This Week at the Smart Markets Manassas Park Farmers' Market

This Week at Our Manassas Park Market
Friday 3–7 p.m.
One Part Center Court
(City Hall Parking Lot)
Manassas Park, VA 20111
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We are looking forward to a lovely day this Friday and hope that it brings you back if you don’t love thunderstorms and high winds. We have a market full of great produce, good food, and wonderful vendors who aim to please. They also want to open your eyes to the talent and expertise of your local cooks and bakers, as well as to the wonders produced by area farms.

Jonita of Three Peas in a Pod Cupcakery will introduce two new treats. She’ll have pie in a jar (a single-serving pie baked in a half-pint Mason jar) in cherry and peach flavors, with fruit from Tyson Farms. And she’ll have chocolate-cherry cake truffles sold in packs of 3 for $5. The cupcake flavor of the week is chocolate cherry — “I have a lot of cherries to use,” she wrote me in an email. She sounds so excited about her new items, I’m guessing that you will be excited too.

Becky’s Pastries is another local vendor; Nsougan Sessou and his wife and daughter bake everything they bring to market, including wonderful cinnamon buns. Watch for him to have pies made from seasonal fruits.

We also have homemade salad dressings, amazing fruit punch, and authentic Peruvian empanadas, all made at home by enterprising and creative home cooks.

Our farmers all come from less than 100 miles away and grow everything they bring. We make sure of that.

Our BBQ comes from right down the road in Prince William County, and your Taste of Local chef is a Prince William resident who highlights Angelic Beef from Fauquier County. Even those lovely soaps come from just over the mountain in Cross Junction, Va., and the wines come from the heartland of Virginia wine country, Loudoun County.

This means that nearly every dollar you spend our market stays in Virginia and therefore contributes immediately and directly to the health of the Virginia economy, and in some cases your own community economy. (Learn more about that here). Best of all, these products are all hand-grown, hand-raised or handmade by the person who sells them to you, and you can easily find out how they are grown, raised, and made. Just ask! Where else can you do that?

See you at the market!