Mountain Fresh Farmers' Market Vendors

Mountain Fresh Farmers' Market - Tomato, Lettuce, Peppers

Here'a a look at what is in season at the Mountain Fresh Farmers' Market in Oakland, Maryland.  LOTS of veggies, plus cut flowers, meats, and other local vendors with candles, soaps, handcrated wooden puzzles/baskets/cutting boards/rolling pins, woven rag rugs, baked goods, jams/jellies, and woolen products.  Click on the pictures to enlarge! 

Possum Tail Farm Grass Finished Beef

 LFLF spent a few minutes chatting with the folks from Possum Tail Farm about their cattle.  You can see that they've gone through the commitment to become a Certified Naturally Grown farm.  That's no small accomplishment!  Stop in and ask them how they came up with the farm name ... :)

Tomatoes, Beets, 3 Varieties of Beans (!), Tomatoes, & Cut Flowers

We bought a variety of tomatoes from this farm & then we made a nice tomato & shredded cheese salad out of them for dinner! 

Hebden Farms Glueten Free Baked Goods & Tomatoes

It looks like fall is here ... a nice large pumpkin for sale!

Shoppers & First Pumpkin Of The Season!  

Another View Of The Pumpkins ...

Here's Backbone Food Farm with pastured pork for sale and they've sold out of several cuts for the day.  Too bad I didn't have a cooler with me.  They're another Certified Naturally Grown farm!

Backbone Food Farm Pastured Pork For Sale

 

Foodie Travels!

Last weekend, your roaming blogger made a visit to a new "local" venue.  During a visit to Deep Creek Lake,  LFLF made sure to visit the Oakland, MD Mountain Fresh Farmers' Market on Saturday.  It was a glorious summer day and the market was full of customers.  The vendors set up around the outside of the pavillion in a true "tailgate" style, while other vendors set up on center aisle tables.

This is a producer only market and it also contains lots of baked goods, handwoven rag rugs, felted woolen products, herb & nursery plants, jams & jellies, goats milk soaps, and a 4-H food booth.  We enjoyed chatting with many of the vendors!
LFLF walked away with a delicious coconut cake from Grace of Kitzmiller, MD and 2 pints of blueberries from the opposite side of the building.  In fact, I paid for the cake and asked Grace to put it back while I visited the rest of the market ..... it would have been GONE if I waited!   We also picked up onions, a bar of goat milk soap, a felted woolen "man in the moon" Christmas ornament, and a wedge of goat milk cheese. 

 BackBone Food Farm  had some beautiful Swiss Chard as well as the onions!

More pictures to follow, plus how to deal with a sticky market issue ..... stay tuned!