Produce, Eggs, Sunflowers and Bread Highlight Pikesville Farmers Market

New to the Pikesville Farmers Market today are fresh, homemade bread and eggs, sold by Marie Detwiler of Farm Girls Produce.

The bread, both white and sprouted wheat, sells for $5 per loaf, and farm fresh eggs, for $2.50 per dozen, Detwiler said.

“When you eat sprouted wheat flour it actually digests as a vegetable," she explained. "For people who need to watch that kind of thing [their weight, for example] it’s great for that.”

While there was a little bit of rain touching down in the Office Depot parking lot during the market this morning, the weekly market is set to continue until 2:30 a.m. today.

Fresh-picked beets, eggplant, several kinds of corn, tomatoes, cantaloupe and seeded watermelon were just some of the produce available throughout the market.

Large, cut sunflowers greeted visitors at the Farm Girls stand, located in the first vendor booth. Those cost $5 for three.

Corey McCleaf of McCleafs Orchard recommends green seedless grapes today, which sell for $2.99 per pound. McCleaf is also selling white and yellow donut peaches at $1.99 per pound, and for the first time, donut nectarines.

“The produce here is so far superior to what you can find in the grocery store,” said farmers market customer Billi Dale of Pikesville. “Here you get to actually talk to the people who grew the produce, try samples and ask questions."

Dale said she and her family belonged to a Community Supported Agriculture Program (CSA) in Harford County last year, where the produce was equally as good, but the Pikesville Farmers Market is practically in her backyard and much more convenient.

“It’s reasonable here and I get to pick out what I want, as opposed to CSA where you just get your box of whatever and wind up throwing so much away,” she said.