The Chelsea Farmers Market takes place each Saturday at the Palmer parking lot from 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
The winter market begins on Nov. 5 and takes place in the Washington Street Education Center.
Chelsea Update is profiling vendors at the Chelsea Farmers Market and this week, it’s Fluffy Bottom Farms.
Fluffy Bottom Farms is a local family farm in its second year at the Chelsea Farmers Market, and it sells its products all over Michigan.
The owners are Kelli Conlin, who grew up on a farm, and Angie Martel. They both subscribe to their company’s slogan “the best thing you’ll eat today.”
When Conlin was living in New York, she met an elderly Italian man in her Brooklyn neighborhood, who taught her how to make cheese. When she and her family moved back to Chelsea, they began their artisanal creamery.
“We are mindful of the carbon footprint,” said Martel. “Our cheese has a fermentation process that requires lots of care and time.”
Fluffy Bottom Farms sells cheese and yogurt with no preservatives that come from Jersey cows and sheep.
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.
- Kapnicks: 10 varieties of apples, unpasteurized cider
- Affeathermations: Natural media crafts for ceremony and celebration. Bark art, wall hangings, medicine wheels, heal-the-earth wreaths, fans, rattles, and owls.
- Goetz: parsnips, lettuce, sweet potatoes, pie pumpkins, gourds, Indian corn, brussel sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, edamame, leeks, kale, eggplant, basil, free range eggs, beets, beans, peppers, onions, garlic, cucumbers, zucchini, potatoes
- Frog Hollar: apples, squash
- Stone hearth: bread, cookies, brownies
- Heim: leeks, tomatoes, peaches, eggplant, beets, potatoes, onions, cabbage, peppers, carrots, zucchini, kohlrabi, green and yellow beans
- Two Tracks: breakfast sausage, Italian sausage, chorizo, pork chops, ribs, polish sausage, pork roasts, ground pork, chicken
- Tantre: mushrooms, radishes, carrots, potatoes, kale, arugula, lettuce, collards, carrots, swiss chard, broccoli, poblano peppers, celery winter squash, cabbage, heirloom, tomatoes, fresh garlic, peppers, eggplant, hot peppers, flowers
- Lands of Bru-Garick: potatoes, eggs, hand-crafted goods
- H and H: maple syrup
- Dave’s Honey: honey
- LA Baguette: baked goods, baguettes
- Bean Creek Cookie Co: old fashioned cookies made from scratch, caramel corn
- Thistle Blossom Herbals: Salve, infused herbal medicine oils, moisturizer oils and lotion bars and our famous lavender linen spray
- Bordine: cut flowers
- Brieland Schoultz: pumpkins, tomatoes, potatoes, yellow squash, swiss chard, eggs
- Elysium Soap: soap, lotions, lip balm
- Robin Hills: beets, carrots, fennel, ginger, turmeric, sweet peppers, kohlrabi, rutabaga, eggplant, daikon radish, collards
- Fluffy Bottom: sheep’s milk cheeses and yogurt
- The Barn: rustic benches from reclaimed barn wood
- HummusFilafil: hummus and falafel
- (maybe) Pastry Garden: cupcakes, tarts and pastries
- Myer Jam: assorted jams
- Gerry Gasche: raspberries
