At the Saturday Downtown Farmers’ Market on Aug. 17 is a special cooking demonstration for kids.
There will be After School Snack Recipe Demos, Choose My Plate Activity, a Farmer’s Market Scavenger Hunt, and more at the market from 8-noon in the library lot.
At 9 a.m. is Caprese Salad Sticks, at 10 a.m. Parmesan Kale Chips, and at 11 a.m. Chocolate Berry Parfait demos.
Saturday’s music is Dave Boutette, who begins playing at 10 a.m.
Here’s what the vendors expect to have:
Back Forty Acres – Meats /Poultry/Eggs, all raised naturally
Beverly’s Crafts and More – Pillows, baked goods, body cream, soap, granola, tarts and pies – newest addition is strawberry cheesecake in a jar.
Chandra June – Raw gemstone jewelry
Frog Hollar Farms – Produce, home-baked breads and cakes, crafts, cut flowers, and more
fresh – Locally roasted coffee beans
Greystone Farm & Creamery – Cream cheeses, Camembert style cheeses, feta, and gouda, and manchego style cheeses from the sheep’s milk.
H & H Sugarbush – Maple syrup, maple cream, maple candy, maple nuts, popcorn
Heim Gardens – Perennials, annuals, hanging baskets, planters, produce (carrots, summer squash, onions, snap peas)
Kapnick Farms: Tart cherries, raspberries, peaches, blueberries, maybe baking apples, fudge and baked sweet rolls. New this week for Kapnicks, red haven peaches, paula red apples, shiro plums and maybe some blackberries. Still lots of sweet blueberries and flaming fury peaches.
Greystone Creamery: feta, possibly ricotta, Man-chel cheese, possibly cow Gouda, Chelsea-cam, Rosy-cam, blue Man-chel, sheep Gouda, butternut, garlic pepper and plain cream cheese.
La Baguette – French breads and baked goods
Janet’s LLC: grilling rubs, jam, flavored nuts, suckers, cajun butter, spices to make flavored butter, U-M and MSU dolls, and greeting cards.
Mama Mo: hummus and seitan. Hummus flavors include ginger squash, tan/cran orange, sesame chive satay, kalamata rosemary, black pepper walnut, roasted pepper, horseradish, roasted garlic, traditional, lemon zest, curry lime, tomato basil, onion dill, roasted beet, wasabi, jalapeno, chipotle. Seitan flavors include: nuggets, traditional, fajita strips, Italian fennel sausage, breakfast sage sausage, vegan BBQ, BBQ, roast.
Merkel Gardens & Greenhouses – Hanging baskets, flats and produce (tomatoes, greens, onions)
Myer’s Blackberry Farm – blackberries , raspberries, jams and vegetables
Ruhlig’s Produce – Wide variety of vegetables and cut flower
Stone Hearth Breads and Bakery: pumpernickel, German rye and German rye seeded, Italian Milano, honey whole wheat, San Francisco sourdough, assorted cookies and buns, four-cheese pepperoni rolls, spinach feta cheese bread, multi-grain bread, country loaf, cheese bread, rosemary herb and tomato basil bread, four-cheese bread sticks, jalapeno cheese bread and assorted sweet breads — including cinnamon, cinnamon raisin, strawberry white chocolate, peach pecan, wild blueberry cream cheese, Reuben rolls, and bacon cheddar beer bread.
Tantre Farm – Organic Produce: Beans (Tongue of Fire, Yellow), Beets (Chioggia – bulls eye, Cylindra- long root, red), Blackberries, Cabbage (Green, Red) , Carrots, Swiss Chard, Collard Greens, Cucumbers, Eggplant, Garlic bulbs, Kale (Green Curly, Lacinato, Red Russian), Kohlrabi, Leeks, Lettuce, Onions (Green, Red, Yellow), Peppers (sweet green bell, hot -mixed), Red Potatoes, Tomatoes (cherry/grape, green, sauce/plum), Watermelon (red & yellow), Zucchini (green & golden).
Tasty Bakery – Gluten-free baked goods
