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Become A Vendor

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Meet the Vendors

Welcome to the Lansing City Market. We are a group of Michigan farmers and artisans that have come together to bring you some of the finest food and products in mid-Michigan. Come in, look around and feel free to ask questions. We are more than happy to educate you on how to prepare, utilize or maintain anything that you purchase at the Market.

A Basketful by Sharl

Phone: 517-484-8211
Owner: Sharl Rugg
Email: sharl@abasketfulbysharl.com
Website: http://www.abasketfulbysharl.com

Since 1997, A Basketful by Sharl has been bringing something different to the gift-giving and floral industry in Michigan. Beautiful custom gift baskets and fresh floral arrangements can be shipped nationwide or delivered locally. At the Lansing City Market, you will find a wide variety of Michigan-made food and novelty products on display by many artists. “Basketful” employees are always happy to help you with any wedding, personal, or corporate events and with all of your gift-giving needs.

Aggie Mae's Bakery

Phone: 517-214-2765
Owner: Neva Austin
Email: aggiemaesbakery@gmail.com
Website: "Fan" us on Facebook!

Aggie Mae’s Bakery serves artisan breads, cookies, scones, brownies, cheesecakes, and more! Neva Austin uses as much unbleached, unbromated, organic flour as possible, and most of her ingredients come from right here in the City Market. Try out the full espresso bar, where you can get blended coffee drinks and real fruit smoothies. Aggie Mae’s lunch items are made fresh daily with wholesome, delicious ingredients, and there is always an affordable meal deal on the menu. Everything sold here is made on site at the Lansing City Market with fresh ingredients and lots of love!

Aggie Mae's Bakery

Alice's Kitchen

Phone: 517-316-1089
Owner: Raymond S. Harris Sr.
Email: alicekitchen10@comcast.net

Raymond and Alice Harris started their family business in April 2004. The following year, they became a vendor at the Lansing City Market, and made the move to the new building. They are now located on the northwest side of the market, facing the river.

Alice’s Kitchen meats are grass-fed and pasture-raised on a local farm in Grand Ledge, Michigan. All the meats are free of added hormones, antibiotics, steroids, and dyes. Alice’s baked goods are homemade in her own certified kitchen with all-natural ingredients and no preservatives. Alice’s popcorn seeds come from an Amish Country farm and are all-natural. You can also buy Granddad Sweetened and Unsweetened Iced Tea here, as well as gourmet spices, jams and jellies, fruit pies, cakes, Jamaica patties, pot pies, and more! Alice’s Kitchen strives to provide only the very best healthy and nutritious products for her customers, made and served with a lot of love.

Andrew Graber Farm

Andrew and family travel a considerable distance from the Quincy area every Saturday to join us on our prime market day. They offer an incredible array of fresh produce, direct in most cases from their farm, but also items from the larger Amish community of which they are members. In the not too distant future they will also be bringing to market wonderful basked goods from a certified kitchen that the community operates. It is a family affair with the Grabers; stop by and enjoy some pleasant conversation and great food.
* Seasonal vendor

Bella Harvest

Phone: 517-303-1333
Owner: Kevin and Karen Nichols
Email: Bellaharvest@yahoo.com
Website: Facebook "Bella Harvest at the Lansing City Market"

Bella Harvest works with local, organic farmers during Michigan’s growing season, specializing in several kinds of kales & lettuces, but offering a full array of fantastic local produce. They also offer Appleschram’s local, nitrate-free, grass-fed beef & pork, honeys, applesauces and syrups. Since their products change with the seasons, you’ll want to stop by often!

	Better Finds
Phone: 989-793-8521 Owner: Lynnette Fouch Bugenske Email: MIwildflowers@chartermi.net Better Finds is a nursery that focuses on growing native Michigan flowers. Better Finds offers only "Architectural" and "Specimen" grade native Michigan perennials and ferns, plants fully developed and in containers sized to support full root structure. * Seasonal vendor

Bob's Market

Owner: Bob Falsetta
Phone: 517-667-0147

Bob Falsetta, a wonderful market anchor vendor since 1960, offers all manner of fruits and vegetables from the very best growers in the region as well as offering his own homegrown produce. Stop by to congratulate Bob and help us celebrate his 50 years as a City Market Merchant extraordinaire and 50 years of marriage to his wonderful partner Bonnie.

Bob's Wife's Soaps

Owner: Bob Johns
Website: www.bobswifessoaps.com
Email: bwsoaps@voyager.net

Bob Johns and his wife handmade their herbal soaps, using natural aromatherapeutic essential oils, naturally grown herbs, saponified coconut, olive oil, beeswax, and other ingredients to give each soap a pleasing scent. They then hand cut and stamp their homemade soap with their own unique symbol. Bob’s soaps smell great you just might want to eat them!

Caruso's Candy Kitchen

Coming Soon!

City Fish

Phone: 517-484-1557
Owner: Stephen Joseph, Ernie St. Pierre and Dan Warmles

City Fish stocks fresh fish from the Great Lakes. 90% of his fish are wild-caught by Native American fisheries, only 10% farm-raised. Steve carries Great Lakes whitefish, perch, walleye, and trout. If you’re looking for a more exotic meal, you will also find a full line of ocean-caught fish as well, and for something special, City Fish will happily special order for you. Look for their Michigan micro-brewed beers and wines, coming soon.

	Get Mint Trading Co.
Phone: 1-800-345-9068 Owner: Linette & "Peppermint Jim" Crosby Website: www.getmint.com Email: info@getmint.com Get Mint Trading Co offers everything Mint! Stop by and experience the 100% pure & natural essentials oils of peppermint & spearmint. Get Mint has recently expanded their product line to include bath salts, lip balm, candles, spritzers and more. Learn about the many health benefits from Peppermint Jim, Lilian, Linette, & their own massage specialist, Rita Grissom! Mint oil can help with headaches, migraines, asthma, sore muscles, cold sores and much, much more. Grown in "Mint City, USA”, more commonly known as St. Johns, MI, the essential mint oils are produced by the Historic Crosby Mint Farm, documented as the nations' oldest continuously-operating mint farm since 1912.

	Giving Tree Farm
Phone: 517-482-8885 Owner: Melissa Hornaday Email: melissa.hornaday@gmail.com Website: http://cbisgivingtreefarm.wordpress.com Community Based Interventions Giving Tree Farm is a non-profit organization that started 12 years ago as community garden for people with disabilities. As the garden continued to grow, more people started to volunteer. Eventually, a heated greenhouse was built which allowed the Giving Tree Farm to start a year-round horticultural therapy program. That program continues today, and the garden project has become a productive certified organic farm with seven acres of fields, a heated greenhouse and eight hoop houses for year-round production. The farm is now owned and operated by Community Based Interventions. CBI runs a vocational training and rehabilitation program on the farm site. Monday through Friday, people who have suffered traumatic brain injuries come out to help grow fresh, healthy, produce for CSA members, area restaurants, the Lansing City Market, and other local vendors.

The Grain Market

Phone: 517-749-9778
Owner: Travis and Scarlett Sybrowsky
Email: scarlett@thegrainmarket.com
Website: http://www.thegrainmarket.com

The Grain Market promotes healthy alternatives for everyday meals. Travis and Scarlett teach workshops and provide the grains and tools necessary to make healthy cooking easy and affordable. They promise that healthy cooking is a simple, inexpensive, tastier way to eat.

In addition to classes and demos, The Grain Market offers an extensive array of quality organic grains, flours, and seeds at competitive prices. Grains range from amaranth to quinoa (pronounced keen-wa) as well as a variety of wheat and even grains and seeds to sprout. Purchase as little as a pound or as much as fifty... even more if you’d like!

As your specialty grain store at the Lansing City Market, Travis and Scarlett will gladly share their knowledge and experiences, as well as the applications of grains that will work for you and your family. Their grains and seeds are rich with vitamins, fiber, and nutrients, as well as history. Come learn and sample.

Invest in your health at The Grain Market. Eat healthy. Be healthy.

	Greenman's Produce
Phone: 517-676-5578 Owner: Dennis Greenman Dennis is a local grower of a wide range of quality farm-fresh produce, varying with the season. * Seasonal vendor

Hickory Gardens Greenhouse & Nursery

Phone: 517-267-9868
Owner: John and Pam Decker
Email: hickoryrose2@yahoo.com

Established in 1994 at the Lansing City Market, Hickory Corners Greenhouse and Gardens is locally owned and operated. They carry a full line of produce year-round, cut flowers, perennials, annuals, hanging baskets, and potted herb plants in season. At Christmas they offer fresh trees, greens and custom-made wreaths up to six feet in diameter.

Hills Home Cured Cheese

Phone: 517-374-9988
Owner: Glenn, Ruth and Paul Hill
Website: Facebook "Hills Homecured Cheese"

Hills Homecured Cheese has been a Lansing City Market customer favorite since 1961. They love to share their Michigan cheeses, such as Zingerman’s City Goat from Ann Arbor and Grassfields Organic Raw Milk Gouda from Coopersville, as well as favorites made by superb traditional European and domestic cheesemakers. Stop in, talk with us, sample our cheese, and become part of the local cheese culture!

Iorio Italian Ice

Owner: The Lemmer Family
Website: www.iorioice.com
Email: iorioice@hotmail.com

Iorio’s is a family-owned business that sells authentic Italian Ice, Michigan-made artisan gelato (Italy’s delicious and lower-fat version of ice cream), and other Italian treats. Their gelato and sorbetto contain nothing artificial, and are made with locally-grown ingredients, including hormone-free milk, and the best ingredients from around the world. With over 600 flavors, there’s always something new to try!

	Massage Therapist Rita Grissom
Phone: 517-862-1895 Owner: Rita Grissom Email: rita@usunitedenergysystems.com Rita Grissom has been a certified massage therapist for twelve years, and enjoys each and every person that she can touch to heal. Look for her at Get Mint Trading Co., on the southeast side of the market. Before your massage, Rita uses health-market lotion and aromatherapy to open the mind and cure the aches. “After five, ten, or thirty minutes of neck, scalp, back, lower back, and hand massage, you will be totally laid back and enjoying life to the fullest!”

	MOO-ville Quality Creamery
Phone: 517-852-9003 Owners: The Westendorfs Email: milkman@live.com Website: www.moo-ville.com Using only the freshest, highest-quality ingredients, MOO-ville Quality Creamery from Nashville, Michigan uses a special gravity-feeding process to keep your milk as natural and unprocessed as possible before it gets to you. MOO-ville offers a variety of dairy products milked from comfortable, rBST-free cows that are allowed to graze whenever the weather permits. Faithful customers love the non-homogenized, pasteurized Creamline milk and homemade ice cream in assorted and seasonal flavors. We also offer ground chuck or patties, cheese curds, and butter. At MOO-ville, there is no question where our products come from - just look up the hill at our farm.

Nodding Thistle Farm

Phone: 517-852-1593
Owner: Pat Baker-Smith

In Nashville, Michigan, amid the sounds of happy honey bees, is Nodding Thistle Farm, specializing in organic produce and wild flowers. Nodding Thistle has been growing vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs free of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers since 1984 (organic from 1984-2008). We begin our season with strawberries and lettuce and end with winter squash. Everything we sell is raised on our farm. * Seasonal vendor

Otto's Fresh Chicken

Phone: 517-482-0337
Owner: Gary and Becky Otto

Otto's Chicken in Middleville, Michigan, provides farm-fresh, antibiotic and hormone-free chicken to Michiganders looking for quality meat. You are sure to love the taste of this locally-raised chicken that has had access to fresh, natural food and clean water, as well as plenty of space for roaming around. Exercise and diet are very important in the health of a chicken, and a healthy chicken is a tasty chicken!

	Riverside Studios
Phone: 517-402-2862 Owner: Kevin and Karen Nichols Email: firechicktick@aol.com Website: Facebook "Riversidestudios" Kevin and Karen are full-time artists specializing in metal and glass art. They use vintage silverware to make unique, wearable art. They make an assortment of fused glass items, garden art, mosaics, and beaded jewelry from their home studio in Dimondale, Michigan, where they are raising four great children and two spoiled dogs.

Sarge's Soups and Sandwiches

Phone: 517-410-3945
Owner: Roger D. Weathers
Website: Facebook "Sgts Soups and Sandwiches"
Email: 50orless@gmail.com

Look for Roger’s blue and white umbrella near the center of the market for some great hot dogs, sandwiches, and soups!

All meats used in Roger's sandwiches are purchased from select local retailers with whom a longstanding, trusting relationship has been established. Roger says, "I take pride in having quality meat products that are specifically created with my input."

All sandwiches are prepared on site and served fresh. Smoked turkey, pulled pork and beef, smoked and barbecued chicken and sausages are the top requests. Also try Roger’s delicious, filling and hearty soups.

Seif Foods

Phone: 517-347-9987
Owner: Nabil and Magda Seif

Seif Foods specializes in gluten-free and sugar-free health foods. Magda teaches vegetarian cuisine and middle-eastern gourmet at Lansing Community College, and their hummus, taboula, falafels, samosas, and wraps are fantastic. Come and see for yourself how good healthy food can taste.

Shoua's Kitchen

Phone: 517-230-9697
Owner: Shoua Xiong

Shoua specializes in fresh-baked goods such as cookies, pies, éclairs, croissants, delicious breads, and the best spinach pies in town. Shoua’s Kitchen not only serves baked goods but also a variety of Thai and Chinese foods that are hot and ready for customers on the go.

Soulful Earth Herbals

Phone: 517-316-0547
Owner: Kathleen Parker
Email: Kathleen@soulfulearthherbals.com
Website: http://www.soulfulearthherbals.com

Kathaleen Parker, owner of Soulful Earth Herbals, has been healing with herbs in her home for about since 1999. Her two children were her inspiration to learn about natural healing. She started in business in March of 2005 and opened at the Lansing City Market in April. “I believe everything comes from Mother Earth with purpose and we just need to become educated on how to use her resources without harm to the environment or ourselves,” Kathaleen says.

Her business grows from nature and all of the products she makes are 95-100% natural. She uses no parabens, alcohols, or formaldehydes to preserve, and spends lots of time researching the raw materials used to craft her products. She makes an extensive line of products including handcrafted lotions, healing salves, body scrubs, bath treatments, soaps, and more. Dried herbs are also available and she can educate you on what herbs are appropriate for your needs. She will even prepare an herbal combination or formulation for a specific complaint or condition. She takes great pride in crafting her herbals and offering a truly natural finished product.

Splash of Sunset Photography

Phone: 517-894-2619
Owner: Matthew Winn
Website: http://www.splashofsunset.com

Email: mwinn85061@yahoo.com

Splash of Sunset offers fine art photography in a wide array of topics from waterfalls to lighthouses to fireworks. Matt has received much recognition for his Michigan photography, but you can also find prints from the Smokey Mountain region and all over the US.

In addition to prints and original photographs, Splash of Sunset offers unique photographic merchandise such as t-shirts, baseball caps, refrigerator magnets, and a wide range of greeting cards. With the ability to fully customize any item, the choices and options are endless.

Splash of Sunset Photography offers portraiture packages as well as workshops and lessons. Times and dates will be posted in the gallery in the Lansing City Market as well as on the Facebook page.

	Sun and Rain Gardens
Phone: 989-763-2400 Owner: Bill Wesenberg Email: b.wesenberg@yahoo.com Sun & Rain Gardens is owned by the Mennonite family of Bill Wesenberg, from Ithaca, Michigan. They grow and sell their own produce during the Michigan growing season, including strawberries, raspberries, sweet corn, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash, summer squash, eggplant, potatoes, onions, pumpkins, and cabbage. In addition to selling their own produce, the Wesenbergs work with other Michigan families to bring you preservative-free Hearthstone Oven cinnamon rolls (Ithaca); hormone-free Country Dairy products (New Era); Calders’ Bros. glass-bottled, hormone-free milk and butter (Lincoln Park); fresh-frozen, sustainably-harvested Great Lakes fish, including salmon, whitefish, and lake trout; jerky, meat sticks, smoked chicken and cheese (Falmouth); cider, apples, and other fruit (Stanton); and blueberries (Grand Haven). In short, you can find just about anything you’re looking for here!

Sweet Seasons Orchards

Phone: 517-524-8535
Owner: Nan and Ed Jasinowski
Email: SweetseasonsOrchard@gmail.com

Ed & Nan Jasinowski own the family-run Sweet Seasons Orchard, located near Concord, Michigan. They produce and sell apples, cherries, pears, peaches, grapes, and plums. During the Michigan season, they have fresh strawberries and both summer and fall raspberries. Ed presses fresh, natural un-pasteurized cider, and the orchard bakery makes donuts, pies, cookies, breads, caramel corn, popcorn balls, and caramel apples. The Sweet Seasons special butter machine produces fresh-ground natural peanut butter, organic peanut butter, almond butter, cashew butter, sunflower butter, and honey roasted peanut butter. Preserves, jellies, fruit butters, sucrose-free preserves, and local honey are available year-round, as well as many organic and Michigan-grown grains, beans, pastas, and Nan's own soup mixes. Sweet Seasons also participates in farmer's markets in the Jackson area, and is open on the farm seven days a week from Labor Day through Thanksgiving.

Uncle John's Fruit House Winery

Coming Soon!

The Waterfront Restaurant

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	Weavers Webb
Phone: 989-620-7864 Owner : Tammy Hall Tammy is a local artist who has enjoyed weaving for 30 years. All her items are hand-woven on looms that she has accumulated over the years, using a wide variety of fibers. Tammy’s wearable fiber art consists of hats, scarves, sashes, handbags and shawls. Other items of stunning design and beauty are rugs and wall hangings, ranging from very petite to large, intricate, stand-alone pieces. * Seasonal vendor

Willowbrook Farm

Phone: 517-204-4542
Owner: Mary Borroum
Email: egglady56@yahoo.com

Mary Borroum has been growing produce and field crops for more than 35 years using natural and sustainable methods; her focus the last couple of years has been certified organic. In addition to a large vegetable plot, she grows many field crops: primarily corn, oats and alfalfa. As with most small-sustainable farmers, Mary believes diversification is one key aspect of success and thus poultry and egg production and herbal tinctures, from herbs organically grown at Willowbrook are all mainstays of her product line.
* Seasonal vendor

Willowbrook Farm