The Elberta Farmer’s Market is gearing up for another fresh and delicious fall season.  

Elaine Stryker, a market organizer, said that last Saturday’s opening day was a success with nearly 10 vendors offering a range of Baldwin County produced edibles including jams, jellies and preserves, a slew of vegetables, baked goods and crafts.  

“In the coming weeks, there will be a lot more greens,” Stryker said, “and beautiful wood crafting work.”

The market is in its seventh year now, she said, and just about every year brings new local growers to their location in downtown Elberta, U.S. 98 East from Foley.  

Growers come and go, Stryker noted, but one can expect to find something fresh each and every Saturday, 8 a.m. – noon, until the market closes for the fall season around late November, early December.  The market will not be open the day of the Elberta Sausage Festival, October 27.  

Buyers can look forward to everything from “sweet potatoes, persimmons, peanuts, squash, greens, peppers, onions, honey, pecans, eggs, live poultry and goats” to “pumpkins, spinach, lettuce, radishes, plants, hanging baskets, farm style crafts” and more, she said.  

P & K Nurseries of Elberta will also sell an assortment of seeds and flowers.

All products sold at the market are required to be locally grown and produced, Stryker noted, and this season has so far seen vendors from Loxley, Summerdale, Elberta and Lillian.  

A Loxley vendor sometimes brings “geese, ducks, chickens, and maybe a goat or two” from time to time, Stryker said.

Any seniors who have vouchers from the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) must redeem them by November 10.  The vouches cannot be used after that date.

Stryker said that unredeemed vouches can affect the number given to seniors in Baldwin County next year, and she encourages seniors to use them so that the program will continue.  

Anyone wishing to sell crafts or produce at the market or regarding any questions should call Eddie Frank at 986-5775 or Paul Stryker at 987-5343.