Carp Farmers Market

Today we went to the Carp Farmers market.  It was incredibly hot today, but we decided to go anyway.  The market is located at the Carp Fair grounds in Carp, Ontario and is open from 8:00 until 1:00.  

We had never been before, we had heard that it was a really large market, so we were excited to check it out for ourselves.  There was a little bit of everything.  There was a huge barn that had crafts and food, the venders were set up like in a craft show, a main aisle in the center and stalls on either side.  There were venders selling crafts, meats, and garlic in the barn. 

Outside, quite a few venders were set up under tents.  There were people selling things from meat to jewelery to vegetables.  I love farmers markets because you can get things that you can’t normally get at the grocery store like Elk and bison meat, purple broccoli and corn popped while still on the cob. 

There were people selling ready made food, meant to be eaten on site at picnic tables set up for this purpose.  The most popular was the Bacon on a Bun stall, we didn’t realize that we should have come hungry, or we would have tried it.  Another impressive stall was Pizza Alla Antica, it had a mobile pizza oven.  It was a really interesting set up!  Again, we weren’t hungry enough to take advantage of it.  

The thing we did get was from the Bitten Cookie stall, selling homemade ice cream sandwiches and cookies.  She had multiple types of cookies with vanilla ice cream inside.  They were really well made, frozen perfectly so all the ice cream didn’t leak out when you took a bite.  I had a Monster Mash, a cookie with M&M’s baked in, and Tim had a Peanut butter cookie sandwich. 

We bought bagels made with beer, at a stall appropriately named Brewgels.  We bought cider cinnamon raison, sesame seed, and strawberry fruli-lemon-cranberry-poppy seed.  

We bought mini squashes, red cabbage, tomatoes, baby cucumber and garlic.  I will have to show you what we make out of these! 

Next weekend is the Garlic festival.  They have extended the market over two days with lots of events like garlic braiding demonstrations, chefs demonstrating cooking with garlic and sessions on how to grow garlic. 

They do have multiple things to see and do at the market, today there was a Horse show.  

I highly recommend checking it out.  The great thing about a farmers market, the farmers are selling produce in season, so it changes all the time.  I think the craft vendors change as well, all the vendors listed on the website weren’t there.  I think this keeps it fresh and interesting, we will definitely go back!