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Inaugural St. David Farmers Market set this Saturday
The St. David Farmers Market will open its first season of weekly Saturday morning markets from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 27 at the St. David School at 70 E. Patton St. (Hwy 80.)
The farmers market will be held in the school's solar ramada area with playground and shaded seating or indoors in "K" Hall in the event of high winds or rain.
The opening celebration will include live country music by Little Homestead, a family band from Benson, a petting zoo with baby goats, lambs, rabbits and chicks, solar cooking, carving and spinning demonstrations, hot food for breakfast and lunch and a ceremony at 10 a.m. when a representative of the school district will welcome this venture between the farmers market and the St. David Unified School District. This partnership is breaking new ground as it represents the first farmers market to be located at a school in Arizona. Students in Career Technical Education programs such as Future Farmers of America and the Culinary Arts program will be able to sell what they grow, bake or make in compliance with the market's agriculturally-based guidelines.
This week look for lots of fresh produce, herbs, seedlings and plants from local farmers and backyard growers, farm eggs, honey, pistachios and pecans, emu oil products, baked goods galore, wool and handspun yarn for fiber artists, weavings, gourds, seeds, goat's milk soap, mesquite, regular and corn tortillas, mesquite baked goods, fresh salsa, tamales, desert health foods (prickly pear nectar & fruit leather & chia), preserves (BBQ sauce, cactus jellies & syrups), frozen home-style spaghetti sauce, local pinto beans, nine bean soup mix and Sonoran desert tepary beans, herbal remedies, hand carved wooden spoons and tropical flowering houseplants grown in greenhouses in Willcox. Chicken tractors and made-to-order goat milkers will also be for sale.
Everyone interested in selling locally raised produce and herbs, meats, plants, cut flowers and other agricultural products or things made from them or locally made pickles and jams (prepared in a licensed kitchen) can contact market manager, Ron Millet, at (520) 221-1074 and stdavidfarmersmarket@yahoo.com for more information and a vendor application. Backyard growers with small amounts of vegetables and fruits, plant starts, gourds and seeds are welcome at a special card table rate.
The farmers market will be held in the school's solar ramada area with playground and shaded seating or indoors in "K" Hall in the event of high winds or rain.
The opening celebration will include live country music by Little Homestead, a family band from Benson, a petting zoo with baby goats, lambs, rabbits and chicks, solar cooking, carving and spinning demonstrations, hot food for breakfast and lunch and a ceremony at 10 a.m. when a representative of the school district will welcome this venture between the farmers market and the St. David Unified School District. This partnership is breaking new ground as it represents the first farmers market to be located at a school in Arizona. Students in Career Technical Education programs such as Future Farmers of America and the Culinary Arts program will be able to sell what they grow, bake or make in compliance with the market's agriculturally-based guidelines.
This week look for lots of fresh produce, herbs, seedlings and plants from local farmers and backyard growers, farm eggs, honey, pistachios and pecans, emu oil products, baked goods galore, wool and handspun yarn for fiber artists, weavings, gourds, seeds, goat's milk soap, mesquite, regular and corn tortillas, mesquite baked goods, fresh salsa, tamales, desert health foods (prickly pear nectar & fruit leather & chia), preserves (BBQ sauce, cactus jellies & syrups), frozen home-style spaghetti sauce, local pinto beans, nine bean soup mix and Sonoran desert tepary beans, herbal remedies, hand carved wooden spoons and tropical flowering houseplants grown in greenhouses in Willcox. Chicken tractors and made-to-order goat milkers will also be for sale.
Everyone interested in selling locally raised produce and herbs, meats, plants, cut flowers and other agricultural products or things made from them or locally made pickles and jams (prepared in a licensed kitchen) can contact market manager, Ron Millet, at (520) 221-1074 and stdavidfarmersmarket@yahoo.com for more information and a vendor application. Backyard growers with small amounts of vegetables and fruits, plant starts, gourds and seeds are welcome at a special card table rate.
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