Vendor Updates

In addition to these vendors, many additional farmers and vendors will be present at one or all of the markets!

Bleugrass Chevre {Facebook}{Website}

Fayette County  

From 4/14

We are loaded with fresh chèvre and feta this week.  Tomatoes and basil are abundant at the market now, so what could taste more summery than a Caprese salad with feta or mozzarella?  We alternate slices of tomatoes with slices of feta on a big platter, add basil leaves, then drizzle all with Stuarto's fig balsamic and EVOO.  We could eat this every day with crusty bread or Carla's pretzel bread.

Our grilled cheese sandwiches (with market cheeses) are becoming legendary for both breakfast and lunch.  Bacon from Hood's Heritage Hogs turns them instantly into breakfast.  We even grilled a few with fresh sliced tomatoes last week.   Just follow your nose to our panini grill sizzling away.  

Susan Miller

Bleugrass Chevre

Farmstead Goat Cheese

(859)421-6983

Lexington, KY

Blue Moon Farm {Facebook}{Website}{Email}

Madison County

Last Saturday we started our market at around 38 degrees......this week we will be celebrating the official start of summer!!  Crazy weather!  A "blackberry winter".  The other thing that happened last Saturday is that our power went out on the farm around 1:30AM!  It's the first time in 15 years of farmers' market that we have had to get up and get ready to go without electricity!  We were doing fine until Leo remembered that he didn't have any coffee ground!  Now a non-electric coffee mill is on the wish list!  We don't know what the cause was for the outage.  No storms or even wind!  Just a little test, I guess!

Are you planning something special for the long weekend?  Maybe a neighborhood cookout?  Come see us for local grass fed/grass finished BEEF STEAKS, BURGER, or BRATS;  local pastured PORK CHOPS, BACON for your burgers or pork BRATS or Italian Sausage.  Local LAMB CHOPS, RACKS, or Lamb BURGER too! We can fix you up with local CHEESES, local ASPARAGUS, local artisan BREADS and PASTRIES, and even local CORN MEAL, GRITS, and TORTILLA CHIPS!

We'll have more of our own beautiful SPRING MIX (today's photo) as well as Vibrant Greens hydroponic GREENS.  We'll be making our first cutting of fresh CILANTRO this week!  I love the first small tender leaves!  You can even eat the stems!

So......Roland's got the tomatoes, we've got the cilantro, BABY GREEN GARLIC, and our PEPPER POWDERS so you can make a fresh salsa to go with the tortilla chips!

We'll be getting lots of GARLIC BAGELS from Sunrise Bakery, made with our own Music Garlic!  They make a great breakfast topped with Bleugrass Chevre's soft, spreadable goat cheese!  If something sweeter is more up your alley, we'll have those great big CINNAMON BUNS, CHOCOLATE CROISSANTS, BLACKBERRY or LEMON/LAVENDER MUFFINS, and plain CROISSANTS.  We'll have lots of varieties of artisan BREADS too, to go with your weekend meals or for next week's school lunches.

We've still got some potted HERBS for your garden, but supplies are getting low.  So many folks lost perennial herbs over the harsh winter this year!

Have any of you seen hummingbirds yet?  We've been waiting a long time now....usually they arrive on or around Earth Day, but we haven't seen any!  Please let us know if you have!  We're starting to worry!

If you need something special for this weekend or any time, just drop us an email!

As you relax this weekend and enjoy an extra day off from work, take some time to remember those servicemen and women who have given their lives defending our country, and send a thank you up to the ones who are serving now.

See you this weekend!

Fayette County

We will have our cheeses at the Market this weekend.    

Our cheese is made from all natural JD Country Milk, a family owned Mennonite 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 in our micro-creamery. 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, Smoked Cheddar 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

CaffeMarco {Website}

Bourbon County

Black bag - full bodied dark roast

Brown bag - velvety Moka Java

Gold bag - elegant espresso blend

Blue bag - palate cleansing light roast

Green bag - water processed decaf

Crank & Boom Craft Ice Cream 

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Fayette County

Crank & Boom Craft Ice Cream is thrilled to return to the Lexington Farmers Market on Saturdays and Sundays.  We will be scooping your favorite ice cream flavors along with selling pints so that you can stock up for the week.  

Crank & Boom is a small batch artisan ice cream maker using local ingredients to create fun, creative and tasty flavor combinations.  We use Kentucky Proud milk and many other locally sourced ingredients like organic strawberries, local blueberries, Buffalo Trace bourbon, and stout beer from Country Boy and West Sixth Brewing. 

Contact Us!

Address: 1030 South Broadway Ste. 2, Lexington, KY 40504 (Inside Thai Orchid Cafe)

Phone: (859) 288-2176 

Elmwood Stock Farm {Facebook}{Website}{CSA}{Pinterest}{FarmFan}

Scott County

At Elmwood, we are very excited to introduce our new FarmFan program for you, our most loyal customers! We'll give you points for shopping with us, and we'll send out updates via text message right before each market with availability information for that day. This is our way to keep you informed and to say "thanks" for spending your hard earned dollars at our stand at the Lexington Farmers Market.

Simply log on to: http://farmfanapp.com/elmwoodstock/signup to get started, find us at the market, and check in when you shop with us to begin accumulating points.  Or, stop in at our table this week to get setup.

As the season changes, we continue to work to offer you the highest quality USDA Certified Organic produce, eggs, and meats that we can.  We will be set up each Saturday all year long!  Feel free to phone ahead for special orders.

CSA FARM SHAREs are now available for the 2014 Summer Season.  We offer 3 share sizes, several pickup locations around Lexington and Central KY, and egg and meats can be added to your produce shares.  Visit our website for easy online signup!  http://elmwoodstockfarm.csasignup.com/members/types

PRODUCE we are offering now includes several varieties of Potatoes along with Sweet Potatoes.  Cold temperatures are a challenge, and a few green items under cover are slowly growing, the availability is week-to-week.

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, each egg is hand washed and inspected for cracks. 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.  Each hen's diet includes certified organic grain which is non-gmo.

BEEF, LAMB and POULTRY  Each week we bring a complete inventory of our 100% grass-fed Angus organic beef and our 100% grass fed lamb.  We also offer certified organic whole chickens, cut-up chicken pieces, and flavorful hearty stewing hens.  In addition, we have specialty beef sausages, chicken liver, beef broth bones, roasts for soups and stews, and even bones for your pet!

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 quantity packages to secure your winter supply of wholesome meats.

PANTRY  We are grinding our own heirloom organic corn to offer you non-gmo fresh cornmeal.  Other items include dried beans (ying-yang, black turtle, peregion, and red kidney), popcorn, and dried tomatoes.  We sent our organic tomatoes to be professionally packed into delicious Elmwood Salsa, available in BPA-free glass jars.

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

La Petite Sucre {Website}{Facebook}{Instagram}

Fayette County

La Petite Sucré (pronounced su-cray, meaning sweet) is a small boutique specializing in macarons and custom design macarons.  Macaron is a gluten free French confection made of almond flour and meringue filled with choices of ganache, buttercream, caramel or jam filling. Our macarons are about one and seven inches in diameter and each is handcrafted carefully to create a perfect confection that is visually appealing and will delight your taste buds. Our macarons are slightly crispy on the outside, and soft/chewy on the inside.  They are best consumed at room temperature. 

Our macarons are baked to order in a certified commercial kitchen located at Lexington, Kentucky. We make our macarons from scratch using the finest ingredients available (hormone free eggs, real butter, the finest chocolate and no preservatives).

Local Raw Honey by Nick and Bev Nickels {Website}

Fayette County

Spring is Here!

We WILL be at the following markets this week:    

Downtown at Cheapside Park, Saturday, May 24th (opens at 7 am)

Southland Drive,  Sunday, May 25th (from 10am-2pm) 

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. 

This week KyLamb will have shanks, ground, steaks and roasts. Oh yeah, chops too.  Sorry, no sausage yet but it'll be announced here first!  Happening this week end is the Kentucky Fiber Festival at Masterson Station Park AND the Bluegrass Stock Dog Trials.  If you've never seen a stock dog at work it's worth it to see.  Also, Tim Farmer is going to be creating something with KyLamb loin chops on Sunday at the festival.  See you Saturday.  

Magic Beans Coffee Roasters {Website}{Facebook}

We have two fantastic limited edition coffees available this weekend. One is an incredibly well balanced coffee from Finca La Nube in Ecuador. This microlot coffee is from a single farm in this country that exports only 100 containers of high quality arabica beans per year. The second coffee is from Burundi, a country whose exports have in the past been primarily low-grade commodity-grade coffees, but have recently developed a burgeoning high quality coffee economy. This particular coffee comes from a farmers co-op and is a fully washed and sun-dried bean. Both are excellent and we would love to chat with you more about them at market!

Our cold brew concentrate continues to sell out each week,

so please pre-order if you would like to guarantee a bottle at http://www.magicbeanscoffee.com/shop/cold-brew-concentrate/. You can pick up your order at either the Saturday or Sunday market.

As always, we will be brewing your favorite coffees to order by the cup as well. Looking forward to seeing you!

Quarles Farm {Website}{Facebook}

Shelby County

The weather is finally starting to break and we're starting to see some sun and warmer weather.  A very welcome sight indeed.  The lambs, kids and young calves are enjoying the warmer days and so are we.  The lettuce and other vegetables seeded in the ground a few weeks ago are sprouting and it appears the growing season is on the way. 

While waiting on our veggies to mature, we still have coolers full of beef, lamb and goat.  The tables are full of canned goods such as corn relish, squash pickles, green tomato relish, which is also known as chow chow, and a wide selection of interesting jams.  There's also breads that aren't your usual zucchini bread.  Lemon poppy seed zucchini as well as blueberry poppy seed and many other favorites are available each week. 

Give a leg of lamb a try for Easter instead of ham.  Good local lamb that is carefully tended to give you the most flavor in each bite.  All our animals graze the fields daily and have access to wholesome grass to provide a succulent main dish for your meals.  Our goat or lamb is a wonderful change from some of the more readily available meats. 

Stop by Cheapside on Saturday or Southland on Sunday for breakfast, brunch or lunch. Have a sausage, egg and cheese biscuit or bacon and eggs. We're grilling burgers, brats and jumbo hot dogs all made with our beef and containing no fillers. It's all beef and all good.

Check us out at our website at quarlesfarm.com or visit us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Quarlesfarm?ref=hl   We try to keep folks up to date on what we're doing and how you're food's grown. Our food is your local connection to healthy eating.

Stone Hedge Farm Produce {Facebook}

Woodford County

This week we are currently harvesting:

Lettuces (Bibb, red and green romaine, green and red and mixed baby leaf, spring mix)

Green (Swiss Chard, kale, spinach, and braising mix)

Root crops (green onions, baby radishes [three types])

Herbs (basil, parsley, cilantro)

Assorted garden plants 

Three Toads Farm {Facebook}

Clark County

That's Charlie standing next to one of our English Sweet Pea pots! This year we're growing 21 varieties of the sweet peas we get directly from Laughing Owl Nursery in England, where the owner has developed the most amazing heat-tolerant varieties of fragrant sweet peas in the world. If you'd like one of these substantial pots, just give Charlie a call (859-771-2085). Follow our growing advice and you'll enjoy vases of these sweet smelling old fashioned darlings all summer long! We'll also have sweet pea bouquets at the Market.

This week we'll also have long, luscious stems of the gorgeous pink lily 'Sorbonne' as well as a variety of Oriental and Oriental Trumpet (OT) lilies ready to plant in gallon containers. They are the PERFECT solution for anyone craving instant gratification! Lilies are tremendous garden performers and will bloom this year and for years to come in your garden!

If you have any questions, or would like to reserve flowers or plants (we deliver weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Lexington), just give us a call or message us on Facebook. Many thanks for your support of locally grown flowers!

Thanks so much for your support of your local farmers!

- Charlie Hendricks, Elizabeth Montgomery and Val Schirmer