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 at the Market for free and vote for your favorite. To enter the salsa contest, bring a quart of salsa to the Market by 10[…]
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 the paper in case you missed it. The season is winding down for the Outdoor Independence Farmers Market, there are only 4 remaining. Fortunately, the[…]
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 luck and tomato blight would have it, she didn’t enter this year. The suspense is over! Our new reigning tomato champion with 2.16 pounds is Donna[…]
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 votes. Her entry was a zuchinni/sunflower creation resembling a hula dancer. Congratulations Heidi! Caroline Clough’s tomato/cucumber entry received 11 votes and her watermelon entry received[…]
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 Farmers Market. In the TRRC Financial Viability Assessment, TRRC staff stated; “This is perhaps the strongest farmers market request seen by the Commission to date,[…]