The “Winter Market” in Sartell opened Nov. 7 for a new season of locally grown and/or crafted items.
The Winter Market is the seasonal extension of the spring-summer Market Monday, a long-established outdoor farmers’ market in Sartell.
From 10 a.m.-1 p.m., visitors made the rounds of the nearly 20 vendors exhibiting their wares inside Sartell City Hall. There was a wide variety of food products and other items for sale: honey, meats, fall vegetables, canned veggies, teas and coffees, baked goods and more.
The Winter Market will be open for three more days through November and December and then one day each in the months January through April. On each of those days, market hours are from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Here is the schedule: Nov. 21, Dec. 5 and 19, Jan. 9, Feb. 20, March 12 and April 9.
Jesse Eisenschenk of Sartell (left) buys some dilly beans and raspberry-jalapeno jam from Terri Nelson of Neu Craft Ideas, one of the many vendors who exhibited their items at Winter Market inside Sartell City Hall. Nelson, who is a new vendor this season, also sells her homemade doll clothes at the market. The market, which opened Nov. 7, will be open from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on the Saturdays of Nov. 21, Dec. 5 and 19, Jan. 9, Feb. 20, March 12 and April 9.
At the season opening of Winter Market at Sartell City Hall, Gwen Williams offers her widely praised naan breads. She and her husband, Tahir Sandhu, bake the breads fresh early every morning at their bakery in St. Joseph, known as Artisan Naan Bakery on the city’s main street. They opened their business earlier this year, and their naan breads have already become highly prized throughout the entire area.
Chuck Long holds up a bag of radishes that are darned near as big as apples. Long, grower/owner of Greenbush Farms near Milaca, is one of two dozen or so vendors who will be selling their home-fresh products at the Winter Market in Sartell City Hall. The market opened for the season Nov. 7.
At opening day of the Winter Market in Sartell Nov. 7, Vicki Siewert of Rice purchases beets and a few other vegetables from Chuck Long, owner/grower of Greenbush Farms near Milaca. Siewert said she intends to make Beet Bread, a North Dakota Native American recipe, with the beets. (See recipe in story).