Health & Fitness
Record Number Of Vendors Expected at Oconee Farmers Market On Saturday
Market Manager Cindy Pritchard is expecting eight vendors who were not at the Oconee Farmers Market last week to set up operation on Saturday, setting a record.
By Lee Becker
Market Board Customer Representative
Market Manager Cindy Pritchard is expecting eight vendors who were not at the Oconee Farmers Market last week to set up operation on Saturday, bringing the total number of vendors to more than 40.
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That number of vendors would set a new record for the market, which topped out at 36 vendors in the peak of the season last year.
At Market opening last week, 33 vendors were operating in the area in front of the courthouse in downtown Watkinsville.
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To accommodate the increased number of vendors, the Market has gotten permission to close off the street on the east side of the courthouse.
Pritchard said the additional vendors, some of whom have operated at the Market in the past, will offer homemade pasta, gelato, pork, pesto, jellies, dips, Turkish bagels, pita bread, Indian spices, fried pies and handcrafted jewelry.
Guitarist Louis Philip Pelot will be returning to the Market to perform his brand of Americana music.
The Market opens at 8 a.m. and runs until 1 p.m.
The full list of offerings from new and returning vendors follows.
- Herbs
- Mixed greens including lettuces
- Early spring and root vegetables
- Dried and dehydrated Shiitake mushrooms
- Local and sourwood honey
- Honey butter and biscuits
- Farm fresh eggs
- Flavored and pimento goat cheeses
- Homemade pastas and gelato
- Snow conespestos
- Dips
- Indian spices
- Jams and jellies
- Boiled and fried peanuts
- Pork skins
- Pecans
- Many cuts and varieties of grass-fed beef
- Pasture raised pork
- Chicken and lamb
- Whole cakes
- Cupcake cakes
- Pies including whole and fried pies
- Cookies
- Granolas including gluten-free options
- Organic whole wheat and spelt sprouted breads
- Banana bread
- Pita bread
- Breakfast items -bagels, scones, cinnamon rolls and sticky buns
- Coffee cakes
- Landscape and garden plants including herbs
- Tomato and pepper plants
- Sea salts
- Essential oil soaps
- Goat's milk lotions
- Moisturizers
- Handcrafted lip balms
- Beeswax candles
- Decorated gourds and gourd musical instruments
- Glass work beads and pendants
- Jewelry
- Blacksmith crafts
- Birdhouses
- Local pottery
- Vegetarian dog treats
- Free coffee and ice water