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July 2: Elysium Soap featured vendor at the Saturday Chelsea Farmers Market

Meet the family behind Elysium Soap, this week's featured vendor at the Saturday Farmers Market.
Meet the family behind Elysium Soap, this week’s featured vendor at the Saturday Farmers Market.

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

Each week, Chelsea Update is profiling one of its vendors.

Andi Philippe had been making soap for herself for about seven years when she came to the realization that a small batch was enough to last her for six months.  “I used to work at Whole Foods and bought soap there and still wanted nice soap when I left,” she explained. Along with her husband, John Luther, the couple began selling the homemade soap at the Saturday farmers market this season at their booth, Elysium Soap.

They also sell lotion, lip balm, and bath balm.

“We love living within walking distance of the market,” said Phillipe, who adds that they have been shoppers at the market for several years.

“Chelsea is a close knit community,” said Luther. “Our kids have thrived here, and we’ve had a good experience at the market.”

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.)

raspberriesKapnick Orchards: Tart cherries, red raspberries, potatoes, baked goods

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

Fluffy Bottom Creamery: sheep’s milk cheeses and yogurt

Country Hills Pottery: pottery

Fluffy Bottom Creamery: artisanal yogurt and cheese

Chandra June: jewelry

Debbie’s Bead Design: jewelry

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, sugar snap peas, shell peas, broccoli, zucchini, yellow squash, free range eggs, radishes, herbs, flower bouquets, hanging baskets

Lands of Bru-Garick: eggs, red romaine lettuce, potatoes

bacon two tracksStone Hearth Bakery: bread, cookies – check out the new sugar cookies, brownies

Heim Gardens: asparagus, kohlrabi, strawberries, edible pea pods, radishes

Frog Hollar: Michigan sweet cherries, blueberries, tomatoes, red potatoes, green onions, radishes, kale.

Dave’s Honey: honey

HumusFilafil: hummus and falafel

Fresh: fresh roasted coffee

La Baguette: baked goods, baguettes

Bean Creek Cookie Company: old fashioned cookies made from scratch, light and fluffy caramel corn

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

Bordine Farms: flower bulbs, plants

assorted-vegetablesBrieland Shoultz: eggs, vegetables, soap, jam

Elysium Soap: soap, lotions, lip balm

Herbology 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: collard greens, chrysanthemum greens, sunflowers, pasture raised chickens

Tantre Farms: strawberries, root cellar potatoes, green onions, summer onions, kale, arugula, rutabaga, lettuce mix, head lettuce, snap peas, shelling peas, spinach, collards, zucchini, radishes, white turnips, garlic, carrots, summer squash, asparagus, kohlrabi, mushrooms, fava beans, Swiss chard, broccoli, rhubarb.

Heaven’s Gate Soy Candles: Soy Candles

There are several types of bread to be found at the market, too.
There are several types of bread to be found at the market, too.

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

Dancy’s Fancy Butter: assorted flavors of butter

The Barn: rustic benches from reclaimed barnwood

H and H Sugarbush: maple syrup and maple syrup products.

Blue Moon Signs: hand painted signs

Cooking demo: dill new potato salad

Fluffy-Bottom-cheese

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