Murphy – The first Murphy Farmers Market craft show of the season Saturday brought out lots of new and veteran vendors.
Chilly temperatures didn’t keep shoppers from coming out. The skies were blue, the sun was bright and people appeared quite happy.
Margaret Lloyd, a veteran vendor from Hayesville, has been doing the farmers market in Murphy for about five years. She has 10 years under her belt as a crafter.
She continues to return to the market year after year because, “I like all the vendors, we get along well and in a lot of places ya don’t see that because there’s usually a competition going on. Here, everybody helps each other out.”
Lloyd said she sells paper crafts and works with fabric but it’s her homemade pound cake that has people coming back to her booth time and time again.
Goat milk soap, starter plants, salves and micro-greens could be found at Grant Corrigan’s booth. It was his first time at the Murphy Farmers Market, but he said with enthusiasm that he will be returning this year.
“There’s lots of friendly people here,” he said.
Ashley Scanlon runs the farmers market each Saturday from April through October at the L&N Depot off of Hiwassee Street downtown. A crafter herself, she was pleased with the season’s first show.
“I’m very happy with our turnout. With the cold weather, it was expected that some people wouldn’t show up,” she said. “We had 26 vendors, if it keeps going this way, this will be one of our biggest market seasons to date.”
Many of the vendors sell hand crafted, original, locally grown and one-of-a-kind items, including but not limited to baked goods, jewelry, wind chimes, bird houses and plants as well as coffee and donuts, eggs, veggies, floral arrangements, painted infant and toddler attire, Steampunk-style hats, honey, wood-burned signs and knives.
The Murphy Farmers Market is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays at 4 Railroad St.
Details: Visit Murphy Farmer’s Market on Facebook.