Friday, June 2, 2023

Government Farmers Market Extends Hours

The Hat issued the following statement. 


 The Mississippi Farmers Market is extending its operating hours ahead of the annual Summer Kick-Off event. Starting Thursday, June 1, the market will be open each Thursday from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. throughout the summer. This is in addition to its year-round operating hours of Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.

 

While seasonal items last, shoppers can expect to find a variety of produce and herbs at the Mississippi Farmers Market every Thursday this summer. In addition to produce, shoppers will find a variety of beef, poultry, pork and lamb cuts; dairy products such as milk and cheeses; eggs; honey; tea; coffee; jams and jellies; breads and other baked goods; sauces and dressings; canned foods; flowers and plants; and much more on Saturdays. 

 

“Starting this week, the Mississippi Farmers Market will be open to the public on Thursdays, providing shoppers with fresh, seasonal produce directly from the farm,” said Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson. “We are also hosting the annual Summer Kick-Off in celebration of our producers who work hard to ensure Mississippi families have locally sourced and healthy options for food. With over forty vendors, kids’ entertainment and much more, this Saturday makes the perfect outing that the whole family can enjoy. I encourage the public to come out for this great event.”

 

In conjunction with its extended summertime hours, the Mississippi Farmers Market will host the annual Summer Kick-Off on Saturday, June 3, starting at 8:00 a.m. Shoppers will be treated to complimentary popcorn; children’s activities including face painting and games; food samples by Genuine MS® members; knife sharpening services by James Sharpening; free health screenings by the University of Mississippi Medical Center; prints available for purchase from local artist Gary Walters; and specialty ice cream, popsicles and other desserts available for purchase from the Farmers Market Café, Coffee Prose and Pearl River Tea Company.

 

The Farmers Market Café and Genuine MS® Store, both located inside of the Mississippi Farmers Market, will also be open to the public. The Café serves breakfast and lunch from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. every weekday; it is also open from 7:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. every Saturday. The Genuine MS® Store is open Tuesday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and on Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.

 

The Mississippi Farmers Market, a division of the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce, is open every Thursday from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. and every Saturday from 8:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. For more information about the Mississippi Farmers Market, visit www.msfarmersmarket.com or follow the Mississippi Farmers Market on Facebook.

 

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Climate Czar John Kerry says all these white trash farmers are going to have to stop growing food! Club of Rome and World Economic Forum shill Dennis Meadows says 86% of the human population must be eradicated by a benevolent dictatorship! Intellectual (and pole smoker) Yuval Harrari tells the World Economic Forum "we just dont need the vast majority of humans anymore! The World Economic Forum says maggots, entomilk (made from fly larvae) and cricket flour are what the filthy masses need to be eating!

Anonymous said...

2:22 - I read that in Alex Jones' voice, cause that sounds like the source.

Anonymous said...

I still go to the original farmers market by the stadium. Ms. Brenda is still there and has everything. Was there a few days ago, squash, tomatoes, green toms, corn. I wish I could have set up a table and just had lunch right there.

Stuff About ZeroBear PolyBear said...

If this gets popular, I will work on a tasty maggot flambeau dish.

(How do I insert a laughing emo, KF)

Just kidding folks. I think I have a year or two of human edible dishes ready to post with no crickets, grasshoppers, or other undesirable food groups.

Anonymous said...

2:22 Try reading from the World Economic Forum website. You can watch Harrari and Kerry online. You could search "cricket flour production facilities", but I already know you arent going to.

Anonymous said...

It takes all those paragraphs of yap-yap to say the venue, such as it is, will also open now on another day for four hours?

I still can't figure out the purpose or wisdom of having this venue open for a few hours one or possibly two days a week. I mean, like people are putting a note on the fridge to head and down there on the rare open day.

It's a waste of time and money and the Entergy meter spins on.

Anonymous said...

Never forget! This is yet another of Feel Brant's appointed government officials.

Anonymous said...

With the grocery store closings going on in Jackson, I give Andy credit for trying to help olve the food desert problem we hear so much about. Let me know if I've missed anything the city of Jackson is doing to help alleviate the problem.

Anonymous said...

Wow, a business that is open 9 hrs a week. I’m sure this business model would work in the private sector.

Anonymous said...

" tasty maggot flambeau dish".

WTF ???

This ZeroBear-PolyBear person has always been a strange bird ...

Now he/she/it is even stranger.

Anonymous said...

I went down there and got some milk from a dairy farmer and it was expensive and delicious. Kids loved it. Even got free fire ant poison that my taxes paid for. It’s a nice place. Go down there one Saturday. You’ll be glad you did. Good home made hot sauce. Local meat and honey.

Anonymous said...

5:58 Totally agree. And, you'd think that at least the hours would be the same each day... why create questions for anybody to have to remember which days are which hours? Total nothingburger. Real disappointment.

Remember when WW-under-the-bridge seemed to be open all the time and busy as could be. Times gone by.

Burke said...

Brenda's Produce is beyond wonderful. I'm all for truck farmers having a lot of markets, but when I'm shopping at Brenda's I know the food is first-rate and I also get the sense it has already been blessed.

Anonymous said...

Disagree with 1127
I went down one Sat for the socalled "Sweet Potato Day and it was news to the vendors down there it was even an event. It amounted to one sweet potato farmer who was already a regular vendor being there.
The fleamarket stuff was kinda meh and w/ the exception of like 3 vendors, the rest was mundane to the point of less than memorable.
Sad b/c it could be so much better.
Re: these hours, did not the farmers market in since the time it moved to that spot already have a weekday when it was open?

Seem to recall this already being offered there.

Kudos to the folks still goin to the original one. Another option is the 2nd to last old vendor from original who moved to the stand in Pearl on Hwy80 b4 she passed away.

Anonymous said...

Instead of embarrassing the entire state by showing up in professional meetings with a wide grin, wearing a cowboy hat - What if he were to actually do something - Like establishing a legitimate Farmers' Market at the Ag Museum?

He knows damned well very few will ride into downtown Jackson to 'feel out' a 10 hour a week opening with bottled pickles and hot sauce.

If he were at all interested in carrying out the objectives of this agency, that's exactly what he would do. But PERS retirement approacheth.

Anonymous said...

For those who prefer home grown vegetables - please support the farmers market. They don't charge tax ... and it is well worth it. Can you shop anywhere else without paying tax?? It adds up.


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