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Another day another rainy market!! But we will be there with these collards as big as your head! Pick up some today and ...
06/24/2026

Another day another rainy market!! But we will be there with these collards as big as your head! Pick up some today and make some excellent veggie wraps! Allen Farmers Market from 3-6:30 today!!

“I wonder if much that ails our society stems from the fact that we have allowed ourselves to be cut off from that love ...
06/06/2026

“I wonder if much that ails our society stems from the fact that we have allowed ourselves to be cut off from that love of, and from, the land. It is medicine for broken land and empty hearts. ... Of course, much of what fills our mouths is taken forcibly from the earth. That form of taking does no honor to the farmer, to the plants, or to the disappearing soil. It’s hard to recognize food that is mummified in plastic, bought and sold, as a gift anymore. Everybody knows you can’t buy love. In a garden, food arises from partnership. If I don’t pick rocks and pull weeds, I’m not fulfilling my end of the bargain. I can do these things with my handy opposable thumb and capacity to use tools, to shovel manure. But I can no more create a tomato or embroider a trellis in beans than I can turn lead into gold. That is the plants’ responsibility and their gift: animating the inanimate. Now theres a gift. People often ask me what one thing I would recommend to restore relationship between land and people. My answer is almost always, “Plant a garden.” It’s good for the health of the earth and it’s good for the health of people. A garden is a nursery for nurturing connection, the soil for cultivation of practical reverence. And its power goes far beyond the garden gate— once you develop a relationship with a little patch of earth, it becomes a seed itself. Something essential happens in a vegetable garden. It’s a place where if you can’t say “I love you” out loud, you can say it in seeds. And the land will reciprocate in, in beans.” - Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

Garlic butts are comin at ya right NOW at 3-6:30 pm!
05/27/2026

Garlic butts are comin at ya right NOW at 3-6:30 pm!

Sargent Bosco says it's a really good day to come out to Allen Farmers Market and get your fresh produce! We will have p...
05/20/2026

Sargent Bosco says it's a really good day to come out to Allen Farmers Market and get your fresh produce! We will have plenty of salad greens, radishes, herbs, potted plants, and eggs for you to eat for the rest of the week! It's seed festival, so we will be bringing back our seed exchange for this week as well! Come on by. We'd love to see you for our first market of 2026!

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