Local Farmers Markets...

[Tim Horton]

6/27/24..... Local farmers market by the river opened yesterday... A number of root veggies, edible green pea pods... A few golf ball size red potatoes.. I'm looking forward to ground cherries.. Have not had that jam in a lot of years..

Report from your area ??

 

[Amish Heart]

Ours is a little one, every Friday from 1 to 5pm. Two amish ladies are there every week....baked goods, home canned stuff. Pickles are a big seller. Eggs. Some produce is starting to come in....red onions, white onions, green beans, potatoes, broccoli, tomatoes. Some flowers, too. Little granddaughter has set up the last two weeks. Free kittens, her paintings, and eggs. She'll set up tomorrow if we can catch the remaining 5. She will also sell paintings and dream catchers. She'll be adding hot peppers and cherry tomatoes in about 3 weeks. She enjoys it. We've been bringing eggs, but no sales on them yet. $3/dz.

 

[sonya123]

we sell at the local market, well, it's almost an hour away but it's as "local" as we can get from where we live

We sell goat , lamb and some chicken, bread, veggies, fruit . It's a pretty big market so we can get decent prices and there are a good amount of regular customers. Sold about $100 worth of peaches last time, plus all my bread ( $5 -$7 a loaf)
eggs range from $4 - $6 a dozen, I sold 2 for $5 last week to catch up and make some room and sold 20 dozen
there are a lot of flour vendors and they do well, plus 3 microgreen vendors and they also do well. Not sure how well the crafts people do, I think most people come to buy food

Amish your eggs would be gone really fast at that price here

 

[lonewolf]

we have a farm shop less than 1 mile from our front door, we also have a weekly market, all our meat and eggs are produced locally none of this imported supermarket rubbish.

 

[d_marsh]

The places I go to are perhaps less farmer's markets and more roadside stands, but maybe that's just splitting hairs. I love these places and buy tons of stuff from them. Melons, fruits, veggies, eggs, etc. Plus sometimes I am able to buy canned goods like jams, pickles, kraut, peaches, etc. I will gladly spend more at these stands than I would in a store because the quality is so much better and the chemical crap is so much less. But there is definitely some trust that has to be extended buying canned goods from a stranger.

 

[lonewolf]

same here, our eggs and some veggies are from roadside stalls.
meat comes from either our local weekly market or from our local farm shop.
we can also buy veggies and meat at a weekly car boot sale-what you would call a fleamarket I think.
I havent bought supermarket meat for maybe 2 decades or more.

 

[dademoss]

The one between the north house and the horse stable isn't open yet . it won't be long though.

 

[Amish Heart]

There were 6 sellers at the market today, and two are old timer sellers (amish), and they do eggs, so I didn't even bother to bring them today. More veg out today, more than last week. Lots of bell peppers, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, squash...pretty much everything. Amish lady and her kids that were there today, I hadn't seen selling before, and she had made large garden art sunflowers on sticks, painted real nicely. Sold a few. Had some pretty table runners and hot pad holders, but none selling that I saw. I bought an angel food cake, chocolate chip cookies that we ate there, and another creamy chive bread ring...which is a local favorite. I buy one every week. I have some cream and fresh strawberries in the fridge to go with the angel food cake, so I know what's for dessert. Someone was selling fresh dill, lots of it. That was going for pickle making. Lots of sweet corn today. Was selling $6 a dz and looked really good. Green beans still out $3 a lb, tomatoes (slicing) are $3 a lb.