MSFM Farmer News & Recipe Blog
The Purple Canopy Covers A Cornucopia
In the bleaker winter season, some think it difficult to find vibrant local produce but our market constantly proves there is an abundance of brightly color-filled booths. Healthy Kitchen sets up a bounty of produce every week and even takes it up a notch using their...
Bitter, Sweet and Savory Greens
Our year-round market offers bright colors even in the bleakest weather thanks to longtime veggie vendors like Tant Hill Farms. Farming since 2009 and vending at the Main St Farmers Market since its inception in 2010, Tant Hill Farms is known for specializing in cold...
Green All Year
As our market is open year round, our variety of veggie vendors bring a bounty of colorful crops long into the winter months. Do not think that simply because foliage turns to bare branches that the fields grow cold. The genus “Brassica” is abundant with cool weather...
Somethings Fishy And We Like It
We are ecstatic to have fresh fish back at the market weekly! Otter Creek Trout Farm, based in Topton, NC came to us as a guest vendor at the Spring A Ma Jig and we’ve been hooked ever since! Chattanooga native Alex Dennison, proprietor and head fisherman, owned a...
Be Very Very Quiet
As a child who grew up watching Looney Tunes, it never occurred to me until my adult life that Elmer was really after Bugs for dinner. Having grown up in a little suburbia town, there were no farms close to my neighborhood and definitely no one selling rabbit. Thanks...
Links To A Good Life
Raised with a meat cutter as a father, I have always known about the prime, quality cuts however he never discussed how the lives of the livestock were so important before they hit the chopping block. Ironically, my sister gave up eating red meat when we were...