Vendor of the Week--Piranga Candles, LLC

This week's featured vendor is

Piranga Candles LLC

Grace McLaughlin & Harry Pulliam

P.O. Box 791 New Glarus, WI 52574

608-527-3325(O) or 608-228-5439(C)

www.facebook.com/PirangaCandlesLLC

Piranga Candles LLC's scented candles are truly a multi-sensual experience.  Their warm glow and fragrances ranging from delicate to vibrant evoke feelings of joy, comfort, and relaxation.  Significant amounts of both artistry and science are required to combine fragrance, color, and candle performance in a way that is both pleasing and safe.

Founded by a wildlife ecologist and a husband with a passion for beautiful items that work well, Piranga makes safe, high-quality, 100% soy candles.  They use U.S.A.-made raw materials and packaging, supporting national and local economies. They uphold high standards of environmental stewardship and donate a portion of our profits to wildlife habitat restoration.  Thus, our customers get a high-quality American-made product and an opportunity to contribute to important conservation efforts.

Piranga candles are made locally in New Glarus, Wisconsin. Ingredients such as U.S. grown soybeans, Wisconsin-made dyes and fragrances, renewable materials, and cotton and paper wicks make up Piranga’s 100% soy candles.  They even use U.S.-sourced glassware and recycled materials are used in the packaging process. And let’s not forget that Piranga candles are tested to ASTM standards to ensure proper burning, safety, and no soot.

Stop out and see Piranga Candles' 100% soy candles at the Monroe Farmers Market for yourself. You can find the Farmers Market located on the square in Monroe, Wisconsin every Wednesday from 2pm to 6pm and every Saturday from 8am to 1pm!

Positive Changes at the Market

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Have you noticed some changes at the Monroe Farmer's Market this season?  If you haven't yet, you soon will.  Market vendors, Main Street Monroe, and a number of volunteers have partnered up this year to make the market bigger with more variety, so you can do more of your shopping on the square.

Most importantly, we'd like to introduce our new market manager, Taylor Golz.  Taylor has tremendous enthusiasm and fresh ideas for growing our great little market, and we're happy to have her working hard to coordinate it all.

The market is always looking for people who want to sell their homegrown produce and handcrafted items--even mid-season. If you're interested, contact Taylor for all the information and an application.  Her email address is TaylorMGolz@gmail.com.

When you come to the market on Saturdays this summer, you'll likely find something to interest everyone in the family.  Besides crafts, food, and produce, this summer we've had antique tractors, an aquarium, and a balloon artist.  This past Saturday, the Green County Humane Society had a stand at the market.  They brought a cat, had pictures of animals available for adoption, and even gave away free slushies!  

Other changes are still to be announced, but keep coming down every week to see what the market has to offer!

Saturday, July 18, 2015

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Join us at the market this Saturday from 8-1.  Summer is in full swing--the weather will be warm and the variety of produce is abundant.

Here is just a sampling of the vendors scheduled for this Saturday and the products they expect to have on hand...

Appleseed Farm (John Ebersol)--cut flowers, baked goods, canned foods, peppers, potatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, beets, onions, green and yellow beans, cabbage

Caroline's Old Tyme Products (Phyllis Perrin)-- jams, dilly beans, sauerkraut, pickled beets, mincemeat, syrups (elderberry, boysenberry, ginger, strawberry, blueberry), pickled mushrooms, mango salsa

Fields of Promise-- bell peppers, Shell Peas, Zucchini, Yellow Squash and Red/Green Cabbage, Broccoli, Kohlrabi, Kale, Collard Greens, New Red Potatoes, Lettuce, Radishes, Green Onions, Mustard Greens, Red Beets, Snow Peas, Carrots, Green Beans, Yellow Wax Bean, Dill, Pickling Cucumbers, Swiss Chard and Red & Black Raspberries, Slicing Cucumbers

Heirloom Aprons--aprons, knitted dishcloths, clothespin bags

Karen Kulas--fruit pies, cinnamon rolls, brownies, breads, cookies

Meadow Ridge Alpacas (Danielle Zimmerman)--alpaca fiber products--yarn, dryer balls, jewelry, boot liners, scarves, bags, socks, headbands

Paracres Farm (Luanna/Joe Parr)--beans, new potatoes, onions, red onion marmalade, pickled vegetables, homemade tomato sauce, maple syrup

Piranga Candles (Harry Pulliam/Grace McLaughlin)--soy candles in melts, votives, and jars

10th Ave. Soaps (Amy Burdick)--goat milk soap, beer soap, loofah soap, lip balms, solid lotion sticks, sugar scrubs, shampoo soap

This is only a partial list, so come and check out this and much, much more on Saturday!

GOUGH'S GORGEOUS FARM GOODS

GOUGH'S GORGEOUS FARM GOODS
Mineral Point, WI

Arlo, Mary, and Austin Gough

Gough's Gorgeous Farm Goods is a small, pesticide-free farmette near Mifflin. We have been growing farm fresh produce like sweet corn, potatoes, tomatoes, green beans, pie pumpkins, cucumbers, and much, much more since 2007. We started with our own small garden, then went to an acre, and now have grown to over two acres.

Since 2010 we have had added farm fresh brown eggs from our free range chickens. Mid-2012 we started a new product line by taking some of our garden fresh produce and dehydrating it. This includes potatoes, tomatoes, and pie pumpkins, with the idea of expanding our dehydrated line even more. We now have added dehydrated sweet corn and dehydrated buttercup squash. We have also added dehydrated sweet corn, green beans, carrots, beets, and butternut squash in a powdered form that can be used for baby food as well as in baked goods and your everyday cooking. For those that need or would like to have gluten-free products, we continue to offer our sweet cornmeal and sweet corn flour.

Gough's Gorgeous Farm Goods
1253 Norms Rd.
Mineral Point, WI 53565

Phone: 608-943-6406

E-mail: goughthree@yahoo.com