Missing the Farmer's Market

There's nothing like farm-fresh carrots and beets!

One of the worst parts of winter is having to survive without the Ligonier Country Market. During summer, I spend almost every single Saturday morning perusing the booths of fresh produce, homemade breads and goodies, organic milk, eggs,meats, and honey, and arts and crafts. Everything sold at the country market must be produced locally; a practice that not only ensures product quality and freshness, but also supports the local farming and artisan community.


The market usually opens at 8 A.M., and I like to get there before the heat sets in and enjoy a hot cup of coffee and an organic whole-wheat pancake with real maple syrup and turkey/apple sausages (my mouth is watering thinking about these). Some of my weekly  staple purchases include Logan Farms' organic grass-fed beef, honey-sticks (these are awesome for preventing hypoglycemic freak-outs ), various fruits and veggies, TInaLee's Country Candles (these make Yankee Candles smell like Glades), and usually a bottle, or two or five, of Stone Villa or Sandhill Berry vino. 


The market is held in a field, so if there has been even a little rain the previous week, you'd best wear your muck boots. Then again, since I've proven how versatile and sexy they are in a previous post, why would you be wearing anything else? 


The market begins on May 26, and I am counting down. You should be too, because supporting locally produced goods is the cool thing to do. You can visit the Ligonier Country Market's site, here, to learn more. They have not yet updated the vendor information, but I'm sure it will be changed soon.