The Nacogdoches Farmer’s Market is a great place to visit before or after you hit the 23rd Annual Texas Blueberry Festival! Vendors will have a variety of “blueberry” themed products such as blueberry jam, jelly and syrup – also, blueberry cookies and other desserts featuring fresh Nacogdoches blueberries! And don’t forget the variety of fresh, locally grown produce from watermelons to purple hull peas!
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, coriander, dill, oregano, rosemary & thyme), dried herbs, local raw honey, jewelry, loofah sponges, plants (house plants, starter plants, trees & whips), lye ftlinesoap, tamales and vinegars. LOCAL PRODUCE: green beans, unshelled pinto beans, frozen beans (butter, green, baby Lima & pinto), beets (2 types), Bok choi, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, frozen corn (field & sweet), cucumbers, greens (collard, kale, orugula, mustard, spinach, Swiss chard & turnip), kohlrabi, red leaf lettuce, okra, onions (green, red, white and yellow), frozen peaches, peaches, plums, frozen peas (black eye, zipper cream, brown Crowder, English & purple hull), peppers (sweet banana, sweet Bell, hot Bell, & jalapeno), peaches, plums, new potatoes, rutabage, squash (patti pan, yellow & zucchini), tomatoes (green, Romas, red Celebrity slicers & red Jet Star slicers) and large purple top turnips.
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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 and on Wednesday afternoons from 3 to 6 p.m. 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.
