Vendor UpdatesFayette County
I am taking the year off to write. If I have any honey this year, it will be sold at Blue Moon Farm. I want to take this opportunity to thank all my customers who have been loyal over the years and to the Lexington Farmers' Market which has been so wonderful to me both personally and professionally. And I liked to thank my bees which have worked so hard to produce some of the best honey this state has ever seen. You rock, girls!
Abigail Keam
Best Family Farm
Madison County
This week we will have blueberries, shuck beans, and (of course) heirloom tomatoes. Varieties in season now include: Vinson Walt, Russian 117 bi-color, Claude Brown Yellow Giant, and Basin Mountain Tommy Toes.
Madison County
My goodness garlic harvest is a tired time around here!! Because the ground was so wet, the roots of the garlic are all packed with dried mud, making them weigh twice as much as usual. Leo has to climb into the rafters of the barn to hang the sticks like tobacco on the rails, so he's a pretty worn out turkey right now. None of the other chores eases off for harvest time, so life is hectic and sleep is short!
The Fourth of July is a week from Thursday!! Is that even possible already??? We can help you get ready for your Independence Day grilling!! We've got all kinds of great meats to barbeque......LAMB CHOPS, GRASS FINISHED BEEF BURGERS, all kinds of PORK SAUSAGES, PORK CHOPS, STEAKS, RACK of LAMB and even a whole BEEF TENDERLOIN (and steaks are 30% off!). How about a "Mixed Grill"?? Choose your favorite sausages, add some FRESH GARLIC BULBS, CANDY ONIONS or fresh SHALLOTS and GARLIC SCAPES for seasoning.........I can smell it now!
We'll have hydroponically grown salad greens and BASIL from VIBRANT GREENS in Madison Co. Come take a look at them.....they are just beautiful!
We'll have lots of great Stone Cross Farm SMOKED BACON, BREAKFAST SAUSAGE (Medium, Hot, Extra Sage) and Piggie Links (Mild) for your holiday weekend leisurely breakfasts, and CINNAMON BUNS, CROISSANTS, and MUFFINS, or maybe a GARLIC BAGEL! Try one with some of Bleugrass Chevre's soft goat cheese!
You know what's for dessert! GARLIC CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES!! You haven't lived til you've tried one!
CANDY ONIONS, FRESH SHALLOTS, FRESH CUT ROSEMARY (cilantro will be back next week!) possibly the first of our own fresh cut BASIL this week.
We still have a few of Abigail's adorable 2oz HONEY BEARS to hold us until the honey harvest takes place.
Something else you really must try......FRESHLY HARVESTED GARLIC BULBS with the tops left on. The cloves are crunchy and juicy. It will only be like this for a couple of weeks, until it begins to dry down, so it's a special time!
If you're going to a holiday party, we've got great hostess gifts.....HANDMADE SOAPS from Stone Cross Farm, or a jar of our own GARLIC POWDER! Some GARLIC SCAPE PESTO or CHAMPAGNE DRESSING would be a different gift too!
We'll hope to see you Saturday behind the old courthouse on Short St, Sunday in front of Goodyear on Southland Drive. Please send us an email if you have a special order!
Fayette County
Our cheese is made from all natural JD Country Milk, a family owned Mennonite dairy farm in Logan County. The cows are pasture grazed and never given any antibiotics or hormones. Instead they are fed a vitamin enriched diet and all the grass they can eat. The milk is not homogenized and is pasteurized at just 145 degrees, then quickly cooled to preserve the natural flavor and enzymes that Mother Nature intended. We think the milk tastes better because the cows are happy.
You won't see hydraulic presses and fancy modern equipment around here. Instead, we make our cheeses by hand using traditional European techniques to protect the delicate curds. This is a lot more work and very time consuming, but we believe it creates better cheeses with rich complex flavors. We hope you agree.
This week we will have over a dozen different cheeses available. Stop by and sample our Butterkase (Amish Butter Cheese), Mama Mia, Sassy Redhead, Tuscan Sun, Abbey Road and of course our bourbon infused Kentucky Derby. Oh, and don't miss the Caerphilly, a tangy traditional Welsh coal miners cheese.
Thanks for your support. See you at the market.
Boone Creek Creamery
859-402-2364
www.boonecreekcreamery.com
ed2@kycheese.com
Bourbon County
" hand-crafted, Fair Trade, certified organic, and utterly delicious "
The Lexington Herald Leader
Possessing a palate from his years in the San Francisco wine trade, Mark Newberry understood the ancient art of blending different grapes to make a better wine. Various winegrapes complement and enhance each other to create a more complex wine, a more memorable and satisfying glass of wine. Coffee beans, he soon discovered, are similar agriculturally and culinarily, so blending coffee beans from different regions of the world produce a finer, more interesting, cup of coffee.
Blending, in the wine trade, is considered an art. You can enjoy some of the artfully produced coffees here at the Lexington Farmers Market.
Black Bag - mellow dark roast
Brown Bag - Caffe Journey
Gold Bag - Marco's Finest
Blue Bag - Breakfast Blend
Green Bag - water processed dec
Scott County
We appreciate seeing so many familiar faces returning to the markets on Saturday and Sunday outdoors, as well as lots of new people just moving to the area. We will continue to attend each market each week including Tues, Wed, Thurs, rain or sun or something in between - hope to see you as well!
PRODUCE we are harvesting now includes Sugar Snap Peas, Lettuces, Beets, Greens, Radishes, Napa Cabbage, Summer Squash, Chard, Onions, Broccoli and more as something new is ready every day!
NEW, NEW We have found a professional charcutier to make delicious sausages, bratwursts, and franks for us from Elmwood organic beef. It has been several years since we had our all-beef sausages to offer, and we are really excited about these tasty and high quality offerings.
EGGS We offer each market our certified organic eggs from free-ranging hens who live outdoors on grass pasture. Both whole dozen and half-dozens available. Our hens are always outside, enjoying the green growing grass & clover and rewarding us with beautiful big brown eggs packed full of flavor, orangey color, and healthful omega-3-fatty acids.
MEAT and POULTRY We have restocked our inventory of grass-fed Angus organic beef, along with our certified organic whole chickens, cut-up chicken pieces, and flavorful hearty stewing hens. In addition, we have chicken liver and ground turkey. Feel free to order ahead for quantity amounts or a particular cut for that special meal, and we'll have it ready for pickup at any of the farmers markets. View our website for special Beef & Chicken Bundles, and other quantities packages.
These days, more than ever, it's important to know the source of your family's food and you can look to our local organic farm to meet your body's nutritional needs resulting in good health. Visit our website to learn more, review our price lists, pre-order your special items, or contact Elmwood for more information(scroll up a little for a quick link!)
Elmwood Stock Farm
859-621-0755
Jessamine County
Our high tunnel tomatoes are starting to trickle in! We have been noticing pockets of different colored tomatoes everywhere and we will be having more each day. Look for us and our big box truck at the corner of Short and Upper on Saturday, and at Southland Drive on Sunday. All of our offerings are sustainably grown, Kentucky Proud, 100% homegrown, and pesticide free. We will have the following:
-Baby lettuce mix
-Heirloom and hybrid tomato transplants, multiple varieties, you still have time to plant them for Fall harvest
-Sweet colored bell, heirloom roaster, and poblano pepper transplants
-Fresh cut basil
-Yellow squash
-Fresh cut cilantro
-Fresh purslane
-Fresh cut mint
Check out what's new at the farm on our Facebook page, we look forward to seeing you at the market!
Johnson Brothers Farm
Scott County
The Johnson Brothers would like to invite you to try some of their excellent local and sourced produce. Stock up on some summer essentials: Grainger Tomatoes, White Half Runner beans, red and yellow watermelons, peaches, blueberries, pickling cucumbers, red and white new potatoes, and candy onions. See you at market.
Local Raw Honey by Nick and Bev Nickels {Website} Fayette County
The outdoor Lexington Farmers Markets for 2013 are now open. We will be at the following markets this week if it doesn't rain:
Downtown at Cheapside Park, Saturday, June 29th (opens at 7am)
Southland Drive, Sunday, June 30th (10am-2pm)
See you at one of the markets!.
You may purchase honey, pollen, and/or beeswax candles from us anytime from our home at 1909 Nicholasville Road in Lexington. Call us first at 859 276-0258, and we will put what you want on our back porch for you to pick up. You may also call to make an appointment to look at Bev's candle selection.
Our home is located one block north (toward downtown) of the intersection of Southland Drive and Nicholasville Road. Turn on Goodrich Avenue and take the first driveway on your right, and you will be in our back yard. There will be a silver travel trailer (Airstream) under an awning directly in front of you. Your honey will be on the back porch. If we are not home, just leave the money on the counter. There is change in a small jar on the counter if you need some.
Thank you, Nick & Bev Nickels
Madison County Produce by Scott Evans
Madison County
This week I should finally have some tomatoes: Red, Yellow, and Pink...both Heirloom and Hybrids. I'll have okra, lots of squash, cucumbers that are good for slicing, sweet banana peppers, hot banana peppers, bell peppers (green and purple & white), and eggplant.
Magic Beans {Website} {Facebook}
Fayette County
Magic Beans Coffee Roasters will again be presenting two outstanding South American coffees this week: one from a small growers association in Colombia, the other from a single Brazilian estate. All of our coffees are available in bulk or in 12-ounce, oxygen-free valve-bags. We also offer brewed-to-order cups of coffee at our pour-over bar. Bring your favorite mug!
Colombia (Huila, Asociación Los Naranjos de San Agustín): This coffee comes from the Los Naranjos growers association, a group of about 50 farmers near the town of San Agustín, who have consistently produced some of the best Colombian coffees over the past decade. This rare, high-grown (1,500-1700 meters above sea level) coffee has a nice balance of origin and roast flavors: Medium, citrus-like acidity, aromas of orange, papaya, and molasses, and a rich, cocoa-like body. More information is available online at www.magicbeanscoffee.com/files/13-06-08_Bulletin.pdf.
Brazil (Monte Sião, Fazenda Santa Lúcia): Fazenda Santa Lúcia, located in the high-quality coffee region of Monte Sião, has about 500,000 trees of arabica coffee, grown with organic fertilizers and minimal other inputs, at an elevation of 1,000-1,200 meters above sea level. This coffee is prepared using a pulped natural process, in which the skin of the coffee cherry is removed, but the pulp is left on the beans to dry. This results in a coffee that is lower in acidity than a fully washed coffee, without the "wild" flavors often associated with the traditional natural dry process, in which the entire fruit is dried before further processing. Very mild, sweet, and balanced, buttery, toffee-nut aromas, with hints of orange peel and bourbon whiskey. More information is available online at www.magicbeanscoffee.com/files/13-04-06_Bulletin.pdf.
Mary Tyler "The Peach Lady" {Facebook}
Clark County
Peaches! Peaches! Peaches!
Our sweet juicy peaches are ripe for the pickin'. Good every day, all day! Even help soothe your afternoon hunger pangs with Mrs. Mary's tree-ripened peaches! No need to reach for the vending machine change, instead sink your teeth into some peachy goodness. And while you're at it, get enough for the entire office or even your grouchy sister's brother's mother's cousin's consin's dog Fido. These peaches are so tasty they'll even put a smile on her face!
McMaine Farms
Madison County
We are proud to serve your produce needs this week! We will have zucchini, yellow, zephyr, pattypan, and causa varieties of squash. We'll also have large and small cucumbers, and several varieties of eggplants.
Shelby County
We're still cutting hay at the farm and trying to get garden work done in between rain showers. As is usually goes, we're never quite satisfied with the weather and would like to see a week of dry weather to get some hay up dry and some garden ground worked.
This week we are running a Fourth of July special on our ground beef. Our Booming Beef Special, 5 pounds of ground beef for $20, is just in time to stock your freezers for your holiday celebrations or just to stock up for your favorite ground beef recipes. We'll also have plenty of steaks, hamburger patties, brats and jumbo hot dogs available along with other cuts and a limited selection of some great lamb cuts.
Our cabbage is coming along nicely and we'll have beets, broccoli, green onions and other veggies on the tables this week.
The tables will be loaded with home made breads as well as salsas, relishes, jams, and chutneys all made with Quarles Farm produce and canned right in our kitchen just the way your mother and grandmother used to do. Home made goodness canned at the peak of flavor. Nothing better.
Follow us on Facebook or check out our website.
Stonehedge Farm {Facebook}
Woodford County
From our family farm to your family's table. The fields are alive with activity. This week we are excited to offer three kinds of beans (Roma, purple filet, yellow wax), three kinds of greens (collards, chard, and kale), and three kinds of herbs (basil, cilantro, and parsley). We'll have 4 kinds of squash (zucchini, yellow, coosa, pattypan). It's probably the last week for broccoli and cauliflower. Just like last week, we will still have onions (candy and red), tamtilloes, peppers (yummy, banana, bell, and hot), cucmbers (pickling and slicing), and eggplant. And our flowers...zinnias & sunflowers. New this week are okra, cherry tomatoes, green tomatoes, and spaghetti (and acorn) squash). Fennel, kohl rabi, and turnips are all ending soon!
Clark County
We're cutting our FIRST ZINNIAS of the season this week and will have them for the Market on Saturday, along with the first huge stems of POLLENLESS SUNFLOWERS. People often ask us why we go to the trouble and expense of growing only pollenless varieties of sunflowers and the answer's easy: without pollen the flowers last longer and they also don't make nearly the mess on your counter or tabletop. The stems are huge and we're cutting them long!
We'll also have long stems of HYDRANGEA, fragrant English SWEET PEA bouquets, luscious lavender SNAPDRAGON bouquets, but unfortunately, it looks like we won't have very many ORIENTAL LILIES. Please be sure to come early so you won't be disappointed.
As always, if you have questions or would like to reserve flowers, just give us a call or contact us on Facebook.
Looks like Saturday's going to be a bit cooler and sunny -- a gorgeous day! We hope to see you then and thanks greatly for your awesome support!!
- Charlie Hendricks, Elizabeth Hendricks and Val Schirmer
Wildflour Scones & Tea {Facebook}
Scott County
We will be set up this Saturday at 5/3 Pavilion from 7am until we sell out but will NOT be at the UK Farmers Market at Commonwealth Stadium Wednesday 6/26.
This weekend come enjoy a locally made breakfast or afternoon treat with us!
On Wednesday our flavors will be:
-Buttermilk & Kentucky Honey featuring raw honey from Bev and Nick Nickels
-Beer Cheese & Scallion featuring Brown's Tastee Beer Cheese and green onions from Garey Farms
-Maple Bacon Date featuring Brownings Applewood bacon (Grant County)
-Raspberry Cornmeal featuring Steve's Plants black raspberries and cornmeal from Elmwood Stock Farms
**NEW FLAVOR**
-Lemon BLueberry featuring blueberries from Home Pickin's Farms
We will have our sweet fruit iced tea this Saturday! This week we will be serving peach iced tea as well as brewing Caffe Marco coffee, locally roasted in Paris.
Visit our Facebook page for more info and flavor postings on Fridays.
See you Saturday!
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