Apple Festival September 23
The Apple Festival will be held Friday September 23 from 9am to 1pm. The Market will be pressing apples and offering fresh cider as a fundraiser. Due to space constraints[…]
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Tomato Festival August 5th
The Tomato Festival is back! We’ll have a free tomato tasting, a People’s choice salsa contest and the Monster Tomato weigh-in. This is your chance to taste most of the tomatoes[…]
Twin County Community Foundation Grant key to IFM success during pandemic
Thanks to everyone who sent in a testimonial, and who shopped online and helped us keep going during the worst of the pandemic. Here’s the press release I shared with[…]
Monster Tomato contest entries and winner
The virtual Monster tomato contest attracted a record 9 entries! We usually only have 3 or 4 people brave enough to give Jen Cavey a run for the money. As[…]
Veggie Creature Contest Winners!
I had great fun with these contests. I hope you all enjoyed them as well. Heidi Breedlove was the clear winner of the People’s Choice Veggie creature contest with 34[…]
We received the 2nd grant!
What a great way to start the New Year! The Town of Independence has been awarded $150,000 by the Virginia Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission for the construction of the Independence[…]