Farmers Market at Ix, August 8, 2026
Market Hours, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Location: Ix Art Park, 255 Second St. SE, Charlottesville, VA
Farmers Market Week 2026 draws to a close at the market this Saturday. It opened at Starr Hill Market on Aug 2, with a flood warning after 6 months of no measurable rain, and has rained every day since! It’s hard to be a farmer, especially in the era of climate change. With our farmers, you’d hardly know that there is a struggle, the produce seems so abundant and beautiful. Fortunately they have irrigation, but can’t do much about a late freeze that froze all the blueberries, or a stream that dried up and couldn’t run the watermill and excessing heat and smoke. So let’s celebrate our farmers, ranchers, food producers, artists and community that keep on going.
We are celebrating you with:
a purslane salad contributed by Elena Day, inspired by Ellen Kollie, with tomatoes from Whisper Hill Farm that introduces a warm weather green to try when it’s too hot or dry for lettuce and kale to grow. It has an amazing nutrient profile!
A cucumber salad containing staff member Maggie’s cucumbers and parsley, Singing Earth tomatoes, and market backup parsley.(we need a lot!)
A black bean and corn salad with Encanto Homestead corn, and Second Mountain tomatoes.
A Shooting Star Acres and Encanto Homestead pork and vegetabe kabob sample
Information at the Sierra Club booth about how we all interact with the environment at the market.
a special curated music selection presented by Board Member Max. He says: The market is dancing. Come shop local and move with us this Saturday as Max plays an uplifting DJ set at the market for National Farmers Market Week.
Our special musician Bruce and the puppets will be found somewhere!
Temporary tattoos for kids
And don’t forget “the Table” the civic branch of the Farmers Market at Ix. Find out about community activism with the folks at “the Table”.
Please enjoy. We appreciate you.