Common Market

Immune Support for Families
2023-02-11 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | Common Market – 7th Street, 927 West 7th Street, Frederick, MD, 21701, United States
We hope you can join us as we learn tips and tricks to support our immune systems during the colder months with food and supplements. We’ll learn the basics of the immune system function, nutrients that support the immune system, things that weaken the immune system and make us more susceptible to illness, and how to nourish our bodies to stay healthy. We will also get to sample some of Jaimee’s favorite immune boosting juice recipe that is sure to be a crowd pleaser!
Jaimee is a healthcare transformation advocate, assisting healthcare organizations in creating purposeful experiences for individuals, families and providers. With her background in life sciences and Naturopathy, as well as a certification in health/wellness coaching as a Holistic Health Practitioner, Jaimee has worked as a health and wellness educator, quality improvement leader and entrepreneur. She also serves as a volunteer and leader for non-profit organizations that serve the local Frederick community; and is passionate about wellness equity, especially for families of underserved and underrepresented populations.

Authentic Italian Cooking with Chef Giordano
2023-02-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Common Market – 7th Street, 927 West 7th Street, Frederick, MD, 21701, United States
Food Craft Direct and The Common Market will be welcoming Chef Giordano of La Casina Bassa in Umbria, Italy, who will be demonstrating how to create authentic pasta dishes with very few ingredients. These recipes are unpretentious, easily assembled, and loved by chefs and home cooks everywhere. In this class you will learn the secrets to creating authentic pasta dishes that you can whip up in no time.
About the instructor: Giordano was born in Rome in 1972, at twenty years old he completed his culinary studies and began working at the restaurant “Al Torrino” then “Pepe Nero” and “I Vascellari a Trastevere” all located in the Italian capital. During these years in the kitchens of Rome’s restaurants he acquired a great knowledge of the classic dishes of the Lazio region as well as of the capital, and during the same time completed a course of first level sommelier.
In 2015, Giordano with his wife Claudia opened their own place, “La Casina Bassa”. In the idyllic setting of the Umbrian hills, they manage an agriturismo (similar to a bed & breakfast) where they offer their guests beautiful accommodations, impeccable service, and naturally a culinary tasting of the local product and recipes, as well as hands on experience from pasta and bread making to distilling typical Italian after dinner liquors like limoncello or mirto.
Purchase ticket here for class on February 15th from 11am – 12pm.

Build Your Own Flower Bouquet Workshop!
2023-02-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Common Market – 7th Street, 927 West 7th Street, Frederick, MD, 21701, United States
We hope you can join us as we create our own bouquets with the help of Alexes- THE Alexes of Flowers by Alexes! In this class you will learn some professional tricks of the trade and create a beautiful flower arrangement to take home.
This class would make a great gift for you, a special someone, or maybe a Galentines Day get together!
Flowers By Alexes LLC is a locally-owned flower shop with floral designers that use their creative talent of floral design to share a love of flowers with the residents of the DMV through great design, precise attention-to-detail, and wonderfully fresh flowers.

Celebrating Black Owned Businesses Pop-up!
2023-02-18 12:00 - 16:00 | Common Market – 7th Street, 927 West 7th Street, Frederick, MD, 21701, United States
In honor of Black History Month we want to celebrate some of the Black Owned Businesses that keep our community strong.
We hope you can join us between 12 and 4pm to celebrate these great chefs, makers, and bakers!!

World Kombucha Day!
2023-02-21 12:00 - 18:00 | Common Market – Route 85, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Unit B1, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States
Celebrate World Kombucha Day with the Common Market!
Sales: (through February 28, 2023)
2 for $6 on GT’s & Health-Ade 16 oz. products
$2.29 on Live Soda
Tastings: (February 21 ONLY!)
Blue Ridge Bucha @ Rt. 85 & 7th St from 12 – 3 PM
The Kombucha Lady @ 7th St from 4-6 PM

Food for Thought and Board of Directors Meeting; Everyone Welcome! [Online; Free; RSVP]
2023-02-23 18:00 - 21:00 | 5728 Buckeystown Pike B1, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States
Your co-op’s Board of Directors will meet virtually on Thursday at 6:00 p.m. Please RSVP here by noon on that Thursday to receive your Zoom link. Your Zoom link will be emailed to you on the day of the meeting.
Early in the meeting agenda, the board reserves space to hear from owners who wish to address the board. Want to contribute to our next Board meeting? Click here and in the subject line put “Owner Comment” and let your voice be heard!
This meeting will start with our “Food for Thought” speaker series presentation! These 20-minute Ted Talk style speeches will take place at the beginning of each board meeting and highlight presenters from diverse and marginalized groups within the Frederick community. Our hope is to center different voices in order to learn about the joys, struggles, and experiences within Frederick and emphasizes our co-op principles of education and concern for community. Due to limited meeting time, there will be no Q&A but contact information and resources will be shared for follow up conversations.

Cheese Madness 2023 Begins!
2023-03-16 08:00 - 17:00 | Common Market – Route 85, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Unit B1, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States
What’s Cheese Madness? Only the fiercest fromage faceoff this co-op’s ever seen! From March 16th to March 30th, 16 delicious cheeses go head-to-head to earn your votes, but only one will be crowned the winner. Matchups include goat cheeses, bleu cheeses, sandwich favorites, and even vegan cheese alternatives! Pick up a bracket at customer service at either store location (or print one at home) and submit your filled out bracket by 9pm Wednesday, March 15. Guess the winning bracket and you could win one pound of the winning cheese along with some other gourmet goodies!

Download your bracket here!
Bracket Instructions
Step 1:

Grab a bracket from the Common Market customer service desk or download one from the link above and print at home. Look at each of the first eight match-ups and decide which cheese will be most popular. Continue selecting winners for each match-up, progressing through each round until you’ve guessed the championship cheese. Don’t forget to fill in your name and contact information, so we can get in touch with the bracket winners. Don’t forget to make a copy or take a photo of your bracket!

Step 2:
Drop off your completed bracket at our customer service desk or cheese department by 9 PM on March 15th.

Step 3:
Stop by the cheese departments to sample cheeses in our Cheese Madness tournament starting on March 16th. Sample each cheese and vote for the one you like best at the specified days and times. Can’t make it in? Vote on social media!

Step 4:
Follow along in-store and on our social media as the bracket progresses and see if your bracket matches up with shopper favorites.

Empty Bowl Queso Demo Copy
2023-03-22 | Common Market – 7th Street, 927 West 7th Street, Frederick, MD, 21701, United States
Come sample some delicious local queso! Try before you buy!

GT's Kombucha Demo
2023-03-22 11:00 - 14:00 | Common Market – Route 85, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Unit B1, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States
Sample GT’s SYNERGY RAW KOMBUCHA
Pure, Potent, and Unfiltered100% Raw, 100% Real Kombucha
That’s why SYNERGY is alive with 18x more probiotics than the next leading competitor. Perfect for new and experienced kombucha drinkers; brewed with kiwi juice to cultivate 9 billion living probiotics for improved digestion, naturally-occurring, sustained energy, and holistic physical and mental wellbeing. Present your body with clean, pure, organic ingredients and thrive with nourishing nutrients for a pulsing spirit inside. Always traditionally cultured in small, five-gallon batches with each linked to our original Himalayan Mother SCOBY. Live full of electric vitality—find your flavor, today.

Live Music: Kellin Little
2023-04-01 12:00 - 15:00 | Common Market – Route 85, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Unit B1, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States
Visit our Route 85 café and enjoy live music from 12-3! This week we’re featuring Kellin Little.
Come enjoy some delicious food and some tunes with us!

Grow Your Own Gourmet Mushrooms Workshop! [Offsite]
2023-04-02 14:00 - 15:30 | The Judd Homestead, 8955 Indian Springs Rd, Frederick, MD, 21702, United States
Grow your own mushrooms! It is easier to grow mushrooms at home than you think. You can grow delicious and nutritious culinary and medicinal mushrooms in your own garden or home (in apartments, on rooftops and patios, too!) In the workshop we will cover how to inoculate stumps, logs, wood chips, and burlap sacks while improving your garden ecology. In this interactive class you will learn the types of outdoor mushrooms that we can easily grow in our area, the conditions required and the tools you will need. The class will also cover the basics of mushroom science, how fungi functions in nature and how to work with fungi to help restore our local ecologies. The best part is the hands-on experience of inoculating a mushroom log that you get to take home!
Workshops will be outside- rain or shine, and will be a combination of theory and hands-on practice. Please wear comfortable shoes for walking and bring your own water. Whether you have a little patch of backyard or a huge property to work with, the principles you learn in this class will help make your land more diverse, productive, and ecologically friendly than ever before.
Michael Judd has worked with agro-ecological and whole-system designs throughout the Americas for over two decades, focusing on applying permaculture and ecological design. His projects increase local food security and community health in both tropical and temperate growing regions. He is the founder of Ecologia Edible & Ecological Landscape Design, Project Bona Fide, an international nonprofit supporting agro-ecology research, and co-founder of SilvoCulture, a Maryland based nonprofit which is helping plant 1 million nut trees in the Mid-Atlantic region. He is also the author of Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist, and For the Love of PawPaws.
Michael lives with his family on a permaculture homestead nestled along the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Frederick, Maryland. The Judds’ homestead consists of 25 acres of mixed woodlands, food forests, gardens, and a nursery designed for experimentation and education.
If you are in need of financial assistance to attend this class please reach out to ownerservices@commonmarket.coop

Live Music: Susanna Laird
2023-04-08 12:00 - 15:00 | Common Market – Route 85, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Unit B1, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States
Visit our Route 85 café and enjoy live music from 12-3! This week we’re featuring Susanna Laird.
Come enjoy some delicious food and some tunes with us!

Live Music: Steven Gellman
2023-04-15 12:00 - 15:00 | Common Market – Route 85, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Unit B1, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States
Visit our Route 85 café and enjoy live music from 12-3! This week we’re featuring Steven Gellman.
Come enjoy some delicious food and some tunes with us!

Plant-A-Palooza!
2023-04-15 12:00 - 16:00 | Common Market – Route 85, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Unit B1, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States
Join us for a farmer’s market style event at our Rt. 85 store to have first pick at our local flowers, plants and seedlings. Meet the local farmers behind these beauties; as well as some of our community partners focused on sustainability. Live music, activities and free samples! Rain or shine!

Live Music: Bianca Bentz
2023-04-22 12:00 - 15:00 | Common Market – Route 85, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Unit B1, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States
Visit our Route 85 café and enjoy live music from 12-3! This week we’re featuring Bianca Bentz.
Come enjoy some delicious food and some tunes with us!

Live Music: David Koronet
2023-04-29 12:00 - 15:00 | Common Market – Route 85, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Unit B1, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States
Visit our Route 85 café and enjoy live music from 12-3! This week we’re featuring David Koronet.
Come enjoy some delicious food and some tunes with us!

Loco for Local!
2023-05-20 12:00 - 15:00 | Common Market – Route 85, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Unit B1, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States

Board Meeting - Everyone Welcome!
2023-06-15 18:00 - 21:00 | Common Market – Route 85, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Unit B1, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States

Call for Candidates - Board Information Session
2023-07-01 11:00 - 12:00 | Online, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States
Interested in running for the Common Market Board of Directors!? Please join us for this virtual information session to learn about what it means to be on the Board and how you qualify.
All Owners in good-standing who are interested in running must attend at least one information session (7/1 at 11 am, 7/12 at 6 pm)
Check out the Co-op Board Application for more information.
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Board Bylaw Revision Information Session
2023-07-26 18:00 - 19:00 | Online, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States
The Board is excited to present new Bylaws for Owner approval during the next election in September! Are you interested in learning more?
View our FAQs or join a Zoom info session July 26 at 6pm and August 26 at 11am.
Our hopes are that the new Bylaws will be used by future Boards to better represent our Owners, serve our community, and develop a sustainable future for our Co+op. With full transparency in mind, here are some highlights of what the new Bylaws will be enacting:

The proposed Bylaws use more straightforward language than our existing Bylaws.
The proposed Bylaws specify that Member-Owner voting will happen via ballot, and are updated also to include electronic voting.
The proposed Bylaws clarify that the Board can include up to two Staff Owners.
The proposed Bylaws include gender neutral language to support our Co-op’s commitment to inclusivity.
The proposed Bylaws include some updated language that allows the Co-op to manage Patronage dividends more efficiently.

The Common Market would not exist without its Owners, and we are so appreciative of your care and involvement in our Co+op’s success.
Topic: The Common Market Co-op Bylaw Revision Information Session
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Board Meeting - Everyone Welcome!
2023-07-27 18:00 - 21:00 | Online, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States
Your Co-op’s Board of Directors will meet virtually on Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 6:00pm on Zoom. Everyone is Welcome.
Please Click Here to join the meeting!
Early in the meeting agenda, the Board reserves space to hear from our Owners who wish to make comments and/or address the Board. Would you like to contribute to our next Board meeting? Click here to contact our Board Of Directors, and write “Owner Comment” in the subject line! We would love to hear from you.

Wellness Demo - Garden of Life
2023-08-02 11:00 - 14:00 | Common Market – Route 85, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Unit B1, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States

Wellness Demo - Garden of Life
2023-08-02 15:00 - 18:00 | Common Market – 7th Street, 927 West 7th Street, Frederick, MD, 21701, United States

Wellness Demo - Host Defense
2023-08-09 11:00 - 14:00 | Common Market – 7th Street, 927 West 7th Street, Frederick, MD, 21701, United States

Wellness Demo - Host Defense
2023-08-09 15:00 - 18:00 | Common Market – Route 85, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Unit B1, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States

Wellness Demo - Natural Factors
2023-08-23 09:30 - 11:30 | Common Market – Route 85, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Unit B1, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States

Wellness Demo - Natural Factors
2023-08-23 15:30 - 17:30 | Common Market – 7th Street, 927 West 7th Street, Frederick, MD, 21701, United States

Wellness Demo - Nature's Plus
2023-08-30 09:30 - 11:30 | Common Market – Route 85, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Unit B1, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States

Wellness Demo - Nature's Plus
2023-08-30 15:30 - 17:30 | Common Market – 7th Street, 927 West 7th Street, Frederick, MD, 21701, United States

Holiday Tasting and Live Music with Kellin Little!
2023-11-04 12:00 - 15:00 | Common Market – Route 85, 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Unit B1, Frederick, MD, 21704, United States
You are invited to visit the Common Market Rt. 85 from 12 – 3 PM to sample house-prepared side dishes and desserts available for pre-order!
