Homer Farmers Market — Local services in Homer

Seafood chowder, oysters, jam, eggs, spinach, coffee, and sweet treats! Seafood chowder from Tamera's Seafood is divine, absolutely divine. The cream broth is delicate, with a sheen of butter?margarine floating on the surface. Not thick like some chowders. Thus, the slice of white bread served with it? Meh. Thin and floppy...think wonder bread. Such exquisite chowder should be served either with a THICK SLICE OF FRENCH BREAD OR crispy, salty oyster crackers instead. Speaking of oysters... Fresh oysters from Jakolof Bay Oyster co. are meaty, buttery, and tangy. AT 2.00 each shucked, go ahead, get a dozen and slurp away-- add a squeeze of fresh lemon or a splash of garlic onion vinagrette and OMG your tastebuds will do the happy dance. The sellers incorporate a single bladed hand shucker, as opposed to other sellers at other markets that use a mechanical shucker. The result is that you'll slurp your treats one at a time, as each is shucked rather than have a plateful handed to you or whatever number you've ordered. And, you may have to wait your turn as the single shucker shucks an oyster for multiple paying customers. Again, I highly recommend a mechanical shucker. Serves more people faster. The Blueberry jam from Bob's is best eaten with a spoon straight out of the jar, or slathered on warm buttered toast. Make sure the bread can support the weight of the jam, however, or you'll just have mess when the bread disintegrates under the weight of the jam. Suggest a HEFTY slice of multigrain wheat bread. Farm fresh eggs from Bob make superb fried overeasy eggs. The yolk is thick and saffron colored. So, a meal of fresh eggs, blueberry jam, and oysters, sounds delicious. Rhubarb lemonade is a buck, but is more like plain pink lemonade. It is made from the water that rhubarb is boiled in to make jam. So, I give the seller credit for making use of the rhubarb infused water. We bought a 1/2 dozen precious notecards decorated with ravens of all colors engaging in crafty raven activities. The seller was an enchanting woman with a broad smile and a willingness to chat. ====Now, you will pay sales tax on the handicrafts. Go ahead pay it, don't whine about it. Some guy---who actually lives in Homer was giving a young sales lady grief about paying the sales tax (2.00--that's two dollars) on his purchase. She was most gracious with this less than gracious customer. The handicrafts are priced as good artwork should be and the tax is what it is. Parking is free, and is a bit of a rodeo. The one way single entrance/exit are NOT well marked. The market is at the crest of a hill on the upside of a curve. Traffic is heavy...(it is summer, and thus tourists like me flock to Homer). We accidentally entered at the exit, and there was no way to back out of it as it would have put us into oncoming traffic. Visibility is poor if you are at the exit trying to exit, especially if a vehicle is entering the exit (like we did) and blocks the view. Thanks to a couple of gracious out going drivers, we were able to wiggle our Subaru between the two cars and slip into a nearby parking space. On the other hand, take a couple of sturdy tote...

This market was AMAZING! I loved everything about it. There was live music, good food, and interesting items for sale. It is small, but each place offers some unique stuff. The lady with the leather goods offers some cute jewelry and a unique leather cozy for a mason jar. There was an Amish lady who sold these amazing breads with homemade jam inside. I forget what it is called. My son got a handmade wood car from a nice older gentleman. And lastly there was a shop that offered tea and French press coffee. I wish I remembered the name of the tea I got. I just remember it was a mate. It was hands down the BEST tea I have ever had!! Sooooo good. All in all, we had a wonderful time walking around the market. Parking was a bit of a challenge, but that's to be expected at...

Not much going on at this farmers market, we went on Wednesday afternoon right around 2:30 and about half the stalls were occupied. They have fresh fruits and vegetables, jams, home made breads, muffins, cookies, chocolates. We had read that there might have been prepared food/meal type things here but that was not the case. Unoccupied stalls had signs for some things we would have liked to try. People were friendly though, and it was certainly a famers market, just smaller and emptier than we were expecting and also it was raining which didn't really...