Friday, February 20, 2009

About Us

The Western Wake Farmers’ Market was conceived by a set of Wake County moms with a desire to feed their families with locally grown food.

Our mission is for all people in our community to become educated about and benefit from locally grown food. Our aim is to help all walks of life, from the farmers to the local community members to those less fortunate who might need assistance through the local food bank.

Our focus is to educate consumers about locally produced and sustainable food. We will achieve this by offering a farmers’ market where consumers have direct access to locally grown produce. We will use the market day to provide a concentric forum for consumers and their families to understand, appreciate, and learn about the interconnectedness of food and the environment.

In addition to consumers gaining direct access to the farmers who grow their food, we promote courses and conduct demonstrations that educate the consumer on how to make healthy food and environmental choices. We further this education by partnering with local agricultural, environmental, and green organizations. In addition, we also facilitate the donation of farm food to people at risk of hunger through the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle.

The WWFM is a member of the Center for Envrironmental Farming Systems (CEFS) and the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA).

2011 Givers: Thank You!

Many thanks to those in our community who are supporting the market in its second year.

Sustainable Steward – $5,000

Whole Foods Market Whole Foods Market of Cary, selling the highest quality natural & organic products. Whole Foods Market is the world's largest retailer of natural and organic foods, with stores throughout North America and the United Kingdom.

Cary Living Cary Living is the premier lifestyle magazine serving all of Western Wake. Cary Living is filled with informative, inspiring and entertaining features and articles on the people and businesses in Western Wake. Each issue, Cary Living will show you why Cary has been recognized over and over as one of the best places to live in America.

Herons The Umstead Hotel Herons in The Umstead Hotel & Spa offers an environment that expresses an appreciation for the arts and embraces the wonders of nature. Guests can experience the full-service spa, a serene heated outdoor pool, a fine collection of artwork or dinner at its world-class restaurant, Herons. Executive Chef Scott Crawford prepares refined American cuisine in an atmosphere that celebrates the joys of fresh flavors, locally sourced ingredients and an extensive wine selection. All 150 guest-rooms and suites at the Umstead Hotel. The Umstead are custom decorated and feature fine luxury linens, 42 inch Plasma televisions, deep soaking tubs and views of the landscaped grounds.

Golden Apple Sponsor – $1,000

Yes! Solar Solutions

Yes! Solar Solutions, which opened on the same day as the WWFM, provides residents of Cary and surrounding communities a resource for residential and light commercial solar energy as a means to mitigate rising electricity costs and help the environment with clean, renewable residential solar energy systems. Owned and operated by long-time Cary Residents, Stew and Kathy Miller, who use their design showroom at Stone Creek Village for solar seminars, green workshops and other community events, are committed to changing the way the world uses energy, starting in Cary. Save energy, save money, save the earth.

Green Thumb Sponsors

Lisa Englert, founder and president of virtualme, inc., is a highly skilled consultant who has the expertise to handle all your outsourced administrative needs. Delegating the management of projects you don’t need or want to do enables you to focus on the wisest and best use of your time AND achieve better, faster and more sustainable results. A graduate of AssistU, the leader in professional training for Virtual Assistants, Lisa has a passion for wine and locally-grown food!

Trillium Montessori is a small, community-minded neighborhood preschool for children aged 3-5 located in Cary Park. Its goal is to empower all individuals to pursue and achieve their full potential. Trillium uses a specialized Montessori approach to customize the learning experience for each student. Trillium has an earth-friendly curriculum and is delighted to be a friend to our local farmers!

We would also like to recognize the following people who have supported the market by generously donating their services:

Vendors

Annelore’s German Bakery – Tuesdays & Saturdays

Annelore’s German Bakery focuses on making artisan pastries and bread. We specialize in authentic German baked goods that are made in the most traditional way, by hand and from scratch. Annelore uses only natural, pure ingredients. With her family having been in the brewing and hospitality business for almost 350 years Annelore continues her ancestral tradition with delicacies of uncompromising quality, authenticity and uniqueness.

NEW! Bill’s Lemon Tahini
Guest Vendor

Bill Hickman was the Kitchen Manager at the now defunct Rathskeller Restaurant on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, NC. Bill began making a variation of “Rat’s” Lemon Tahini salad dressing. He started selling his Lemon Tahini in the summer of 2011 at the Saturday Market.

Cary Clay Cooperative – Guest
Vendor

The Cary Clay Cooperative (CCC) was formed in the fall of 2004 to serve the needs of potters in the Cary, Apex and Morrisville areas of North Carolina. The CCC’s mission is: to actively foster, develop, and advocate support for ceramic arts and artists in our community; to encourage the artistic expression of and foster communication among ceramic artists; to promote awareness and appreciation of ceramic arts through education and interaction with artists, business, education, government, and the citizens of Cary and surrounding areas.
A wide range of handcrafted functional or decorative pottery and jewelry.

NEW! Chapel Hill Creamery
– Tuesdays & Saturdays

Chapel Hill Creamery is a small dairy farm and farmstead cheesemaking facility. We chose Jersey cows for their rich milk, which makes great cheese. Our cows spend their time on pasture, and we've established an intensive rotational grazing system to ensure that they'll have access to high quality grass during their milking season. We milk and make cheese from March through December, when our pasture, and therefore our milk, are best.

Clayton Orchard – Tuesdays & Saturdays

Clayton Orchard is a family-owned farm located in Montgomery County. Our primary product is peaches. We also grow plums, watermelons, muscadine grapes, and various vegetables such as corn, tomatoes, onions, green beans, and potatoes.

Coon Rock Farm – Tuesdays & Saturdays

Coon Rock Farm is a sustainable family farm providing garden crops and pasture raised antibiotic and hormone free chicken, eggs, pigs, lamb and goat on 55 acres nestled along a bend in the Eno River just outside of Hillsborough, NC. We concentrate on sustainably and bio-dynamically taking care of the land while letting it take care of us. Our vegetables are mostly heirloom varieties and raised without chemicals of any kind. Our animals are pastured raised and grass fed and never given antibiotics or hormones. Our chickens are heritage breeds that provide both meat and eggs and are completely free range.

We produce over 50 varieties of heirloom tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants, plus multiple varieties of squash, pumpkins, corn, melons, potatoes, okra, peanuts, herbs, cucumbers, peas, beans, onions, leeks, garlic, lettuce, arugula, spinach, kale, mustard greens, mizuna, tatsoi, cabbage, collards, and much more. Eggs: Our eggs are from heritage breed free range hens (Delawares, Bard Rocks, Buff Orphingtons, Rhode Island Reds, Aracana and Black Sex Links). Honey: Wildflower honeyHerbs: Our herb selection includes basil, rosemary, lavender, marjoram, thyme, lemon thyme, lemon balm, lemon verbena, tarragon, chives, lemon grass, mint, parsley, cilantro, oregano, sage, Mexican oregano, chamomile, Thai basil, and fennel. The meat we will offer includes free range heritage breed chicken, heritage breed pasture raised pork, and occasionally pasture raised lamb, goat, beef, goose, rabbit and duck. We offer a variety of cuts such as whole chicken, chops, roasts, ribs, cured and uncured bacon, and various sausages.

DJ’s Berry Patch – Tuesdays & Saturdays

DJ's Berry Patch is a pre-picked or pick-your-own Strawberry and Produce Farm. Our Raleigh area strawberry farm is conveniently located just minutes off Highway 64, right off Davis Drive in the town of Apex. DJ's is committed to providing our customers with the freshest and finest varieties of strawberries and other spring and summer produce. The fall brings pumpkins and mums.

Strawberries, Summer Produce, Pumpkins, Mums

Dog Day Farm – Tuesdays &
Saturdays

Produce farm offering sustainably-grown, chemical-free vegetables; fruits; berries; herbs; flowers; plants, and other farm/garden-related products

Raw Fruits and Vegetables, Herbs, Cut Flowers, Seedlings, Bedding Plants

Fickle Creek Farm – Tuesdays
& Saturdays

Fickle Creek is a 150-acre Orange County farm that includes production areas (pastures, market garden), managed woodlots, and natural areas. We manage our farm so that it has minimum impact on the environment, is sustainable, and includes humane treatment of our animals. All fruits and vegetables are naturally grown without inorganic chemical inputs. Eggs, chicken, and duck come from flocks that range freely on pesticide-free pastures, eat locally-sourced vegetarian feed, and never receive hormones or antibiotics. Steers, pigs, and sheep are raised on pasture without medicated feed, hormones, or grain finishing. We sell all our products locally and directly to customers who we encourage to ask us questions about our practices.

Arugula, Basil, Beef, Beets, Carrots, Chard, Chicken, Chicken Eggs, Collards, Duck, Duck Eggs, Eggplant, Figs, Garlic, Kale, Lettuce, Lima Beans, Lamb, Leeks, Mustard, Mutton, Okra, Onions, Peas (Sugarsnap), Peppers (Wweet and Hot), Pesto, Pork, Potatoes, Radishes, Shi-itake Mushrooms, Rosemary, Spinach, Squash (Summer and Winter), Sweet Potatoes, Tomatoes, Zucchini

Gertrude’s Garden Gems – Tuesdays & Saturdays

We are located in Chatham County. Our main products are flowers and potted herbs, and a few vegetables. We grow many varieties of flowers to cut for bouquets. Our cut flower season starts in late March and goes to Dec.

Cut Flowers, Bedding Plants, Vegetable Plants, Herbs, Asparagus, Seasonal Vegetables

Godwin Farm and Orchards LLC – Tuesdays & Saturdays

Fresh vegetables and fruits locally grown in Johnston County. Father and son collaboration in business now for fifteen years.

Apples, Pears, Figs, Blueberries, Squash, Spring Onions, Tomatoes, Watermelons, Corn, Turnips, Peppers.

NEW! Good Graces Homemade Dog Treats – Tuesdays & Saturdays

Homemade dog treats.

Great Harvest Bread Co.
Tuesdays & Saturdays

We are a whole grain, all-natural bakery. We mill our wheat on site to produce the freshest flour to put into our bread. The bread are made from scratch each day with the finest ingredients. Producer of hand crafted breads and baked goods made from our freshly milled wheat flour, sourced from family owned farms. Our honey is locally produced by Heidi's honey in Winston Salem. Our loaves our hand kneaded and prepared each day. All day old bread is given to ministries or interfaith food shuttle.

Our menu includes breads, muffins, cookies, cinnamon rolls and scones. We also make a whole line of made-from-scratch mixes such as cookie mix, brownie mix and pancake mix.

Hidden Springs – Saturdays

David Smith operates a small family farm, committed to chemical-free farming and hopes one day to be certified organic. He currently uses sustainable techniques and all seed is certified organic. His family is at the beginning of the process of converting the property using permaculture concepts as a guide. In a related effort, Mr. Smith also pursues sustainable building design through his company, Stockbridge Green Architects.

Garden Vegetables, Eggs

Hillsborough Cheese Co.
– Tuesdays & Saturdays

Hidden in the heart of historically dairy-rich Orange County, NC (on a previous tobacco farm where Cindy West grew up) our small, boutique creamery focuses on the art of cheese-making. Our French-trained chef & cheese-maker, Cindy, handcrafts small batches of many varieties of quality fresh & aged cheeses using goat’s and cow’s milk. Focusing mostly on traditional European-style cheeses, Cindy also experiments with and creates some of her own unique cheese blends tailored to our local community’s tastes.

In Good Heart Farm (formerly
Ben’s Produce) – Saturdays

In Good Heart Farm offers vegetables, strawberries & flowers of the highest quality and taste in the Triangle from our farm in Clayton, NC. Our mission is to strive for healthier people, community, agriculture and planet by growing and sharing the best tasting food we can. Our farming practices may surpass organic guidelines but we choose not to be certified because we are confident the quality and taste of our produce as well as our direct relationship with you speaks to our commitment to healthy food and holistic agriculture. 2011 will be our second year farming independently as Ben's Produce, though we have been farming with family and friends for many years.

Arugula, Bean, Beets, Bok Choi, Broccoli Raab, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Chard, Cress, Cucumber, Dandelion, Eggplant, Endive, Fennel, Field Peas, Herbs, Kale, Kohlrabi, Leeks, Lettuce, Melons, Mesclun, Mizuna, Mustard, Napa Cabbage, Okra, Onions, Peas, Potatoes, Radicchio, Radish, Scallions, Peppers, Spinach, Squash Summer, Squash Winter, Sweet Potatoes, Tatsoi, Tomatillo, Tomatoes, Turnips, Zucchini

Jones Farm – Tuesdays & Saturdays

Pesticide-free vegetables.

Cucumbers, Potatoes, Squash, Greens, Strawberries, Watermelons, Melons, Cantaloupes, Carrots, Peanuts, Sweet Corn, Tomatoes, Eggplants, Pears, Plums, Blueberries, Onions, Heirloom Vegetables, Beans, Peas, Beets, Okra, Peppers, Radish, Squash, Blackberries, Blueberries, Landscape Plants, Turnips, Rutabagas, Asparagus

Kalawi Farm - Saturdays

Peaches, Homemade Peach Ice Cream

La Farm Bakery - Tuesdays & Saturdays

Atrisan Bread Bakery located in the heart of Cary, North Carolina. We have been open for about 11 years and we use old world methods to preparing breads by hand. We also offer French style pastries and baked goods made fresh every day. We use only unbleached, un-bromated flours in our breads and baked goods, and biodegradable packaging in our cafe.

Artisan Breads, Granola, Baked Goods, Pastries

Little River Ranch – Tuesdays
& Saturdays

We are a fifth generation farm family that produces high quality meats and ornamentals. Our production philosophy is to meld the best methods from traditional small family farming with the best offerings of modern agricultural science. We have a personal relationship with everything we produce.

Pasture-raised Lamb, Pasture-raised Heritage Turkeys, Traditional Pork, Pasture-raised Rabbit, Pond-raised Duck, Fall Chrysanthemums

Locals Seafood – Tuesdays & Saturdays

localsseafood.com

Our mission is to deliver the freshest possible seafood from local NC fisherman to the Triangle area. Our seafood is fresh “off-the-boat” from Outer Banks fisherman. Rather than buy imported products that may be shipped halfway around the world, why not utilize North Carolina’s natural resource and help out the coastal economy as well? Our seafood is unadulterated, preservative-free, dye-free, always fresh and never imported. Relatively speaking, this stuff was swimming yesterday…

Martin’s Curry Rice – Tuesdays
& Saturdays
Martin’s Curry Rice offers an intriguing concept in Indian food: Choice. Craft your own meal by choosing your protein, vegetables, and sauce, and we'll cook it to order in just five minutes. Martin seeks out produce that is certified Piedmont Grown. Most of the fresh vegetables, like bell peppers, squash, kale and other seasonal produce in Martin’s kitchen, are sourced from Western Wake Farmers’ Market. We love buying local, because the produce is so much fresher. Buying local keeps us in touch with our community. And it keeps our money in the local economy, helps create local jobs, and reduces our carbon footprint.
Melina’s Fresh Pasta - Tuesdays
& Saturdays

Using traditional recipes and methods learned in Italy, we produce fresh pasta, ravioli and sauces using locally sourced, and fresh ingredients as well as some special ingredients imported from Italy.

Fresh Pasta, Baked Pastas, Lasagna, Ravioli, Sauces, Prepared Meals

MoonDance Soaps and More
– Tuesdays & Saturdays

Handcrafted cold process soaps and natural body care products including body butters, shea creams, lip balms, effervescent bath tablets, tub teas, sachets and more. We also have an entire line of all natural baby skin care products, some goodies for Fido and a comprehensive line of insect repellent products.

Muddy Dog Roasting Company
– Tuesdays & Saturdays

Family owned & operated artisan coffee roastery. Purveyors and blenders of specialty tea. Artisan grain millers. Purveyors of specialty foods. We roast our own coffee in an energy efficient coffee roaster. We also mill our own corn (blue, white, yellow) to produce grits and corn meal. We have a line of blended teas, as well.

Coffee Beans, Corn Meal, Grits, Loose Leaf Tea, Brewed Coffee and Tea

olifant+castelo – Tuesdays &
Saturdays

olifant+castelo is a spice and herb company headquartered in Durham. We take pride in sourcing as much locally grown product as possible and purchase directly from growers when available. Our rubs and blends are produced locally in small batches to ensure optimum freshness and flavor. We package our goods in non-plastic materials (metal, glass, and recycled cardboard boxes).

Rabbitpatch - Saturdays

Hand-woven baskets, with all natural dyes. Fourth generation basket weaver.

Redbud Farm, Certified Organic
– Tuesdays & Saturdays

Redbud Farm, owned and managed by Clay Smith and Nancy Joyner, began in 2009 to grow a wide variety of vegetables and herbs; Redbud is certified organic. It is located on the land where Clay grew up on a family farm that has been owned by the family since 1945. Redbud Farm specializes in vegetables and herbs including heirloom tomatoes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, bell peppers, eggplant, green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, lettuce, kale, carrots, radish, garlic, ginger, parsley, basil, and cilantro. Clay and Nancy enjoy the direct contact with people at farmers markets and providing individuals and families with organic, local, flavorful, fresh food.

Sarah Cecilia Good Food Company
- Tuesdays & Saturdays

Sarah Cecilia Good Food Company is on a mission to re-connect communities with real food. We sell fresh food prepared with local, sustainably grown ingredients, we hold community events and dinners, and we teach people how to eat fresh and local food on any budget.

Screech Owl Greenhouse – Tuesdays & Saturdays

Greenhouse operation of tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, hydroponic lettuces, and herbs.

ShellyMac Farm – Saturdays

A 75 acre farm in Northeast Durham county raising laying hens, muscove ducks, black angus beef cattle and growing 1.5 acres of vegetables. Animals are all free range and grass fed. Our farm is a converted tobacco farm that we started operating in 2006. We sell farm fresh eggs from free range chickens, seasonal produce, regular and honey sweetened jams and jellies from home grown and local fruits, and made from scratch baked goods.

Singing Turtle Farm - Tuesdays & Saturdays

Diversified family farm using sustainable practices to grow vegetables, grains and livestock.

Smith Angus
Farm
– Saturdays

We are a Family owned and operated cattle and poultry farm located in Snow Camp. We take great pride in being the 4th generation to farm the land. Our Black Angus cattle are pasture raised and fed an all natural grain supplement without any added hormones or unnecessary antibiotics. This ensures a well marbled, tender cut of beef that makes for exceptional dining from our pasture to your plate.

Smith’s Nursery – Saturdays

Smith's Nursery is a family owned and operated nursery and produce farm operating in Johnston County, North Carolina for over 20 years. We take great pride in growing high quality plants and produce using sustainable farming practices. During the Spring and early Summer, we have an exciting U-Pick Strawberry, Blueberry and Blackberry season. In conjunction with the Strawberries, we operate a full garden center, complete with most all your landscape needs; shrubs, trees, vines, perennials, annuals, hanging baskets and more. In the fall we offer pumpkin picking, hayrides, millet maze, a goat walk, hiking trails and fishing. In conjunction with the pumpkins we operate a farm stand and garden center with all the essentials to create the perfect fall scene. Smith's Nursery grows a wide variety of fruits, vegetables and landscape plants. We deliver fresh, local produce each week to neighborhoods in Wake, Harnett and Johnston County through our Doorstep Market program.

Strawberries, Blueberries, Blackberries, Melons, Asparagus, Spinach, Squash, Zucchini, Cabbage, Onions, Cucumbers, Peppers, Greens, Bedding Plants, Hanging Baskets, Landscape Plants, Perennials, Herb Plants.

Spain Farm – Tuesdays & Saturdays

The Spain Farm is a fourth generation small farm tucked away between the woods and urban growth in Raleigh, North Carolina. We are innovatively trying to take dominion over the land by using stewardship techniques to preserve the land for the next generation. Our philosophy is to work together with the animals and the food we grow; instead of trying to artificially stimulate them, we make them our partners in this business in a sense. Our specialty is shiitake mushrooms. Grown in the woods on logs, our mushrooms are sheltered under the shade, using the most natural fertilizer available, fresh water. We are currently putting into place the paddock system to use with our animals which will allow each animal to participate in the polyculture we are creating by contributing their own kind of fertilizer and cleaning up after each other. This system creates rich areas that grow from natural fertilizers to provide top quality food for each animal. We try to limit the amount of grain as much as possible and allow the animals to graze on succulent grasses so that their meat will be rich with vitamins and enzymes. As grazers, the boar goats are the first to glean the area, next are the Muscovy, Cayuga and Khaki Campbell ducks which are top grazers and then there is the clean-up crew – the chickens. Two guardian livestock dogs, Maggie and Sampson, work in harmony to keep everyone safe. Our offerings include shiitake mushrooms, figs, cabrito (goat meat), duck meat and eggs and chicken eggs. We use no pesticides on our food or antibiotics on our animals. There is no need because the food we grow and the animals we raise help each other in a wonderful cycle, just as they were created. We try to do our best in everything we grow, to nurture our mushrooms, goats and other facets of our operation in order to uphold our end of the bargain, in short to be good stewards.

Shiitake mushrooms, Duck eggs and meat, Goat meat

Sunburst Tomatoes - Saturdays

Tim and Nancy Bass are from a little place called Momeyer, a small town in Nash County, North Carolina. Our farm has been in Tim's family for nearly 200 years. Prior to our marriage in 1990, Tim was making a fair living by growing tobacco, soybeans, cotton, and a few chickens. With the changing times, we decided we needed to change the emphasis of the farming operation. In 1992, an opportunity arose to be a part of a grass roots effort to start a farmers market in Nash County. We began growing every local, southern, garden vegetable that first year to sell at the newly established Nash Area Farmers Market. Realizing the need for an early and consistent tomato grower to help "grow the market", we decided to give it a try. We researched, studied, and learned to grow greenhouse tomatoes in 1993. Now, eighteen years later, we have found a few more opportunities to market our tomatoes and have been able to increase the size of our operation. We are now a part of two farmers markets as well as a few wholesale outlets. What we do has enabled us to stay on the farm and enjoy the lifestyle that only a farmer can appreciate.

Sweet T, a cakery – Tuesdays
& Saturdays

Sweet T, a cakery offers gourmet, artisan cupcakes, cakes and baked goods made from scratch using only the finest fresh, local and organic ingredients. We offer an amazing selection of gluten-free and vegan treats. Our creations are not only moist and delicious but beautiful and creative.

Cupcakes, Cookies, Pies, Quiche, Cakes, Tarts

Two Bridges Farm – Tuesdays
& Saturdays

We are a new small farm located in northern Franklin County. We currently raise Boer Meat Goats and Chickens. We currently sell the chicken eggs and plan to raise broiler chickens this year for meat. This will also be our first year to have Goat Meat to sell. This year we will also have a Market Garden and will be growing several market vegetables including: spring and fall vegetables like lettuces, spinach, kale, kohlrabi, broccoli, carrots and cabbage and summer vegetables including tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, onions, squash, melons, and corn. We will begin working on organic certification of our Market Garden in February and hope to obtain Organic Certification by mid summer. Because this is our first year, I expect the produce list will change over time. I do see a possibility for incorporating flowers and certain fruits/berries to our product list.

Goat Meat, Chicken, Eggs, Lettuce, Spinach, Kale, Kohlrabi, Broccoli, Carrots, Cabbage, Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplant, Onions, Squash, Melons, Corn

Two Chicks Farm – Saturdays

Two Chicks Farm is a small farm located five miles from downtown Hillsborough, NC. Two Chick: Farm's mission is to produce high quality vegetables, herbs, and value added products to sell to the local community. Our vision, at Two Chicks Farm, is to be a sustainable farm growing vegetables and herbs year round; using organic methods and season extension to provide the community with locally produced fresh, fermented or pickled foods year round. Two Chicks Farm is committed to staying small so we can hand tend our products in order to provide the best quality at competitive prices while providing great customer service.

NEW!

Two Pounds Mustard
– Guest Vendor

Two Pounds Mustard is giving an everyday condiment new life. Using a Slovenian family recipe passed down to us through generations, we use high-quality, sustainable ingredients. Sweet on the nose and hot on the finish, we produce our mustard in small batches so every jar is just right.

Uncle Bob’s Nuts – Saturdays

Uncle Bob's Nuts is a producers of fresh made roasted nuts, organic peanut butter, nutty salsa, and unique gourmet kettle corns. We use all natural ingredients in our products and no preservatives. We pride ourselves in the best quality and taste. The way food should be!

Roasted Pecans (locally grown), Cashews, Almonds, Peanuts, Unique Kettle Corns, Organic Peanut Butter, Other Nut Butters, Nutty Salsa

Wrenn’s Farm & Nursery – Tuesdays
& Saturdays

Formerly known as Middlesex Produce Growers, was started by my father (Fletcher Wrenn) in 1867. He started out with greenhouse tomatoes and kept on adding different crops until today we grow 19 different produce crops. We grow and sell only top quality produce. If it does not meet our standards we do not sell it. We eat the crops that we grow, so we use as few pesticides as possible.

Greenhouse Tomatoes, Greenhouse Cucumbers, Strawberries, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Broccoli, Sweet Onions, Lettuce, Potatoes, Squash, Sweet Corn, Cantaloupes, Butter Beans, Peas, Okra, Field Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Eggplant, Peppers, Watermelons, Collards, Sweet Potatoes

Cary Moms Start Farmers’ Market

Watch an extended interview on the new Farmers’ Market by Kendall Jones.