The market has a variety of locally produce handmade items that would make for great mother’s day gifts. Also this weekend peaches & plums will be available!
Things to look for: baked goods (breads, cakes, mini cheesecakes, cookies, fried pies & pies), 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 & relishes), ceramics, artisan Texas cheese, freshly ground organic corn meal and whole wheat flour, free-range eggs, herbs (basil, coriander, mints, oregano, parsley, rosemary & thyme), dried herbs, local raw honey, jewelry, plants (house plants, bedding plants, fruit trees, trees & whips), smoothies, soaps (lye and herbal), ribboncane syrup, tamales, vinegars and fruit wines. LOCAL PRODUCE: asparagus, green beans, frozen shelled beans (butter, baby Lima & pinto), beets, broccoli, cabbages, carrots, cauliflower, cucumbers, greens (arugula, beet, collard, kale, mustard, spinach, Swiss chard & turnip), kohlrabi, lettuce (mixed, red leaf & tasio), okra, frozen okra, onions (green, red, yellow & white), peaches, fresh shelled English peas, frozen shelled peas (black eye, brown Crowder & zipper cream), peas (English, snow & sugar snap), peppers, plums, new potatoes, radishes, squash (8 ball, patti pan, yellow & zucchini), strawberries, sweet potatoes, hydroponic tomatoes, turnips and yams.
Musical entertainment this weekend will be provided by Mary Martha Motley and Guitar Bill from Alaska.
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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. The market is also open on Wednesdays from 3 to 6 p.m. throughout the busy growing season. 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.
