Farmers Market at Ix, Oct 4, 2024 Fall hours in effect: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Hello Market Community,
We switch to the fall and winter hours this week. We will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. from October 2025 till April, 2026. No more setting up in the dark for now! Start a little later, stay a little longer.
The colder mornings are wake-up call that the tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, cucumber and berry crops are winding down, while the root crops, winter squash, greens, Cole crops, and apples, take their place. Let the available local foods with cool weather nutritional profiles guide your menus. Meats, fish, mushrooms, microgreens and honey are year-round market staples. The first Saturdays of the month are attended by Deep Roots Milling and Nona’s Italian Cucina, for fans of local flour and award-winning tomato sauce. Oro’s fresh pasta is on an alternating week schedule.
As the holiday season approaches, the art and crafts vendors offer local home decor and gift options.
Two new vendors make their debut this week: Cloud Nine Bakery brings Southeast Asian style baking, which has been introduced at the Starr Hill Market. We have many bakers at the FM@Ix and limited space, thus making the Starr Hill market a needed outlet for the emerging small food businesses in the community. Godgiven Skin is also a new vendor from Harrisonburg who brings herbal skin products based on her background in chemistry and biology. Let’s try out these new products!
The weather forecast last week, as erroneous , as it was, caused over 20 vendor cancellations. The topic of market resiliency comes up when the weather interferes with an outdoor market. Customers can’t get their preferred products, vendors lose sales, and the administration of the market costs the same whether for 80+ vendors or for 50. Resiliency and sustainability are important goals for markets. As a community run market, we offer positions on the Market Central board, and welcome community participation in market planning for the future. You can speak to Market Central any time at the market managers booth.
The participating vendors are listed on the market map
See you at the Market!