Tag Archives: farmers market

Hahira Market Days this Saturday



I asked Hahira’s new special events coordinator, Sherri Burgess,
“when will the Hahira Farmers’ Market be this year?”
She replied:

Market Days will be held on Saturdays from 8 to 12 during the months of June
and July.



Sherri Burgess

Special Event Coordinator

City of Hahira

102 S. Church Street

Hahira, GA 31632

229.794.2567

downtown@hahira.ga.us



So meet us at the caboose on Main Street!
Get there by 8AM if you can; usually sold out by noon.

The pictures of previous Hahira markets are from

26 June 2010,

3 July 2010,
and

10 July 2010.

-jsq

Lenny’s Farmers Market, Americus

Keven Gilbert wrote in The Americus Times-Recorder 14 May 2011,

Lenny’s Market expanding cornucopia:
Offerings include eggs, pastured meats, organic veggies, fruits



Last weekend Lenny’s Market marked opened for the summer season,
showcasing fresh local produce and much more well into the fall. On
Saturday some early offerings were available by a few local producers,
including William and Lydia Overholt and their daughter Eunice. The
Overholts own Willso Farm Bakery and Eggs in Montezuma and have been
selling at Lenny’s Market for the past three years.

“We like to be here every week, Saturdays mostly,” William said.

The Overholts arrived around 7:30 a.m. with fresh picked Vidalia type
onions, beets, romaine lettuce, cabbage and zucchini, ready to sell.

“They’re picked the day before we come down,” William said.

Lydia said that they will have more things as the summer progresses like
green peppers and eggplant.

There’s more in the story about other foods available in the market.

They also have entertainment.
One of my high school friends says a Led Zepellin cover band brought
in some of us old fogies,
and they often have more current music.

-jsq

This post owed to Clayton Freeman.

I sold 40 pounds of potatoes in an hour! —Gretchen Quarterman

People said they’d come back, but I sold out in an hour
and had to tell them you need to come at 9!
Downtown Valdosta Farm Days is a success.

I don’t have any pictures of me or my potatoes, though; sorry.
But here you can see
me digging the same potatoes.



Lots of vendors of food-related items, such as

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May 7: Downtown Valdosta Farm Days




Downtown Valdosta Farm Days begin two weeks from tomorrow:

Bringing the best of the country to the heart of the City!

Downtown Valdosta Farm Days is a bi-weekly farmers’ market featuring
local farmers and artisans and also serves to educate the community
about eating local, nutrition and food choices.

Downtown Farmers Market

First and Third Saturdays from May to September

9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.

Lowndes County Courthouse Square, Downtown Valdosta

There’s a calendar on their

website,
along with how to become a vendor.

And everybody is purring now.
Agriculture, economy, and a festival!
And, it costs the county nothing.

More on this story as it develops.

-jsq

Being proactive —Gretchen Quarterman

At the

Lowndes County Commission work session
on Monday morning,
County Manager Joe Pritchard

distributed a map to the Commissioners
from the Valdosta
Main Street Manager, Amanda Peacock, detailing a proposal for
a Farmer’s Market on the sidewalk of the old County Courthouse.

proactive: serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an
expected occurrence or situation; anticipatory




Lowndes County Commission work session, 12 April 2011, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia.

Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.

While apparently supportive of the initiative, the process could
have

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Videos of Hahira Farmers Market, 10 July 2010



Every Saturday morning
in June and July, there’s

a farmers’ market in Hahira on West Main Street,
near the caboose.

Here Andrew Young tells us about it, Saturday morning, July 10th:

This last Saturday,

Here’s
a playlist for all the movies.
There are more pictures in the flickr set.

-jsq

Hahira Farmers Market, 3 July 2010

It’s bustling in the morning at the Hahira Farmers’ Market:

This time we picked the day before, and got to the market by 8AM.
Gretchen moved quite a bit of sweet corn and okra, and some squash, pickles,
and jam.
Our most unusual items were the pumpkins.

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