– 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 MUSHROOMS, CARROTS, PARSNIPS, ARUGULA, green GARLIC, fresh HERBS and MORE!

There will also be EASTER FLOWER BOUQUETS, homemade HUMMUS, pastured PORK, CHICKEN, & EGGS (chicken, duck, and quail!), free-range TURKEY, herbal TEAS & EXTRACTS, handcrafted PERSONAL CARE 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 Caramelized Roast Parsnips!

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! We will be at the market with  ranunculus, anemones, and other early spring blooming flowers. Come early to get your Easter bouquets! We have chicken, duck, and quail eggs as well as cut flower, tomato, and eggplant starts.

Deerhoof Gardens will be at market with fresh oyster mushrooms and live culinary, medicinal and ornamental herbs, native plants and vegetable starts ready for the garden: tomato 4-packs, sage, sorrel, comfrey, snapdragon, calendula, mountain mint, bee balm and more!

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, arugula, and hopefully a small amount of green garlic, asparagus, Bok choy, radishes, and baby beet greens. We will also have transplants for your spring garden: basil, Fordhook zucchini, Early Straight-Neck yellow squash, Boston Pickler cucumber, Straight Eight slicing cucumber, Honey Rock cantaloupe, Beefsteak tomato, Firecracker marigold, Sunspot dwarf sunflower, and peppers (orange snack, poblano, jalapeno, habanero, and serrano).

Hummus Ya’ll will be coming to the market for the first time this week with hummus topped with seasoned chickpeas, cilantro-garlic chimichurri, caramelized onions, seasoned sautéed mushrooms, and roasted cauliflower.

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.