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The Carlton County Farmers Market opens Saturday, June 1 in front of Premiere Theatres in Cloquet. This season we're joined by a new generation of farmers and producers offering a wonderful variety of homegrown and handmade products. Heidi Wanzek and Em Klein created Prairie Rose Farm and Floral in Mahtowa. They are both multitalented artists with skills ranging from welding to wedding floral design. Like the other farmers at the market, they are dedicated to regenerative agriculture and use...
The Carlton County Farmers Market opens for the 2023 season 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Saturday, June 3. Each year - and each week - the market offers a different mix of freshly-picked local produce, cottage foods (home-processed or home-canned pickles, vegetables or fruit) and artisan crafts. After a long winter and many hours spent tending plants in fields and hoop houses, farmers also look forward to renewing connections and making new friends in the local foods community. Julie and Sam Jacobson from...
Barbequed chicken served with coleslaw and potato salad ... roast chicken with baking powder biscuits and homemade gravy ... a whole chicken rubbed with a secret spice blend and smoked to perfection. Are you hungry yet? If you are ready to make a great chicken dinner, Eli Davis and Russ Rule can provide you with meat chickens raised in small, carefully tended flocks. Eli Davis is just 8 years old, but he has been selling at the Carlton County Farmers Market with his grandmother, Deb Davis,...
People who shop regularly at farmers markets know there is a seasonal rhythm to local produce. Rhubarb and spring radishes are best in June. Cucumbers, garlic scapes, peas and strawberries arrive in July. And so does Darla Van Heerde's elderflower lemonade and non-alcoholic cordial. Darla Van Heerde is also known as "Pants Mary," in honor of the Esko woman who once owned her land and apparently decided that 19th-century dresses were not convenient for logging and farm work. Darla continued...
The back of her big red truck is filled with healthy green plants, as Wanda Pearcy pulls into a space at the Cloquet farmers market. People soon gather around to see what's new or find a special perennial to fill a gap in a flower border. And they tend to linger, because Wanda is more than willing to share advice and insights from her years of gardening experience. Pearcy didn't start out with a green thumb. "I was not a gardener; in fact, I killed all my houseplants," she said. But when she...
Fresh ginger at a farmers market in northern Minnesota? Yes, indeed. Thanks to John and Kelly Lenkowski of Farm Sol, who grow this tropical crop in hoop houses, customers can enjoy a milder, aromatic version of the grocery store staple. Earlier in the season, the couple creates fresh salad blends with lettuces and greens that change weekly. During tomato season, their stand offers colorful mixes of red, orange, purple, green and yellow heirloom varieties. Like most farmers, the Lenkowskis...
