A Visit to the Ligonier County Market

The weather this past weekend was too perfect to miss out on a visit to the Ligonier County Market. Farmer’s Markets and the like are a great way for shoppers to buy local produce. It is also a great way to meet and get to know your local farmers. Country Fox likes to support local business whenever possible.

Know Before You Go

While many of our little local Farmer’s Markets can get busy with people, the Ligonier County Market gets very busy! Parking may be stressful. There may be crowds. There are a lot of vendors with a lot of different things to purchase.

The parking is assisted by market personel and the local police. They will guide you to available parking areas. However, there may be a line of traffic and crowds of people maneuvering through the parking area. The earlier you get there the better.

Country Fox had visited the Ligonier County Market a few years ago. The crowds were really bad the last time we visited. This weekend was crowded, but managable. Patience was exercised and we were able to enjoy our day and buy some unique treats.

The Ligoneir County Maket Facebook page and website list the vendors that will be available at the Market for the 2021 season. There are so many vendors. Some types of vendors include: locally grown produce, alcohol, jewelry, soaps, wood workers, locally grown meats, crafts, pottery, honey, kombucha, bread, fresh food and drinks. Many of the vendors accept credit cards. I would recommend taking some tote bags and maybe a cooler.

Where We Visited

Once we arrived, we wandered around looking at all of the unique items and fresh food. Eventually we planned out our visit and which booths we would be stopping at.

Huckle Bee Farms

Country Fox has been all about bees and honey this year, so of course we found a local apiary selling their honey. Huckle Bee Farms was giving out free samples of all the honey they had there for sale. After tasting a few different types we selected our three.

Now I know you are asking yourself, how different can honey taste? The Huckle Bee Farms knows how to do honey. They figured out how to infuse fruits, vegetables, bourbon and chocolate into their honey.

We tasted many different infusions, each one delicious as the last. We settled on Razzleberry, Garlic and Smoked. Though Peach and Lavender were up there on the wanted list. Have I piqued your interest? Visit their website to find out all the different varieties and purchase some.

Nature’s Grove Farm

Located in Latrobe, this farm provides a variety of meats. Nature’s Grove follows nature in the raising of their animals. All of their animals are pasture raised. This allows the animal to eat what nature inteded them to eat while getting plenty of sunshine and fresh air.

Their produce varies depending on the time of year. They have pasture raised chickens, turkeys, lamb, rabbit, eggs, and dog treats. We bought a pack of Mutton Stew Meat. Interested in eating a better cut of meat? Visit they website to find out more about the Farm and buy some pasture raised meat.

Keystone Cultures

Since I began my new food lifestyle at the begining of the year, I have been in search of the best healthy healing foods available. Kombucha has become one of my favorite ways to get probiotics.

Kombucha is a fermented tea. It is slightly high in its sugar content, for me anyway, so I only have it once and a while. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to taste and buy some locally brewed Kombucha.

Keystone Cultures has a variety of different flavors to try. Besides kombucha they also offer water kefir. This is also fermented.

Interested? Visit their website or Facebook to learn more.

A Sunny Visit to the Ligonier County Market

The weather was wonderful. The crowd wasn’t too bad. The vendors have some great fruits and veggies for sale. We bought some blueberries, blackberries, two different green bean varieties and a patty pan squash.

As always we suggest buying local whenever possible, and visiting a famer’s market is a great way to do just that.

Wondering what to do with all the local fruit and veggies you bought? Read my post about a crafting a charcuterie board. Want to find out why it’s important to support local bee keepers? Read my post about the importance of bees.