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This event is likely to be rescheduled for Fall 2020. The Common Market is excited to collaborate with Community Partner, Rod’s Sharpening Service, to offer an on-site knife sharpening event. Rod’s Knife Sharpening Service extends the life of your knives, scissors, and gardening tools, providing a local solution to preventing dull knives from ending up in […]
This event has been rescheduled for June 28th. Sign-up here! Join us for a fruitful tour of edible and ecological landscapes while learning how to successfully create abundant landscapes with little to no maintenance. Food forests, mushrooms, swale gardens, living willow structures, hügelkultur beds, herb spirals, kiwi arbors, pawpaw groves... and a circular strawbale home. […]
This event has been rescheduled for Wednesday, July 22nd from 6:30- 8:00pm. Sign-up here! Do you suffer from chronic stress, anxiety, or frequent negative moods? Are you looking for self-care tools to help you cope and re-center yourself after stressful experiences? Join Jenna Rucker, licensed acupuncturist, to learn acupressure points for relieving emotional stress and […]
A whole foods way of eating gets us in touch with the basics of healthful eating. Join us and discover a “no-diet” approach to eating that emphasizes the simplicity of eating real foods. You will walk away from this class with a deeper understanding of what whole foods are, what role processed foods play in […]
Would you like to learn how to grow the cut flower garden of your dreams? Join us for a field trip to Hidden Ridge Farm! Local grower and supplier of bouquets sold at the Common Market, Melane Kinney Hoffmann, will provide practical growing tips for what works in our region and how to succeed using […]
Home grown mushrooms are the tastiest! And fortunately, one of the easiest foods to grow in your landscape. Join edible landscape author and designer Michael Judd in learning the step by step methods to growing and harvesting gourmet fungi right outside your door! Michael Judd has worked with agro-ecological and whole system designs throughout the […]
Have glass bottles you need to return from South Mountain Creamery? Join us Thursday, May 14th in our side lot from 3-5 pm to deposit your bottles! You'll receive $2 per bottle deposited from a staff member. Just place your bottles in an available crate in our side parking lot! See you then.
This program is designed to provide a general overview of what plastics are, how they have evolved, and the pros and cons of this complicated class of materials. Participants will learn which plastic materials can be recycled in local programs, why some are difficult to recycle at all, and offer steps that can be taken […]
Come join us as we learn all about kombucha history and the science behind the brewing and fermenting process! This will be an in-depth, hands-on learning experience and there will be plenty of time for questions. We will make our own delicious kombucha infusion and you will take home all the necessary ingredients to keep […]
This event has been rescheduled for Wednesday, September 2nd. Please sign-up here! Are you curious about Home Funeral and Green Burial practices/options in Maryland? Caring for loved ones in the dying time at home, even a generation ago, was the way families traditionally made their farewells. This age-old wisdom is available to us today. The […]
Join us as we learn various ways to address lyme disease and accompanying co-infections with Dr. Sue Williams! Dr. Williams grew up in Iowa and earned her BA in Psychology at the University of Iowa. She is a 2001 graduate of the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe, Arizona. She specializes in, and treats […]
This event has been rescheduled please signup here! America’s largest native fruit grows abundantly throughout the Mid-Atlantic region and is easily cultivated in the home landscape for prime fruit harvests. Join edible landscape author and designer Michael Judd on a colorful and fruitful journey from seed to table Michael Judd has worked with agro-ecological and […]
In an effort to encourage social distancing, your co-op’s Board of Directors will meet virtually on Thursday, May 28th at 6:00 p.m. In the absence of an in-person meeting, the board is inviting interested owners who wish to join in virtually to contact Megan Schneebaum, Board President, at Board@commonmarket.coop by noon on Thursday, May 28th. […]
In this class, attendees will learn fall prevention and balance strategies from a certified Fall Prevention Physical Therapist. This includes the most common causes of falls, why movement is essential, and how the vestibular system in your inner ear is critical to balance yet rarely addressed in treatment. Attendees will also identify their balance deficits […]