Community Corner
Patch Picks: Clayton Farmer’s Market
The Clayton Farmer's Market has more than produce. Take a look at these five vendors who make being bad taste so good.
If the locally grown produce at the Clayton Farmer’s Market isn’t enough to lure you out of bed early on a Saturday, here are five extra tasty things that aren’t green, healthy or nutritious which you can’t get anywhere else.
Batje Farms Goat Cheese
Goat cheese is good. Goat cheese from organically-grown local goats is better. Goat cheese from organically-grown local goats drizzled in fresh local honey is a tasty experience that may ruin you for all other foods. Just make sure you get the cheese drizzled in honey, not the goats.
Stinger’s Honey
If you think honey comes from a squeezable plastic bear your mouth is in for a sweet shock. Be warned, this locally produced honey made right here in St. Louis may inspire your inner viking. Be prepared for looting, pillaging, and romancing ladies with flagons of home-made mead.
Black Bear Bakery
This worker-owned bakery has made a hearty rye and other artisan breads for nearly a century using time honored recipes. It won’t last three weeks on top of your fridge and you can’t compress an entire slice into a cube the size of a dime. Your bread machine is jealous Black Bear exists.
Jessie Pearl’s Pound Cakes
Once upon a time pound cake was made with a pound of butter, a pound of sugar and a pound of flour. The recipes have been tweaked a little since then but Jessie’s Pearl Pound Cakes still taste like they can clog an artery while putting a smile on your face.
Small Bites
This is the opposite of a heavy, sharable pound cake. Come for the cookies, stay for the tartlets. The great thing about Small Bites is the sheer volume of tiny sweets you can eat in only two bites. No sharing, no fighting over what to have for dessert and no reason to stop at one.
Clayton Farmer’s Market
8282 Forsyth Boulevard
Clayton, MO 63105
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Saturdays