Farmers' Market - Havre, MT

Beginning today, farmers, crafters and bakers will gather each Saturday at the Town Square in Havre for the Farmers' Market. It's small, but it's fun and there certainly are a variety of items to buy.

The Hutterites are the main providers of vegetables, although there are a few home gardeners who bring a few boxes of produce to sell. I was taking pictures by one of the Hutterite stands and the gentleman, who must have seen me taking pictures, laughed and said if I took his picture he would have to charge me $20. Thinking that they frowned upon having their picture taken, I didn't take any pictures of their bounty, which included small red potatoes, fresh peas, kholrabi, rhubarb, carrots, turnips, romaine, spinach, pickles, and sauerkraut. I bought some red potatoes and peas and a package of freshly made dinner rolls.

Let's take a look at what was available today!

This is a couple who I remember from last year. They charge $1.50 for two freshly made donuts. The man fries the donuts up and the woman sells them. What a team!

All these towels were embroidered... some with Montana scenes, frogs, dogs, and horses. Somebody has a fancy embroidery machine at home!

Some big zucchini from a home gardener.

Saddle Butte Custom Smoking shows up every Saturday and they sell 'Pig on a Pole'. You see everybody walking around eating one of these! They bring a refrigerated truck and also smoked meat; jerky, ham, bacon, polish, summer sausage, breakfast sausage, smoked turkey, beef bacon, plus 20 varieties of wild game sausage using the customer's meat.

This table was full of purses made from cut-off jeans.

This woman was selling apple pies ready to bake in your own oven, loaves of bread and some of the biggest cinnamon rolls I've ever seen!

Turnips, green onions and beets from another home gardener.
Soy candles.
There was a table with some gorgeous Indian beadwork.

Most of them were traditional designs, but he even did Dora in beads!!

This is a new table this year. Very colorful crocheted rugs. The blue and red one you see hanging there was $22.

Here are some sawn decorative lawn pieces. There's a bear holding a sign that says "Howdy".

This table is new this year, too. These people had beautiful painted and decorated gourds...
... all shapes and sizes.
Boxes of white bread, wheat bread (really tall loaves!) and dinner rolls from the Hutterites.

And finally, this woman was selling homemade, sturdy cloth grocery bags. There were other stands, but I thought I'd save some for another day. Hope you enjoyed touring our Farmers' Market today!