Plenty more Peas available, and Father's Day drawings to enter!!

Dutch Roost Farm just checked the garden, and her peas have exploded with sweet, crunchy pods, so snatch them up before we close tonight at 9pm!!

And Pumpkin Patch has the first early spring raw Honey of 2020 to offer us! Primarily from Locust or Acacia tree nectar, this is a light colored, delicately flavored treat – considered the premier Midwestern honey!!

Plus enter our Father’s Day drawings for a chance to win one of several great combos – burgers and brats with buns, ground beef and seasonings… The lucky winner will be drawn on Father’s Day for pickup the following Tuesday!!

Any customer who places an order June 9th to June 20th is eligible to enter themselves, their fathers, or their favorite father-figure in the drawing!! Be sure to mention the name of the person you’re entering on the Comments section of your order, so I enter the correct names!!

Good Luck, happy shopping, and thank you for your continued support of our local Market!!

Cherry St Local farmers market Today!!

Head to downtown Troy for opening day of the Cherry Street farmers market!!

Open til Noon!! Everyone from Mucci’s Sweet Treats and McGuffey Herb and Spice Co. to Simple Living Farm and Becky’s Buckeye Naturals!

Quality Hay available from Chez Nous Farm!!

Chez Nous Farm in Piqua may be famous for her organically grown Raspberries, but now before her fresh fruit is ready to harvest, she has premium hay in small squares for sale – only $3.50 per 70# bale!

Committed to soil health and sustainable agriculture, Caroline’s hay fields are lush with a wide mix of pasture grasses and clovers. We were very impressed with the diversity and vibrancy of her fields.

Plus with the perfect drying weather we had recently, she was able to get all the hay in under ideal conditions.

Contact Caroline at 937-214-3371 or cheznousfarm@gmail.com for more information!

Glad to be BACK!!

So happy to be back from our break, and with exciting new products, such as

Certified Organic chicken from Michael’s Pastured Poultry!!

Peas (aka Garden Candy!) from Dutch Roost Farm!!

And watch for several different drawings to enter later this week for our Father’s Day Giveaways!! Meats from all your favorite vendors and something perfect to go with ;-). Details to come!!

Morningside Meadows bouquets!!

Fresh flower bouquets again available from Morningside Meadows Flower Farm in New Carlisle!!

Filled with fragrant peonies and lots of color, these beauties are sure to brighten your table, a friend’s face, or your disposition!! ;-)

Honey, Chicken Breasts, Bug Spray and more!

Troy’s Pumpkin Patch now has more delicious raw Honey, in quarts and pints, back on the Market, along with their pure, beautiful beeswax!

And King’s Poultry has additional non-gmo boneless, skinless Chicken Breasts for sale!! 15% off by the case!!

Plus Becky’s Buckeye Naturals brings back one of her most popular Shave Soap scents – Lime Bergamot – as well as her Frankincense Sweet Orange Soap!

And Naturals by Diane has several Summer essentials to check out – After Sun Spray, Bug Spray, Hand Sanitizer, and more!

Remember we now close on Saturdays at 9pm :-)

Hard to believe May is almost over – even harder watching those little tomatoes and cucumbers in the garden plump up every day and waiting patiently! Summer will be here in full force before we know it!

Closing just next week!! And Piqua Farmer's Market TODAY!!

The Market will NOT reopen for orders after pickup this Tuesday, June 2nd!!

We’ll be Closed for One Week Only, and reopen Tuesday June 9th!

And exciting news today – the Piqua Community Farmer’s Market opens this afternoon!! Yay!! 3-6pm on High Street (in front of the Library) in downtown Piqua!

Visit their website www.piquafarmersmarket.com for changes to the Market, current vendor list… And please be patient with vendors and fellow customers as we all do our best to follow current regulations and recommendations :-)

And don’t worry if you looked for Grumpy Goat Experiment on the Market this week and panicked because the Cinnamon Raisin Bread wasn’t listed – they’re taking this week off to catch up on the farm and get their hay in, but they’ll return when we open for orders June 9th! :-)

Welcome Hidden Springs Farm!! And Congrats to...

Tonight we welcome Hidden Springs Farm of Troy on the Market, with their pasture raised, organically fed Chicken Eggs!!

And Congratulations to our next Refer A Friend winner…

Nancy Johnson!!

New to the Market? Here’s how it works – when someone drops your name at Market pickup as the person who told them about our Virtual Farmer’s Market, your name is entered in our monthly drawing for a $10 Market gift certificate!! No expiration date, and good on any purchase!!

Good luck, keep those referrals coming, and enjoy our taste of Summer while it lasts :-)

Sourdough Pizza Crusts and Creativity

We vendors are trying to be creative when we’re unable to order our regular supplies, packaging, and ingredients. Case in point… 6635 StudeBaker has been unable to source the organic yeast she needed for her pizza crusts, so this week she’s offering Sourdough crusts instead!

And I don’t know of a meat vendor who isn’t feeling the effects of the insanity of the meat industry right now – with the closing of the regular avenues to sell off their livestock, more livestock farmers needing to take their animals to the local butchers instead is creating an incredible back up – for those of us who used to be able to call and schedule a hog or cow within a couple weeks, I’m now talking to producers who cannot get an animal scheduled before December, March, or next summer!

The Market has always been in a unique position. Because we’re a Retail Food Establishment, we must require our meat and egg vendors to hold a license which then allows them to sell through the Market. There are more local beef farmers, and small chicken flock owners, who contact me about joining the Market than any other type of vendor (other than crafts!!) and yet very few have been willing to do what it takes to actually become a vendor, or it isn’t cost effective for them when their small flock would only enable them to offer, say, a couple dozen eggs a week.

For example, our newest vendor, Mark Gibson of Hidden Springs Farm, will soon offer organically fed, pasture raised chicken eggs with us, but we have been working with Mark for over a year before he received his license last week and is finally ready to join us! Patience is certainly not my strongest attribute, but it’s true that good things come to those who wait :-)

And our purpose has always been, and continues to be, offering only locally grown or crafted items – there’s simply no place for reselling on this Market. We exist to offer an avenue to local producers to sell their products without an exorbitant markup their small business cannot afford to eat, while also offering customers the widest variety of quality local products possible.

So we will continue to work for a balance in offering you the quality and variety you need and want, while holding to our original ideals of what a sustainable, 100% locally sourced Farmer’s Market can be!

And if there’s something you’d like to see on the Market, continue to email and let me know. I’ll share important updates as I can – that Grumpy Goat and Honey Creek will have more produce to offer just as Simple Living’s offerings will be limited as their CSA program begins. Or that King’s Poultry has expanded their operation to meet demand, and Michael’s Pastured Poultry will have more Certified Organic chickens and cuts available in June!

I don’t know about you, but I am sure ready for sunshine, summer, and all the bounty it will bring!!

Thank you for your continued support :-)

We're Open for Orders!

Welcome Back!

Congratulations to Terry Purke and Sean Hydrus, the Winners of our Veterans Bouquet giveaway!!

And Welcome Back Mucci’s Sweet Treats with all her candies, cookies, brownies and more!

Short and sweet tonight, so I (almost) will open up on time! Whew! ;-)