– SPRING PLANT SALE –
Veggie and cut flower garden transplants (tomatoes and more!), Plants that are locally and organically grown!
For those doing their regular produce shopping, this week you will find STRAWBERRIES, CARROTS, PARSNIPS, SALAD MIX, SPINACH, HEAD LETTUCE, green GARLIC, RADISHES, KALE, and MORE!
There will also be FLOWER BOUQUETS, pastured PORK, CHICKEN, & EGGS (chicken, duck, and quail!), free-range TURKEY, herbal TEAS & EXTRACTS, handcrafted SOAPS & PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS, and MORE!
Check out the full vendor produce list for Saturday below, along with the recipe of the week for Spring Mix and Strawberry Salad with Maple Vinaigrette!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Spring Plant Sales: April 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 is starting to BLOOM! Spring offers some of the most gorgeous flowers of the season and this week Bumblebee Meadows will be bringing the beauty! We will have cottage style bouquets of ranunculus, peonies, garden roses with snapdragons, foxglove, agrostemma and larkspur. The garden is awake and blooming! We will also have quail and chicken eggs. Cut flower plant starts are almost gone, so if you want to get yours, along with tomato and eggplant starts, stop by the booth!
Edge of the World Farm will be there with herbal extracts, elixirs, creams, salves, dried herbs, herbal tea blends, room fresheners, bug and body sprays, and Purple Passion Asparagus.
Four Dog Farm will have carrots, parsnips, head lettuce, green garlic, green onions, radishes & possibly salad turnips, and a variety of bagged greens: Spring mix, braising kale mix, baby beet greens, and possibly spinach. 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, Firecracker marigold, Sunspot dwarf sunflower, peppers: orange snack, poblano, jalapeno, habanero, & serrano, and TOMATOES: Big Beef, & other hybrid slicers, German Johnson, Cherokee Purple, & other heirloom slicers, Sungold cherry & Black cherry, and plum tomatoes for sauce or salsa.
Grand Hope Farm will be at market with strawberries, spinach, kale, and head lettuce.
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.