Discovering Fishers

Grill and smoker rentals for cooking up all of your local grass-fed, free-range, antibiotic free beef and pork.  Also offering volume orders of beef, pork, chicken, and venison processing.

Traders Point is a family owned dairy offering delicious organic milk, cheese, and yogurt made from a 100% grass-fed herd. From their website, their mission is to:

• Farm in harmony with the land and the animals. 
• Produce the most nutritious and healthful products possible. 
• Encourage education of farming and nutrition. 
• Promote a community of local food and sustainable farming, reconnecting farmers & consumers. 

We have not visited this market ourselves, but we have included it as another location where local produce is offered.

In its fourth year, this farmers’ market is on the way home for many Fishers residents who work in Indianapolis, making it a convenient stop. Since it’s held on Thursday afternoons, it’s possible to visit more vendors that overlap with most other area Saturday morning markets. Watermelons and heirloom tomatoes are the embodiment of summer.

This is a new but fast-growing market, featuring 20+ regular vendors.

This is another local farmers’ market with a longer season. Carmel farmers’ market has a wide variety of 50+ vendors offering beef, pork, lamb, buffalo, cheese (goat cheese even), vegetables (also heirloom vegetables), berries, flowers, baked goods, coffee, wine, salsa, jellies, etc. There is live music every week.

From their website:

My Dad’s Sweet Corn is family owned and operated by Allen Baird and family in Tipton, Indiana.

Our passion is to provide you with the tastiest and highest quality sweet corn possible, and we work hard to insure that the sweet corn we sell is the best. We hope that you enjoy our corn as much as we enjoy providing it to you. My Dad’s Sweet Corn is picked fresh daily to ensure freshness and quality. For additional information, cooking instructions, and most frequently asked questions, please continue to browse our web site.

Master beekeeper Dave Barrickman and his lovely wife Pattie can be seen at the Fishers farmer’s market selling honey products, from honey sticks, to comb honey, barbecue sauce, soaps, and fruit flavored honeys. Wildflower Ridge products are also available at North Star Health in Fishers.

New Day Meadery produces mead made from local honey and fruit ingredients. Their products can be found at local wine shops as well as the Fishers Farmers’ Market. They make a point to work with small family growers.