Phoenixville Winter Farmers’ Market

Friday, February 27, 2009

Sorry my posts have been light this month - we’re remodeling our family room, which is only consuming all of my time!  However, I couldn’t pass up the chance to talk about the farmers’ market.

The Farmers’ Market in Phoenixville has a (roughly) bi-weekly winter market from December through April (it’s weekly from May to November).  Since it’s winter, there’s not an overabundance of veggies - but you can find storage veggies like carrots, potatoes, and cabbage as well as a few greens (spinach, arugula, and endive). There will be two veggie sellers at the market this weekend! There’s also plenty of meat from chickens, turkeys, pigs, sheep, buffalo, and cows - and eggs, cheese, honey and baked goods. Plus you can get your hands on the Blue Sue fudge that Nicole blogged about last week. Some of the producers have pre-orders, and many also have first-come first-serve items as well. The newsletter has the details. Between the winter market and what we’ve stored from our CSA we’ve hardly had to buy any veggies from the supermarket at all this winter.

The picture was taken at the last winter market - it was cold! Tomorrow promises to be much nicer - the market is open from 10am - 11am at the corner of Bridge and Taylor streets in Phoenixville. For more info check out the website.