By Stephanie Willette
Janet Brown has been running her business, Janet’s LLC, for about 15 years.
A vendor at the Bushel Basket Market on Wednesdays, she sells cards, jams, nuts, pretzels, dolls, sweets, dried fruit and nuts, Dammit dolls, caramel corn, lemon eucalyptus lotion, and herb rub.
Janet started out at Kerrytown in Ann Arbor with spices. Then she expanded into peanuts and nuts because no one else was doing it.
“I get bored,” she said, “which is why I have such a variety.”
Looking at her stand, one can see she has a huge creative side in the uniqueness of products she offers.
Janet’s LLC can be found at the Bushel Basket Market, at the Henry Ford Allegiance Hospital in Jackson, and in late September, she will be at the market in Greenfield Village. Around the holidays she expands her selection to include chocolate dipped items, something you won’t want to miss.
The Wednesday Bushel Basket Farmers Market offers folks a mid-week opportunity to shop for fresh and local products at the Palmer parking lot from 2-6 p.m.
Fun this week: the market will host a corn roast from 2-4 p.m. Stockwell’s Catering will be roasting freshly picked corn so stop by for a snack.
Please keep in mind that sometimes the vendors are unable to make the market or the products they plan to have are not available.
Mark’s Farm: maple syrup, cabbage, kale, Swiss chard, broccoli, beets, sweet onions, cooking onions, shallots, garlic, potatoes, hot and sweet peppers, zucchini, summer squash, sun-ripened in the field tomatoes, winter squash, watermelon.
Golden Fleece Farm: Grass fed beef, patties, ground round, bones, eggs, steaks, sirloin, ribeye, porterhouse, T-bone, pastured raised chicken, beef liver.
Kapnick Orchards: Baked goods, fudge, nut butters, bread, donuts, freestone peaches, nectarines, pears, Paula red and ginger gold, and gala apples.
Stone Hearth Bakery: assorted artisan breads all baked from scratch with no preservatives, hot dog buns, cookies – check out the new sugar cookies, triple chocolate chunk brownies, fruit breads, including red raspberry, strawberry, wild blueberry, apple, cinnamon raison, 4-cheese pepperoni rolls, 4-cheese habanero pepperoni rolls (both two to a pack).
Lutchka Angus: honey, winter squash, cabbage, zucchini, eggplant, redskin potatoes, cukes – large and small, Yukon gold potatoes, hot and sweet peppers, patty-pan squash, sunflowers, zinnias, dahlias, salad cukes, beets, tomatoes.
Kapp Bakery: baked goods, tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, potatoes.
Family Circle Centennial Farm: honey, maybe microgreens, basil, rosemary and thyme, garlic, gift certificates, T-shirts and bags, maybe radishes, maybe summer squash, maybe tomatoes, onions, cukes, maybe beans, maybe eggplant, winter squash.
Needle Lane Farm: kale, chard, okra, herbs, eggplant, hot peppers, green onions, basil, sweet peppers, tomatoes, honey, pole beans, dragon tongue beans, tomatillo, shitake mushrooms.
Pregitzer Farm Market. Herbs, veggies, zucchini, cherry tomatoes, summer squash, cucumbers, beans, broccoli, sweet corn, cauliflower, tomatoes, peppers, kale, watermelon.
Bordine Farms: cut flowers
Janet’s LLC: cards, jams, nuts, pretzels, dolls, sweets, dried fruit and nuts, Dammit dolls, caramel corn, lemon eucalyptus lotion, herb rub.
HumusFalafil: hummus, falafel and baklava
Country Home Bakery: assorted fruit pies, breads, specialty breads, assorted cookies, cinnamon rolls, fruit coffee cake, jam, crafts, strawberry cobbler, garden signs, muffins (stop by and discover the flavor of the week).
Jacob’s Fresh Farm Shares: eggs
Hanover Craft Meats: pasture-raised, non-GMO pork.
Kapp’s Bakery: pretzels, cookies, zucchini, cukes, green beans, kale, dried herbs.
Gerry Gasche: raspberries and blackberries
Elysium Soap: soap
Bunch O Pines: raspberries and blackberries
Myer Jam
K’s Acres: peaches, nectarines, strawberries, early season apples good for pies – Gravenstein Heritage Apples 1600 Circa, Summer Rambo 1600 Circa, Wealthy 1800 circa. Also Williams Prides and Mollies Delicious.
Chelsea Library staff will be available to sign people up for library cards
Download the new vendor app: chelseavendors.org
