– SPRING PLANT SALE –
Veggie and cut flower garden transplants (tomatoes and more!), annual & perennial herb plants, and native plants! Plants that are locally and organically grown!
For those doing their regular produce shopping, this week you will find CARROTS, PARSNIPS, ASPARAGUS, green GARLIC, fresh HERBS and MORE!
There will also be pastured PORK, CHICKEN, & EGGS (chicken, duck, and quail!), free-range TURKEY, herbal TEAS & EXTRACTS, handcrafted SOAPS and BODY PRODUCTS, live HERB, NATIVE, & GARDEN PLANTS, and MORE!
Check out the full vendor produce list for Saturday below, along with the recipe of the week for Ranch Seasoned Carrot Fries!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Spring Plant Sales: April 19th and 26th, (and into May) our vendors will be bringing a variety of plants for your garden and landscaping! Veggie and cut flower transplants (tomatoes and more!), annual & perennial herb plants, and native plants. You will find plants available when shopping with Bumblebee Meadows, Edge of the World Farm, Lionhearts Homestead, Deerhoof Gardens, and Four Dog Farm!
Spring Vendorpalooza: May 10th, 17th, and 24th – Local and handmade products fair! Visiting vendors are invited to showcase their produce, foods, products, crafts, and services! Come and shop for unique local items and gifts for Mother’s Day!
VENDOR PRODUCE LIST:
Bumblebee Meadows will be at the market this week with eggs (duck, chicken and quail) and a few cottage style bouquets. The flowers are so close to blooming- we are excited! This year we are participating in the plant sale by offering cut flower starts. Have you ever wanted your own cut flower garden? If so then we have zinnias, cosmos, Agrostemma, mahogany splendor hibiscus, basil, and branching sunflowers. These are the same plants we grow for bouquets- ready to go in the ground. Stop by the booth and we will get you started on your own cut flower garden!
Edge of the World Farm will be there with herbal extracts, elixirs, creams, salves, dried herbs, herbal tea blends, room fresheners, and bug and body sprays
Four Dog Farm will have carrots, parsnips, asparagus, and possibly radishes. We will also have transplants for your spring garden: Fordhook zucchini, Early Straight-Neck yellow squash, Boston Pickler cucumber, Straight Eight slicing cucumber, Honey Rock cantaloupe, Beefsteak tomato, Firecracker marigold, and Sunspot dwarf sunflower
Lionhearts Homestead will be at market with our handcrafted body butters, body scrubs, lip balms, salves, and room fresheners. We’ll have bunches of garlic chives, parsley, mint, and spring garlic fresh from the garden. We’re excited to provide transplants for your gardens during the annual spring plant sale! We have Thai Basil, Lemon Basil, Cherokee Purple Tomato, Striped Roman Tomato, Black Cherry Tomato, Heinz 1350 Tomato, Black Beauty Eggplant, Antes Fennel, Santo Cilantro, Flat Leaf Parsley, Bouquet Dill, Garlic Chives, Shishito, Early Prolific Straight-neck Squash, Dark Zucchini Squash, and Comfrey transplants.
THISTLE DRAW FARM will have Colorful Pastured Farm Fresh Eggs – They are free to leave, They choose to stay, lay and lay, Eggs each market fly away! Free Range Turkey – Gobble up our new MANGO HABANERO TURKEY SAUSAGE! It’s sweet. It’s spicy, and disappearing fast. Don’t miss out. Pastured Pork – Boston butts, uncured bacon, chorizo, bulk mild and hot breakfast sausage, mild breakfast sausage patties, maple & brown sugar breakfast links, organ meats, neck bones, salted fatback, lard, and leaf fat. Pastured Chicken Frames – It’s not too late to enjoy the warmth and nutrition of homemade chicken soup or bone broth. There’s no better deal at $3 each. Scrub – Rinse – Squeal! It’s sudsy, creamy, lightly scented soap made from our pasture raised lard. It’s Hog Wash, a hand crafted local collaboration of Thistle Draw Farm and Toad Hollow Farm made in small batches in Pittsboro, NC.
Toad Hollow Soapery will be at the market with our small batch goat’s milk soaps, shampoo and conditioner bars, natural deodorants, laundry detergent, facial masks, men’s shave bars and more. Toad Hollow is located right here in Pittsboro and sources its own goat’s milk which is vitamin rich to help support healthy skin.