The Crestline Neighborhood Market (CNM) at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Fort Worth, will open its second season on Saturday, April 18, 2015 with several new vendors and others returning from its inaugural season. Also new this year is a parish-wide Garage Sale and the Community Garden. Hours are 8:00 a.m. to noon in the parking area on Penticost Street, directly behind All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 5001 Crestline Rd., Fort Worth.
Crestline Neighborhood Market operates on an alternating schedule in cooperation with the market at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), 1700 University Drive,Fort Worth, Texas 76107-3400. Crestline Neighborhood Market is open on the third Saturday of each month from April through October, while the BRIT Market operates on the first Saturday of each month.
Among Crestline Neighborhood Market’s 2015 vendors are
- Sweet Lucy’s Pies
- MarjiGee’s Kitchen
- The Vineyard at Florence
- Hot Tamalez
- Haute Goat Creamery
- Dog House Café
- Cancun Breakfast Burritos
- Olive Girl Artisan Soap
Crestline Neighborhood Market’s Texas-based vendors will offer sustainable produce, much of it organic, along with prepared foods and other items at the monthly event. One 2014 vendor was “discovered” by a major Texas grocer while selling at the Crestline Neighborhood Market, and their goods are now carried by the grocer statewide, according to Constance Kilgore, co-chair of CNM.
On Market days, shopping will extend inside the church at St. Anne’s Bookstore & Gifts, which will be open during Market hours. This small boutique features books, Bibles and Anglican literature for adults and children, plus artisan jewelry by Fort Worth artist Alice Hanson, fair trade mission goods and items produced by women’s micro-businesses. Items support missions in Haiti, Nicaragua, Viet Nam, Peru, Indonesia, Mexico, China, Kenya and other African countries. The bookstore recently expanded its operating hours to be open weekdays from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Also on April 18, the church will host a parish-wide Garage Sale just steps away from the Market, to benefit a youth trip and the church’s summer Mission to its fully-supported orphanage and school, Amazing Grace Children’s Home and Secondary School for Girls in Awasi, Kenya. The one-day Garage Sale will take place in the driveway at 5003 Dexter Ave.
Visitors to the Market will also be able to visit the church’s new Community Garden at the corner of Dexter and Penticost, which is now under construction but is expected to be operating by April 18.
For more information on Crestline Neighborhood Market, contact Virginia Durham, 817-996-1522 or Constance Kilgore, 817-308-8045.
For more on the All Saints’ Episcopal Church Community Garden, Garage Sale, or Amazing Grace Children’s Home or School, contact Sallie Trotter, Missions@asecfw.org or 817-732-1424.