*Photo Credit: Poughkeepsie Farmers Market*

To address the extreme food need during the pandemic, the Poughkeepsie Farmers Market opened one month early to serve customers and bring their vendors access to selling their wares. The market opens on Mondays and serves people using SNAP benefits. All details about accessing the market can be found here.

The Poughkeepsie Farmers Market, known as the Poughkeepsie Waterfront Market, is normally a vibrant marketing destination, and remains so in spirit, though with COVID-19 social distance guidelines in place, like set-back lines at vendor stations and employees to help enforce social distancing and cue people waiting in line. According to the new expectations listed on their website, there is a one-way movement through the market, and pre-packaged produced and food selections for vendors to give to shoppers.

People will be able to find seasonal foods, which at this time are “early greens, eggs, poultry, apples, cider, baked good, vegetable plant starts, and more!” according to their website.

The Poughkeepsie Waterfront Market is supported by the Dutchess Relief Fund (organized by Dutchess County and The Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley), the City of Poughkeepsie, the Dyson Foundation and the Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum’s Annual Fund.

You can make a charitable contribution to it by clicking here.

Beef jerky at the Eggbert Free Range Farm table at the Beacon Farmers Market! Flavors include Sweet and Mild. Eggberts sold out of them last summer quite quickly, so these may go too! The scoop is that there are more on order from the Amish person in Pennsylvania who makes them.

The hens at Eggberts (not to be confused with the Christmas destination of egg-head Eggbert), eat only the finest food: pumpkin seeds, grass, oyster shells, flowers, and other foods that produce the special K in eggs that make the yolk orange, and has been measured to be lower in cholesterol than the eggs of other feed-fed hens. How do we know this random information? Because we took a Deep Dive into what makes a “farm fresh egg” and where to find them in Beacon. That article is somewhere in our Drafts and hopefully it will make it out of there. But right now, after our research, that best farm fresh egg is right here in the Veterans Building at the Beacon Farmers Market. When we publish the article, we’ll tell you where to get the next-best egg if you can’t get to market or a small producer.

PS: Barb’s Butchery also has had farm fresh eggs, as does All You Knead Artisan Bakers in Beacon, sometimes. Both stores work with farms and bring the eggs back to their shops.

PPS: Where else can you get beef jerky in Beacon? At the beef jerky specialists, of course! Village Jerk next to The Chocolate Studio in Beacon near the mountain side of Main Street. See A Little Beacon Blog’s Shopping Guide for the address and details!