Winter Blues Farmer Market - Morgantown

First Winter Blues Farmers Market offers variety of fresh produce
Meats, cheeses, breads, other products also available

Shop at the Winter Blues Farmers Market from 4-7 p.m. Monday (Feb. 23) at the Ramada Inn in Morgantown, and you won’t have to wait until summer to plan mouth-watering meals with locally produced meats, vegetables, cheeses, breads and other products.

Working with the West Virginia University Extension Service, farmers from throughout West Virginia and neighboring Maryland counties will turn the Ramada Inn lobby into a one-stop shopping excursion, offering fresh produce, frozen meats and finished foods and goods.

Goat cheese, potatoes, onions and garlic are among the fresh items. Lamb, pork, chicken and beef will be packaged, frozen and ready for consumers to carry home.

You will find a variety of value-added (finished or ready-to-use) farm products. Locally grown tomatoes, for example, are ingredients in jars of salsa. The value-added list also includes sourdough artisan breads, Bloody Mary mix and apple butter. Preston County wool will be available as yarn and as scarves, mittens and hats.

Wool from WVU ewes will be on sale as wool blankets. Cornmeal – ground at the old mill in the famous WVU Jackson’s Mill Historic Area in Lewis County – also will be among the vendors’ wares.

Live blues music will add to the “open air” shopping experience, said Susan Sauter, a volunteer with WVU Extension’s West Virginia Small Farm Center.

The winter market, she said, is a new event for the annual West Virginia Small Farm Conference, which runs from Tuesday through Thursday (Feb. 24-26) at the Ramada Inn. Although the market closes Monday, the local foods theme will season the conference, and the Local Foods Banquet is set for Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

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