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Showing posts with label Farmers Market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Farmers Market. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Students examine patients from root to leaf

Florence Halstead of Fayetteville watches as Valeria Avanzato and Jon Smith, graduate plant pathology students at the University of Arkansas, study her gladiola Saturday at the Fayetteville Farmers' Market on the downtown Square. Their department will have a booth there the first and third Saturday of every month to diagnose plant problems.

Friday, July 10, 2009

Dyersburg State Gazette: Story: Farmer's Market 'Ask the Experts' begins this Saturday

Thursday, July 9, 2009

The Master Gardeners will join the Main Street Farmers Market this Saturday to offer advice and recommendations for backyard gardeners in the area.

Master Gardeners members are scheduled to help at the Northwest Tennessee Horticulture and Garden Expo at Dyer County High School on July 18, but plan on manning a booth at the Farmer's Market on Saturdays throughout the season.

The table will also offer flowers, shrubs, trees and vegetable plants at the table, with funds benefiting the non-profit group's activities in the community.
Dyersburg State Gazette: Story: Farmer's Market 'Ask the Experts' begins this Saturday
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Friday, June 19, 2009

Market offers fresh produce

DailyComet.com
Published: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 10:26 a.m.

Readers who were ambitious enough to plant a vegetable garden back in March are already enjoying home-grown tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and such. But unless they are sharing with friends and neighbors, the rest of us are out of luck ... except those who have discovered the Farmer's Market.

In Houma, across Tunnel Boulevard from Dumas Auditorium, just about every weekday, local farmers sell fresh produce from their gardens, including squash, potatoes, peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, cukes or whatever is in season.

"Fresh" is the operative word here. The farms which keep area groceries stocked year round with fruit and vegetables of all kinds are rarely located in Louisiana.

California, Florida and other vegetable-producing states are located far enough away that their products must be trucked in, arriving days after they are harvested.

The system has been remarkably efficient at delivering quality products, but for real, picked-this-morning, vine-ripened crops, sold by the fellow who picked them, you can hardly beat the Farmer's Market.

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Carroll farmers markets in season

By Carrie Ann Knauer,
Times Staff Writer

From locally picked fruits and vegetables to homemade jams and pies, the farmers markets of Carroll County have much to offer in seasonal delights. The Downtown Westminster Farmers’ Market and the Mount Airy Farmers’ Market both opened in May, with some vendors offering vegetable and herb plants during the early season to supplement the lettuce, onions and other cool season crops they had for sale.

The Carroll County Farmers’ Market, Carroll’s largest and longest-running market, opens Saturday with vendors promising to have early cucumbers, squash and hydroponic grape tomatoes and peppers, said Heather Kuykendall, one of the market’s managers.

“We want to be able to have produce available, and a lot of times it’s too early in May,” she said of the market’s June opening.

This year’s cool, rain-filled spring has led to some late arrivals for certain crops, she said, but vendors have told her there will be plenty of produce available for Saturday. Regular shoppers are also looking forward to the market opening, which is expected to have 60 vendors, Kuykendall said.

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Top vegetable grower honored

By JENNIFER COLTON/ jcolton@indexjournal.com
Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:51 AM EDT

When the Emerald City Rotary Club was chartered in 1982, one of its first projects was to recognize the Vegetable Grower of the Year at the Greenwood Farmers Market. The civic organization continued that tradition Wednesday, presenting the 2008 Vegetable Grower of the Year award to Bobby Smith, an Abbeville County farmer who has been a strong vendor and producer with the Greenwood Farmers Market for more than 15 years.

A former educator in the Abbeville County School District, Smith farms 55 acres in Abbeville County -- including more than 4 acres of vegetables with help from his brother, son and wife. The family produces squash, cucumbers, beans, tomatoes, corn okra and various melon crops each year.

“Bobby, like many market vendors, has worked full time plus farmed on the side. After spending 38 years plus as a school teacher and principal in the Abbeville school system, he retired in 1995.

Since that time, he has increased his vegetable production and helped the Greenwood market to stay filled with fresh produce,” Rotary Club President Joe Langley said.Smith accepted the award and thanked the Emerald City Rotary Club for sponsoring the honor and the Greenwood Farmers Market Board and staff for providing growers the opportunity to sell.