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Our Sunday Market Alerting our neighbors about where some of the BEST Locally Produced Food Can Be Found in VA

06/04/2026

Data Centers about to pop up all over this area. Strasburg, Wi******er etc. Are you guys talking to your city counsel. The quiet city will end up with the Data Centers....then you get to have brown well water and higher electric prices and worst of all... A temperature increase. Up to 20% hotter in your town depending on the size of the data center. THAT is not something you can work around. That is a dead dog in your yard and dead plants in your garden and a dead lamb in your field.

06/01/2026

Also....the farmer's market that bulldozed over mine last year? I just looked at their last video and the market is full of plastic toys, jewelry, clothing, candy, baked goods, sweet coffee milkshakes...NO produce and no plants in site. So you CANNOT call that a farmer's market. It looked exactly like a school fundraiser yard sale but instead of an auditorium it was outside. Just because these young "facebook farmers' do not eat veggies....doesn't mean you can call it a farm market and have no PRODUCE!!! Good grief. This is an obvious bait and switch. Come to our FARMER's MARKET where we are supporting almost NO FARMERS!!! lol and instead of going home with groceries....you can go home with a bag of diabetes! The event manager is just taking booth fees from whatever vendors will bother to show up and pay? This is what I find with the new post covid era of event managers....it's all about them making booth fees and who cares if they drum up or maintain a customer base for the vendors because they will just get a new vendor if one leaves due to the event being a waste of time....A farmer's market is a place to learn how to grow plants, share recipes, share your love of farming, help people know where the ingredients of their food comes from. Share health tips. Cakes, pies, milkshakes, candy and plastic toys are not health tips.

06/01/2026

I am worried about the future of Farmer's Markets in this area (Shenandoah). It is SO different from what I have experienced doing farm markets for 26 years in other cities and states. (FL, NC, Richmond where I started). For instance...the Homesteaders are really changing the scene in that they will sell the things they grow or make...but then they will also sell retail off their farm and I'm not sure how they are getting away with it. I have always seen the bait and switch (i.e. farmer has room for 3 cows and will butcher one every once in awhile but also resell meat from his neighbor's cow that he purchased all the while truly he is standing at the farm market to tier-market a grill shaped like an Egg? And he doesn't care if he sells any meat as long as he can sell a $700 grill? The other day I noticed that yet ANOTHER Farm Stand had set up down the road from my Farm market and they are selling round the clock as a "help yourself" farm stand. It looked nice when they started with tons of hanging baskets of flowers which are now dead/drying out on the side of the road. Like no one is watering. Then I went in the metal trailer which is the "country store" and found eggs warming in an antique cooler and things like sourdough starter and corn in the husk drying out and turning tan from the sun beating on it through the windows. BTW...no homestead around here has any corn yet cause you can't claim to be growing corn in a green house for gosh sake. And then they also had strawberries in a package that said they were "Carolina Fresh"....so somebody bought these at a discount grocer to resell at her homestead farm stand.....meanwhile the farmer at a REAL Farmer's market down the street could not sell all the strawberries that they grew that day? I'm kind of tired of the "pretend farms". I mean...yes...I want to support you if you are holding on to VA farmland....but at least use some food safety precautions and take care to see if your products are getting downright yucky where you displayed them. Not only were the eggs questionable because they looked already washed (after the natural protective coating is washed away the eggs has to be refrigerated)...but the jam (which I think she made herself) had SO MUCH Air between the the jam and the lid! Just because you are running out of jam to fill the last jar....doesn't mean you can sell one that is 3/4 full after leaving it on a shelf! This new generation of homesteader may get us ALL shut down. This is the reason that the big city markets have rules about who and what can come to market. I personally would never vend at a flea market...because my items are fresh, handmade and not used. Also flea market people tend to be selling junk that they possibly even got for free? So they will wheel and deal and take a lower price? We do not heckle at farm markets ... that's disrespectful to the farmer who worked hard to grow and make something to bring to market. But I am starting to see flea market type vendors coming to FARM markets in Shenandoah? Since when do we sell our old pots and pans at a farmer's market?

06/01/2026

finally! a sunny market weekend! thanks to everyone who came out to our farm markets!

BALTIMORE HERB FEST TOMORROW!!! This festival has been going on since 1987. It's about 1.5 hours away for some of you ...
05/22/2026

BALTIMORE HERB FEST TOMORROW!!! This festival has been going on since 1987. It's about 1.5 hours away for some of you and well worth it. Amazing lectures/workshops, amazing food/drink (I have ice cold herbal teas with honey ready for you if the food truck lines are long). Amazing things for the kids to do in this lovely park. THIS EVENT BENEFITS A LOVELY OASIS CALLED LEAKIN PARK. So many amazing things made from herbs and so many rare plant finds. Anybody who knows herbs in the DMV area would be silly to host an herb fest same day. Maybe a country truck/beer event same day but competing herb fests and competing farm markets are just not a thing that is done by Mother Nature Lovers because that would be uncool.

If you have shopped REAL farm markets before you have noticed that May is mostly greens (spinach, kale, turnip, arugula,...
05/22/2026

If you have shopped REAL farm markets before you have noticed that May is mostly greens (spinach, kale, turnip, arugula, bok choy and early chard). If you are seeing Tomatoes I question where they come from (they would have to have a hothouse). Some farm markets allow each vendor to bring a second product from another farm (my second product is honey from the beekeeper down the road from me). Because I use honey in my teas to sample/sell. I know everyone wants to find their favorite vegetables but corn and squash are not available til July-November. So try eating what is in season and you will find that Mother Nature is wise. We need greens after a stagnant winter of sitting around to thin and clean our blood. Chlorophyll adds oxygen (it has the same molecular make up as hemoglobin) and oxygen keeps your cells from dying off which is "regenerative". So nature is getting us rejuvenated with all the beautiful greens popping up in gardens right now. ENJOY!

05/22/2026

At my Wednesday market the vendor beside me had a "sinking spell" from the heat and gave me the number of her daughter to call if it happened again because she didn't want an ambulance to be called. I feel the same...can't afford for an ambulence to be called...just leave me on the ground and I will likely recover like a bird that flew into a window can after laying lifeless for hours.....lol (have you seen birds do this? They can heal from their concussion and fly away!). But seriously folks...if farmers are dying from heatstroke in May....Will we be able to attend farm markets in July this El Nino year? This is climate change in my opinion but if you don't want to believe that....Did you know that black automobiles raise the temp around them by 2-3 degrees? Data Center raise the temp around them by up to 20 degrees? Why are we adding data centers when HEAT is a concern already? BUT GUESS WHAT? On Thursday I had to wear a fleece sweater AND a rain jacket and I could not feel my fingers I was so cold. So PLEASE know that farmers and small businesses are suffering extremes already in May and come on out and shop!!! Don't wait til July because who knows?

Whoops! I almost forgot my last spring HERB FESTIVAL is THIS SATURDAY (May 23) at Leakin Park in Baltimore. This is wh...
05/18/2026

Whoops! I almost forgot my last spring HERB FESTIVAL is THIS SATURDAY (May 23) at Leakin Park in Baltimore. This is where you will find the largest assortment of rare herbs and other plants along with amazing herbal foods and herbal seasonings/condiments and gorgeous organic artwork. This is a festival where you can learn ALOT about the plant world.

This year I am repping my neighbor's honey....he lives 5 minutes from me and the honey is so rich and thick. I use it i...
05/12/2026

This year I am repping my neighbor's honey....he lives 5 minutes from me and the honey is so rich and thick. I use it in all my brewed teas. I will have this along with my herbal teas at the Charlottesville Market tomorrow at 1400 Pen Park Road.

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