This Farmers Market brings the best of Minnesota’s harvests deep into Winter and features a few new health-focused vendors along with local favorites. Join us for the White Bear Lake Winter Farmers Market Season Finale; 9am-1pm on January 12th, 2019. Browse over a dozen local vendors indoors at Tamarack Nature Center, 5287 Otter Lake Road, WBT, MN 55110.
Shop Local, Eat Local + Healthy!
We can all use a little health boost after the Holidays, right! Bonus if we’re feasting on food grown close to home. Yes, even in January Minnesotan’s can enjoy local food. Like fresh greens, locally and humanely raised meats, fresh eggs and cheese- along with local honey, storage vegetable crops, breads, soups, and our furthest sourced food: wild Alaskan caught salmon!
Thanks to our neighbor farmers using high tunnels, greenhouses and indoor lights we can enjoy fresh food through the Winter. We’ll also have a wide variety of canned and frozen produce, jams and herbal products available. We welcome the “Brick Oven Bus” food truck and Platense handmade Empanadas to tide you over while shopping.
January Gift Basket Giveaway!!
Vendors have come together to offer an amazing assortment of local love- Register to win the day of. Details HERE!
Community Driven Market
This market is a true community driven event, bringing together many local community organizations. Pine Tree Apple Orchard donates free Cider tastings, which the White Bear Area Foodshelf volunteers serve up.
Our own White Bear Lake Seed Library will be sharing seed saving ans starting information. Ramsey County Master Gardeners will be onsite answering gardening questions and giving out free “table top” organics recycling kits. The Pollinator Friendly Alliance will have info on how to help our wild pollinators! Tamarack Nature Center will be sampling their honey and maple syrup and have a take home “seed art” project.
The coordinator of the market, Michelle Bruhn, also runs Forks in the Dirt and will be sharing some vegetable garden planning techniques. You can also register to WIN a One Hour “Veggie Garden Planning Session” with Michelle right HERE.
January Market Vendors
All Good Organics: variety of fall and winter vegetables, spices, sauerkraut.
Bell’s Maple Syrup: Pure Maple Syrup tapped from Sugar Maples in Cushing, MN.
Dahl Hobbie Farm: Raw honey, honey-based 12 spice cough soothing formula, jams.
Eichtens Cheese & Bison: variety of locally sourced cheeses, sausages and wild rice.
Gilbertson Farm: humanely raised beef and pork, chicken and eggs.
Great Harvest: yeast breads, rolls, scones, cookies and scruffins.
Hart & Soul Herbal: quality controlled, naturally sustainable herbal products.
Ingredients Cafe: scratch made soups and handmade gnocchi to go.
Platense: Tasty Argentinian handmade frosted nuts, popcorn + serving ready to eat Empanadas.
Morsels: Handmade granola bars + bites, cookies, cupcakes and caramels
Sailor Mercy: Hand crafted batches of immune boosting Elderberry Syrup.
Sassafras Health Foods: Promoting Healthy Living as a way of life with supplements and other whole food based items.
Unity Farms: A variety of popping corn, spices and cold processed soaps.
Weeds Greens: High quality and huge variety of locally grown microgreens.
Wild Run Salmon: Wild caught Alaskan Salmon sold by the fisherman.
As market coordinator, my mission is to help us all make healthier, more sustainable food choices. Our choices result in healthier lives for us and our planet! Follow the WBL Winter Market Facebook Event Page for up to date information and specials. Full vendor and community table list on Forks in the Dirt on the WBL Market page.
*Don’t forget to bring Cash as not all vendors take cards*
Dig Into the New Year with me and our local growers and vendors!
Michelle
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