Celebrate National Honey Bee Awareness Day….
The Pineywoods Beekeepers Association (PBA) will be observing the fifth 'National Honey Bee Awareness Day' by having a tent at the market featuring a honey bee observation hive display.  They will also have PBA honey for sale from their 2013 honey crop, and possibly beeswax molded candles!

Things you might find this time of year:  baked goods: baked goods (cakes, mini cheesecakes, cookies, fried pies & pies), canned goods (chow-chow, jams & jellies, marmalades, preserves, pickled vegetables, salsas & relishes), artisan Texas cheese, organic chicken, free-range eggs, freshly cut flowers, local raw honey, jewelry, plants (bedding plants, house plants, fruit trees, trees & whips), organic pork, soaps (lye and herbal), sugar cane syrup, tamales, vinegars, fruit wines and wood products.

LOCAL PRODUCE: green beans, fresh shelled pinto beans, fresh frozen shelled beans (butter & Lima), cantaloupe, carrots, fresh corn, cucumbers, eggplants, figs, fresh garlic, greens (Swiss chard, collards, kale, red Russian kale, mustard, spinach & turnip), herbs (basil, dill, mint, oregano, rosemary, sage & thyme), okra, onions, parsley, peaches, pears, fresh frozen shelled peas (black eyed, Lady cream, English and purple hull), fresh shelled peas (black-eyed, purple hull & 3 types of cream), fresh unshelled peas (2 types of purple hull & 3 types of cream peas), shelled pecans, peppers (banana, Bell, cayenne, jalapeno, pimento, poblano & serrano), plums, new potatoes, radishes, squash (8-ball, butternut, patti pan, white scallop,summer, yellow & zucchini), tomatillos, tomatoes (canning tomatoes - 25 lb boxes, cherry, green, red,seedless & yellow), turnips and watermelons.

If you would like to sign up for the weekly Farmers’ Market email update, please send an email to obriens@ci.nacogdoches.tx.us. You are also more than welcome to visit www.nacogdochesfarmersmarket.com. Also be our fan on facebook@NacogdochesFarmersMarket.

The Nacogdoches Farmers’ Market, located at the “hitch lot” at the corner of West Main and Pearl Streets, is open from 8 a.m. until noon or later every Saturday morning. If the market parking lot is full, additional parking is available in the Nacogdoches County Courthouse Annex parking lot. Our Wednesday markets our back so you can shop the Farmer’s Market every Wednesday, from 2 to 6 p.m.