WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, Ohio — Chrysanthemums are hugely popular fall flowering plants. Planted in the ground or left in pots, they bring vibrant color to the late season landscape. They are not native to North America but have been cultivated here for hundreds of years. Part of the aster family, they are native to east Asia and northeastern Europe. In China and Japan, they have been cultivated since at least the 15th and 8th centuries respectively, and are associated with multiple festivals. There are so many different flower shapes and colors, you’d probably not readily recognize all of them as mums.
But even our standard, inexpensive potted mums provide a veritable rainbow of colors…golds and yellows, purples, salmon and deep red, often planted in combinations of color. This plant heralds fall and graces our home entries along with our pumpkins and gourds. You’ll find these beauties at the Fayette County Farmers Market.
Fayette County Public Health is our community guest this Saturday and will have games to play, public health info and Farmers Market recipe booklets to hand out. They also have Bier Run Mud pottery luminaries for sale to benefit the Fayette County Suicide Prevention Coalition.
Additionally, Compton Creek Farm will be offering samples of their chicken, cooked on site!
The market is open Saturday morning from 8:30 to noon. It is located in the municipal parking lot on the corner of South Main and East East streets. SNAP EBT food benefit cards and credit/debit cards are accepted. Those using the SNAP EBT card for food purchases receive matching dollar “Produce Perks” tokens ($1 for $1) good only for fruits, vegetables, and food producing plants. So,”buy one, get one” for up to $25 every market day. Five dollar coupons will be available again for Fayette County Farm Bureau members at each Saturday market; these can be spent at both the Wednesday and Saturday markets.
The following list contains the names and products of the vendors that expect to set up this Saturday. Other vendors may participate as well.
Jim’s Premium Ground Beef (Jim Hobbs): Premium ground beef in assorted packages (patties, bulk tubes). New: “slider” size patties (6 patties per pound) and 8oz patties (2 per package).
Julie G’s Cookies (Julie Greenslade): Chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, ginger, sugar, pineapple, macadamia nut, peanut butter, peanut butter jumbos, peanut butter fudge, lemon bars, double chocolate fudge cookies and pumpkin cookies with butter cream icing.
PPCF/ The Jam Man (David Persinger): Jams/Jellies/Fruit Butters: END OF YEAR SALE begins. Price reductions up to $3 off on select canned products. Local raw honey. Texas chocolate sheet cakes with or without pecans. Produce: red Carolina reaper peppers & Brussel sprouts.
PPCF/The Pie Lady and S. Plymouth Raw Honey (Julie & Dennis Mosny): Local raw honey and beeswax. Assorted fruit pies, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin bread, cini mini’s, Buns bars and cinnamon rolls. Caramel puff popcorn.
Red Maple Goats and Soaps (Cindy Grover): Goat milk soaps as well as soothing bath soaks, foot cream, lotions, and 100% handmade goat milk products.
Wood Designs by DW (Debbie Welch): One of a kind handcrafted wood items— signs, tables, gnomes, as well as bird feeders (freestanding and hanging) and hanging bird houses. Wooden solar mushrooms and sunflowers. Crocheted items including a variety of stuffed animals, kitchen towels, pot scrubs, pot holders, baby booties, and afghans. Will take custom and special orders.
Bridge View Gardens (Hunter & Lorelle Rohrer): Fall mums, decorative gourds & pumpkins, and fresh produce.
Compton Creek Farms (Jason and Jenna Bryan): assorted packaged (frozen) cuts of pasture raised chicken. CHICKEN SAMPLES TODAY.
Cozy Baby Blessings (Nancy Cutter): Baby essentials including hand crocheted blankets and hats, flannel burp cloths, muslin swaddle blankets, beaded and macrame pacifier clips, crinkle squares and other baby teethers. Also crocheted kitchen dish cloths, pot scrubbers, essential oil car diffusers and hand poured wax melts in over 50 scents. (LAST SATURDAY this vendor!)
DSC Produce Farm (Darren Cox): 10 flavors of salsa, 4 flavors of salad dressings and 3 flavors of BBQ sauce. Apple butter.
Engeti (Alana Walters & Janet Bick): dinner rolls, cinnamon rolls, cakes, brownies, pies, cookies, and other baked goods.
Edlynns Attic (Robin Dement): Dog biscuits, wax melts, yarn and hand knitted items.
Greens & Greenery (Katrina Bush): Raw, local honey. Buckeye candy, sourdough crackers. Dried sage and parsley. Roselle (hibiscus) for quesadillas or tea. Gourds. Broom corn wreaths. Houseplants: aloe, broad leaf begonia, dwarf sansevaria. Rooted corkscrew willow starts.
Katrina Bush is a vendor at the Fayette County Farmers Market.
