09/30/2026
Welcome to this week’s “In the Market” update! 🎃🍂
Hard to believe October has arrived! Know what else has arrived at Mother Vine? LOCAL HEIRLOOM PUMPKINS! 🎃
Leigh Ann drives out to the farm, loads up the truck, brings them back to the market, and then the real work begins. Every pumpkin gets cleaned to remove the dirt and debris, then she gives each one a light bleach-and-water treatment — a trick recommended by the pumpkin farm to help extend their longevity. After that, they get priced and arranged all around the market. We also have a few pumpkin stacks ready to go, so stop by and get your Fall decorating started!
🥬 A little produce update: One of the farms we source from is taking a much-deserved vacation this week, so we’ll be missing a few regular items, including spring mix and arugula. BUT we have plenty of local lettuce heads and somehow managed to score a handful of cantaloupe…and by “handful” we mean about 8. 😂
🥛 Dairy update! Ozark Mountain Creamery, LLC has finished strawberry milk for the season. We’ll have to wait a couple of weeks for the next seasonal flavor — fingers crossed it’s our favorite, BUTTER PECAN! 🤞
We also have delicious Wilson Ranch RAW milk. We get lots of questions about the taste and texture. To us, it’s very creamy with a slightly sweet, fresh flavor and none of that cooked taste you get from heavily heated milk. It’s not goaty or grassy. Wilson Ranch tests each batch before it leaves the farm, and we carry it by the pint, half gallon, and gallon. The pints are a great way to give it a try without committing to a larger size. Kirk is lactose intolerant and has personally been able to drink it without issues, although everyone is different.
🥬 This week’s Produce
Local/Arkansas
🍈 Cantaloupe
🥬 Lettuce heads
🥒 Pickling cucumbers
🍎 Ambrosia apples
🥒 Yellow squash
🫘 Purple hull peas – frozen
🫑 Sweet peppers
🌶️ Hot peppers
🌿 Herbs
🍠 Sweet potatoes
🌱 Microgreens
🍎 Jonagold apples – FRI
Out of State
🌽 VA sweet corn
🍎 WA Honeycrisp apples
🍅 TN red slicer tomatoes
🥔 ID russet potatoes
🥔 ID Yukon Gold potatoes
🥔 TX red creamer potatoes
🧅 ID red onions
🧅 ID yellow onions
🫚 CA ginger
🧄 CA garlic
🍍 Pink pineapple
🍪 This week’s Baked Goods
The Buckman Brewhouse
🥖 Sourdough – traditional, jalapeño cheddar, rosemary
🍞 Sourdough sandwich bread
Donna's Artisanal Kitchen
🍰 Cake slices – pumpkin spice latte, apple fritter, snickerdoodle, chai spice banana bread
🍪 Cookies – brown butter chocolate chunk pecan, spiced oatmeal raisin
Oh My Lanta Sweets
🥧 PopTarts – s’mores, apple cinnamon
🥧 Doozie Pies – apple butter, pumpkin snickerdoodle, peanut butter
Cosmic Cakes
🍥 Cinny Rolls – caramel apple pie, carrot cake
🍫 Brownie Bars – bourbon pecan, Carmelitas
🍎 Blondies – apple c***r pecan, brown butter pumpkin
✨ NEW
🎃 Arkansas heirloom pumpkins
🔁 RESTOCK
🥩 Little Man Jerky – various jerky flavors, smoked cheeses, medium & hot salsa
🌶️ Supertasterz – MARG mix, Bloody Mary mix, buffalo sauce, WOOO-cest-er-shire & Mediterranean hot sauce
🌤️ Temperatures are FINALLY getting where we want them for Fall! Highs around 77° Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. There are also some rain chances, which honestly wouldn’t hurt. We could use a little rain to knock down the dust and hopefully help preserve some of those leaves as Fall color starts showing up.
🦋 We had so many customers come out last week to check on the monarch chrysalises! It was a lot of fun, and a couple of lucky customers actually got to watch the butterflies emerge in real time. If you missed it, go back and check out the video we posted — five monarchs emerged at Mother Vine over just a few days!
Thanks for shopping local, supporting small farms and makers, and continuing to make Mother Vine part of your week. We’ll see you at the market! 💚🌿