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Crafts, Produce Available at Farmers Market Opening Weekend

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Nine local vendors opened shop at the McKenzie Farmers Market opening weekend, selling a large variety of fresh produce, crafts, plants and more.

Camp Costello Farms from Hollow Rock sold locally-sourced honey. Kathryn and Sarah McDonald with Orange Cat Market sold vegetables from Purple Radish Produce, baked goods from the Toasted Mocha Bakery and crafts from The Mission Shop. Charlotte Wise sold homegrown cauliflower, kale, green onions, squash and cabbage. Linda Swalley sold homemade sourdough bread, fruit breads and jelly. She also sold flowers and hand-crafted birdhouses.

Virginia Watkins and Patsy McCaig shared a booth selling books and various crafts. Watkins sold handmade cards, junk journals and photo albums. McCaig sold handmade pillows crafted from t-shirts. Marie Burkholder sold her famed hand-woven baskets. Bakers’ Acres Farms set up a booth and had a cooler of ready-to-cook pasture-fed broiler chicken.

Casey Gant, of Ladybug Landscapes, sold perennials, house plants, succulents, and fresh-cut herbs sourced from her garden. She offered samples of all-natural infused sweet tea, made with black tea, lemon balm, spearmint and stevia. Mahlon Troyer sold fresh squash, cucumbers, zucchini, broccoli and green tomatoes.

Booth rentals are $5 per Saturday or $20 for the season. Season vendors paying $20 can set up Saturdays and Tuesdays and can set up in the pavilions any other day throughout the season.

The Farmers Market is open each Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon (or until vendors sell out), and Tuesdays, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.