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June 25: Get Down Farm featured vendor at the Chelsea Farmers Market

Courtesy photo. Get Down Farm is the featured vendor this week.
Courtesy photo. Get Down Farm is the featured vendor this week.
Courtesy photo. Chickens at Get Down Farm.
Courtesy photo. Freedom Ranger chickens at Get Down Farm.

The Chelsea Farmers Market takes place each Saturday at the Palmer parking lot from 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Chelsea Update is profiling vendors at the Chelsea Farmers Market.

Robin Hills Farm is beginning its first partnership at the June 25 market. Their vegetable manager Bee Ayer and two partners are the owners of Get Down Farm, where they have pasture raised Freedom Ranger chickens.

“Robin Hills is contracting with Get Down Farm to grow chickens,” said Ayer. “It’s a great opportunity.”

Ayer has been farming since she was 17 and taught urban chicken raising at the City Chicken Institute in New York City.

“I started out volunteering at Ann Arbor Community Farm and at Tantre Farm,” said Ayer, who was raised in Michigan but left to be a food educator in both Hudson Valley, New York and in New York City.

Get Down Farm is located in Scio Township.

Visit the Robin Hills Farm stand to learn more about how to sign up to receive a chicken share, which will be available from June to November.

Chickens vary in size between 4 to 5.5 pounds and are frozen and shrink wrapped whole. They can be picked up at the Saturday market or at Robin Hills Farm on Tuesdays from 4-6:30 p.m.

Below is the list of vendors who are expected to be there. Please keep in mind that sometimes the vendors aren’t able to attend the market and that planned products are not available.

strawberriesKapnick Orchards: Strawberries, snap peas, tart cherries (maybe).

Afeathermations: Natural media crafts for ceremony and celebration. Bark art, wall hangings, medicine wheels, heal-the-earth wreaths, fans, rattles, and owls this week.

Fluffy Bottom Creamery: sheep’s milk cheeses and yogurt

Country Hills Pottery: pottery

Fluffy Bottom Creamery: artisanal yogurt and cheese

Debbie’s Bead Design: jewelry

(maybe) Stamatopoulos and Sons: olives, handcrafted face and body creams made with olive oil, olive oil.

Two Tracks Acres: breakfast sausage, Italian sausage, chorizo, pork chops, ribs, polish sausage, pork roasts, ground pork, chicken

Goetz Greenhouse: Swiss chard, kale, sweet onions, beets, cucumbers, hoop house tomatoes, lettuce, fresh basil, shell peas, broccoli, zucchini, yellow squash, free range eggs, garlic scapes, radishes, herbs, flower bouquets, hanging baskets.

Lands of Bru-Garick: eggs, red romaine lettuce, sweet peas, new redskin potatoes.

Stone Hearth Bakery: bread, cookies, brownies

Heim Gardens: asparagus, kohlrabi, strawberries, peas, radishes.

honey-from-Saturday-marketFrog Hollar: strawberries, radishes.

Dave’s Honey: honey

HumusFilafil: hummus and falafel

Fresh: fresh roasted coffee

La Baguette: baked goods, baguettes

Bean Creek Cookie Company: cookies, baked goods

Thistle Blossom Herbals: Salves, infused herbal medicine oils, moisturizer oils and lotion bars and our famous lavender linen spray

Bordine Farms: flower bulbs, plants

Brieland Shoultz: eggs, vegetables, soap, jam

Elysium Soap: soap, lotions, lip balm

hanging-basket-flowersHerbology Organics: all natural, eco-friendly and sustainably sourced Apothecary items that are custom infused with therapeutic grade Essential Oils, Botanical’s and Extracts, ranging from Personal Bath and Body Care items, to Home and Pet Care products.

Robin Hills Farm: strawberries, seven varieties of oyster mushrooms, seven varieties of shitake mushrooms, pasture raised chickens.

Carolyn Myer: jams and jellies

Tantre Farms: strawberries, root cellar potatoes, green onions kale, rutabaga, lettuce mix, head lettuce, snap peas, spinach, collards, radishes, white turnips, carrots, summer squash, asparagus, garlic scapes, kohlrabi, mushrooms.

Heaven’s Gate Soy Candles: Soy Candles

Mostly Green Acres:  soy free, organic fed, free range chicken eggs and whole chickens, grass fed beef,

eggsDancy’s Fancy Butter: assorted flavors of butter

Bristle’s Homemade and Homegrown:  knitted items, such as hand towels, dish cloths, scrubbies, and “kitty nippers” (for cat nip), potato bags, jar mixes filled for easy-soup and cookies, some produce. Special orders available for knitted items.

Cork and Palette: garden and kitchen art

The Barn: rustic benches from reclaimed barnwood

Merkel Gardens: hanging baskets, flower and veggie starts

HWK Designs: jewelry

Senior Project Fresh sign-up: 10-12 participants are given 10 $2 vouchers to use at the market one fruits and vegetables. To qualify, you must be 60 years or older, have a household income of 185 percent of the poverty level or less and be registered with the program. See www.chelseafarmersmkt.org/assistance/ for more details.

Children’s booth from 9 a.m. to noon

Basket giveaway. The end of the month drawing to win a basket full of donations from the vendors

Music by Keith Parmentier from 10 a.m. to noon.

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