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Winter Market, downtown Matthews: every other Saturday, 8-10am, December- March

Regular Season Saturday Market, Downtown Matthews: 7:15am-noon, April - November

Matthews Community

FARMERS' MARKET

Local Folks, Local Farms, Local Food

Celebrating our 18th year

Open Year Round on North Trade Street in Historic Downtown Matthews, NC

The Matthews Community Farmers' Market is the largest, most diverse producer-only farmers' market in the greater Charlotte area. Customers buy food directly from local farmers - that's as fresh, tasty and nutritious as it gets.

All food and other market products are produced within 50 miles of Matthews. The market provides the community with locally raised foods as marketgoers help preserve the tradition of small farms in the area. Customers make a direct connection with the source of their food and get to know the person or farm family who grows it.

During our regular season market, enjoy cooking demonstrations by top local chefs, relaxing live music and farm craft presentations. You can even bring your culinary questions to our expertly staffed Ask-A-Chef table. Check out our special events schedule, which is always full of family-friendly activities.

While we enjoy our canine friends, the fact remains that we are a food-based marketplace. For sanitary, health and safety reasons, we ask that you leave your dogs at home. Guide dogs and dogs that provide services are welcome with their human handlers. Thank you!

What's In Season Locally

On Saturday, Feb. 13, look for :

This page was last updated: February 2, 2010

Headliners:

greenhouse lettuces

radicchio

green onions

carrots

bok choi

rutabegas

Also:

salad mixes, greenhouse grown microgreens (mixed, cilantro, arugula, curly cress, celery and basil) baby bock choi, baby fennel, herbs

Meats: pastured pork, grassfed beef, ostrich

Other farm products: fresh-cut flowers, eggs from free-range chickens, soft goat cheese

Baked goods and candies:

truffles, cookies, brownies, cakes and tarts, pastries, pound cakes, cookies, brownies, cinnamon rolls, muffins, scones, artisan yeast breads, Middle Eastern flat breads

Other products: jams, granola, natural soaps, hand-made baskets

Winter Farmers' Market

Upcoming Winter Market Dates are:

Feb. 13 and 27, March 13 and 27

Our Customers' Comments To The America's Favorite Farmers' Market Contest.......

"This is a small town market with big city tastes. They always have new and tasty events. I look forward to attending each Saturday morning bright and early."

"Growers only, highly engaging activities (chef demonstrations, music, crafts), very well managed and GREAT and HEALTHY food."

"The variety is outstanding and the farmers are great."

"Absolutely outstanding local produce and foods. Also other items like baskets. And entertainment by musicians and chefs each week. Sometime competitions as well."

"It's fresh, it's intimate, it's convenient!"

"Every week new products showing up, fresh as possible... new chef's teaching us how to cook, wine experts, music what more can a girl want on a Saturday morning?"

"All of the products come from a 50 mile radius, so there is no question as to whether it is local. Also, the vendors have a family present every week so relationships are built over time. This is a Saturday morning family tradition to have breakfast, purchase wonderful food, flowers and crafts and enjoy local community. During the summer, there are wonderful cooking demonstrations from local chefs. Not only are the market products highlighted and good food shared but local restaurants get additional exposure."

"Our farmers market is the best I've ever been to because all the produce, meats and eggs have been... grown by the very people who sell them to me, within a 50 mile radius of my home. There is no comparison to chain stores offering masses of one variety of each well travelled produce item. Greens at my farmers market are crisp and succulent, carrots are sweet beyond belief, eggplants and peppers are glossy and firm, berries are deeply red, like juicy jewels and I had never before experienced a fresh egg before shopping at this market. Aside from the outstanding quality of foods at this farmers market, there is an atmosphere of friendship and goodwill engendered by the common interest of giving our families the best food that we can find, as we support sustainable agriculture and the dedicated and hardworking farmers that provide the amazing gift of real food, cleanly grown, only hours out of the ground..."

Donated Books Reach Soldiers

All through October, market customers donated hundreds of books and magazines to set up a reading room for the 14th Military Intelligence Batallion in Baghdad. The books are now in soldiers' hands and are being thoroughly enjoyed. Read more..

Battalion Commander Lt. Col. Greg Meyer

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