Webb City Sentinel market column - Wednesday, November 25, 2020

It's official – we are celebrating the holidays at the market.  Our annual Holiday Market, which always we hold the day before Thanksgiving, will be today from 11 to 1 at the pavilion. Of all the holidays, Thanksgiving seems an especially good time to fill our harvest table with local bounty.  Here are the vendors we expect today:

Goat Cheese – Terrell Creek is back so stock up!

Baked goods - Redings Mill Co. and Sunflower Bakery

Meats – Sunny Lane Farm and Clearwater Shrimp

Produce – Braker Berry Farm

Pecans, jams and jellies, and candies – Fair Haven Gardens

Mushrooms – MO Mushrooms

Honey & honey products – Helms Family Farm

Snacks – Kings Kettle Corn 

Meals to go – Ham & Beans with 2 cornbread muffins – 16 oz for $5, Chili with beans – 16 oz for $5.50, Chili without beans – 16 oz for $7, 1/2 pound of fudge for $4.  All are prepared in the market kitchen by volunteers of Central United Methodist Church.  All profits go to the community Christmas basket program.

As you can see from the above list, it’s a relatively small market, but such a good selection.

On Saturday, the market will delve into the holidays even further.  We’ll host five vendors selling handcrafted items just right for gift-giving  – Nancy’s Doll Closet with handmade clothing for 18” dolls, Jane’s Glass Art with lovely jewelry, window hangers and other pretty glass items, Debbie Feddie with sewn kitchen goods, BDG Creations with holiday woodcraft and ornaments, and our regular vendor 2Ts Soap and Stuff with artisan soaps.  And of course, we’ll have most of our regular vendors well.

The Free Kids Meals this Saturday are Breakfast: Maple porridge topped with Fair Haven pecans and with pumpkin seeds, plus a piece of fruit and milk plus Lunch: Lasagna with garlic roasted cauliflower from Harmony Hill Farm and milk.  The Kids Meals are served from 9 to 11 and children, aged 1 through 18, receive both the breakfast and the lunch.

And just a head’s up – we’ll have two Holiday Markets this year.  Since Christmas falls on a Friday, we’ll have a Christmas Eve market on December 24 (a Thursday) and then take Saturday off so our bakers and farmers do not have to work on Christmas Day.

See you at the Holiday Market!