Celebrate Earth Day by visiting the Farmer’s Market (April 16)

     The Farmer’s Market is a great place to add to your Saturday morning schedule. Don’t forget to stop by the Pineywoods Native Plant Center for the annual SFA Plant Sale and Earth Day and celebrations.

     Things to look for: baked goods (breads, cakes, cookies & pies), organic beef, candles, canned goods (wild-picked jams & jellies including may haw, blackberry, blueberry, muscatine and wild plum as well as jams, marmalades, preserves, chow-chow, pickled vegetables, salsas and relishes), ceramics, artisan Texas cheeses, free-range eggs, locally raised organic tilapia fish and tilapia fillets, flowers, fudge, herbs (basil, cilantro, coriander, oregano, parsley, rosemary & thyme), dried herbs, local raw honey, jewelry, loofah sponges, plants (house plants, starter plants, trees & whips), lye soap, tamales and vinegars. LOCAL PRODUCE: asparagus, frozen beans (butter, green, baby Lima & pinto), BEETS (2 TYPES), frozen blueberries, broccoli, cabbage, CAULIFLOWER, frozen corn (field & sweet), cucumbers, greens (collard, mustard, spinach & turnip), kohlrabi, lettuce (red tip & Romaine), onions (green, red, white and yellow), frozen peaches, frozen peas (black eye, zipper cream, brown Crowder & purple hull), banana peppers, new potatoes, radishes (regular & WATERMELON), RUTABAGAS, squash (yellow & zucchini), strawberries, tomatoes (green, Romas, red Celebrity slicers & red Jet Star slicers) and large purple top turnips.

     If you would like to sign up for the weekly Farmers’ Market email update, please send an email to obriens@ci.nacogdoches.tx.us. You are also more than welcome to visit www.farmermktnac.blogspot.com. Also be our fan on facebook@NacogdochesFarmersMarket.

     The Nacogdoches Farmers’ Market, located at the “hitch lot” at the corner of West Main and Pearl Streets, is open from 8 a.m. until noon or later every Saturday morning. The market is open on Saturday mornings. If the market parking lot is full, additional parking is available in the Nacogdoches County Courthouse Annex parking lot.

     Please note that the Farmer’s Market is a “Smoke Free” facility for the health of our customers and vendors.

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