Buy Local! Find Your Local Meats & Sweet Corn for the Grill at Mount Airy Main Street Farmers' Market! Wed. . June 28 . 3-7PM

". . .  I can see it when I close my eyes, I can find it when I go back in time to the 4th of July in my home town. Every
​face has a trace of a smile and we light up the sky when the sun goes down, not a stranger for miles and miles . . ."
~ 4th of July in My Home Town by Irene Kelly

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Ready for Your Holiday Cookouts? Come Buy Local with us - Rain or Shine - at Mount Airy Main Street Farmers' Market this Wednesday, June 28, ​3-7PM! We've got a full market this week!!! Check all the locally grown, seasonal fruits, veggies and more including meats, eggs, cheese and more from this week's featured producer, The Stafford Farms! We will be in the Railyard behind the historic Mount Airy Train Station, at 3 North Main Street in Mount Airy, Maryland, this Wednesday and every Wednesday, 3-7 PM, through September 27,  2023!  Convenient parking is available in the lower lot of Liquidity Aleworks, in the new Municipal Lot at the corner of Prospect and N. Main St., and  up in the  Municipal  Parking  Lot off of Park Avenue.  You may even enjoy a nature walk by parking at Watkins Park & walking down the Rails-to-Trails path to the market! 

Wish to hop the occasional bus to the market?  The next bus service will run Wednesday, July 5, 3-6PM! The Mount Airy Senior Task Support (MASTS)  is continuing their bus service on the first and third Wednesdays, 3-6 PM,  from  the Mount Airy Senior Center in Carroll County and from the American Legion Gold Star Post #191  in Frederick County. 

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VISIT THE MOUNT AIRY MUSEUM!  It's time to go back in time to when Mount Airy was railroad town, when there was a cannery, a grainery, a theatre,  an asylum, and more! ​Find the Historical Society of Mount Airy at the Mount Airy Main Street Farmers' Market this Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Take a tour of the museum 3-7PM! Check out MacKenzie, the Caboose Tourism Center, too!

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MUSIC AT THE MARKET ~ 4-6PM: Local Musician, Joanne Murphy and her friend, Karen Stroup, will fill the marketplace with some traditional old time Appalachian fiddle music, traditional Celtic music as well as waltzes, contra dance tunes and Irish Airs  (in the public domain).. Joanne will be serenading us as she plays her hammered dulcimer and fiddle! Karen plays multiple instruments including the flute and guitar. 

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VENDORS AT THE MARKET: Our Farmers, Producers and amazing Community Members at the Mount Airy Main Street Farmers' Market this Wednesday, June 28th, are slated to be:

​​In the Cove:

• Five Points Farm Market & Greenhouse:  Seasonal Fruits, Berries, Vegetables, Plants, Herbs  & Cut Flowers & More
• Walker Honey Company: Local Honey, Jam, &  Beeswax Wraps, Bee products
• Raize the Bar:  Artisan Brownies, Blondies & Other Bar Goods.
• Elderberry Cabin - Bees Wax Candles, Handmade Soap, Dried/Freeze-Dried Elderberry, Jelly, Loose Tea
• DC Dills: Pickles
• Twin Valley Distillers: Craft Distilled Bourbons, Whiskeys, Rums & Cocktails to go
• The Urban Winery Maryland's only urban winery, has an excellent selection of varietals, both bottled and canned.
• Happy Bee Herbal Co.: Herbal Products - Herbal Teas, Herbal Scrubs, and other products such as Soaps, Salves, Lotions and Chapsticks
• ​Mount Airy Main Street Association: Information & Give Aways.

​R2T Food Court:

• Bold Love Bakery,  Naturally-Leavened Breads, Pastries made with Home-Grown and Locally Sourced ingredients such as Breads (Sourdough loaves, baquettes, and sandwich loaves), Cookies, Scones, Pies, Croissants, Donuts, Jelly Sticks, Cinnamon Buns, Chocolate Buns

• Bold Love Farm: Produce, Ready to Heat Vegetarian Soups  & Quiches, Salad Kits, Flat Breads, Spreads & Sauces, Sweets & Sides, Coffee, Tea 
• La Parada:  Authentic Costa Rican Foods including Quesadillas, Empanadas, Tacos, Nachos, Flautas & More!

At the Platform Stage:

• Scenic View Orchards: Vegetables, Fruits, Berries, Greens, Herbs 
• The Stafford Farms: Natural Fed, Field Raised Beef, Pork, Poultry and Seafood (Crab Pretzels, Crab Cakes,) Eggs, Cheese, Preserves, Honey, Pickles, Salad Dressings, Sauces, Old Fashioned Sodas.
• Poopsies Pastries: Gluten Free Scones (variety of flavors), gf/dairy-free mini-muffins & More!
• Carol's Corner and Wayne's Wood Tattoos: Embroidered Towels and Totes & Chef's Towels;  Hand-Carvedand/or Wood-Burned Wooden Signs & Plaques
• Kelly's Homemades: Bath Bombs, Body Butter, Lip Scrub, Shower Steamers, Sugar Scrubs, Bath Salt, Beard Balm & More!
• Scout Troop 829:  Selling $10 Camp Cards/Coupon Cards
• Mount Airy Historical Society.  Historical Tourism Information. 

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​TODAY'S RECIPE & NUTRITION TIP! ​  Grilled Steak with Tomato & Charred Corn Salsa from St. Petersburg Foodies. Liven up a beautiful seared and sliced piece of steak with a zingy tomato and charred corn salsa. Steak, tomatoes and corn are of course the stars of this show. Both tomatoes and corn are in season and can be found at Five Points Farm & Greenhouse & Scenic View Orchards! You may find your select cuts of beef plus pork, poultry, eggs and more at The Staffords Farm! 

Did you know? Corn is both a grain and a vegetable. "According to the USDA, if the corn is harvested when the kernels are soft, it is a vegetable. When farmers harvest fully mature corn, it is a grain. The sweet corn humans consume — only about one percent of all crops — falls under the vegetable category. The corn in cornbread, polenta, and grits is a grain. More than 65 percent of the corn grown in the U.S. is used for biofuel or animal feed." Learn more about corn, its nutritional benefits and tips for preparing corn from the article, The Surprising Nutritional Benefits of Corn.

Be sure to visit all of our amazing farmers and producers as listed above, and cool your core with a Jessica's Snowball while you're at the Market this Wednesday!

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​Remember to Make it Memorable on Main Street! Shop. Dine. ​Tour & Enjoy!  Find time to support a Main Street business when you can.  A list of Main Street merchants can be found on the  Mount Airy Main Street Association's Website. 
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​​The Mount Airy Main Street Farmers' Market was formed in 2007 and is a production of the Mount Airy Main Street Association in partnership with the Town of Mount Airy,  and made possible in part by the generosity of our  2023 Sponsors and Partners: Catonsville Homes, Liquidity Aleworks, Health Unlimited, Browning Reagle Insurance Company, Mt. Airy Children's Dental Associates,  The Morgan Inn,   and Community Partners, Walmart-Mount Airy in support of Mt. Airy Net, and SuperFoods Cafe & Market  in support of educational programming. Interested in becoming a sponsor during the 2023 Market season, please email: Alice Settle-Raskin, Market Master, at MtAiryMainStreetFarmersMarket@gmail.com. 

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