Market Report for July 15, 2016

What a busy night at the Toledo Farmers’ Market. Kristi had a table full of rolls, kolaches, twisty, pies, crisps, bars, coffee cake, and cookies. She also had cute little helpers, her grandsons.

Cindy pulled up in her road side stand full of sweet corn, taters, mini cabbage, and cucumbers. When Cindy isn’t at the market she is selling sweet corn in the parking lot of the Big T. Darold had cabbage, yellow beans, leeks, green peppers, kohlrabi, yellow tomatoes, potatoes, zucchini, and egg plant. Vernon and Wilma had plenty of eggs.

Jim and Penny from Busy Bee Acres were back with assorted sizes of honey, maple syrup, honey lip balm, honey sticks, solid lotion bars, and plantain salve. Shirley and Michael had noodles, kolaches, buchty, kuchen and rolicky. Tom and Nancy had green peppers, kohlrabi, tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, banana peppers, jams, and an assortment of frozen buffalo meat. Chuck and Ginger had potatoes, zucchini, summer squash, broccoli, cucumbers, leeks, cabbage, egg plant, okra, green beans, popcorn, kolaches, breads, pies, and angel food cakes. Dawn was back with jams, tiki torches, pie plate stands, fresh and dried herbs, leeks, broccoli, beets, last of the turnips, taters, tomatoes, sweet onions, rhubarb, mulberries, swiss chard and kohlrabi. Sheryl had all her cute little ceramic horses, chickens, monkeys, lizards, worms, hedge hogs, frogs, owls, teddy bears, elephants, lady bugs, squirrels, turtles, football nite lights. She also had her handmade towel sets, scrubbies, bowl holders, dishcloths, and potholders. Janet had eggs, cupcakes, cookies, and banana bread.

Joe and Barb had a helper this week. They had crisp, jams, breads, granola, leeks, brussel sprouts, beets, onions, red cabbage, broccoli, and taters. Karen had plenty of soy candles, sachets, sprays and sprays. Kathy had chocolate raspberry bars, rolls, Danish, kolaches, nut coild, asiago rolls, bread, cookies, and snack mixes. Tassy had cute cut flower bouquets, hand scrub, popsicles, cookies, whoopee pies, turnovers, Dutch letter bars and party mix. Renee a new vendor was here with homemade assortment of jewelry, along with crocheted dishcloths and placemats.

Red Earth Gardens had there portable roadside stand full of turnips, kohlrabi, red and green cabbage, broccoli, radish, kale, tomatoes and green onions.

As you can see the Toledo Farmers’ Market is growing. Be sure to come out and make you market purchases.

I hope everyone has noticed the new Toledo Farmers’ Market signs. One is on Iowa Step & Tank’s fence on Highway 63. The other sign is on the fence at the Toledo Sewer plant on the south side of Highway 30 It is on the fence that runs north and south, just over Deer Creek’s bridge before you exit for Toledo.

The Toledo Farmers’ Market is grateful for Kendall from Iowa Step & Tank and the City of Toledo for allowing me to hang those signs on your fences. I would also like to give thumbs up to my son Curt along with my grandson Austin for helping me hang those signs.

Those signs would not have been possible without the funds I received from a Local Foods Grant. The local extension office helped me make sure I was following everything I needed to make those signs possible. The balance of cost of the signs was picked up by Kupka Excavating and Trucking.

These signs will be taken down when the market season is over and put back up when market starts. I had the signs made by Carol’s Barnyard Creations out of Amana. It was a large busy task but it was accomplished with great results.

See you at market.