazed that Susan Young aka The Tart Lady does not sell out of tarts the first ten minutes of the market. But that might be logistically impossible.]
  http://www.whatgeekseat.com/wordpress/2007/09/26/tart-me-up/
  
  

  Pot pie at the end of a rainbow of vegetables from WCM vendors.
  http://www.whatgeekseat.com/wordpress/2007/10/02/pot-pie-of-my-dreamschicken-that-is/



• September 2007
  Wheeeeeel oooooof Fortune! Brunkow's Avondale Truckle cheese is Editor's Pick at Progressive Grocer Magazine, blogger informs. Taste it (and others) at WCM.
  http://cheeseunderground.blogspot.com/2007/09/congratulations-to-brunkow-cheese.html
  
  
  
• 2007
  One of our newest vendors, Sandra Hunter, with her Dolci biscotti, was mentioned in Isthmus earlier this year.
  http://www.isthmus.com/eats/article.php?article=6403
  
  
  
• September 2007
  ". . . the stars of today – [Future Fruit Farm's pears called] moonglows. Unquestionably. Reason to celebrate. Get some in the next weeks. They’ll make the nonfunctional parts of your life suddenly appear like a piece of cake to zip through." So says blogger Nina Camic.
  http://ninacamic.blogspot.com/2007/09/batty-world.html
  
  
  
• Early September 2007
  Eating In Place blog of Jen and Scott Lynch
  The couple will serve coffee at the WCM Information Booth Sat., Sept. 8, from 9 to 10 am.
  http://www.vidalocal.blogspot.com/
  
  
  
• August 31, 2007
  Isthmus: 100 miles, Family savors region's bounty
  by Terese Allen
  Sugar River Dairy has recently been asking Westside Community Market customers for feedback on trial batches of a new low fat sour cream. Here we learn it tested very well in pancakes.
  http://www.thedailypage.com/eats/article.php?article=8317
  (For more on the Lynch family's month-long project of eating local foods, see the Aug. 28 article under "local dailies.")
  
  
  
• August 2007
  Nina strikes again: the beet goes on . . .
  http://ninacamic.blogspot.com/2007/08/challenge.html
  
  
  
• Late July 2007
  Local bloggers muse about the Westside Community Market bounty and their favorite vendors.
  http://ninacamic.blogspot.com/2007/07/two-markets-and-airport.html
  http://www.whatgeekseat.com/wordpress/page/2/
  http://www.whatgeekseat.com/wordpress/2007/07/24/get-your-salad-on/
  
  
  
• June 2007
  Eco-friendly Dane County area blogger/mother/homeschooler is new Jen-Ehr CSA member. She's picking up a share at the farm (but you could be picking up a box at the Westside Community Market).
  http://mominmadison.blogspot.com/2007/06/first-csa-pick-up-of-season.html
  
  
  
• June 2007
  Blogger lists Westside Community Market in her top five Madison gems!
  http://seedsforthought.blogspot.com/2007/05/top-five-madison-gems.html
  
  
  
• June 2007
  Madison Magazine: "Fabulous Finds: Virtual Farmers' Markets"
  by Colleen Muldowney
  (Thanks for the plug!)
  http://www.madisonmagazine.com/article.php?section_id=918&xstate=view_story&story_id=232645
  
  
  
• May 11, 2007
  NPR's Morning Edition: "Beautiful Lilacs Tell a Tale About Climate"
  by Ketzel Levine
  (Are you a citizen scientist? Local plant luminaries interviewed, including Kay Jensen of JenEhr Family Farm.)
  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10086723&sc=emaf
  
  
  
• May 2007
  Madison Magazine: "Ultimate Local Food Trends"
  (See Bakery subhead for two Westside Community Market regulars: Madison Sourdough and Potter's Crackers.)
  By Nancy Christy and Neil Heinen
  http://www.madisonmagazine.com/article.php?section_id=918&xstate=view_story&story_id=231889
  
  
  
• April 30, 2007
  "Blog Post Outsourced!" Madison blogger/economist Tom Bozzo likes LMNO's pie bites. See asterisk footnote at end of entry.
  http://atbozzo.blogspot.com/2007/04/blog-post-outsourced.html
  
  
  
• Late April 2007
  Local anonymous blogger likes LMNO Pies, Holzman Honey at Westside Community Market.
  http://forwardourmotto.blogspot.com/2007/04/lmnopies.html
  
  
  
• Late April 2007
  Susan Young of Tart's (aka The Tart Lady) strikes again [ed. note: if you think this picture is cute, check out the spread on her WCM table!] Dialup users will experience an-tic-i-pa-tion on this photo-heavy blog.
  http://www.whatgeekseat.com/wordpress/2007/04/29/what-weve-been-eating/
  
  
  
• April 27, 2007
  Isthmus's Jason Joyce's face-to-face interview with new vendor Bruce Workman of Edelweiss Creamery is online. Focus is big wheels of Emmentaler.
  http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=6460
  
  
  
• April 20, 2007
  Check out Barry Orton's comparison of two Madison farmers' markets: the Westside Community Market and Dane County Farmers' Market on the Capitol Square. Barry is on the WCM board of directors and is a westsider.
  http://www.waxingamerica.com/2007/04/spring_is_here_.htm