Farmers markets are up and running
The Coshocton Farmers Market is open from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Saturdays in Downtown Coshocton. (Marianne Austin)
Fresno’s Farmers Market is open every Saturday morning from 8 a.m. to noon in the Fresno Bible Church parking lot on State Route 93. (Submitted)
Fresno’s Farmers Market is open every Saturday morning from 8 a.m. to noon in the Fresno Bible Church parking lot on State Route 93.
“We are trying to stay within the guidelines,” said Sheila Mullet. “We’re asking all the vendors to wear masks. We have ropes up and have pulled the tables back to stay within the six foot distance. We bag it all up and hand it to you to make sure everything is safe. We also have a walkway to come in and go out at the other end.”
Two of the vendors are selling from home right now. Scott who makes the birdhouses and Bill who has rhubarb. But the market still has a variety of plants including yucca and perennials and produce like kale, asparagus, radishes and lettuce, according to Mullet. The market has plenty of home baked goods and craft items again this year.
The Coshocton Farmers Market also has a lot to offer this year.
“Come on out and support your local farmers market and local people,” said Becky Bowden, vice-president of the Coshocton Farmers Market Association. “We had a late spring so we missed out on a lot of spring flowers but I have fresh asparagus just cut yesterday and it was a great year for maple syrup.”
Bowden’s Winding Creek Farm has tomato plants, honey and maple syrup right now.
“Come out and support us,” She said. “Plants don’t stop growing and bees don’t stop making honey.”
Penny Carroll and her helper Theresa McConnell were busy at a recent farmers market on the court square. Carroll has been selling plants at the market for 16 years. She starts her plants in the ground in pots. “That way, when they come up I know they are going to live,” she said. “Garden rocks, perennials, tall grasses, trees including Red Bud trees, Buckeye trees, Rose of Sharon. I have a mini nursery. It gives me something to do so I can buy more flowers.”
Abigail Ambrose started making scrunchies and jewelry while in college. “I needed a hobby since the pandemic,” she said. Her booth, Ambrose Treasures, offers handmade necklaces, tennis bracelets, earrings and scrunchies.
Carol Caspar and Tom Harmon’s stand, Carols Country Crafts, have a variety of unique woodcrafts. Welcome signs, yard art, decorations, folk art and even wooden toys
Using the high tunnel gardening method Edwin and Elsie Sommers from Winding Creek Farm were already selling green beans and cucumbers at the market. A high tunnel is a plastic-covered structure that is used to grow crops. Crops are usually grown in the ground within the high tunnel. They not only sell produce but succulents, miniature gardens, Sand Art terrariums, and planters. They also will have blueberries very soon.
The Coshocton Farmers Market is open from 8:30 a.m. to noon in Downtown Coshocton.
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