Local Food Businesses offering Crookneck Squash near Van Alstyne, Texas 75495 (4)

Canticle Farm is a family-run, sustainable farm with a market garden, a free-range flock that produces their eggs, and  Kiko cross goats for meat and dairy. They also have an ever-growing line of handcrafted soaps, balms and lotion bars, many made with their goats milk.  These items are of top quality that "the detail and attention that go into each product is evident."

Trish Lefner Stone is the proud owner of Stone's Throw Farm Co. In August 2018, she left her retail management career to follow her true passion: sustainable farming. Today, she cultivates fresh, locally grown herbs, fruits, and veggies. With the motto "A special family, feeding special families," we're committed to making a difference. For every two pieces of our products you purchase, we donate one to families with special needs. Join us at the Clearfork Farmer's Market and Acton Farmers Market, where we offer a variety of produce including cucumbers, beets, okra, black-eyed peas, edamame, tomatoes, potatoes, and squash. Support our mission today!

The Farmery, which is located in Temple, Texas, provides fresh, farm-to-table locally-grown fruits and vegetables. They have many different kinds of beans that are available in bulk (Butter Pea, Christmas Lima, Fava Broad Windsor, Green Snap, Lima Beans, Purple Pod Snap, Italian Flat, string beans, and yellow snap). They also have beets, a variety of bell peppers (yellow, gold, white, orange, purple, red, green, and chocolate bell peppers), black-eyed peas (in hull and shelled), broccoli, Brussel sprouts, green cabbage, red cabbage, Cabbage Violaceo, carrots, collard greens, cucumber and gherkins, dill, okra, onion, potato, squash, tomato, cantaloupe, cauliflower, eggplant, garlic, corn, cilantro, honeydew, horseradish, hot peppers, kale, kohlrabi, leek, lettuce, parsnips, radish, shallots, spinach, tomatillo, turnips, watermelon, and rutabaga.

The best way to spend your Saturday is to buy local products and support these small businesses. If you are in or near Harlingen in Texas, know that The Market at Wild August is the best time and place to buy some of your necessities. It is held every Saturday from 9 am to noon at Wild August Nursery and Flower Farm. Here, you can buy organic produce, hot coffee, fresh salsa and baked goods, farm-fresh eggs, grass-fed pork, fresh goat cheeses, local honey, bath and body-care products, artisan leather goods, wild-caught Gulf shrimp, and fresh-cut flowers.