Things you might find this time of year: baked goods (breads, cakes, mini cheesecakes, cookies, fried pies & pies), candles, canned goods (jams & jellies, marmalades, preserves, chow-chow, pickled vegetables, salsas & relishes), artisan Texas cheese, organic chicken, free-range eggs, organic tilapia fish filets, local raw honey, jewelry, plants (cacti, bedding plants, house plants, fruit trees, trees & whips), smoothies, soaps (lye and herbal), sugar cane syrup, tamales, vinegars, fruit wines and wood products. LOCAL PRODUCE: green beans, frozen shelled beans (butter, baby Lima & pinto), unshelled pinto beans, Chinese cabbage, cucumbers, eggplants (5 types), greens (arugula, broccoli, Swiss chard, kale, mizuns, mustard, sorrel, spinach & turnip), herbs (3 types of basil, 3 type of mint, rosemary & thyme), lettuce (red leaf & others), peanuts, frozen shelled peas (blackeyed, brown Crowder, Lady cream, purple hull & zipper cream), unshelled purple hull peas, pecans (cracked, shelled & unshelled), peppers (banana, green Bell, cayenne, cow horn, habanera, jalapeno & serrano), persimmons, sweet potatoes, radishes (cherry bell & icecycle), squash (yellow & zucchini), sugar cane, tomatoes (green & red) and turnips.
Taqueria San Juan from Center will be at the market this Saturday. They serve
breakfast burritos & tacos (bacon or sausage, cheese & potato); gorditas (beef or chicken), quesadillas (beef or chicken), tacos (beef or chicken) and tamales (chicken or pork). They also sell home-made salsa and coffee.
The American Legion (post 86) food vendors will be back at the market this Saturday They serve barbeque sandwiches, catfish plates, sausage on a stick and soft drinks. Proceeds to benefit US military veterans.
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Live Entertainment this Saturday provided by The “Prophets and Profiteers” with Bryan Parker.
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 is open next Wednesday, November 21st for our special Thanksgiving Market 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.