One week and counting until the market opens! April 7th is the day. Come celebrate with us. Opening Ceremony will be at 7:55, with the market opening at 8 a.m. From 9-10 we will have a Kid's Flower Pot Activity. The day continues with Music by Greg Krone & Wayne Roy with BBQ by Bob & Pat. 


New this year at the market:
Selling of meat will again be allowed at the market. If you are interested in selling meat at our market,
it must be processed in a USDA facility and stamped and stored at 41 degrees or less. Please contact the Chamber of Commerce for more information.


Welcome new vendors:
Heide N - Fit 4 His Service
Donald Smith
Jenny Sowa - J & R Crafts
Neil Kinser - River Ridge Stables Produce
Debra Arflack - Cutey Patootey
Terry Roettgers - Pure & Clean
Lenetta Konys - Busy Hands Bi-z-ness

Opening Day at the Market

Opening day at the market is almost here! All the vendors are busy getting ready. Opening day will be special this year with Bar-B-Q and music and other fun things. We will not have an Easter egg hunt but many of the vendors will have Easter treats and Easter eggs hidden around their booths. Please join us to celebrate the beginning of Spring with the opening of the market.

Merry Christmas & Happy Hanukkah ! Today is the last Saturday at the market and the weather should be great. There is no more fresh produce but there will be plenty of fresh canned goods. There will be plenty of Christmas gifts, all handmade!

We will also be open for our last market day Friday Dec. 23. Vendors are taking orders for baked goods and special requests for that day.

• Linda and her baked goods will be there. She also has canned beets, tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, salsa, jams, jellies
• I will be there with my homemade soaps, lotions and fleece scarves. I will have Cardinals, Rams, Missou and military scarves as well as kids, adult and Christmas scarves.
• Judy will be back with her porcupine crystal suncatchers, jewelry and baked goods including cheese bread and huckleberry muffins.
• We are hoping Vicki will make it with her baked goods including awesome red & green Christmas balls with peach filling and some very unique canned goods such as her great vegie spread.
• Debbie will be back with her knitted scarves & hats, as well as her canned goods. She also has some really cute sewn Christmas stockings, aprons and tote bags.
• Maggie will be there. She has made some beautiful Christmas & winter wreaths. She also has Sarovske (sp) jewelry, decorated sweatshirts, including a mizzou one, and best of all ghiradeli covered nuts.
• Wilma should be there with her many craft items. She has many kids gifts including little aprons with themed items in the pockets such as baking utensils, gardening tools, art tools etc.

I hope there will be more vendors but have not heard from them.

see you at the market,

Christa

Spinning Blue Skys

The farmer's market is still open with lots of great stuff.! Our vendors still have produce, especially veggies that store well through the winter like beets, fruit, potatoes. There are still tomatoes that were picked before last night's big frost. There will be plenty of good baked goods and canned goods until Christmas. Now that the weather is cool the vendors are starting to make candy. Most vendors are happy to make something for you if you don't see what you want. There are also unique crafts that make great hostess gifts and Christmas presents.

• I will have a lot of green tomatoes at the market tomorrow for $1/lb. I also cut all my herbs so I will have cut herbs also. What I don't sell tomorrow I will dry. I also have loads of hot peppers, mostly habeneros. And of course I will have my home made soaps, lotions, lip balms, etc.
• Linda is making some different cookies. Last week she had peanut butter, chocolate chocolate chip, M & M chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin (I had some of these, they were yummy). And she also has her regular stuff like my personal favorite, carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, pumpkin bread, blueberry muffins and other sweet breads, yeast breads including awesome rye bread and cinnamon rolls, canned jams & jellies made with her own home grown fruit, canned beets and tomatoes. She also has hot chocolate and coffee.
• Judy is making her fudge now and has other snack stuff like great caramel corn, cupcakes, peanut brittle. Her huckleberry muffins are awesome and something you can't get anywhere else. She also has very popular cheese bread made with yeast and she has been knitting baby hats with mittens and booties. The jewelry & sun catchers she makes with porcupine quills will be there as always.
• Vicky & Troy still have produce. They have lots of tomatoes. They have tomatoes in their green house that still have that great home grown taste. Also, beets, pears and maybe still some peppers and garlic. Vicky also has her homemade cheese and apple rolls and yeast breads. She makes a bread that tastes like a crescent roll and some that has a nut, brown sugar mix in it. Both are wonderful. They may have some brown eggs this week too. Vicky also has some great canned goods. Recently she made some pear preserves and pear butter. She also has other preserves and butters, and canned veggies and veggie spread.
• Maggie will have her fall wreathes, some of which light up, and grave decorations. She will also have her Swarvoski (sp?) jewelry and holiday sparkle balls (which also light up). She also has some small aloe plants.
• John & Darleen will have a large selection of canned goods. They make all of them together as a couple. They have all the favorites and many unusual items as well, including mint jelly, mint apple jelly, cantaloupe jelly, a large variety of hot pepper jellies, many fruit jellies, apple butter, pumpkin butter, a variety of canned relishes and many more items too numerous to mention. They also make sugar free jellies and snack breads. Darleen makes regular snack breads too including her latest green tomato bread which sounds funny but is very tasty.
• John Kopmann said he wasn't sure if he was coming this week. If he does he will have tomatoes, pecans, a variety of cooking pumpkins and winter squashes. I bought a Fairy Tale and La Estrada pumpkin and a Blue Hubbard and Buttercup squash. My daughter in law will make holiday pies and soups with them. They will keep for the holidays if you put them in a cool place. I get them every year and put them in the garage.
• Doris is usually at the market but haven't heard for sure. She has the fancy stuff like pies, tarts, springerle cookies. She also has comfort food like cinnamon rolls and muffins.
• Wilma has a variety of crafts for children and adults. She makes the cutest children's aprons with tools or cooking utensils in the pockets. She also makes home decor items like embroidered and appliqued dish towels, hand towels, pillows etc. Last week she some really cute fall and thanksgiving decorations.
• There are many more vendors that will be at the market. I will try and highlight them in depth next week. Briefly for now; Art & Larry make handcrafted wood items, Natalie makes machine embroidered aprons and other items, Julia and Gwen make purses, Sandy makes a variety of unique crafts like dog collars and zipper bracelets, Maggie Barron makes cheese cake, Charlie has loads of produce, Tanya usually has canned items, cookies and candy, dried flowers and wreathes, Susan makes soap, bath salts, Kim makes cookies and cakes. I'm sure that I'm missing someone.

Tomorrow should be a beautiful day. Come see us at the market and buy local. All items at the market are handmade or grown by the people selling them.