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Fresh From The Market
Written By: Donna Rhodes | Issue: April 2024
Back in Season! The twin communities’ Farmers’ Markets are bursting with seasonal goodness.
We enjoyed our wonderfully preserved foods, our root vegetables, and winter greens during chilly-month dining.
But spring and summer are about to deliver the freshness we’ve been craving: crisp, sweet, juicy delights straight from gardens nearby. Cashiers and Highlands weekly markets display not only nutritious delights, but food grown about as close to heaven as a green leaf can get.
The Highlands Farmers’ Market is held most Saturdays, April through October in Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park on Pine Street in Highlands. The market provides a wide array of fresh produce, seafood, baked goods, plants, and other locally-sourced products.
Arrive between 8:00 A.M. and 12:30 P.M., bag in hand, and feel your senses rising, red-lining your Yum-ometer.
Don Deal, Highlands Marketplace Organizer, says, “I have some new vendors this year. Get ready to stock-up on the hand-crafted products you’ve been waiting for at the Market.”
Here are the latest contributors: Select hearty plants to season your summer dishes (basil, oregano, dill, chives, tomato, etc.). Grab safe and quality hemp oil products to soothe and salve your skin and body. If soy candles are your passion, peruse the new candle selection with its clean-burning choices. In addition to these herb, hemp, and candle products, there’s something for your sweet tooth: delicious homemade fudge. Tastebuds, rejoice!
Don adds that if you are interested in participating as a vendor yourself, please contact Don Deal at (828) 342-8239.
Mid-week-Wednesdays are your chance to shop for fresh produce, meat, dairy, jams, pickles, bakery products, fresh-cut flowers, and more in the Cashiers area. Join the scores of local residents at the covered (and bathroomed) Green Market in the Village Green.
The market is “producer-only.” That means the vendor must be the grower and/or producer of every product they sell. Vendors are required to produce within a 100-mile radius of Cashiers.
Where else can you talk to the farmers and craftspersons who are the sole creators of what they sell? There’s nothing from China here – guaranteed! Chat with your grower. If you know your farmer, you know your food.
The Green Market in Cashiers is open: Wednesdays, 11:00 A.M to 3:00 P.M., May 1 through Oct 30. Exceptions: July 3 (because of July 4th events) and August 7 (Cashiers Annual Antique Show).
Both Markets are free and so is parking. Remember, Highlands Market starts in April. Village Green opens in May. See you there!
