FAIRFIELD TWP. — When Bev and Jill Arvin found out Bridgewater Falls has a farmers market, they were excited.

The mother-daughter pair of Fairfield Twp. typically goes to Hamilton but found out about the mall’s market while shopping. Now they’ll make sure to come to Bridgewater Falls weekly just for the market.

On Friday, July 2, the duo was looking at tomatoes and cucumbers at the Brown’s Marketplace booth.

“You really know it’s home-grown,” said Bev Arvin of farmers markets.

“And you’re supporting the local people who grow it,” said Jill Arvin. “It’s fresh, it’s real.”

The farmers market is at the pavilion — between Target and Best Buy — where Bridgewater Falls features its events. It opened Memorial Day weekend with Natures Garden Delivered. It now features Brown’s Marketplace, which is open from noon to 6 p.m. every Wednesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Natures Garden Delivered is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

Isaac and Annalise Foust own Natures Garden Delivered, an online delivery service that works between 10 to 15 local farmers.

“To me a direct market to your food source is the safest, it’s the greenest, it’s the most economically smart way to use your money,” said Isaac Foust, who’s Liberty Twp.-based company started about a year ago.

Jody Boyd and her dad John Brown own Brown’s Marketplace in Hamilton. They’ve been a part of the market since Summerbration last month. In the first days they were set up, Boyd said they could hardly keep up with the interest.

“It’s a great opportunity for us and the community,” Boyd said of the market. “We’ve had such a great response; we’ve had so many people come up to us saying, ‘We don’t have anything like this around here.’”

A “wide variety of people” have shopped at the market, Boyd said and appreciate the “good home-grown produce.”

Even though it’s not visible from the main entrance, Boyd and Foust said it may be a bit of a hunt for farmers’ market patrons, they will find a trove of edible treasures.

“It’s going to be a win-win for both us and the customers,” Boyd said.

Julie O’Callaghan, of Liberty Twp., looks for “the fresh things you can only get in the summer time.”

“I usually try to hit the local farms around here. Now that they’re here, that’s great,” she said. “The quality is just so much better.”

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