Press Release
Bring on spring with an abundance of cheery colours found at the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market on McIrvine Road, which is open Saturdays from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
The first stop to brighten your day is at the “Social Butterfly” booth, where Christine Neilson displays children clothing creations.
What young girl would not love to dance around in butterfly wings, or delight in flowery headbands and tutus?
Neilson also is taking over the role of “Sweetening Northwestern Ontario” with honey. She now is selling Seven Bends Honey Farm products on behalf of her in-laws, Rick and Linda Neilson.
Pair a flavoured honey stick with one of the headbands for that ideal gift.
Meanwhile, cheer up your yard by choosing from the broad selection of plants offered at the market. Purchase a ready-to-go arrangement from one of our vendors, or pick up the flowers and planter separately and create your own blossoming display.
Loewen’s Greenhouse will have a variety of premium geraniums and basket stuffers on hand this Saturday, as well as attractive Mandevilla vine-hanging baskets.
Make the beauty of spring last into coming years by investing in hardy perennials from both the Loewens and Lowey’s Greenhouses. While at Lowey’s booth, check out their market “special.”
As usual, the market’s consignment store provides an assortment of items to meet all your shopping needs. Invest in a decorative garden stake to add intrigue to your flower bed or please the birds with a stunning wooden birdhouse crafted by Tom Haney of Fort Frances.
Present your fragrant fresh-cut garden tulips in a glass-etched vase by Cher Pruys.
The market store also provides a variety of food products to satisfy your appetite on your gardening lunch break. Snack on beef and elk smokies, lunch sausages, Thunder Oak Gouda Cheese, blueberry perogies, and fresh greens from the Gerbers.
Try some award-winning Blueberry BBQ sauce on the grill, and wash it all down with natural herbal teas from the Thunder Bay area.
Thinking of foods, the new lunch menu by Chef Ryan Parisien of the Naicatchewenin Development Corp. was designed with local and market foods as a framework.
The menu has been posted on the farmers’ market Facebook page. Check it out! It includes local delights like an elk burrito and rabbit poutine.
Chef Ryan is using seasonal flavours to whip up sinfully-delicious homemade ice cream every Saturday.
