Muskegon Farmers Market

You may now buy food-bearing plants and herbs for your own garden. Not sure how to design a garden? Muskegon Farmers Market will be glad to help with designing,  planting instructions, and what to plant when. Plus you have access to true experts right outside our door!

So whether you want a salsa garden, pizza garden, kitchen herb garden or a
garden specifically fun for kids, let us help you make the best use of your
EBT  money.

Click on the link below to see the Flea Market Rental Rate schedule for 2011.

Flea Market Rate Sheet

Fall is a great time for planting your perennials!  The warm ground is perfect for root growth leaving extra energy for blossoms in the spring. Our growers have many varieties of perennial plants on sale now, so stop in at the Market and load up! Next year you will be so glad you planted now.

We have lots of farm-fresh vegetables at the Farmers Market now. Why not buy some and try out this delicious recipe. It is perfect for a hot summer day. Click here to download the recipe.

When Amber Mae first married Eric Petersen, she always joked that she was going to open a fish market and call it The Fish Monger’s Wife. Eric thought the market was a good idea, but hated the name. After their first daughter Anna was born, the couple revisited the idea of opening a market. However, they didn’t want the overhead or time commitment involved with a store front. 

That’s when they found the perfect solution–become a vendor at the Muskegon Farmer’s Market. After an enthusiastic feedback from the market’s manager, Eric and Amber started selling fresh whitefish fillets at the market in June 2010. And the name they chose… The Fish Monger’s Wife. 

“Eric still hates the name, but people love it. At the market I’m known as The Wife.  The market staff doesn’t even remember my real name,” says Amber Mae. 

Opening a retail business was completely new for Eric who has fished commercially  with his family at Petersen’s Fisheries since he was old enough to hold a dip net. Meanwhile Amber Mae grew up working with her own family’s retail business. 

“It’s only natural for us to open our own business. We both grew up working with our parents and that’s something we’d like to continue with our own daughter,’ say Amber Mae. 

Each week, the couple purchases fish from Petersen’s Fisheries and then cleans, pin bones and packages the fish for greatest freshness. From there, Amber Mae takes the fillets to the Farmer’s Market on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

 So far, The Fish Monger’s Wife has been a huge success at the Muskegon Farmer’s Market. Area residents are initially surprised to see fresh, locally caught whitefish at the market, but then they are delighted.

To start off the couple plans to keep it simple by attending only one market. “Going to other markets would put Anna at a babysitter more and that’s not why we did this. The business will have to grow as our family grows,” says Amber Mae.

 Amber Mae says with a laugh, “We have an agreement. Eric goes on the boat, I go to market and the two shall not cross. That’s how we’ll continue to have a wonderful marriage!”

Click here for her website. You may email Amber Mae by clicking here.

We sell: asparagus, apples, cherries, peaches and plums.

The owner has been farming for 58 years and the family has beeen selling at the Muskegon Farmers Market for over 50 years.

Address: 8281 W. Stony Lake road, New Era, MI 49446.  Tel#: (231) 301-9312
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Here is another recipe to try out those wonderful Market vegetables: Snappy Peas & Mushrooms .

Here is a tasty way to eat some of those fine looking radishes for sale at the Muskegon Farmers Market: Chinese Radish Salad