Column: At the Farmers’ Market – Mississippi’s Very best Group Newspaper

With warmer temperatures and sunny Saturday mornings, you can guarantee that locals and site visitors alike will be flocking downtown to the weekly Downtown Farmer’s Industry along Broadway Avenue.

Every time, we all glance forward to what delicacies the suppliers carry to city to share with us.

From fresh yard tomatoes to bedecked wreaths to dangle on your front door, you can discover just about something there.

About the spring and summer time, we will get to know some of the regulars of the Downtown Farmer’s Market with the assist of Eddie Burkes steering us alongside the way.

A single of the scorching goods at this time at the current market are the attractive flats of strawberries that David Regan provides from Ponchatoula each and every week.

In addition to these seasonal delights, Regan provides the most effective their dairy farm in Liberty, Mississippi, (T&R Dairy Farm) has to offer.

Due to the fact 1968, Regan’s relatives-owned farm has processed grass-fed cattle for everything from milk to cheese and, of course, beef.

“My wife grew up on our farm elevating cattle with her spouse and children, and I was in the dairy business enterprise prior to I satisfied her,” Regan shared. “We’ve labored alongside one another for 32 years in this enterprise.”

Weekly, the Regan’s travel through Mississippi and Louisiana to local farmers’ marketplaces to showcase their array of homemade cheeses, milk, and butter.

“While my spouse is in New Orleans each and every 7 days for the unique marketplaces there, she will decide on up clean tomatoes and Brussels sprouts for us to have at the Natchez current market on Saturdays.”

Of study course, the renowned Ponchatoula strawberries are picked up refreshing each 7 days and offered by the flat or pint.

“Since the pandemic started out, we have discovered that persons have absent from predominantly getting our cheeses to concentrating on the complete milk we approach and offer,” Regan additional.

“There was a milk scarcity early on in the grocery shops, and we had milk to sell each individual 7 days.”

I’ve heard from quite a few local resources you simply cannot discover a better chocolate milk than what T&R Dairy delivers to town.

With his grandson in tow, Regan was occupied early Saturday at the current market selling Farmhouse Cheddar and Habanero cheese with a few dozen flats of strawberries in among. Really do not get worried, I left with a flat of strawberries, also.