Hope Farmers Market Has Lots To Interest Patrons

On Tuesday there was less produce and vendors with the spring crops being mostly finished and the summer crops not yet producing.  Yet there were some new new and returning vendors Arnold Farm had potatoes, onions, salsa, sweet pickles and jams and jellies. Fern Michaels was there with her Fried Pies.  Carolyn’s Kitchen had bread, cinnamon rolls and old fashioned tea cake. Her husband Randell had wooden bowls and wooden mushrooms for sale out of quite a variety of wood.

Hope Connexion had plants for sale. Terry Kirkpatrick had Hannah’s Berries, onions, beets, snap peas. The Salinas family had cabbage, onions, squash, broccoli, jelly and honey. Joseph, known as “the mint man” had cookies. Farm on the Hill had a variety cuts of beef.

The Silveys had quilts, bibs, potholders as well as sourdough bread and rolls, kale, lettuce and radishes and jams and zucchini and banana bread.

There was a drawing for donated items from the vendors at the hospitality table, hosted by Farm Credit. The winner was Mary Ann Leroux.  The basket I used onions, bread, radishes, tea cake, honey, zucchini bread.