Reston Farmers Market Opens Saturday

A sure sign that spring is here: The Reston Farmers Market at Lake Anne reopens for the season on Saturday.

The market is 8 a.m. to noon at Lake Anne Plaza’s parking lot every Saturday from May 2 to Nov. 14 (though it is often extended with limited vendors through Thanksgiving).

Also opening Saturday is Reston’s craft market, located on the Lake Anne Plaza Waterfront. More than 30 crafters will sell clothing, bags, jewelry, dolls, candles and other homemade items.

The Farmers Market will also have its usual wide variety of produce, baked goods, political info, live music and farm-fresh poultry and meat.

Here is who will take part in 2015:

• A Bit More Sweets and Specialties
• Arnest Seafood
• Baguette Republic
• Bees ‘n Blossoms
• Blue Ridge Dairy Co.
• Cavanna Pasta
• Cherry Glen
• Chesley Vegetable Farms
• Colonial Kettle Corn Inc.
• Fresh Crunch Pickles
• Glascocks Produce
• Grace’s Pastries
• Gunpowder Bison & Trading Co.
• Hutt Produce LLC
• J & W Valley View Farm
• Jerry’s Gourmet Berries, Inc
• Ladybug Mountain farm
• Loudoun’s BreezyMeadowFarms
• Mt. Olympus Farm
• Nitro’s Creamery
• Ole Pioneer’s Kitchen
• Penn Farm
• Potomac Vegetable Farms
• Reid’s Orchard & Winery
• Smith Family Farm
• Spring Valley Farm and Orchard
• The Farm at Sunnyside
• Toigo Orchards
• Valentine’s Country Bakery & Meats
• Virginia Vistas Greenhouses

Who is your favorite market vendor? Tell us in the comments so newcomers will know what not to miss.

Reston Farmers Market/file photo