Briggate Farms will be back with free-range eggs, lavender, sweet flag, feather grass, pink muhly grass and purple fountain grass in 1gals, aloe vera and basil in 4” pots. She will also offer stained glass and dichroic glass jewelry made by Kim Parks in Rusk, and handmade wine bottle holders. Her Buff Orpington hens are antibiotic- and medication-free, and they freerange on 2 acres every day. Her acreage is pesticide-free and fertilizer-free. If you bring in a egg container to recycle, you will receive .25 off your egg purchase.
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 soap, 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, watermelon, cantaloupe, 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.
