I am asking County Council to please support the Fairfield Farmers & Artisans Market by removing the rental fee recently implemented for the use of the building on market days. The market is an asset to citizens, farmers, and county businesses. Fairfield County is a designated food desert, and the market is a way for […]
Holiday Market
December 1, 2022 By
WINNSBORO – Vendor booths and shoppers filled the Fairfield County Farmers and Artisans Market on Saturday for one of four special Holiday Markets. The Market will be open for two more Saturdays for Holiday Markets: Dec. 3 and Dec. 10 from 9 a.m. to noon-ish. Locally and SC grown season vegetables, fruits, breads and meats […]
To Market
May 19, 2022 By
Fairfield County Farmers and Artisans Market opens for the season on Saturday at 117 E. Washington Street. Enjoy vendors, food trucks and children’s amusements from 9 a.m. to noon.
Fairfield Farmers’ Market to open May 21
May 5, 2022 By
WINNSBORO – Fairfield County Farmers and Artisans Market will open Saturday, May 21 with more vendors, more choices, food trucks, children’s amusements and more fun that ever. “We’ll have lots and lots of vegetables and farm goods,” said the market’s co-manager Michelle Taylor. “Plus we’ll have some new vendors – a cute clothing boutique, jewelry, […]
A Market Christmas
December 2, 2021 By
WINNSBORO – Vendor booths filled the spaces of the Fairfield County Farmers and Artisans Market on Saturday for one of four special Holiday Markets. Pictured below, Hazel Wilkes shows her prize turkey artwork from the coloring contest. The Market will be open for two more Saturday Holiday Markets, Dec. 4 and Dec. 11 from 9 […]
Holiday Market Opens Sat.
November 18, 2021 By
WINNSBORO – The first of four big Holiday Markets will open this Saturday, Nov. 20 at the Fairfield County market building in downtown Winnsboro. Hosted by the Fairfield County Farmers and Artisans Market, this market day and others on Nov. 27, Dec. 4 and Dec. 11 will feature vendors selling unique holiday gifts – leather […]
Manning helped found The Market
July 15, 2021 By
WINNSBORO – When Ernest Manning first got involved in what is now the Fairfield Farmers and Artisans Market in mid-2010, it was a new thing for Fairfield County, started by the former Fairfield County Chamber of Commerce president, Terri Vickers. “It started from a grant, and it was just an idea. We put tents up […]
It’s all about soap, sewing and support of young moms
July 1, 2021 By
WINNSBORO – When Michelle Taylor first asked about participating as a vendor in the Fairfield Farmers and Artisans Market, it was because she had 70 dresses she’d made for a fundraiser – an event that had been canceled by the Covid-19 pandemic. She needed a place to sell the dresses and still wanted to use […]
Family’s dream fueled by microgreens
June 24, 2021 By
RIDGEWAY – For the Samuels family, the journey from the Columbia suburbs to small-scale farming in rural Fairfield County was a process: a study undertaken, a risk leapt into, and a dream realized. Now in their second year earning their primary income from the crops they produce on their land just outside Ridgeway, they’re continuing […]
Farmers’ market opens new door for Greenbrier gardener
June 3, 2021 By
WINNSBORO – At the age of five, he started gardening under his father’s watchful eye. By eight, he was plowing the garden. Today, at 76, Rev. Lonzo Ruff, of Greenbrier, has reached a pinnacle in his gardening life – he’s one of the top-selling vendors at the Saturday morning Fairfield Farmers’ and Artisans’ Market in […]
