Phoenixville Farmers' Market Prepares For Opening Day Saturday

Liz Andersen for Patch

PHOENIXVILLE, PA -- The Phoenixville Farmers’ Market is pleased to announce that it will be opening for it’s 16th season in Phoenixville on Saturday April 1st from 9am to 1pm. Located just behind the stores on Bridge Street, you’ll find it under the Gay Street Bridge and along the trail by French Creek.

Shoppers will find the best local food plus weekly live music and a children’s area with farm related toys and books.

Shopping at the market offers an opportunity to meet the people who make and grow your food. The farmers love to chat about what they do and give tips about how to cook their products. Since the food is local, you won’t find tomatoes or apples in the early spring. What you will find is fresh spring produce that was probably harvested the day before market and traveled only a few miles to get there.

Shoppers at the market can find just about everything they might need for weekend and weeknight meals- pasture raised pork, beef, bison, lamb, chicken, veal, loads of vegetables and fruits in season, herbs and herb plants, eggs, cheese, bread, artisan pasta and breads, gluten free baked goods, lacto-fermented foods, pies, nut butters and wild caught Alaskan salmon (caught by a PA fisherman), Pennsylvania maple syrup, honey and more. Two food trucks cook up hot food using farm fresh ingredients during market hours.

For the 2017 season, the market will host cooking demonstrations by local chefs, informative talks by its farmers in a series called, “The Educated Eater,” and special children’s events. Readers can get a weekly newsletter listing all of the market happenings

Special April Events-

• April 8th Artists and a local Bluegrass Band 2nd Sat
• April 22nd Earth Day- Native Plant Sale, Educated Eater talk by Organic Farmer Dan Heckler “How to start seeds and plant a garden”

Images via Liz Andersen