It is the first Saturday of the month and as is a tradition of days like this, the Downtown Terre Haute Farmers Market opened on from 9.00am to 1.00pm as expected. The market runs from November and runs through May.
The market stocked several food and farm products. Many of the traders had different stories to tell about their experience. The selling point of most of the traders is the fact that the farm produce they sell is from small and well tended farms that adopt organic farming methods. This is a key selling point for the products.
I managed to interview a few traders who had their goods on display at the market. Aimee Wyeth had baked good and homemade jams gotten from a garden that her mother and her maintain.
Asked of her view about this year’s market, she said that this year’s market was better than last year’s. She attributed the difference to the spread of the information about the market by word of mouth.
Her jams were made from local plums, pears, strawberries, and jalepenos. This, she said, marked her second year operating inside the market; it also ends the third season of her selling in the outdoor summer market.
The other operators were the White Violet Centre that is run by the Sisters of Providence, and they dealt in greens that they grow at a property at St. Mary-of-the-Woods.
They had friendly prices with a bag of fresh spinach going for $3, one of arugula going $3, a pound of carrots going for $2 and a bunch of kale going for $2. The produce is grown both outdoors in the cool weather and in green houses throughout the season.
I was a great day inside the Farmer’s Marketinside Clabber Girl market, if you missed this one the market will run on the first Saturday of every month from 9.00 am to the 1:00 pm till May.
