Indy Winter Farmers Market Vendor: Pet Lovers Organic Bakery

Every week during the Indy Winter Farmers Market season, we'll be profiling one of our local vendors. You can find the full list of IWFM vendors and past profiles here.

Pet Lovers Organic Bakery

What do you love most about the Indy Winter Farmers Market? I love the diversity of people that attend the market. Vendors and customers look forward Saturday mornings at IWFM.

What is your most popular item at IWFM? Scrumptious Salmon Treats. We get our salmon from fellow IWFM vendor, Wild Alaska Salmon.

What is something people don't know about you? I have a "real" job that pays the bills, but Pet Lovers Organic Bakery is my passion!

What is your favorite local restaurant? It's not really a restaurant, but Natural Born Juicers. They have my yummy Raw Gourmet Delights goodies too!

What is your favorite thing to do downtown? I like to just walk around and people watch.

How do you relax after a long day of working? A nice, hot bubble bath.

Connect: petloversorganic.com // Facebook

Indy Winter Farmers Market Vendor: Grabow Orchard and Bakery

Every week during the Indy Winter Farmers Market season, we'll be profiling one of our local vendors. You can find the full list of IWFM vendors and past profiles here.

Located in Pendleton, IN, Glen Grabow's Orchard and Bakery is no stranger to the farmers market scene and has been participating in central Indiana markets for over 20 years. Prior to starting his orchard, Grabow worked as an Aerospace Engineer and spent his time from 1960-1967 developing a new type of steering control for Polaris Ballistic Missiles. 

Grabow always had fruit trees on his property growing up, so he figured an orchard would be a good supplement to his time after her retired as a rocket scientist. In the spring of 1989, Grabow bought property for his apple orchard and planted a total of 120 trees, which each of the 10 rows housing a different variety. In the following years, Grabow added more varieties and even dabbled with other fruits like berries. With the completion of building a sales barn, Grabow’s wife began making pies to sell in addition to the apples at their farm stand. Since then, Grabow’s Orchard and Bakery has expanded to over 20 apple varieties and a delicious line of handmade, preservative free quick breads and dumplings. 

Now, Grabow is planning to expand his farming operation to include many vegetables and will utilize a green, no chemical regime on his produce. After a long day of farming, Grabow likes to keep his mind busy by playing brain games and puzzles. Make sure you stop by the Grabow Orchard and Bakery booth at the Indy Winter Farmers Market and chat with this smart, passionate scientist turned farmer.

Connect: graboworchard.com // Facebook // Twitter

Indy Winter Farmers Market Vendor: Nut Yum

Every week during the Indy Winter Farmers Market season, we'll be profiling one of our local vendors. You can find the full list of IWFM vendors and past profiles here.

Nut Yum, First season at IWFM

Lynn Weddel of Nut Yum creates clean, whole, and real food. The Nut Yum kitchen is a bright, sunny corner where flowers bloom, vanilla and cinnamon scents waft on the breeze and inspiration is fueled by love. Nut Yum uses health-conscious practices when making their delicious treats. Nut Yum eschews grain save for their gluten-free granola. They use healthy sweeteners like Indiana maple syrup instead of refined white sugar. Their caramel and chocolate magic spreads are made from nuts instead of milk and sugar. Nut Yum loves feeding you: mind, body and soul.

What do you love most about the IWFM? Being indoors, climate control! The space is lovely and inviting. The crew could not be more helpful and supportive. The customers are loyal and enthusiastic!

What is your most popular item? It's a three-way tie: Nut Yum Nut Butters, No Grain Granola and Kale Muffins!

What is something people don't know about you? Before I started my business, I raised and homeschooled my FIVE children.

How do you relax after a long day of farming? My favorite thing is hiking in the forest and taking photographs.

Connect: nutyum.com // Facebook

Indy Winter Farmers Market Vendor: Felege Hiywot Center

Every week during the Indy Winter Farmers Market season, we'll be profiling one of our local vendors! You can find the full list of IWFM vendors and past profiles here.

Felege Hiywot Center

Tucked in the back corner at IWFM, Felege Hiywot sells Ethiopian tea and lentils on injera, a native flatbread that can be described as a mixture between a crepe and pita bread. Felege Hiywot serves the urban Indianapolis youth community, second generation Ethiopians in Indianapolis and orphans in Ethiopia. This organization teaches service, teamwork, and leadership through its youth farm, which both sells produce and donates it to neighborhood members in need.

What do you love most about IWFM? IWFM is a local market and we are a not-for-profit organization and we want to further connect with our community citizens in the Indianapolis area, get to know them on a personal level and let them get a taste of Ethiopian food. We are raising money to expand our youth farm, which hires urban high school youth in the Indianapolis area

What is your most popular item? Ethiopian lentils with injera!

What is something most people don't know about you? Aster Bekele's (founder and executive director of the Felege Hiywot Center) first love is science, more specifically chemistry. She loves how farming helps her teach the science she loves.

What's your favorite local restaurant? Pogue's Run Grocer, it's a great places to have meetings with our partners

Connect: fhcenter.org // Facebook // Twitter

Indy Winter Farmers Market Vendor: Full Hand Farm

Every week during the Indy Winter Farmers Market season, we'll be profiling one of our local vendors! You can find the full list of IWFM vendors and past profiles here.

Full Hand Farm, 4th season at IWFM

Continue reading a Q & A with Genesis and Eli of Full Hand Farm. This family farm team was recently featured on the cover of the January 15 issue of Farm Indiana.

What do you love most about IWFM? We love the warm and energetic atmosphere at the IWFM, created by the organizers, volunteers, and patrons who we see week after week. The hustle and bustle of an indoor market downtown is invigorating for us country bumpkins. It also offers us a chance to have year round income from the farm, making farming a very realistic full time occupation for our family.

What is your most popular item? Kale and brussels sprouts are really popular while we have them. Once we get into the depth of winter, it's carrots.

What is something most people don't know about you?Genesis worked in the restaurant industry for 15 years, including at Recess Restaurant for 3 years while we were getting the farm up and running. Eli worked at The Smoking Goose during the farm's very first year in operation, and he can fit two quarters in one nostril!

What's your favorite local restaurant? So many--we especially love Recess and Bluebeard though. Recess for its ability to push the palate of the city with its pre fixe menu (and for employing Genesis for so long!) and Bluebeard for it's incredible cocktail program and wildly creative menu.