Featured Vendor

Bill Stech answers questions about flowers for sale from Merkel Gardens, this week’s featured vendor. The Chelsea Farmers Market takes place each Saturday at the Palmer parking lot from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. and Chelsea Update is profiling its vendors. By Lisa Carolin Merkel Gardens and Greenhouses has been a vendor at farmers markets in the area for more than 30 […]

Featured vendor Golden Fleece Farm. The Wednesday Bushel Basket Farmers Market offers folks a mid-week opportunity to shop for fresh and local products at the Palmer parking lot from 2-6 p.m. Practitioner and retired teacher, Brett and Barb Seabury, are owners of the Golden Fleece Farm. For seven years as full-time farmers, they raise cattle, lamb, and chickens, while selling

H and H Sugarbush offers numerous maple syrup products for sale. H and H Sugarbush will have maple syrup. The Chelsea Farmers Market takes place each Saturday from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Palmer parking lot. Chelsea Update is profiling vendors at the market and this week’s focus is H and H Sugarbush. Kirk and Michelle Hedding own H and H

Meet the family behind Elysium Soap, this week’s featured vendor at the Saturday Farmers Market. The Chelsea Farmers Market takes place each Saturday at the Palmer parking lot from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Each week, Chelsea Update is profiling one of its vendors. Andi Philippe had been making soap for herself for about seven years when she came to the realization

Hanover Craft Meat’s’ welcoming owner, Mike O’Connor, was exposed to farming as a child. He grew up on his grandparent’s farm and years later, has the Old Zotter Farm, a small family farm in Southern Michigan. They have worked hard to restore the farm which was originally homesteaded in 1876. Mike’s goal with the farm

Marks Farms was established in 1974 by Jerry & Deb Marks.  They grew field crops and vegetables, while raising their five children and selling their vegetables at farmers markets.  When all of their children were in school, they focused on crop farming.  Several years ago, Jerry and oldest son Mike, began raising Beeffalo.  They now

The Lutz Family has been in the apple business for over 5 generations, and Ruth Lutz is carrying on the tradition of selling antique and heirloom apple varieties.  The farm has a long and storied history which started with a dairy farm and apple orchard located amid their lovely centennial farm (over 100 years in one

Dave and Joan Lutchka have lived in Grass Lake, Michigan since 1968. Dave and Joan own and operate a farm where they raise purebred Angus breeding cattle. They have three children, two daughters-in-law and five grandchildren. 2005 marked the 50th year that Dave has raised Angus cattle. The American Angus Association has designated the Lutchka

Those craving something sweet know that Oak Hill Farm is the go-to for honey, and all thing bee related – beeswax candle, lotion bars, even bee pollen to help with allergies! Tom Heath, who used to work for Ford and managed 100’s in the Finance Department, found that managing his 1,000’s of bees was a

Duane Bordine is no stranger to farming – he started out at 16, at his family’s farm in Canton, which has been in operation since 1836.  Back in his youth, Duane’s family farm consisted of sweet corn, which they sold at markets and at Kroger, and grew to a larger commercial operation.  Duane moved to