Bexley Farmers' Market: August 30th

“In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.”

Julia Child

Why should I shop at a farmers market when my supermarket sells organic, and sometimes even local food?

Stonefield Naturals at the Bexley Farmers' Market

While some food retailers do carry local and organic products, not all of them can carry a variety of local foods, or ensure a fair price to the farmer. Shopping at a farmers market is a wholly unique experience that benefits farmers and producers directly (they go home with a greater share of the retail price than they would by selling wholesale, where the margins are, well, just that– marginal), offering you more unique products, more heirloom varieties, and more opportunities to build relationships and learn about healthy eating. Farmers markets are a community experience, where you can meet your neighbors, friends, and farmers, and where more of your dollar will stay in the community.

Support your community by visiting the Bexley Farmers' Market each Thursday!

Our vendors for Thursday, August 30th include:

GoldenLife Dog Food
Rhoads Farm
Oink Moo Cluck
Sunny Meadows Flower Farm
The Batch Bakery
Shagbark Seed & Mill
Stonefield Naturals
Dan the Baker
Ochs Fruit Farm
Speckled Hen Farm
Sweet Thing Gourmet
VanScoy Farms
Spring Haven Farms
Ohio Farm Direct
Lucky Cat Bakery
Wayward Seed Farm

Join us every Thursday, May through October from 4:00-7:00PM!

Bexley Farmers' Market
2111 East Main Street
Bexley, Ohio 43209

For more information, or questions related to any of our services, please contact us via email at info@bexleyfarmersmarket.com. See you at the market!

Information from FarmersMarketCoalition.org. 

Bexley Farmers' Market: August 23rd

"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people."

Orson Welles

Our vendors for Thursday, August 23rd include:

GoldenLife Dog Food
SaraBee Pure Honey
Rhoads Farm
Oink Moo Cluck
Sunny Meadows Flower Farm
The Batch Bakery
Shagbark Seed & Mill
Stonefield Naturals
Dan the Baker
Ochs Fruit Farm
Speckled Hen Farm
Sweet Thing Gourmet
VanScoy Farms
Spring Haven Farms
Ohio Farm Direct
Lucky Cat Bakery
Wayward Seed Farm
Heavenly Dips

Join us every Thursday, May through October from 4:00-7:00PM!

Bexley Farmers' Market
2111 East Main Street
Bexley, Ohio 43209

For more information, or questions related to any of our services, please contact us via email at info@bexleyfarmersmarket.com. See you at the market!

Bexley Farmers' Market: August 16th

“It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.”

Meryl Streep

There is surprising good news amidst rising concerns about the increasing incidence of obesity and associated chronic conditions. Every day, more communities are converging at farmers markets to begin building healthful relationships with food.

As consumers seek more meaningful relationships with their food, with local farms, and with their neighbors, farmers markets are improving community health, and bring diverse groups of people together through a shared social space. Be a part of your local food scene at the Bexley Farmers' Market!

Our vendors for Thursday, August 16th include:

GoldenLife Dog Food
SaraBee Pure Honey
Rhoads Farm
Oink Moo Cluck
Sunny Meadows Flower Farm
The Batch Bakery
Shagbark Seed & Mill
Stonefield Naturals
Dan the Baker
Ochs Fruit Farm
Speckled Hen Farm
Green Seed Farm
Sweet Thing Gourmet
VanScoy Farms
Spring Haven Farms
Ohio Farm Direct
Lucky Cat Bakery
Wayward Seed Farm

Our food carts: Leslie's Creperie

Our musical entertainment: Ian Hummel

Join us every Thursday, May through October from 4:00-7:00PM!

Bexley Farmers' Market
2111 East Main Street
Bexley, Ohio 43209

For more information, or questions related to any of our services, please contact us via email at info@bexleyfarmersmarket.com. See you at the market!

Information from FarmersMarketCoalition.org.

Bexley Farmers' Market: August 9th

"Watermelon--it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face."

Enrico Caruso

Happy National Farmers Market Week!

United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack proclaimed August 5-11, 2012 as National Farmers Market Week. Since 2000, the number of recorded farmers markets has grown over 170%, from 2,863 markets in 2000 to more than 7,800 in 2012. As demand grows for fresh local food, and shoppers seek relationships with the farms that make such food possible, farmers markets represent an important retail option that bolster local economies in communities large and small.

"Farmers markets are the ultimate green sector of the economy,” says Bernadine Prince, President of the Farmers Market Coalition. “They are stand-out successes in and spurring sustainable economic development. During Farmers Market Week, FMC encourages everyone to spend at least $10 at a local farmers market, and celebrate the power of farmers markets to incubate entrepreneurship and nourish both rural and urban economies.”

Our vendors for Thursday, August 9th include:

GoldenLife Dog Food
SaraBee Pure Honey
Rhoads Farm
Oink Moo Cluck
Sunny Meadows Flower Farm
The Batch Bakery
Shagbark Seed & Mill
Stonefield Naturals
Dan the Baker
Ochs Fruit Farm
Speckled Hen Farm
Green Seed Farm
Sweet Thing Gourmet
VanScoy Farms
Spring Haven Farms
Ohio Farm Direct
Lucky Cat Bakery
Wayward Seed Farm
Heavenly Dips

Our food carts: Leslie's Creperie

Join us every Thursday, May through October from 4:00-7:00PM!

Bexley Farmers' Market
2111 East Main Street
Bexley, Ohio 43209

For more information, or questions related to any of our services, please contact us via email at info@bexleyfarmersmarket.com. See you at the market!

Information from FarmersMarketCoalition.org.

Bexley Farmers' Market: August 2nd

"Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie."

Garfield

Are you familiar with hydroponic growing? If not, visit VanScoy Farms at the Bexley Farmers' Market! And before you go, watch this video about their farm produced by Our Ohio.

Our vendors for Thursday, August 2nd include:

GoldenLife Dog Food
SaraBee Pure Honey
Rhoads Farm
Oink Moo Cluck
Sunny Meadows Flower Farm
The Batch Bakery
Shagbark Seed & Mill
Stonefield Naturals
Dan the Baker
Ochs Fruit Farm
Speckled Hen Farm

Sweet Thing Gourmet
VanScoy Farms
Spring Haven Farms
Ohio Farm Direct
Lucky Cat Bakery
Wayward Seed Farm

Our food carts: Leslie's Creperie

Our musical entertainment: John Millard

Join us every Thursday, May through October from 4:00-7:00PM!

Bexley Farmers' Market
2111 East Main Street
Bexley, Ohio 43209

For more information, or questions related to any of our services, please contact us via email at info@bexleyfarmersmarket.com. See you at the market!

Bexley Farmers' Market: July 26th

“If you eat, you’re involved in agriculture.”

Wendell Berry
 
On Tuesday, July 24th, Ohio First Lady Karen W. Kasich and Ohio Agriculture Director David T. Daniels recognized Women in Ohio Agriculture at the Governor's Residence in Bexley, Ohio.

“These Ohio women have had an incredible impact on our state’s largest industry,” said Mrs. Kasich, who announced the creation of the award during last year’s Ohio State Fair. “It is an honor to recognize them today for their strength, leadership, and outstanding contributions.”

Among the nominees was our very own Kathy Rhoads from Rhoads Farm. Rhoads Farm has been a fixture in the central Ohio community since 1958, and Kathy is a true agricultural advocate. Read more about Kathy and Rhoads Farm in the Spring 2011 issue of Edible Columbus.

To Kathy and all the women in agriculture, congratulations and THANK YOU!'

And this week, Bleu & Fig joins us for a delicious and seasonal cooking demonstration--Watermelon Gazpacho! 

Our vendors for Thursday, July 26th include:

GoldenLife Dog Food
SaraBee Pure Honey
Rhoads Farm
Oink Moo Cluck
Sunny Meadows Flower Farm
The Batch Bakery
Shagbark Seed & Mill
Stonefield Naturals
Dan the Baker
Ochs Fruit Farm
Speckled Hen Farm
Sweet Thing Gourmet
VanScoy Farms
Spring Haven Farms
Ohio Farm Direct
Lucky Cat Bakery
Wayward Seed Farm

Our food carts: Leslie's Creperie

Join us every Thursday, May through October from 4:00-7:00PM!

Bexley Farmers' Market
2111 East Main StreetBexley, Ohio 43209

For more information, or questions related to any of our services, please contact us via email at info@bexleyfarmersmarket.com. See you at the market!

Bexley Farmers' Market: July 19th

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

Virginia Woolf

Mark your calendars for Saturday, August 18th and come swap your homemade food goods. Join your Columbus neighbors for the first Eastside Food Swap.

What's a food swap? A food swap is an event where a bunch of people bring homemade foods (mostly preserved or otherwise storable foods) to barter for other people's homemade foods. For example, you might have gone overboard and made 10 jars of strawberry jam and you're thinking, "What am I going to do with all this strawberry jam?" Your neighbor is thinking, "What am I going to do with these 10 bottles of tarragon flavored vinegar?" If you both bring half your jars to the food swap and switch them out for foods you want, everybody wins!

Our vendors for Thursday, July 19th include:

GoldenLife Dog Food
SaraBee Pure Honey
Rhoads Farm
Oink Moo Cluck
Sunny Meadows Flower Farm
The Batch Bakery
Shagbark Seed & Mill
Stonefield Naturals
Dan the Baker
Ochs Fruit Farm
Speckled Hen Farm
Sweet Thing Gourmet
VanScoy Farms
Spring Haven Farms
Ohio Farm Direct
Lucky Cat Bakery
Wayward Seed Farm
Heavenly Dips

Our food carts: Leslie's Creperie

Our musical entertainment: Ian Hummel

Join us every Thursday, May through October from 4:00-7:00PM!

Bexley Farmers' Market
2111 East Main Street
Bexley, Ohio 43209

For more information, or questions related to any of our services, please contact us via email at info@bexleyfarmersmarket.com. See you at the market!