Huntertown Gardens

Huntertown Gardens The original Farmer's market since 1937! Featuring fresh produce, bedding plants, cheeses, bulk candies, and pantry goods.
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Home grown jumbo Cauliflower, Broccoli, Rhubarb and Asparagus picked fresh!
06/12/2026

Home grown jumbo Cauliflower, Broccoli, Rhubarb and Asparagus picked fresh!

Home grown Amish Tomatoes are finally here!
06/12/2026

Home grown Amish Tomatoes are finally here!

06/11/2026

They were made from apples. Peeled and carved and left to dry until the flesh shrank and wrinkled around the features that had been pressed into it, each face collapsing slowly into something that looked uncannily like an old person who had lived a very long and very specific life.
Apple head dolls came to Appalachian craft tradition through the Seneca people, Native Americans who had been making dolls from apples long before European settlers arrived in the mountains. As the two cultures came into contact the craft passed hands and took root in the hollows where mountain women adopted it and made it their own.
The process was patient work. You peeled a firm apple and carved the features while the flesh was still fresh, pressing in the eye sockets, shaping the nose, suggesting a mouth. Then you left it to dry. Days. Sometimes weeks. The apple did the rest on its own, shrinking and deepening and pulling the carved features into the specific expression the drying had decided on. No two faces came out the same. The apple chose its own character in the end.
The body was whatever the scrap basket held. Wire or sticks for the frame. Fabric scraps for the clothes. Yarn for the hair. Hands that had nothing to spare made something from the cores of the harvest that would have otherwise gone to the pigs or the compost and turned it into a toy that a child would carry for years.
Fall was apple head doll season. The harvest was in. The apples were plentiful. And the long evenings were good for patient work done by firelight.

06/06/2026

Much respect to those who sacrificed so much!

1465 dead, 3184 wounded, 1928 missing & 26 captured.

Homegrown strawberries 🍓
05/30/2026

Homegrown strawberries 🍓

Address

14 County Road 70
Laotto, IN
46763

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 6pm
Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 6pm
Saturday 9am - 6pm
Sunday 11am - 6pm

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(260) 637-8585

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