Farmers Market Spotlight: Local Goods and Live Music

Special to Pelahatchie News

The Artful Farmer combines the lifelong love of the outdoors, gardening and farming by Amy and Tommy Lyle. That’s why they were so excited when Grace started the Pelahatchie Farmers Market two years ago. They’re excited to be original market vendors and are looking forward to seeing how the market grows in its third year. Tommy is a lifelong resident of Pelahatchie and Amy has called it home for over 30 years. 

As a child, Amy and her mother would brave the red bugs and pick wild blackberries and make jelly. That’s probably where her love of canning and preserving began. Amy now makes jellies and all sorts of pickled vegetables. Tommy focuses on the honey bee hives and newly added grass fed beef production. Their honey is about as local as you can get with their hives being located just outside the city limits of Pelahatchie. Hopefully as their number of hives grow, so does the harvest. They are excited to “bee” able to share honey with our local community again this year. The Artful Farmer also sells fresh cut flowers and produce from their garden when available. 

The Pelahatchie Farmers Market is thankful that Amy is a part of the market team; she helps bring fresh new ideas to the Pelahatchie Farmers Market.