OUR MISSION
The mission of the Bessemer Farmers Market is to create a market for local growers and to provide access to healthy food for Bessemer and surrounding communities.
Be sure to scroll down and see what we expect to be offering each week
ABOUT OUR MARKET AT ALEX BRADFORD PARK
The Bessemer Farmers Market is recognized as a Certified Farmers Market and is open on Saturdays from 8:00 AM to 12:00 Noon during the season in 2019 beginning June 1. We are located at 2 19th Street North, Bessemer, AL 35020, in Alex Bradford Park and next to Boateng's Cajun Creation Restaurant.
We will also operate the farmers market at UAB Medical West, beginning Tuesday, June 4, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Bessemer Farmers Market at Medical West will be open to the public, and will be located between the cafeteria and Subway Restaurant, in the hallway, on Level C.
Our vendors are all local and all of our products are grown or produced in the State of Alabama, meaning it has has not taken much time to make it from farm to market. And fresh food means that it tastes better and is better for you.
OUR VENDORS at the PARK
Without our vendors there would be no market (just as without customers there would be no market). Following is a list of vendors that have agreed to be at or market this year. We think the diversity of vendors and products will make this year's market the best in our short history. Not all of these vendors will be present the first week, and not all will be present every week.
More vendors may be added at each market.
Sowing Seeds - Greens, tomatoes, okra and other vegetables, bedding plants
Eleanor Wells - eggs, vegetables, and canned
Southwest Birmingham Community Farm - greens, onions, okra, rutabagas, peas, green beans, and other vegetables
Longbrook Jardin - Produce and plants
E.W. Phillips - various vegetables
Siobhan Johnson - produce
Carter Homestead - produce and plants
Pat May - Produce
Ahinoam Israel - various vegetables, herbs and other products
Leroy Cowan - Produce
We Three Beeks - local honey
Campfire - non profit
Emily's Heirloom Poundcakes
Carol Cockrell - hand sewn items
1918 Catering - Food Truck
OUR VENDORS at the HOSPITAL
Sowing Seeds
Longbrook Jardin
Carol Cockrell
Southwest Birmingham Community Farm
THIS WEEK'S MARKET
Each week we hope to update with this page with our expected produce and products with the pictures below. Click on the picture for more information. The pictures here represent some of the produce we had at our market in 2018. We will add pictures of what is currently available near opening day, June 1, 2019.
