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Unfortunately, we won’t be able to make tomorrow’s farmers market, but we look forward to seeing everyone next Saturday ...
06/06/2026

Unfortunately, we won’t be able to make tomorrow’s farmers market, but we look forward to seeing everyone next Saturday and most of the Saturdays throughout the summer.

The pasties and crawfish pies are ready for Saturday. We look forward to seeing everyone at the Pagosa Farmer’s Market ...
06/05/2026

The pasties and crawfish pies are ready for Saturday. We look forward to seeing everyone at the Pagosa Farmer’s Market at St . Patrick’s Church on Saturday from 9:00-12:00.

Come see us this Saturday at the pop up market downtown. We heard that pasties are a great way to reward yourself after...
05/14/2026

Come see us this Saturday at the pop up market downtown. We heard that pasties are a great way to reward yourself after a day of planting.

Honored to have West Davies as our very first customer!
04/29/2026

Honored to have West Davies as our very first customer!

Even though mother nature did not cooperate for the Pagosa Springs Earth Day celebration, it was fantastic to get some m...
04/29/2026

Even though mother nature did not cooperate for the Pagosa Springs Earth Day celebration, it was fantastic to get some much needed rain!

Thank you to our wonderful customers! It was also wonderful meeting everyone who stopped by, we look forward to seeing you at the farmers markets coming up soon! We will update the page once our days are confirmed.

04/23/2026

The story of the Pasty:

The Cornish Pasty originates from Cornwall (Southwest England) and can be traced back as far as the 1200’s. Mining was once a thriving industry in Cornwall and at that time pasties were baked by the wives and mothers of the tin miners. Traditionally, Cornish pasties are filled with steak, potatoes, swedes (rutabaga) and onions. Pasties were made with a thick crimped edge along one side so the miners could use the crimp as a handle to hold on to while eating. The miners’ hands would often be covered in arsenic from the mine, so the miners would discard the handle when they were done. The crusts were never wasted though, as many miners believed that ghosts, or ‘knockers’, inhabited the mines, and the leftover crusts would be left as an offering to keep these ghosts content.
At one time Cornwall had nearly 2000 flourishing tin mines, but by the 1880’s tin mining had become a rapidly declining industry. At this time, Cornish miners began emigrating to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.) for copper mining, bringing pasties with them. Finnish miners also brought their version of the pasty to the U.P. at this time. The first commercial pasty shops appeared just before World War II. An Italian American entrepreneur in Hurley, Wisconsin (on the Michigan border) baked pasties in his kitchen and peddled them from bar to bar in the early morning hours. In about 1938, he opened a pasty shop. After the war, other shops appeared across the border in Ironwood, Michigan. After the Mackinac Bridge opened in 1957, linking Michigan’s lower and upper peninsulas, tourism grew in the Upper Peninsula and numerous pasty stands developed, making the pasty synonymous with the U.P.

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