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Fresh from the Farmer
Written By: Donna Rhodes | Issue: May 2024
The twin Farmers’ Markets in Cashiers and Highlands are serving up a full menu of palette and palate pleasers, as well as a complete compliment of goods, greens, sweets, and savories.
When you have only two coins left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. – Chinese Proverb
Where are those coins better spent than at Locally Grown on the Green and Highlands’ Market?
Buy bread for your belly, flowers for your soul. Find them among so many other delights like local, fresh-grown vegetables, greens, meats, jams, jellies, handcrafted treasures, and all manner of tasty products yielded by local farmers’ from their well-tended, rich mountain soil.
The Highlands Farmers Market is held most Saturdays through October, 8:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. in Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park on Pine Street. The market provides a wide array of fresh produce, seafood, baked goods, plants, hemp oil plus hemp products, soy candles, herbs, sweets and other locally-sourced products. Add to that green onions, grape tomatoes, fresh lettuce, spinach and tender greens, sugar snap peas, wild ramps, and Chip Wilson’s Bread and Butter pickles. Envision your sideboard spilling over with farm-fresh deliciousness.
Locally Grown on The Green, known for its locally grown produce, welcomes new vendors this year offering an array of pastries, confections, farm-fresh veggies and herbs, and more homegrown goodness. The Village Green’s farmers market is a haven for food enthusiasts and those seeking locally grown ingredients. Locally Grown (at The Village Green) continues every Wednesday, though October 30th. Exceptions: July 3 (July 4th events) and August 7 (Cashiers Annual Antique Show).
Producer-only vendors must be the creator of every product they sell. Vendors must farm within a 100-mile radius of Cashiers.
Feel free to chat with your growers-of-choice. If you know your farmer, you know your food. As author Margaret Atwood once said, “In the Spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” And mountain dirt smells so good, especially on the farmer that filled your plate.
Don Deal, manager of Highlands Farmer’s Market adds that if you are interested in participating as a vendor yourself, please contact him at (828) 342-8239. Please contact [email protected] if you are interested in joining the Green Market as a vendor.
Both Markets are free and so is parking. See you there!!
