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May 12, 2015
FARMERS MARKETS BY CHRISTI WARREN
DIXON – It’s farmers market season! Wednesday, a handful of vendors set up shop in Haymarket Square for the Dixon Park District’s second market of the season. Robin Ackerson, owner of Homegrown Perennials and Stuff, has been driving to the farmers market from Ohio for the past 5 or 6 years, she said. On this beautiful May morning, she’s already had about 10 people swing by to check out her wares – all organic, all grown in her greenhouse: vegetables, herbs, and flowers galore. “I don’t use any pesticides,” she says. “No -ides of any kind.” She also makes her own cement bird baths, using large leaves as molds. At the next booth down were Ed and Mary Kaminski, owners of Swirling Winds, a 3-acre farm in Earlville. This is their fourth year selling plants at the market. “We produce all heirloom seeds,” from hot peppers to parsley to kale to cabbage, Ed said. Wednesday, they also had fresh garlic and beautiful maple and hickory cutting boards that Ed makes
Local farmers market information STERLING The Twin City Market is open from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, year round, in the historic Twin City Produce Building, 106 Ave. A. Find the market on Facebook, go to twincityfarmersmarket.com or call 815-499-7268 for a list of vendors, upcoming events and more information.
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himself. They grow berries, too, and have fresh jams (Mary’s favorite is the strawberry lemon) and pickled hot peppers for sale. Barb Fane, of Dixon, taught art at AFC schools for 25 years. Now she’s just down the road, selling handmade crafts: bracelets and aprons and necklace holders. She retired in 2011, and has been crafting since. The farmers market gives her an outlet to sell a few things here and there, she said. Coming in July, WIC participants will be able to use some of their allowances to buy fresh produce. That month, they will receive vouchers to be used at approved farmers market vendors. To be approved to receive the WIC vouchers, farmers market vendors must be authorized by the state, said Kathy Schutz, director of maternal child health for the Lee County Health Department. “We will actually be going down to the farmers market and talking to farmers, because we figure that’s the easiest way to do it,” Schutz said. “We’re still on target to start July 1. We’re starting to tell our clients about it, and some of them are very excited.”
ROCK FALLS The Rock Falls Farmers Market, at Fourth Avenue and Second Street, offers a variety of vendors selling produce, crafts and other wares, from 8 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday and from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, through October, rain or shine. Call the Rock Falls Chamber of Commerce, 815-625-4500, for more information.
DIXON The Dixon Park District’s Farmers Market is open from 7 a.m. to noon Wednesday and Saturday through October in Haymarket Square, 317 W. Third St. downtown. Call the Dixon Park District, 815-284-3306, for more information. The Dixon City Market is open from 4 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, starting May 27. It runs through Sept. 30, with the exception of July 1, when it will be closed for Petunia Festival. For more information, go to dixonmainstreet. com or call 815-288-2308.
MORRISON Locally grown, fresh produce is available at the Morrison Farmers’ Market from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturdays, rain or shine, May 23 through Sept. 5 at 204 E. Lincolnway. Go to morrisonfarmersmarket. com or call 815-772-3757 for more information.
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Photos by Alex T. Paschal
Ed Kaminski tends his table Wednesday during the farmers market Wednesday morning at Haymarket Square. Kaminski and his wife, Mary, sell a wide array of vegetables and seedlings.
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Robin Ackerson, owner of Homegrown Perennials and Stuff, makes cement bird baths, using leaves as molds.
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