Muskegon Farmers Market

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Bridge Card/Project FRESH at the Farmers Market

May 8th, 2011 · 7 Comments

Bridge CardThe Muskegon Farmers Market is continuing its Bridge Card/Project FRESH program during the 2011 season. To use your Bridge Card to purchase fresh produce and food-yielding plants, stop in at the Market Office. With your Bridge Card you can purchase tokens (wooden nickles) worth $1 each to spend with vendors displaying a “Bridge Cards accepted here” plaque. To read about our very successful 2010 Bridge Card program, click here .

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Farmers Market opens for the season

April 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Market Flowers

Market Flowers

The Muskegon Farmers Market opening day for 2011 will be Saturday, April 30. We are open 6:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Vendors will be selling flowers, vegetables, meat products, bakery items, pet foods, Mother’s Day gifts and more. We will have a food vendor also.

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Great News for Bridge Card Users

April 11th, 2011 · No Comments

Market LettuceYou 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.Bridge Card

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New Flea Market Rental Rates for 2011

April 6th, 2011 · 5 Comments

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

Flea Market Rate Sheet

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Plant Perennials in the Fall

September 9th, 2010 · No Comments

Perennials

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.

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Veggie-macaroni Salad

July 6th, 2010 · No Comments

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.

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The Fish Monger’s Wife

June 29th, 2010 · 4 Comments

The Fish Monger

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.

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Stony Acres Farms

June 21st, 2010 · No Comments

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
Email

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Snappy Peas and Mushrooms

June 16th, 2010 · No Comments

Here is another recipe to try out those wonderful Market vegetables: Snappy Peas & Mushrooms .

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Chinese Radish Salad

June 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

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

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