Sunshine will be returning to market this Saturday with lots of sweet potatoes! We will also have spinach, arugula, salad mix, parsley, cilantro, and turmeric for fresh produce. 

The first cold hardy Plant Starts will be available as well, so start getting your gardens ready! Stop by and pick up some or our farm grown Herbal Teas, Fire Cider, Herb Shakes, botanical Aromatherapy or Skin Care creations.

Looking forward to seeing all your shining faces!

www.maplespringgardens.com

@maplespringgardens

Are you practicing Dry January, or generally looking to integrate more healthy choices into your 2023? 

Homebucha Kombucha has you covered! The complex flavor of our locally crafted kombucha makes for a great cocktail replacement. Low in sugar and packed with probiotics, kombucha has been shown to improve digestion and decrease inflammation. 

You can find us at the Market every Saturday, offering multiple flavors on tap and in 12 oz cans. We even have a zero waste, glass bottle return + refill system. 

Stop by for a sample!

Cheers,

Homebucha Kombucha

homebucha.net

instagram.com/home.bucha

At Chocolatay Confections we make award winning handcrafted chocolates and confections using traditional candy making techniques and mindfully sourced ingredients.

Visit our online store and pre-order for pick up at the market. We also ship nationwide.  Our online store is updated every week (sign up for our newsletter to be the first to know). This Saturday we will be offering a curated assortment of market favorites. If you are craving a specific Chocolatay treat pre-order online before Thursday at 5pm. 

www.chocolatayconfections.con

Follow us! @chocolatayconfections 

Thank you for supporting your local Chocolatiers!

Matthew & Danielle

www.chocolatayconfections.com

Chocolate makes people happy.

Bonlee Grown Farm returns to the market this week with all our classic offerings, including fruit jams, pickled produce, and plants. 

Items to look for this week: indoor plants! Bring a bit of life into your home, your office, or your home office. We’ll have a plethora of plants perfect for your lower light spaces, including aloe, spider plants, succulents, and more.

Feel free to pre-order/pre-pay by calling or texting Amy at 919-548-0977. 

Thank you for supporting local farms!

Amy, Ray, and Ramy Sugg

Honeygirl Meadery is an award-winning urban meadery in the heart of downtown Durham NC specializing in small batch seasonal meads. We ferment honey and local fruits, flowers and herbs to create delicious, nuanced, food-friendly mead. Every week we bring out a mix of our hand-crafted mead styles, so there is something for everyone!

This week we’re welcoming back Blueberry Mead to the lineup. It’s crafted using NC Wildflower Honey and NC Blueberries.  In addition to that, we are featuring our Barrel Aged Wildflower Mead! This mead is made using Mystic Bourbon Barrels! We’re also bidding farewell to a winter warmer with Honey Chai Mead finishing out it’s run! We will also have our Currant Mead for all you bold red wine fans!  

We’re bringing some juicy and tropical meads this week. Hopped Mango Sparkling Mead will have you dreaming of warmer days. Orange Blossom Mead and Hibiscus Lemonthyme Mead are perennial favorites that go with everything.

We are happy to make recommendations for you in person at the market. You can also pre-order online from our entire line-up, and we will bring your pre-order to the Market for you. PLEASE NOTE: Pre-orders for DFM pickup must be placed by 6:00pm on the Friday before the Market. Simply select Durham Farmers Market as your pickup location when you place your order.

Honeygirl Meadery

105 Hood Street, Suite #6

Durham, NC 27701

Tasting Room Hours:

Friday & Saturday 12:00 - 6:00 PM

Sunday 12:00 – 6:00 PM

Visit our online shop for all your mead needs.

Thank you for your continued support! Bee Well!

Diane, Robby, Saffron, & Kayle

Facebook | Website

Email: honeygirlmeadery@gmail.com

Phone: (919) 399-3056

It's time to plant! This Saturday we will bring more of our cool weather plant starts for your home gardens (lettuce, arugula, spinach, chard, kale, sugar snap peas, and herbs -- cilantro, chives, flat and curly parsley, lavender, thyme, and oregano, so bring your boxes or containers to transport them home.  

Our weekly produce offerings include collards, toscano kale, kalettes, kalette greens, kalette terminal buds, sweet potatoes, green garlic, Spring onions, jam and cutting boards. 

SPECIAL REQUEST: As always, we are happy to have any 8 ounce glass jam jars and metal rings you have been collecting. Thank you!

By The Brook Tempeh will be offering tempeh and handcrafted sauerkraut at market, as well as other tasty ferments throughout the season.

We are based in Saxapahaw, created by fermentation enthusiast Taylor Westbrook. Our specialty is non-soy tempeh, an artisan blend of legumes, peas, lentils, and seeds to create a well-balanced and highly digestible plant protein with a fantastic texture and versatile flavor. You can now add even more flavor to your table with our delicious sauerkrauts and lacto fermented products.

This week we'll be stocked up with all of our signature blends. We will have a mix of burgers, vegan Chorizo, and marinated Poke tempeh. There will be a variety of sauerkrauts to choose from.

Visit our website: bythebrooktempeh.com

Check out our recipes: bythebrooktempeh.com/recipes

Instagram: @bythebrook_tempeh

Contact: bythebrooktempeh@gmail.com

Pre-Order: http://by-the-brook-tempeh.square.site/

BOGO on Unsmoked Pork Sausages, St. Louis Ribs, and Boneless Chops

Order one and we will pack two!

Preorder Only

Sausage Links: Hot Italian, Mild Italian, Bratwurst, Garlic Bratwurst

Bulk Sausage: Chorizo, Country, Hot Xtra Sage, Hot Italian

Breakfast: Hot Links, Mild Xtra Sage Patties

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Full Range of Beef 

Chucks, Pots, Eyes, London Broils

Ground, Patties, Ribs, Shanks, Stew Beef

Soup Bones, Liver, Kidney 

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Whole & Half Turkeys 30% off

Skin On Butts, Picnics, & Hams, Only $5.45 / lb

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Limited Quantity

Farmcrafted Bird Suet from 100% Grass Fed & Finished Beef Fat

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Plenty of PORK:

Smoked Sausage Links: Jalapeno, Green Pepper and Onion, Andouille, & Kielbasa

Loin Chops, Shoulder Coppa Steaks, Boneless Loin Chops / Cutlet, Smoked Boneless Chops

Boston Butts, Picnics, Boneless Loins, St Louis Ribs, Baby Back Ribs, Belly

Smoked Petite Hams, Smoked Ham Steaks, Smoked Boneless Chops, Smoked Hocks, Smoked Shanks, Smoked Neck Bones

Jowl Bacon, Belly Bacon, Bacon Ends

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Chicken!

Whole Bird, Half Bird, Whole Cut Up

Boneless Breast, Leg Quarters, Wings

Liver, Backs, Necks, Feet

Chicken Skin - only $4 a bag; Great for crisping up and eating with flavorful dips.

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Lamb! 

Leg & Shoulder Roasts, Sirloin Steaks

Merguez Sausage, Livers, Hearts, Kidneys, Bones

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Get a Taste of the Farm ... Every Month

Rolling CSA Monthly Meat and Egg Enrollment Continues!

Enroll now for CSA Monthly Meat Box and Monthly or Bimonthly Egg Box.

Active Meat CSA members get a 7% discount on ALL products !

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OUR PRACTICES are Regenerative and Sustainable

Rotational Grazing Management & Annual Cover Crops

Pasture & Woodland Based Livestock; Organic Practices for all Vegetables

Perpetual Farmland Conservation Easements & Certified Living Wages

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**Beef & Lamb: Pasture Raised; 100% Grass Fed & Finished **

**Pork: Pasture & Woodland Raised Free Range **

**Chicken: Pasture & Woodland Raised, NON GMO Fed, Free Range **

**Hen Eggs: Pasture Raised, **

**Veggies: Never Sprayed **

Family and Future makes wholesome treats you can feel good about bringing home to your loved ones. All of our chocolate bars, nut butters and fudges are organic, dairy free, sweetened without cane sugar, and made completely from scratch. Steven Lambeth started this business so he could still eat sweets while on a restricted diet and has since grown with a vision of both supporting starting a family with his wife and wanting to align with a more sustainable future. We only use fair-trade cacao to support more ethical food systems and, when possible, use compostable or reusable packaging to help minimize waste.

Cool season crops are coming strong! Carrots, radicchio, kales, collards, radishes, turnips, sweet potatoes, popcorn, and more for you every Saturday. Look for me at the far end of the pavilion.

Will Cramer

Email: everlaughterfarm@gmail.com

Instagram: @everlaughterfarm

2023 here we come! Celebrate in style with locally produced natural cider and wine. We'll bring a selection of our favorites from 2022, including our DeFi Traminette Pet Nat Wine with notes of Stone fruit, white flower, apricot, honeysuckle. Fermented with native yeast. Disgorged by hand. An absolutely perfect bubbly bottle for any celebration! Cheers



Botanist & Barrel crafts real southern ciders, sours, and dry fruit wines. We are the South's only natural cidery focused on spontaneous and wild cultures. We craft healthy adult lifestyle beverages for every occasion. We support our local farmers using local sustainably and organically sourced fruits, including blueberries, apples and more from our no spray estate farm. Only tree ripened apples are used in our ciders with a focus on traditional southern heritage cider apples. All of our ciders and wines contain little to no residual sugar and are low calorie. As an experimental winery we have almost no rules with the exceptions being we never fine, filter or pasteurize any of our ciders or wines. 

Isaac's Bagels is back! After our hibernation we are returning with more hand rolled bagels and all your favorite spreads.

www.isaacsbagels.com

Short Winter Soups makes inspired, vegetarian and allergen-friendly soups using NC-grown produce. Each week, we bring a variety of different soups... come by for a sample!

PUMPKIN SAGE

MOROCCAN VEGETABLE

WHITE BEAN MINESTRA

MISO ROASTED SWEET POTATO

CREAMY CARROT PEANUT

BUTTERNUT SQUASH & RED LENTIL

OYSTER MUSHROOM & BARLEY

If you'd like to preorder soup for pick-up, head to shortwintersoups.com/order by 3:30pm Friday. Thanks for your orders. It's an honor to be part of your meals each week. -- Tova Boehm, chef-owner

This week we'll have some early spring produce: scallions, mixed lettuce, cilantro, and dried eggplant and apples.

And an explosion of spring flowers! anemones, ranunculus, tulips, daffodils, and more! So exciting! The whole family will be at market amidst the flowers.

All our produce, flowers and plants are certified naturally grown for healthful foods from healthy fields!

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Matt and Renee

www.wildscallionsfarm.com

Matt and Renee Clayton (@wild_scallions_farm) • Instagram photos and videos

Harland's Creek Farm is committed to the health of the earth and its people. Water and soil, sun and warmth, seeds, animals, and plants-the essential ingredients-combined with work and planning allow us to feed people.

Haw River Mushrooms will be in Durham again this Saturday. We'll have have Lion's Mane, Blue Oyster, Golden Oyster, and hopefully some Cinnamon Caps. We'll also have Lion's Mane Tincture, Mushroom Salt, and Dried Reishi. 

Come see us and get a look at old favorites and new loves. 

Orders are open until Friday at 1PM. 

Find our products online at: Haw River Mushrooms 

Online Store 

or go to www.hawrivermushrooms.com for more information.

We are a family owned and operated business based out of East Durham, with a passion for our community. The food that we make is deeply connected to our identity and roots; we use family recipes that have been passed down for generations here in the South, as well as inspiration for flavors and recipes from our Afro Diasporic roots. We use equitable business practices by using local and organic food whenever possible, using sustainable products, and paying all of our employees a living wage.

Pre-order here: https://piri-farmers-market.square.site/

Misty Morning Ranch raises ostriches in beautiful North Carolina. Raising only the highest quality birds by focusing on care from chick to adulthood.

We will be at the market this Saturday with a variety of fresh pasta and sauces.

This week we are bringing back two flavors - Greek Ravioli and Mushroom Ravioli. We will still be bringing our many regular flavors of ravioli including our award winning Pimento Cheese, Lemon Ricotta, and Spinach and Cheese and items like Tomato Parmesan Sauce, gnocchi and cut pasta. Or pick up one of our take-and-bake lasagnas for an easy and delicious meal.

If you would like to place a preorder for the market, please call us at 919-403-3663 by Friday at 1pm.

http://www.melinaspasta.com

https://www.facebook.com/melinaspasta

https://www.instagram.com/melinaspasta

Whoo hoo! Kimchi topped Buzzfeed's best 10 healthy foods according to dietitians and nutritionists. Take a look here: http://bit.ly/3KVm4Kp Get your local kimchi at the market -- it's not just healthy but also delicious!

Current menu: Napa cabbage, green cabbage, green garlic, radish, mustard greens, collard greens, bok choy, turnip, kohlrabi and carrot

MoonDance Soaps is a small business located in Wake County, North Carolina owned by a group of four friends. We manufacture quality cold-pressed soap made in small batches. Vegetable oils, essential oils, fragrance oils, herbs, spices, goats milk & honey combine for magical bar soaps. Each bar is hand-cut, then cured for 4-6 weeks before being packaged and sold. No animal testing is ever conducted. We buy high quality ingredients. We produce very little waste. We sell our products all over but are most honored to be a local resource. 

Our products are a blend of art and science. We are merging old and new wisdom. 



Our mission is to create quality products at a fair price that allow us to sustain our business practices. We pay our employees, serve our customers, buy from our community, and take care of our environment.

Visit us online for pre-orders: 

www. MoonDancesoaps.com

Hello Durham Family! Help us welcome Sue to the Market! She is the lovely daughter of one of our own cheese makers. She will be able to help you find our variety flavors and products. Including this month's theme of heart shaped chevre.

We have a selection of goats milk items handcrafted with love in Siler City, NC! At our booth you'll find a rainbow of flavors displaying our spreadable cheeses, nestled in among our pure chevrè, aged bloomy rind cheeses, yogurts, gelato, fudge, and even soaps. As NC's pioneer farmstead goat dairy, we've been treating all our goats like celebrities since 1991, and strive to do the same for our customers! Help us limit contact and keep each other safe during market transactions by placing pre-orders through our website, https://celebritydairy.com/preorder! 

 Theme of the Month February: Fresh Heart Shaped Chevre

Lots of love from your cheese-makers,

 Elizabeth, Monica, Ina & the Goats

Fired the kiln today. 

Come see what’s new!

POTTERY CAMPS - 

SPRING CAMP registration open

I’ve shared my studio with children for the past 27 years, offering teacher workday and school holiday camps as well as week-long summer camps. I believe I have four more years of camp energy in me. 

Let me know when your child would like to spend the day in the studio with me. I’d love to share my enthusiasm for mud!

http://sarahhouseofclay.net/camps_summer_2022

POTTERY LESSONS for ADULTS

I offer lessons for 1-4 students at a time, scheduled by appointment. Treat yourself to a little fun with mud. I’ll get you started for success on the wheel. I’ll help get you to the next level of throwing. Or just come to discover if wheel throwing is your thing. 

I am so grateful to all my pottery patrons!

Sarah Howe 

Sarah@houseofclay.net

Chef and restauranteur Eric Ndiaye is cooking up a wealth of worldly delights in the comfort of your home via BOUQUET GARNI FOODS & CATERING: Services and Catering.

After studying the culinary arts in Lyon, France and New York City, he has delighted diners and catering patrons in Manhattan and Sacramento. With 25 years of experience working with LSG Sky Chefs (a worldwide in-flight catering company), Chef Eric is now offering his ample talents to tend to the palates of all food lovers, right in the heart of their home.

In addition to fine traditional American entrees, healthy salads & sandwiches, breakfasts and bakery treats, his menus offer various international flavors infused with French & West African flairs.

Hello from Lil' Farm. At market this week we will have kale, collards, chard, scallions, napa cabbage, salanova lettuce, red mustard and more.

And...

It’s time to sign up for our 2023 CSA! Join us for a fresh, colorful, nutritious future bounty.

What is a CSA? CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. It is a farming model based on developing a direct relationship between farmers and their community. A weekly box of lovely seasonal veggies ( and strawberries!) is the glorious result. This is an opportunity to support a farmer by purchasing in advance the most seasonal and successful crops available while acknowledging that some crops will not always work out with the endless variables at play. The good news is, we grow so many different things you may never notice our secret failings.

The CSA will run April 12th through July 26th (16 weeks). Like last year, we are offering a Home Delivery option and 2 pick up sites in Durham (West Durham and South Durham). Go to our website to see pricing and learn more- www.lilfarm.com. We would love to have you! Please share the info with anyone who would be interested.

Thank you and take care,

Lily and George

Good morning, our wonderful Customers and Friends!

EASTER is only four weeks away... pre-order your Whole or Half Leg of Tender LAMB or CHEVON (goat) soon. Side BACON is back this Saturday... smoked and sliced... two seasoned varieties.

FRESH tender pastured PORK along with many leafy organic greens will be available this Saturday... pre-order today... for the best selection! We have lots of new blends of our delicious sausages. Also, our farm's new pork LARD will be ready on Saturday at the DFM. 

Our Black Angus 30-day dry-aged BEEF this Saturday at the DFM is back! The aging process intensifies the meaty flavor and increases tenderness.

Enjoy a quick and easy meal with one of our farm's special blends of sausages (lamb, beef and pork) ... made all from our farm's meats. Try our Loin Chops, Steaks, Roasts, Shanks (delicious broth) and much more and all will be available for pickup this Saturday.  

This is Saturday's link for placing orders.  Please send us your order by Thursday, March 9th at 10 p.m. https://forms.gle/9GypoZ1Uip76EEtk9

OFFERINGS this week:

Natural pastured MEATS:

         ** 30-day dry aged Angus Beef:

               -- Ground ($9/lb.) & Ground Chuck ($10/lb.)

               -- STEAKS: Filet Mignon, Ribeye (bi), New York Strip, Sirloin (bi), Flat Iron, Flank, Skirt

               -- Beef stew meat (boneless).. (from Rump Roast)

               -- Short Ribs

               -- Calves Liver

               -- Roasts (Chuck, Eye of Round, Top Round/London Broil, Rump Roast)

               -- meaty Soup bones (makes wonderful broth)

               -- beef fat (you render into tallow)

               -- Shanks (Osso Bucco), Marrow Bones, Knuckle Dog Bones

         -- Beef Sausages:  Bratwurst or Hot Italian.

          ** Berkshire X Pork: 

                -- Ground Pork

                -- Pork Chops (2 per pack... 1")

                -- Ribs (St. Louis style)

                -- ROASTS: Picnic and Boston Butt 

                -- Side BACON ... sliced and cured... IT is BACK!

                -- Smoked sliced JOWL BACON (1 lb./package): Black pepper (limited)

                -- Backbone "Pork Chops": similar to chops (more economical)

                -- Neckbones (wonderful meaty broth)

                -- pig tails/ears; fatback; pork skins, pig feet

                -- smoked hocks (great for seasoning greens)

                -- farm fresh PORK LARD buckets.. $8 per bucket

                    Fresh PORK SAUSAGES

                -- PINKY links Breakfast Country X-sage Sausage - Mild

               -- MILD and HOT Country spiral X-sage Sausages (and in BULK)

                -- Both Mild and Hot Italian spiral Sausages

                -- Chorizo spiral ... it is BACK!

                -- Bratwurst spiral Sausages

                -- Smoked Polish (Kielbasa) -- 4-links

                -- Smoked Green Pepper and Onion -- 4-links

             ** Dorset X Lamb:

                -- Ground Lamb (in 1 lb.)

                 -- Loin Chops (2 per pkt.)

                 -- Leg of Lamb (1/2 or whole)

                 -- Lamb Shanks (whole)

                 -- Lamb Stew meat (boneless)

                 -- Denver-style slabs of Lamb ribs

                 -- organ meats & Bags of meaty soup bones

                 -- LAMB Bratwurst Sausage (4-link)

            ** Boer Chevon (goat meat):

                 -- Ground goat (in 1 lb.)

                 -- Goat Shanks (whole)

                  -- LEG of CHEVON (half and whole)

                  -- LOIN CHOPS (2 per pack)

                  -- organ meats & Bags of meaty soup bones.

** USDA Certified organic vegetables

        ** Buttercrunch head LETTUCE -- solar greenhouse.. lots!

        ** Kale bundles -- solar greenhouse (3 varieties)

        ** Swiss Chard bundles -- solar greenhouse grown

        ** Green onion bundles -- field grown

        ** Fennel .... LIMITED from greenhouse

        ** fresh organic POPCORN... $5 per bag.. perfect gift

       ** raw semi-dry peanuts: $10/lb.

New: ** Spring flower bouquets.. daffodils, etc.: $20 each (30 stems)

         ** FARM NEWS: 

It seems like every week something exciting is taking place on the farm or in my life. I alway hope it is a GOOD kind of excitement. This week, it was GOOD. My late wonderful brother, Quinton Leonard, was recognized this past week by NCSU Sports... for being a valued member of the late Coach Jim Valvano's 1983 National Championship Men's Team.  Quinton's former teammate on the "cardiac" team, Dereck Whittenburg, came to Louisburg this week and brought me wonderful memorabila from the 1983 team... to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the exciting run of the "underdog" team. My brother was a hard working farm boy who would often tell me he picked up his first basketball when he was just 16 years old... and a few years later, he was on the National winning team. With the ACC Championships this week, it will bring back fond memories for me of my family and I supporting my Dear Brother during his basketball years. It was a WONDERFUL exciting time.  I sure do miss having him on the farm with me and seeing his smiling face.... all 6'8" of him.

The greens are coming along great in the solar-powered high tunnel. We are looking forward to milder but wet weather this week.  New spring cool season tender plants are going into the field this week.. between "animal feeding" jobs... by Mario.  The organic strawberry field is blooming and we are covering them today with row covers to protect the plants and blooms.

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday. THANK YOU for your continued support of our Century-old, woman owned and operated Family Farm! 

Martha L. Mobley

919-495-1305 (text or call if questions)

571 Leonard Farm Road

Louisburg, NC 27549

meadowlanefarm1@netzero.net -- farm's email