holiday markets

Granola Lab will be participating in Cobble Hill’s PS 29’s Eat Pie and Shop Artisan Market.

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Cobble Hill’s PS29′s fifth annual “Eat Pie and Shop” – to take place Sunday December 8 from 11am to 4pm – will include a Holiday Gift Fair, Pie Social and celebrity-judged baking contest, with proceeds benefiting the local school’s PTA funded arts and enrichment programs.

Home-baked Pie, $ 5 per slice

Baking Contest with Celebrity Judges

Artisan Gift Fair; Toys for Tots Donations Accepted

Professional Portraits, $ 30 per child / siblings

Free Crafts, Face Painting and PS 29 Artistic Revue

The pie competition will be an afternoon highlight, as bakers are invited to bring pies to be judged by parents and a panel of celebrity judges. The panel will include Gail Simmons,Food & Wine and “Top Chef” judge, Melissa Clark, food columnist for the New York Times, Gia Giasullo, co-founder of Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain and local restaurant owner Jeff Lederman, of Strong Place, Bocca Lupo and Nectar. The winner will receive a gift package from Food & Wine and bragging rights for the year! Judging will take place at 1:30 pm.

Local bakers – both amateurs and professionals – will supply a wide variety of pies, for $ 5 per tasting ticket. Pies will range in flavors, from fruit to creamy, savory and nut, so shoppers can come to shop, eat lunch and get dessert. To top off the pie, kids and adults are invited to try delicious frozen custard from Danny Meyers, Shake Shack. And make sure to taste holiday pies donated by local bakeries and wedding caterer and planner, Cloud Catering.

The Gift Fair will highlight local artisans, craftspeople and merchants, and promises to provide a huge variety of handmade, local and sustainable gift-giving choices, from jewelry, to exclusive eco-friendly Brooklyn clothing to handmade and classic toys from fork + pencil. More than thirty different vendors from the local Brooklyn flea markets will be displaying and selling their handmade goods.

Toys for Tots donations will be hand collected by our US Marines! Consider purchasing toys for donation from fork + pencil, who will be donating all profits to PS 29. Make gifts for granparents, uncles or cousins by changing your child’s art into a batik tote, tee or pilllow, offered by PS 29 parent owned, Hiho Batik.

And while you shop, children can make gifts the whole family will cherish by participating in free crafts or face painting or giltter tattos. Or give a smile! Professional photographers will be holding a holiday portrait studio, with all proceeds going to PS 29.

The new winter Brooklyn Flea/Smorgasburg indoor market is SO BIG and SO AWESOME that, well, we just can’t wait to move in and start selling this Saturday! We’ll have all your favorite Granola Lab flavors on hand, along with holiday gift boxes, and our maddeningly addictive cranberry-chocolate granola cookies.

The WinterFlea — love that name — is open from 10-7 every Saturday and Sunday through Christmas, and 10-6 on weekends thereafter. Our booth is in the Smorgasburg section, near Lab friends Salty Road, Queen Majesty, Cocktail Crate, and so many more. 80 North 5th in Williamsburg, BK!

Granola Lab is doing TRIPLE duty on Sunday (12/8). In addition to the WinterFlea, we’ll be at Eat Pie and Shop at Cobble Hill’s PS 29 and the Slow Food Show at the Astor Center.

Who wouldn’t want to eat pie whilst shopping for holiday gifts? The parent-organizers of this annual event will make sure that plenty of flavors are available to satisfy every taste. In addition to all our granola wares, we’ll be selling some amazing winter scarves, hand-knit by my very talented mother. I’m not just saying that! Her work is beautiful; each wool, cotton, or acrylic scarf knit in a complex pattern and lovely color.

The Third Annual Slow Food Show is “a showcase of local food entrepreneurs who are small-scale and hands-on, sharing a commitment to good, clean, and fair food.” So slow it down this Sunday and join me at the Astor Center, 399 Lafayette Street, from 1-5 pm.