Cottin's Hardware Farmers Market

Indoor Market every Thursday October - April from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

8 - 10 vendors during the winter with lots of produce, greens and vegetables, bake goods, fresh eggs, meats, dairy and other products.

Outdoor Market every Thursday May - September from 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Up to 24 weekly vendors during the summer market with live music, Free State beer, and hot food.

Public Chess Tables during summer months with Cordley Elementary School students.

*Although organic growing practices are not a required component of market participation, it is the intention of Cottin’s Hardware Farmers Market to promote and increase sustainable food production and consumption in Douglas County and the surrounding area. For the most part, market patrons trust that our vendors grow sustainably with limited use of commercially produced inputs.

It is our hope that market growers will adhere to the following standards whenever possible:

• Build and maintain healthy soils by applying farming practices that include rotating crops annually, using compost, cover crops, green manures, and reduced tillage;
• Serve the health of the soil, people and nature by rejecting the use of synthetic insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and fertilizers;
• Reject the use of GMO’s, chemically treated seeds, or synthetic toxic materials;
• Treat farm animals humanely by providing access to free-range, fresh water, organic based biologically appropriate feed and rejecting the use of hormones and unnecessary antibiotics;
• Handle raw manure and soil amendments with care;
• Encourage distribution of unsold but edible food to people who need it;
• Work in cooperation with other local farmer’s to promote a more healthy and just regional food system;
• Transparently discuss growing practices with market patrons.

It is also our hope that market producers will source as many of their ingredients locally as possible from sustainable sources and create value added products and prepared foods with the health and well being of market patrons in mind.