Vendors
Please enjoy getting to know our vendors a bit here, as it is hard on a busy market day to get this kind of information! Our vendors are all proud of their products, and are happy to answer questions either at market or via phone/email as listed below. All of our vendors are from Pennsylvania and are, as per our bylaws, located no more than 75 miles from the market. Market rules state that the only items for sale at the market must be grown or made by the person selling them. Thank you for your support!
Emmaus Farmers' Market vendor photos courtesy of photographer Daniel Paashaus.
Backyard Bison
Rodney Wieder
685 Crowthers Road
Coopersburg, PA 18036
610-346-6640
We have been with the Emmaus market since it began in July 2003. We bring our USDA inspected American Buffalo meat to the market in our freezer trailer. We sell burgers, steaks, roasts, ribs, jerky, and sausage. We follow the Native American tradition to respect the Buffalo, by not wasting anything, so we also sell the hides, fiber, bones, etc.
Our farm is only 11 miles from Emmaus (about a 20 minute drive) and our farm store is open year-round on Saturdays. Five generations of my family have lived on this farm.
We raise our Bison with care on our pastures and we do not use hormones, antibiotics, or commercial cattle feed. Our Bison meat has many outstanding qualities; it is very lean compared to beef, but it is still nice and juicy. Bison is also tender, with a slightly sweeter taste than beef, and is not wild or gamey tasting. We have cooking tips and recipes available if needed.
Balasia
Wendy Landiak
733 Almond Rd.
Walnutport, PA 18088
484-330-6405
Blue Mountain Winery
Vickie
7627 Grape Vine Drive
New Tripole, PA 18066
610-298-3068
Breakaway Farms
Nate Thomas
2446 Valley View Road
Mt. Joy, PA 17552
717-663-2470
Beyond Organic, 100% grass fed meats, poultry and eggs. Join the grass fed revolution!
Our chickens and turkeys roam free in special protected pasture and enjoy a varied diet including grasses, alfalfa, clovers, and bugs in combination with locally grown organic feed mix. Our beef cows are exclusively grass fed and enjoy lush green grasses in the summer and legume hay in the non-grazing months. Our heritage breed pigs spend a great deal of their time outside in the fresh air where they are free to root and graze our chemical-free pastures. Try our lean and succulunt 100% grass fed lamb. Our lambs frolic in the meadows where they enjoy fresh water, air and sunshine. Our lamb is young, tender and mildly flavored.
Easton Salsa
Arthur Skrenzi
50 N. 18th Street
Easton, PA 18042
610-923-3692
Recipes have been crafted over the years by Arthur Skrzenski, who traveled to New Mexico to follow his passion. Now he has brought the taste of the Southwest home to Pennsylvania. When you see one of our products on the shelf next to our competitors, know that we will be a bit spicier than them, but not too much that you can’t handle. Our products are dedicated to the “chili-heads” and their families. We like to take you right up to the edge without pushing you off the cliff. This way, we always have you coming back for more, bite after bite.Also see www.eastonsalsa.com for more information, especially our recycling program on the greenery tab.
The Flour Shop Bakery
Chef Michael Corrigan
2980 Linden St. (Macada Plaza)
Bethlehem, PA 18017
610-419-9645
We utilize the finest local ingredients to hand craft delicate pastries, rich cakes, pies, and artisanal breads each morning. Our specialty cakes are prepared to order and are perfect for all occasions; our cookies and petite pastries make excellent gift trays or corporate breakfasts and can be delivered upon request. NEW! Organic soup made here with local fresh ingredients.
Crostini-Salads-Biscotti.
Gottschell Farm
Steve and Nicole Shelly
5318 Limeport Pike
Coopersburg, PA 18036
267-496-6303
Gottschell Farm is a family farm located in Coopersburg where we grow vegetables, flowers and herbs on about an acre of land using intensive farming methods. We use crop rotations, cover crops, green manures and compost to maintain healthy soil and healthy crops. We do not use synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides or fungicides to grow any of our products. Diversity of crops allows us to minimize our losses. Our crops are hand harvested at the peak of ripeness and sold at an on-site farm stand, the Emmaus Farmers' Market, a CSA and restaurants. The farm was started in 2007 when we moved here from Philadelphia where we ran an urban farm. We started farming in 2002, interning at a certified organic farm. The small size of our farm allows us to own it, oversee all the operations of it and do much of the work by hand.
Happy Farm
Tom Colbaugh
1911 Gallows Hill Rd.
Kintersville, PA
610-306-2796
Tom Colbaugh and his partner Jean Nick have been raising eggs and poultry in Upper Bucks County (just 17 miles from the EFM) for six years now on the property where Jean has lived her whole life (more than half a century now). We raise our animals in ways that allow them to live as full and normal a life as possible while respecting and improving the land and wildlife around us. Our birds have all the clean, green pasture they can eat -- plus any tasty bugs they can scratch up (chickens are emphatically NOT vegetarians). Since laying hens cannot live on grass alone we also feed our birds a blend of locally grown grain and roasted soybeans (all GMO-free as far as we can determine), custom ground to our order so it's fresh, plus all-natural supplements and probiotics from the Fertrell company. Portable barns and portable electromesh fencing allow us to rotate all the birds to fresh pasture daily (meat birds) or weekly (laying hens) March through November. Our birds have 24-hour access to the outdoors and take full advantage of it 365 days a year. We pride ourselves in being predator friendly -- fencing and guard dogs protect our birds without harming the local foxes, owls, or hawks. Rotating the birds frequently improves the pasture (bird-powered fertilization and aeration) and reduces disease pressure. All poultry are humanly butchered on the farm in a USDA-approved facility and hand dressed (un-dressed?) for maximum quality. Sheep graze the pasture ahead of the birds to help us reduce the amount of fossil fuels we use for mowing (plus they taste really god in the fall). Lambs are raised on their mothers' milk and after weening eat only green plants (in the growing season) and hay( in the winter). Lambs are butchered off-farm in a local USDA-inspected facility. No synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, growth hormones, or routine antibiotics are ever used on Happy Farm. Visits (by appointment) are welcomed.
Hausman's Fruit Farm
Keith Hausman
2915 Limeport Pike
Coopersburg, PA 18036
610-360-8397
Hausman’s Fruit Farm, Inc. originated in 1916 when George Hausman and his wife Cora began their life together on the farm. This farm has now seen four generations of Hausmans and has over these years taught all of us a great deal about Natures “Way of the Land”. Today, when you visit the market, Keith and Carol Hausman, (3rd generation), and Justin Hausman, (4th generation), would be happy to meet you. Sometimes, Gregory Hausman, (5th generation now 3 years old), is there as well, although only briefly, sampling our current pickings and helping keep the tractor seat warm. We invite you to stop in and swap a few stories between friends
Every day at the Emmaus Farmers Market, we offer freshly homemade pies and cakes baked by Carol and good friend Deb. The main ingredient is always fruit from our farm.
Our harvest season will start out this May with Asparagus and Rhubarb. As the summer progresses the following list will ripen in similar order:
Strawberries, Cherries,Sweet Corn, Peaches, Plums, Apricots, Nectarines, Apples, Apple Cider, Pumpkins
Our primary goal is to continue to discover new ways of working with the land, weather, and the various crops using the least amount of man made chemicals as possible.
Keith, Carol, and Justin Hausman
Lettuce Alone Farm
Chuck Armitage
1846 Independent Rd.
Breinigsville, PA 18031
610-285-2779
North Star Orchard
Lisa and Ike Kerschner
3226 Limestone Rd.
Cochranville, PA 19330
610-593-0314
We specialize in unique and heritage (antique) varieties of tree fruit, including over 70 varieties of apples, 50 kinds of plums, plus Asian pears, peaches, and nectarines. The farm was started in 1992 on a leased parcel of ground. In 2006, we bought our own property, where we planted new trees and expanded into vegetable production. Our vegetables are grown using all organic practices, although we are not certified. Our fruit is grown using a combination of organic practices and IPM (Integrated Pest Management).
As long-time members of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, we strongly believe in the local food movement as well as sustainability. To us, sustainability means the successful combination of growing practices that are in tune with the environment as well as the safety of farm workers and consumers. A sustainable farmer is also able to make a decent living, including the ability to save for retirement, have health insurance, and be able to offer those quality-of-life items to farm employees.
Oley Valley Mushrooms
Joe and Angela Evans
14 Ridgewood Lane
Oley, PA 19547
610-987-9849
Pheasant Hill Farm
George and Melanie DeVault
3502 Main Rd. E.
Emmaus, PA 18049
610-928-7541
We started Pheasant Hill Farm -- just 2 1/2 miles from the Emmaus Farmers’ Market, over South Mountain -- in the 1980s when George was travelling around the country for Rodale’s New Farm magazine, interviewing organic farmers. We wanted to do what they were doing (way before it was popular), not just write about it! So we built our small, chemical-free farm from scratch, one garden bed and high tunnel at a time. We’ve kept things small to focus on quality, growing everything from arugula to zinnias, with chemical free blueberries, raspberries, heirloom tomatoes, greens and flowers taking top billing. Melanie focuses on specialty cut flower bouquets, and starting hundreds of seed varieties, most heirloom, in one of our four high tunnels. George fixes, builds, plants, picks and manages a hundred other myriad chores. Heritage Silver-laced Wyandotte chickens provide our wonderful brown eggs, and a few happy pigs round out our offerings. We’re life members of the Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable Agriculture (George was a two-term director) and Melanie is a 10-year member of the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers. George is also on the board of directors of Seed Savers Exchange, where he previously served as executive director, dedicated to preserving heirloom varieties. And he’s been a volunteer firefighter/officer in Vera Cruz and Emmaus since “Hector was a pup”, because community matters.
Rabbits' Run Farm
Dan Torrison
88 S. Mountain Rd.
Quakertown, PA 18951
215-536-1161
Red Earth Farm
Michael Ahlert and Charis Lindrooth
1025 Red Dale Rd.
Orwigsburg, PA 17961
570-943-3460
Red Earth Farm, located 3 miles from Hawk Mountain, is a small family owned vegetable and flower farm. We grow vegetables and flowers without synthetic pesticides or herbicides using sustainable methods, similar if not identical to certified organic methods. We are not currently certified organic. We grow a variety of lettuces, cooking greens, Asian greens, heirloom tomatoes, root vegetables and many other gourmet items. We offer mixed flower bouquets at market, as well as for special occaisions. Members of Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable Agriculture and Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers. Please visit our website for more information.
Ridge Valley Farm
Jim and Sue Myers
287 Camp Green Lane Rd.
Green Lane, PA 18054
215-234-9334
Our syrup is available in plastic jugs in the following sizes: gallon, 1/2 gallon, quart,
pint, and 1/2 pint. We also stock syrup in decorative glass bottles and can do favors for weddings, anniversaries, and showers. Our maple value added products include
maple granola, maple coated walnuts and pecans, and maple snack mix.
Orders for maple baked goods are gladly taken. Baked goods include: maple chocolate
chip cookies, maple walnut cookies, maple crackletop cookies, maple leaf shaped
cookies, and maple breakfast cake.
100% Pure Maple Syrup & Sugar
* No artificial colors or flavors
* No preservatives
* No additional sweetners
Saxman Breads
Eric Saxman
742 S. Towamencin Ave.
Lansdale, PA 19446
Saxman Breads is an Artisan Bread Bakery focusing on traditional European hard crusted breads. Our breads are mixed and baked from scratch daily using all natural ingredients – no additives or preservatives of any kind. We bring a wide selection of classic breads to market each week including: Baguette, Boule, Epi, Sourdough, Rustic Italian, Ciabatta, Fougasse, Focaccia, Farm Grain, Honey Wheat, and Cinnamon Raisin Bread.
The Seed Farm
Sara Runkel, Farm Manager
The Seed Farm is an educational farm and agricultural business incubator project supported by the County of Lehigh. The farm is located on a 25 acre section of the Seem Seed Farm in Vera Cruz, PA. This year the farm has four apprentices in its farmer training program. The apprentices work 20 hours a week in our two acre demonstration garden and are learning how to operate and manage a diversified vegetable farm. We grow a wide variety of produce with a focus on storage crops including; winter squash, dry beans, cabbage, pumpkins, root vegetables, pickling cucumbers, and canning tomatoes. All of our produce is grown sustainably without the use of synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, or pesticides.
Stagecoach Orchard Apiary
Pete Sliwka
PO Box 381
Lehighton, PA 18235
610-377-1875
Teprovich Farm and Bakery
Thomas, Kim, and Isabella Teprovich
5302 Heidelberg Hgts.
Germansville, PA 18053
610-662-5217
Vista Farm
John Mosovsky and Molly Mitke
3707 Windy Rd.
Orefield, PA 18069
484-264-6151
Vista Farm is located in Orefield , PA. Our primary crops include six varieties of American premium seedless table grapes and six varieties of gourmet hardneck and softneck garlic. We also grow hard shell gourds and herbs including wormwood, lemon balm, and seed fennel. We currently have 13 llamas that we raise for fiber. The llamas are sheared once/year and the fiber spun into yarn. We sell a variety of llama products knitted from our yarn, including scarves, socks, blankets, mittens, fingerless gloves, hats, etc. Our farm gate is always open for visitors to come see the llamas. We practice Integrated Pest Management which is a combination of techniques that strives to reduce synthetic inputs to growing our crops. We never use chemicals on our herbs or garlic which is 100% naturally grown. We hope to see you at the Market!
