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Eat dinner, fund a greenhouse!

The Mill City Farmers Market’s Harvest Social benefit dinner is the local foodie event of the season, benefitting ‘healthy foods, local farmers.’ In just three weeks on Sunday, September 8th, the Mill City Farmers Market will be transformed from a vibrant marketplace full of farmers and thousands of grocery shoppers to a white tablecloth dinner,…  Read More

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Nistler Farms’ Frozen Roasted Tomatoes

Instead of the hot water bath canner, take the simpler approach by freezing roasted tomatoes. This recipe comes from our vendor Jeff Nistler, owner of Nistler Farms. Jeff jokes that “in his spare time” he likes to roast tomatoes from the farm to bring out more of their flavor. He freezes them in a big…  Read More

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Adapting to a changing climate at Nistler Farms

How this summer’s extreme weather is impacting farmers markets’ most iconic crops: heirloom tomatoes, sweet corn and melon, and how Mill City Farmers Market vendor Jeff Nistler has been adapting on the farm for decades. By Jenny Heck “It’s like early childhood development,” Jeff Nistler explained as we rode through hazy fields of melons, flowering…  Read More