Capital City Farmers Market cowbell...

Jesse of Medicine Gardens

Kandi of  BurZack

B&G Produce

Hard working producers harvest their large gardens bringing you the freshest hand picked produce on Saturday's of the Summer weekends. Faces become familiar as they meet and greet people walking by. Quick click of the camera catches the smile before they greet the person strolling under their tent top.

Crowds come early to view and the familiar peal of a cowbell rings open the market at 9:00 am.

Robin's Rockin' Outdoors

Capital City Farmers' Market is backed by the Downtown Association for the last five years. We haven't moved from the area. The market name has not changed. Located at the corner of Sioux and Coteau, the Free Parking Lot, across from Walgreens, Saturday's 9am-1pm through October 26, 2013, downtown Pierre, SD. Some vendors have stopped and stayed, some have left and others have joined. Vendors will rotate out depending on the weather and crops that ripen and are ready.

Don and Mary of Bad River Pack

It's not all produce, other vendors have South Dakota products that are handmade and local, Bab's Bites 'n Bones is blessed to part of this family. Family friendly atmosphere, bring a friend, bring a fur friend which needs to be leashed. Waiting to greet you Saturday morning!

Have a blessed week friends. Keep your critters cool, water and shade if outside. Help those in need that stray close.  Take care.

Update: Adopted. Beauty and her pups...

Girl with 6 brothers

Keisha

July 2013 we helped answer a call and donated food to a beautiful mom and her pups. Tears couldn't help but well up and pray for these struggling lives. Trust and hope in human kind. Resilient. A week later they continue to thrive on

Pick me, pick me.

Lindy watches over...

Awake and listening.

New friend to rest on.

the love of their rescue and foster family. Growing quickly, they will soon need foster homes, be adopted and live a life they deserve. Loved and cared for. Do you have room at your home for an extra or two? We volunteer and donate when  we can and it is all called "amazing".  Mom, Keisha is beautiful. Her family is guessing a Basset Hound mix. The pups must be seen, held and in all honesty, cuddled with. We do the same to children, life is life.  Help where you can, tell a friend, share with your family. Who can help these growing pups that were born into a world that can only get better, abandoned is an awful start. Am I groveling? A little. Its always easier to look the other way in our fast paced world, not having time for what already is packed into our lives. You have a few weeks to think about it, apply and then you'll need to be approved before any fur ball comes to you. A good process for everyone. Are we good enough for them?! We went through the same process with our dogs. We were interviewed by several people from the local humane society, home inspection and how we treat our other animals. You can be denied. Thankful to be blessed with two of our own, we contemplate a third.
Be blessed and help where you can, Take care friends.

Shop local, purchase from friendly...

Purchasing local fresh picked produce from friendly keeps me going back to the same farmers market I've been attending the past five years in Pierre, SD. A staple of downtown Pierre, backed by the Downtown Association. Though vendors have stopped, some have gone, new arrive and several have stayed. A five year celebration is just good business!

Flom Kuchen

Bab's Bites 'n Bones has expanded. A treat for your dog, a treat for you! Market 2013 we started human treats. Thin, crisp, buttery and a touch of garlic salt. A family favorite and third generation recipe our family calls Flom Kuchen. It was a hit! We've brought fresh baked rolls, yes, baked market morning! There simply wasn't time to snap a photo of them, yes they were made from scratch, caramel and frosted rolls. Frankly, they sold like hot cakes! Finished taping ingredient labels to the still warm rolls when the opening cowbell rang! Our next round of human treats is a toss up. An idea or two are in the making, and will be trying out products on market vendors for approval. Our ingredient labels also have contact information and a disclaimer, state law for farmer's markets.

Just shucked!

Today, as a customer, I was able to walk through and visit a bit purchasing vendor goods. Garden produce doesn't grow on my rocky soil. Love purchasing fresh picked produce. I know where it was grown, who picked it and can visit with the vendor that's offering the sale. From sweet corn to red onions, the size of  my palm, red potatoes, herbs and rustic bread. Groceries for the week at a price less than the grocery store. Yes, really!

I got it!

We enjoyed supper adding our purchases seems Carlee got a little extra that dropped to the floor. She's the best vacuum we've ever had.

Growing up, our family joined two other family's, planting an acre of produce. At harvest we shucked pickup loads of wonderful sweet corn, picked up piles of potatoes, stacking 100's of yellow watermelons (the best), muskmelons and bushels of onions. All was stored in a cellar or canned for Winter months. On that note, with our fill from supper, it is time to venture outside and plant flowers given by friends in ground blessed with good rains this week.
Have a blessed week friends. Care for your animals and help those that stray close for help.