Current Hours:
Saturdays:
7am-12pm
Wednesdays:
3-6pm
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We hope you'll consider investing in our Market, in your Market. Help us ensure that the Carrboro Farmers' Market continues to be a place for our farmers and artisans to thrive and a place for our community to come together around fresh and healthy food. Click here to join!
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We ACCEPT WIC, SENIOR and SNAP/EBT benefits!
Double Your Dollars Up to $10
When You Shop
at the Market!
Spend $10 or more on your EBT card and the Market will match you an extra $10 in tokens for FREE. WIC and Senior customers that come to the Market also get matched an extra $10 in tokens when they spend over $10 with their vouchers.
Stop by the information booth for more details.
Market Match is made
possible by:
and
With additional support
from:
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Carrboro Farmers' Market Printing
Donated by
Durham, NC
The Market also receives support from
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Carrboro Farmers' Market Memorial Scholarship Fund in Memory of
Gary Murray of Sunset Farms
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Meet Our Guest Vendor
Honeygirl Meadery
Honeygirl Meadery is a small urban meadery in downtown Durham, making an ancient craft beverage for modern days. Mead is essentially wine made from honey, with many different styles that include additions of fruits, flowers and herbs. Our meads are hand-crafted libations made in small batches, using both local and global true source honey, local fruits, herbs and flowers. They are naturally gluten free. Our downtown Durham Tasting Room is open on Saturdays from
1-6pm & Sundays
1-5pm.
Strawberry mead
: This mead begins in the strawberry patch at McAdams Farm in Efland, NC. We ferment the berries with NC wildflower honey. Fresh and fragrant, light-bodied and dry, with a soft, lingering strawberry finish. Pairing notes: soft ripened cheeses, quiche, summer salads, with champagne for a mimosa.
Hibiscus Lemonthyme mead: This recipe won our first ribbon at the 2012 NC State Fair. Earthy, floral, dry- style with honey finish. NC wildflower honey, hibiscus flowers, lemonthyme. Pairing notes: herbed chicken, lemony kale salad, goat cheese
Lavender mead: This mead infuses fresh-dried local lavender flowers from Sunshine Lavender Farm into our orange blossom traditional semi-sweet mead. The result is flowery and honeyed, yet also earthy and savory. Pairing notes: roasted lamb, greek salad, lemon risotto, cheesecake
Blueberry mead: This mead has subtle plum and tart berry notes, balanced with honey sweetness. Made with local blueberries and NC wildflower honey. Pairing notes: aromatic cheeses, pastrami reuben, dark chocolate, salami
Wildwood mead: This dry-style traditional mead is made with a dark, NC wildflower honey with buckwheat, molasses and sorghum notes. It was then aged with French oak to accent the boldness of the honey. Pairing notes: grilled steak, bratwurst, dark chocolate cake
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The Market Bunch
Stop by to join!
Kids (ages 5-14) can stop by the Market Bunch
table each week to do a quick activity and earn
prizes including market bucks to spend on fresh
fruits and vegetables! Look for the Market Bunch table near the market entrance!
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Carrboro Farmers' Market gets amazing designs
& brand new t-shirts!
2017 T-shirts are now available -- stop by tomorrow to purchase your new shirt. Long and short sleeved shirts available! We have tote bags and hats too!
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The Farmer Foodshare Donation Station program collects donations of fresh food and cash from customers at the Carrboro Farmers' Market. The money is used directly at the Market to purchase food from farmers. That food is then directly donated to those who are hungry in our community. The Carrboro Farmers' Market Donation Station is partnered with TABLE, IFC Food Pantry, Immigrant and Refugee Community Partnership, and PORCH.
Look for the Donation Station at the Market on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and visit
www.farmerfoodshare.org
to find out how to volunteer!
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Food Waste Drop Off Program
Market visitors can bring all of their food waste from home and drop it off at the Carrboro Compost Collection during SaturdayMarket hours! The Carrboro Farmers' Market, Orange County Solid Waste Management, and a team of compost monitor volunteers set up a collection site for visitors to drop off compostable food waste year round, every Saturday. This isn't your run of the mill backyard compost! The Compost Collection goes to a commercial composting company, Brooks Contractor, who accepts a wide range of materials. All food scraps and food related paper can be composted at the market, including fruits, vegetables, meat, fat, bones, and dairy products as well as soiled napkins, paper towels, and plates. Look for the sign, the cart, and bring us your food waste! No plastic, metal, UPC produce stickers, or other non-compostable items, please.
If you are interested in getting involved with compost collection and education, please contact Muriel Williman at Muriel@orangecountync.gov.
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A FEW ITEMS IN SEASON:
Peppers
Tomatoes
Herbal Vinegars
New Potatoes
Cantaloupe
Eggs
Jams and Jellies
Oyster Mushrooms
Artisan Cheeses
Herbal Teas
Onions
Cucumbers
Corn
Summer lettuces
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| What's at Market? FRUITS/VEGGIES:
apples, beets, bok choy, braising greens, cabbage, carrots, celery, cut herbs like dill, fennel, garlic, green beans, onions
, kale, kohlrabi,
m
ushrooms, new potatoes, tomatoes, peas, green beans, sweet and spicy peppers, spinach, turnips, winter squash (acorn, butternut, spaghetti) sweet potatoes
MEAT
FISH, POULTRY:
bison, bacon, beef cuts and ground beef, breakfast links and brats along with various other cuts of pork, fresh chicken
,
l
amb
, l
ocal hot dogs, pork sausage, prosciutto,
v
eal cutlets and more!
DAIRY and EGGS: goat and cow cheeses, fresh and aged, pasteurized milk, kefir, and yogurt, farm fresh eggs (duck, chicken and goose) FLOWERS and PLANTS: Native and medicinal Plants, Trees, tropical plants, shrubs, and other perennials! SPECIALTY ITEMS: hard cider, bagels, baguettes, breads including whole wheat and sourdough, fermented foods, granola, honey, cinnamon rolls, hot sauces, jams and jellies, muffins, pies, pizza crusts, potted plants, pound cakes, stone ground grits, vegan and gluten free offerings, whole wheat flour, wines. Handmade craft items including woodwork, metal work, baskets, pottery, hand woven rugs, and more. |
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What's Happening at Market
Happy
Friday everyone
!
Tomorrow marks the final day of
National Farmers Market Week! We had fun serving up food samples and hearing the kids say such amazing things about CFM this past Wednesday! We know you don't need more reasons to love the Carrboro Farmers' Market, but we like bragging - so here are few more!
Farmers Markets...
Stimulate local economies. The Carrboro Farmers' Market has a 4.1 million dollar economic impact on the local economy each year!
Increase access to fresh, nutritious food. We accept SNAP/EBT (food stamp) benefits at Market ensuring that shoppers on this program have access to fresh and healthy food. Thanks to
UNC Health Care, and
Burt's Bees we offer additional healthy food incentive dollars to SNAP/EBT and WIC shoppers to help families stretch their food dollars! Through customer and vendor donations to
Farmer Foodshare, hundreds of pounds of fresh foods get to families in our community that need it each week.
Support healthy communities. Each time shoppers visit the Market, they have the opportunity to learn about new foods directly from the farmers that grew them. Also, through programming like our
Market Bunch Kids Club and educational events, food demos and tastings, the Market plays a key role by encouraging healthy eating and healthy lifestyles!
None of this impact would be possible without our shoppers! We are so grateful for the thousands of shoppers that come out each week. You all are the ones that make it such an important place.
If you want to take your support of the Market even further, consider becoming a
Market Perennial
. Market Perennials regularly make small contributions to the Market to help us fulfill our mission!
Our next market event is coming up soon...
Upcoming Events at market!
8/6-8/12/17 - National Farmers' Market week
8/19/17 - National Honey Bee Day
8/23/17 - People's Pepper Festival
Thursday 9/21/17 - Annual Harvest Dinner
See you tomorrow at market!
LaShauna W. Austria,
Market Manager
Carrboro Farmers' Market
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Gardener's Corner -
Autumn Planting
With summer now half over it's time to get the fall garden planted. Winter hearty crops like Collards, Kale, Beets, Chard and Carrots would be some of the choices available, as well as Arugula and fall Potatoes. Many crops can be started in flats and transplanted out with the exception of Carrots which can only be direct seeded. Plant carrots no more than 1/4 inch deep and keep wet until they emerge, which usually takes around 8 days. If you are thinking of growing strawberries be sure and order your plants early from the nurseries.
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RECIPE OF THE WEEK
*Greek Salad
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INGREDIENTS FOR THE SALAD:
- 1 pt. grape or cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 cucumber, thinly sliced into half moons
- 1 c. halved kalamata olives
- 1/2 red onion, thinly sliced
- 3/4 c. crumbled feta
FOR THE DRESSING:
- 2 tbsp. red wine vinegar
- Juice of 1/2 a lemon
- 1 tsp. dried oregano
- kosher salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1/4 c. extra-virgin olive oil
DIRECTIONS:
- In a large bowl, stir together tomatoes, cucumber, olives, and red onion. Gently fold in feta.
- In a small bowl, make dressing: Combine vinegar, lemon juice, and oregano and season with salt and pepper. Slowly add olive oil, whisking to combine.
- Drizzle dressing over salad.
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Backyard Edibles
Backyard Edibles will not be at Market!
I will be bringing broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, kale, collards, and herbs.
Thanks
Keith
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Chicken Bridge Bakery
Chicken Bridge Bakery will be at Market!
"With bread, all sorrows are less." --Miguel Cervantes
Farmhouse Sourdough
Multigrain Sourdough
Danish Seeded Rye
100% Rye Sourdough
Yeasted Corn Bread
Sprouted Wheat Loaves
Naan and Bialys
Gougeres
Jam Scones
Blueberry Muffins
NC Honey Pecan Granola
See you soon!
Rob, Monica, Simon and Milo
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Two Chicks Farm
Two Chicks Farm will be at Market!
This week have a great selection of ferments: Salsa, Classic Sauerkraut, Caraway Kraut, Jalapeño Kraut, Kimchi, Dill Kraut 'n Pickles, Dill Pickles, Cortido, Beet & Ginger Kraut, Jalapenos, Carrots & Ginger, and Spicy Beet Kvass, and Banana Peppers. In addition we will have Pickled Beets, Bread 'n Butter Pickles, Mild Pepper Jelly, Ginger Pepper Jelly and Spicy Pepper Jelly. As always thank you for supporting local food.
Audrey and Debbie
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Carolina Farmhouse Dairy
Carolina Farmhouse Dairy will be at Market!
100% Jersey milk, from pastured cows, whole & unhomogenized - and chocolate, too! In quarts, 12 oz, and 3 liter bottles. Yogurt, yoatmeal, smoothies, kefir, and buttermilk.
See you Saturday!
Cindy Hamrick,
Carolina Farmhouse Diary
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Box Turtle Bakery
Box Turtle Bakery will be at Market!
Selections:
-Sourdough Spelt Hearth Bread w/optional Olives or Apricots
-Sourdough Spelt and Brinkley Farm Corn English Muffins
-Sourdough Dark Rye w/optional Caraway
-Sourdough Spelt Pan Loaves w/optional Pecans
-Honey Wheat Yeast Bread (optional Cinnamon Raisin) and Rolls (Now w/Brinkley Farm Hard Red Wheat)
-100% Buckwheat or Oat hearth loaves
-Spelt Tortillas
-Butternut Squash Pecan Scones (Butternut Squash from EcoFarm)
-Sweet Corn Muffins w/Lemon and Poppyseed (Corn from Brinkley Farm)
-Dry Goods Available: Chocolate Almond Biscotti; Golden Wheat Crackers; Cracked Oats; Sourdough Oat Granola Bars w/Sunflowers and Raisins
Abraham Palmer, Box Turtle Bakery
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Laughing Spirit Farm
Laughing Spirit Farm will be at Market!
We will be at market on 8/12 with Oyster mushrooms, hardneck garlic, sweet & hot peppers, tomatoes, and maybe a small harvest of asian pears!
Melissa and Rob
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Chapel Hill Creamery
Chapel Hill Creamery will be at Market!
Lots of Fresh Mozzarella and lots of our delicious sausage and Spare Ribs
this Saturday! Our pork comes from our whey fed pigs and the sausage is made from the hams so they are meaty with spices we think you'll like. We will have Spare Ribs, Mild Italian, Hot Italian, Bratwurst, Chorizo, Mild Breakfast, Sage and Maple Breakfast links, ground pork, and a little bacon. Get our you grills for some fabulous sausage, Spare Ribs, or burgers with our flavorful ground beef. Andrea Reusing from Lantern Restaurant (
www.
andreareusing
.com) has been generous in letting us share her recipe for Spare Ribs from her book Cooking in the Moment: A Year of Seasonal Recipes. Pick up a copy when you buy some ribs.
We are making Mozzarella while tomatoes are at their peak, so get it now! We will also have fresh Dairyland Farmers cheese, Hickory Grove, and a little Carolina Moon. Add Dairyland Farmers to tomato sandwiches, cucumber salads, or Chile Rellanos. Carolina Moon which is in the family of Camembert and Brie is a rich and buttery; it's a favorite for an appetizer with figs or hot pepper jelly.
Hickory Grove Cheese is our own recipe and has a luscious texture at room temperature and is fabulous for melting. Great for snacking or melting on a cheeseburger with our beef. All our cheese comes from the milk of our Animal Welfare Approved cows, and since they are Jersey cows, we have rich, delicious milk to use for flavorful cheeses.
Portia McKnight & Flo Hawley
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Fiddlehead Farm
Fiddlehead Farm will be at Market!
Our products include:
*Granola made using locally milled organic grains.
*Jams, marmalades and jellies made in small batches using the best local and/or organic ingredients.
*Hot sauces made with our own peppers along with other fine local and/or organic ingredients.
* A variety of finishing salts and dried pepper mixes made using the same quality ingredients as our other products.
We look forward to seeing you Saturday!
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James Creek Ciderhouse/Orchards
James Creek Ciderhouse/Orchards will be at Market!
Release Day for Southern Star! Our DELICIOUS new bourbon-barrel-aged cider will be available for the first time at the market on Saturday. We'll be sampling Southern Star on Saturday which we won't do often. And we'll be giving pairs of eclipse glasses to use to safely watch the solar eclipse next Monday, Aug 21, to the first 20 customers with purchases over $25. Our small-batch, craft hard cider is pressed from apples grown at James Creek Orchards and other family farms within 125 miles of our ciderhouse. Plus we'll have fresh, crisp juicy Gala apples and maybe some European pears grown in our orchards.
Ann Marie & David
James Creek Cider House
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Turtle Run
Turtle Run will be at Market!
We are out in the Sweet Potato patch grabbing the first few picks for the year. If you have never had one of these fresh dug tubers you are in for a treat. They are savory, but not sweet and are considered a rare delicacy that you won't find once the main harvest comes in.
Along with Sweet Potatoes
we also will have
Sweet Peppers,
T
omatoes,
Watermelons, Chili Peppers, New Potatoes and Garic.
Turtle Run
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Three Waters Farm
Three Waters Farm will be at Market!
Lamb All cuts available!!
Tasty Cinnamon Buns
Hearty Cracked Wheat Bread - Stop by and try a sample!
Delightful - Goat's milk soap
Luscious - Springtime hand-painted knitting yarn!
Fabulous - Hand Dyed Silk Scarves
(We are located next to the Info booth, under the shelter)
https://www.threewatersfarm.com
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Maple Spring Gardens
Maple Spring Gardens will be at Market!
Fresh Hibiscus is here! This ruby red calyx (its not a fruit or a flower, but a covering of the seed pod) from one species of Hibiscus are high in Vitamin C. They make a great summer iced tea (hope you sopped by last week to try some). They can also be made into syrups for cocktails or herbal sodas, jams, or eaten raw.
We will also have tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplant, onions, arugula, peashoots, cilantro, parsley, tulsi, mexican tarragon, lemongrass, herbal teas, and vinegars.
See you
Saturday
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Dawnbreaker Farms
Dawnbreaker Farms will be at Market!
Dawnbreaker Farms - Good food, raised right!
Dawnbreaker Farms is your source for all of your local, sustainable pasture-raised meats! We raise our animals the right way - out on pasture with plenty of green grass and sunshine. No chemicals, antibiotics or GMO's, ever! Safe and healthy meat for you and your family. This week we will have Bratwurst, pork chops, bacon plus other pork cuts and sausages from our herd of non-GMO forest-raised pigs. Our pasture-raised chicken is fully in stock with whole and half chickens plus all the different cuts including boneless and bone-in breasts, thighs, drumsticks, wings, backs and feet. For a full selection of the products we carry and to pre-order for market pick up visit our online store.
Now you can support the Farm every day of the week by doing your Amazon shopping at our Amazon Affiliate link
www.dawnbreakerfarms.com/amazon
. Use this
link
to shop as normal and a portion of the sale will go to our Farm at no cost to you. It's a convenient and easy way to help us out without any extra effort, time or money on your end.
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Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farm
Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farm will not be at Market!
Stop by and check out the selection of bison meat that Sandy will have at market on Saturday. Make plans for a gathering of friends
and family and be sure bison is included in your menu. Also check out the bison/chorizo burger that was served last week at Heirloom Restaurant in Roxboro by Chef Kyle. Yum.
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Carrboro Tropicals
Carrboro Tropicals will be at Market!
Carrboro Tropicals has been bringing locally grown high-quality orchid plants to the Carrboro Farmers Market for more than a decade, and weather-allowing, presents each Saturday the best flowering orchid plants available anywhere and at competitive prices. We offer orchids that you won't find anywhere else, yet they all are plants that you should be able to grow and rebloom yourself. Bob has been cultivating orchids for more than 30 years and is always happy to share his knowledge to help you grow your orchids more successfully. We offer plants, supplies, and repotting at the market (not to mention free advice that applies to our local growing conditions). So come by and see what we have and at the very least, let our blooming orchids brighten your day. See us also at CarrboroTropicals.com or on Facebook.
Bob Davidson
Carrboro Tropicals
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Mu Tar K'Paw Gardens
Mu Tar K'Paw Gardens will be at Market!
Cingh Neam and her family are excited to be at the Carrboro Farmers' Market this winter! Cingh Neam is a Chin refugee from Burma. This is her first year farming in the winter because seasons in North Carolina are different than in Burma. Cingh Neam is a farmer at Transplanting Traditions Community Farm, a non-profit educational farm for refugees, located on Jones Ferry Road. She is thankful to have the opportunity to continue her agricultural traditions and pursue her dreams of becoming a full-time farmer.
This Saturday, Mu Tar K'Paw Gardens will bring a variety of beautiful and delicious greens, radishes, turnips, Asian vegetables (swiss chard, mustard greens, tatsoi), and eggs from healthy, free-range chickens. Cingh Neam, her husband, Maung Pau, and son, Thawng, are more than happy to answer any questions and about their organic growing practices or offer recipe suggestions. Come visit us and learn about new vegetables!
Cingh Neam,
Mu Tar K'Paw Gardens
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Flat River Nursery and Farm
Flat River Nursery and Farm will be at Market!
We will be at market with Greenhouse Tomatoes, Sungolds, a few field tomatoes, squash, cukes, Bedding Plants, Vegetable Plants, Hanging Baskets, Herbs, Potted Flowers, Ferns, and a few Greens. Green Tomatoes to make your favorite fried Green Tomato recipe dish.
Charles and Joan Holeman
1548 Holeman Ashley Rd.
Timberlake NC, 27583
336-364-2460
frnandfarm@gmail.com
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Melina's Fresh Pasta
Melina's Fresh Pasta will be at Market!
Melina's Fresh Pasta will be at market
this Saturday with all of your
favorite pastas and ravioli flavors. Ravioli - Spring Pea & Mint, Greek, 3 Cheese & Garlic, Spinach & Cheese, Fig Gorgonzola, Roasted Red Pepper & Feta, Mushroom, Pimento Cheese, Artichoke, Lemon Ricotta, Pierogi Cheddar & Onion, & our NEW Cheese Pizza Ravioli! We will also have cut pastas - spaghetti, spinach linguine, fettuccine; gnocchi, lasagna, pizza dough and our freshly made Tomato Basil Sauce. Come learn how to make ravioli at our spring pasta making class on
April 19th
- click
HERE
for more info.
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Farmer's Daughter
Farmer's Daughter will not be at Market!
We will see you again in September!
Thank you for shopping local & handmade,
April McGreger
Farmers Daughter Brand
(919) 259-3946
www.farmersdaughterbrand.com
twitter: @farmersdaughtr
instagram: @preservingthesouth
tumblr: http://preservingthesouth.tumblr.com/
SAVOR THE SOUTH: SWEET POTATOES (UNC Press, Fall 2014)
http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/books/10107.html
UNC PRESS FALL 2014 CATALOG:
http://issuu.com/uncpress/docs/uncpress_fa14catalog
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South Wind Produce
South Wind Produce will not be at Market!
South Wind Produce will not be at market this week. We are planting and getting ready for fall, but we will be back next week!
Thanks,
Angie
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Open Door Farm
Open Door Farm will not be at Market!
We will not be at market this week, but we will be back next week.
See you soon!
Open Door Farm, North Carolina
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Wild Hare Farm
Wild Hare Farm will not be at Market!
Sustainable Farming, Beautiful Flowers
We will not be at market
Saturday
. We are taking a break and traveling to a cut flower
meeting outside of Toronto and then down to Portland Maine. We are excited to take a little
time away.
Many thanks and hope to
see you
Saturday
!
Leah and Mark
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