The new potatoes are starting to come in as are the green beans. Good Food Good People have bicolor sweet corn, yellow and purple scallions, and English shelling peas aplenty. Riverstone Farm will have more all organic greens, beets, and carrots next week. Kester Clark expects to bring more of their fine green beans as well.
Also available from around the region are products for those with a sweet tooth. Good Food Good People has honey, maple syrup and sorghum molasses in containers large and small. The molasses comes to us from farmers in Tennessee. GFGP also has Baby Swiss cheese from Mountain View, Curtis Goat Dairy’s delicious chevre and feta cheeses, and Leraysville cheddar cheeses out of Pennsylvania.
Speaking of market baskets, we are also handling the VDACS Virginia Grown Farm, Fresh, Pledge market basket raffle. These raffle tickets do not cost anything for shoppers in the market-just a few moments of your time to record your purchases of Virginia grown agricultural products at the Information Table! Their market basket is also has a $250 value. Their drawing will be the first week of October.
We always want to remind folks that the Floyd Farmers Market offers EBT services for SNAP beneficiaries as well as a Double Value matching program. The money that supports the matching program comes from a Woodrow Vest grant as well as donations from our community. The Double Value program effectively halves our product prices for our neighbors on SNAP benefits to enable them to purchase wholesome, fresh products from our market, which also supports our local vendors and farmers.