The university’s farmers’ market, working with the Haymaker Farmers’ Market, brought local food and item vendors to the Campus Rec Lot Tuesday. 

Some vendors in attendance at the farmers’ market were Woolf Farms, a farm selling fruits and vegetables in Columbiana County, Bigfoot Mushrooms, a mushroom farm in South Newbury, and Fat T’s Cookies, an artisan cookie shop in Akron, among others. 

Kline Honey Bee Farms, another business at the market, opened roughly fifteen years ago and has been coming to the Haymaker Farmers’ Market for roughly seven years, said owner Matt Kline. 

Kline Honey Bee Farm sells items such as honey, peach-infused honey, beeswax, bee pollen and other specialty items. All of the honey and bee products used are locally sourced and provide benefits to those who use them, Kline said. 

“Mostly it’s allergy relief that customers will receive, and the fact that we are a smaller beekeeper, so we don’t have to pasteurize and bring honey in from other locations,” he said. “Being local like that gives customers a piece of mind that everything is really what it says it is.”  

The Haymaker Farmers’ Market off Franklin Ave. in downtown Kent every Saturday – year-round.

The Kent State Farmers’ Market, run through Kent State’s Recreation and Wellness Services, will return on Nov. 14, Feb. 20 and March 19 in the Design Innovation Hub. 

Kylee Coles is a reporter. Contact her at [email protected].