10/17/2024
Saturday Farmers Market! Gelu Italian Ice will be there serving you a cold delicious treat!
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Here's your local lineup for Saturday 10/19!! Only one market left in our main season before our 2024 ATxFM Hometown Holiday Market Cain Center!!! Be sure to mark yourself as GOING so that you can get notifications! It's the last Saturday of November!
Come welcome in fall with us! 9-12p @ 100 Cardinal Dr
We can’t wait for you to join us!!! We are the largest farmers market in ETx! If it’s not homegrown, Handmade, or homemade, we don’t have it!
🤜🏽🖤🤛🏾 we got you!
Want to join us? Fill out this form and be a part of the most amazing farm family! https://forms.gle/CUUtDpuq5SbnBXddA
🚨‼️ The scammers are out in full force, know that we will never have you message a random person and will only use the market page to communicate with you. Thank you!
Join our Athens Local REKO group, shop and pay online, pickup on Tuesday nights, 5-6p! So easy and convenient!! Especially when you eat all of one of your favorite things over the weekend and don’t want to wait until Saturday for more! Trust us— we know!!
Stay tuned to this post for our local market lineup for this week!
Farmers/ Producers/ Honey
-Hwy 19 produce will be at market with home grown veggies from right here in Athens, Tx off hwy 19.
-Clower Honey Farm will be bringing our local, raw and not filtered honey for all the honey purest out there.
-Happy Cattle Beef will be there with grassfed/finished Angus and Hereford beef including steaks, roasts, brisket, stew meat, short ribs, soup bones, organ meats, oxtail, beef fat, beef bacon and our awesome 80/20 ground beef. Patties and tallow whip too!
-Growing branches Farm will be there with fresh cut microgreens, micro green powder, and DIY microgreen kits. Don't forget we now have pasture Ray's chicken and rabbit!
-Ed and Red Farms provides delicious and Healthy Mixed baskets of 3-5 varieties of Oyster Mushrooms in the varieties of Grey Dove, PoHu, Italians, and summer whites, Pearl, Snow, golden, and Rose.
-Jump Family Farm will be returning to the Athens Farmers Market again this week with pasture raised meats, eggs, canned preserves, and fresh baked breads.
Bakers/ Canners/ Unique Foods:
-Sky’s Sourdough will be at market in October with our lineup of artisan sourdough breads and fall flavored scones! Stay tuned to our Facebook for weekly flavor lineups
-We have freeze dried gourmet meals and snacks, they are Organic, dairy and gluten free. Here's a few, Chuckwagon Chili, Boot Scootin Black Eyed Peas, and Cowboy Lentil Soup. Come by and sample each week are newest snacks, Wild West Apple Pie or Sweet Potato Pumpkin Pie! Bold flavors from the Lone Star State.
-Edwards Produce will be at market with all of your favorite canned goods, jams, jellies, herbal and flavored loose leaf teas.
-Little Hati will be there with kits to turn your home into an authentic Indian restaurant and gift sets to give the gift of delicious food to your foodie friends!
Herby things:
-Clairmont Gardens will be there with beautiful lavender products.
-Clairmont Kitchens will be there with our whole leaf lavender teas, spice rubs, and desserts.
Local Artisans & Soap Makers:
-Cowboy's Custom Crafts will be at the Athens farmers market this Saturday with new wood burned plaques and cutting boards as well as new scroll saw pieces and wooden dream catchers.
-Z-print-labs bringing you the best in 3d printed toys. From dragons to bunnies we got your toys and models for every age.
-GNG Divine Creations will be attending the Farmer’s Market THIS Saturday! Come by and see us for some good quality handmade crafts including but not limited to: hair bows, pens, hair brushes, makeup brushes, headbands, keychains, hair bows for dogs and much more!
-AK Kollective we strive to bring quality art and jewelry at reasonable prices. Everything we make can be commissioned! Come out and see us!
-Better Country Leather Goods. Quality handmade leather items from holsters to coasters. Custom orders welcome. Stop on by.
-Come by the one stop shop for all things cute and adorable to see our fall and spooky items !!!! mushroom and pumpkin farmer friends, glow in the dark ghost keychains, and more !!!!
-Local wood-crafted, quality items built with up cycled wood.
-Kickin Boots is excited to be back at Market this week.. We have missed you guys. Stop by and get your favorite fall scent for the holidays.
-NEW VENDOR ALERT: Traveling Jade specializes in handmade luxury press on nail sets. These sets are pre-made by our owner, but can also be made to fit your exact sizing if a set you enjoy does not fit you specifically. All sets are made using high grade products and can be reused as many times as you’d like!
-Seven Blessings Soaps and Lotions has your Skin Challenges Covered! Goat Milk Soaps, Magnesium Cream, Baby Safe Products - all formulated by a retired Aesthetician! We Know Skin!
Young Entrepreneurs:
-Ceaser Beads will be on hand all month in October to bring you amazing Fall, Halloween and Christmas jewelry. Anna will also have some creative offerings to doll up your cellphones and Large tumblers. It’s finally Fall and we are super excited to celebrate with each of you. Be on the lookout: Our CEO is planning on making an appearance the first weekend of this month. You DONT want to miss this.
Live Music:
-Providing instrumental acoustic guitar music from a variety of genres
Food Trucks:
-Tod and Copper will be serving up specialty coffee, Tea, and Lemonade. Try our FALL SPECIALS including the Sweater Weather (chai, espresso, cinnamon) or the Pumpkin Patch (espresso, pumpkin pie syrup, caramel)
-Gelu Italian Ice bringing you cold dessert in a cup!
-Tacos Perez
Community Groups:
-If you are needing prayer or wanting to talk, Love Thy Neighbor is here to offer prayers and listen. We are Christians serving the Athen's community.
-Wreaths Across America is a nonprofit organization that honors veterans by placing wreaths on graves on December 14, 2024.
❤️🤍🖤Market wouldn’t be market if we didn’t have local sponsors. What do you think local, thank of these guys! Each of these businesses do a lot for our community, that’s why they’re here!
Thank you 2024 sponsors-- WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR OUR NEW SPONSORS! We really do have the best community!!!
Steve Grant Real Estate
Happy Cattle Beef
Freelancers Cafe
Communications
Veterinary Medical Center of Athens
2nd Amendment Pools
ABC Decking
October Soap
Atticus&Company
Winona Orchards
Trinity Valley Community College for hosting us.
We also thank the Athens Chamber and Visit Athens Texas for your support! We love our community!