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Looking for a spring break destination that combines community spirit with delicious food and unique shopping? Look no further than the Tomball Farmers Market on March 15th. Highlights:
Weekly Vendors Spotlight
Don't know where to park?
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Vendors NOT Attending 3/15/25 |  |
We are looking forward to seeing you, Saturday! ~Tomball Farmers Market
Amanda Kelly, Market Manager
John Almquist, Assistant Market Manager
Amanda Kelly, Market Manager
John Almquist, Assistant Market Manager
Only 15 days left to get your tickets for our Tomball Farmers Market Harvest of Hearts Fundraiser.
We look forward to sitting down around the table with you February 21st. Our annual Fundraiser dinner is a celebration of potential – the potential of our land, our youth, and our shared vision. As you indulge in a sumptuous farm-to-table dinner, crafted with care by local culinary artist Curtis Morris, you'll be nourishing more than just your body. You'll be feeding dreams.
Thank you to Aloha Beauty Lounge for being our title sponsor for our fundraiser on February 21st. Make sure to go and visit alohabeautylounge for all of your beauty needs. Make sure to go and purchase your tickets now for all of the fun.
Each Dinner Ticket includes:
**Locally sourced farm to table dinner curated by local Tomball chef, Curtis Morris
**Curated Whiskey Experience
**Free Champagne Tower
**Casino Tables
**Cigar Bar
**Live Painting exhibition by Art by Hannah Maria
**Silent Auction
**Cash Bar
Your presence at this event will help us create community gardens with Texas A&M AgriLife, Precinct 4 and Precinct 3 that will serve as havens for veterans, bring joy to assisted living homes, and inspire countless children through our Student Garden Scholarships.
Together, we can plant the seeds of a brighter, greener future for all. By joining us, you're not just attending a dinner; you're becoming a vital part of our community's story. Let's write the next chapter together – one of abundance, connection, and promise.
Tickets are available!
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We look forward to sitting down around the table with you February 21st. Our annual Fundraiser dinner is a celebration of potential – the potential of our land, our youth, and our shared vision. As you indulge in a sumptuous farm-to-table dinner, crafted with care by local culinary artist Curtis Morris, you'll be nourishing more than just your body. You'll be feeding dreams.
Thank you to Aloha Beauty Lounge for being our title sponsor for our fundraiser on February 21st. Make sure to go and visit alohabeautylounge for all of your beauty needs. Make sure to go and purchase your tickets now for all of the fun.
Each Dinner Ticket includes:
**Locally sourced farm to table dinner curated by local Tomball chef, Curtis Morris
**Curated Whiskey Experience
**Free Champagne Tower
**Casino Tables
**Cigar Bar
**Live Painting exhibition by Art by Hannah Maria
**Silent Auction
**Cash Bar
Your presence at this event will help us create community gardens with Texas A&M AgriLife, Precinct 4 and Precinct 3 that will serve as havens for veterans, bring joy to assisted living homes, and inspire countless children through our Student Garden Scholarships.
Together, we can plant the seeds of a brighter, greener future for all. By joining us, you're not just attending a dinner; you're becoming a vital part of our community's story. Let's write the next chapter together – one of abundance, connection, and promise.
Tickets are available!
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Wow this year is just moving right along!! I can't believe we are in February already!
We have lots of things to share with you for February!
Weathering the Storm
Mother Nature has thrown our local farmers a curveball, but they're resilient! Some smaller produce vendors will be taking a brief hiatus until spring, allowing their newly planted crops to flourish. We anticipate their return by early April.
Quality Control at TFM
Our commitment to excellence never wavers. The Vendor Committee continuously evaluates potential new vendors, ensuring a dynamic and diverse market experience. We maintain high standards, requiring most vendors to participate at least twice monthly throughout the year.
Truly Local, Truly Fresh
Did you know? All TFM farmers must grow or raise their products within a 180-mile radius of Tomball, TX. This isn't just a rule – it's our promise of freshness to you. We even conduct biennial farm visits to verify compliance and quality.
February's Vendor Lineup
Exciting times ahead! We're welcoming back some familiar faces and introducing new talent:
Returning February 15: PureFi Coffee and Jane Wild Studios
New potential vendors:
February 8th: JT's Eatery (bringing 12+ years of Miami BBQ expertise!)
February 15th: Coffee and Chill
Join us in giving these vendors a warm TFM welcome!
We have lots of things to share with you for February!
Weathering the Storm
Mother Nature has thrown our local farmers a curveball, but they're resilient! Some smaller produce vendors will be taking a brief hiatus until spring, allowing their newly planted crops to flourish. We anticipate their return by early April.
Quality Control at TFM
Our commitment to excellence never wavers. The Vendor Committee continuously evaluates potential new vendors, ensuring a dynamic and diverse market experience. We maintain high standards, requiring most vendors to participate at least twice monthly throughout the year.
Truly Local, Truly Fresh
Did you know? All TFM farmers must grow or raise their products within a 180-mile radius of Tomball, TX. This isn't just a rule – it's our promise of freshness to you. We even conduct biennial farm visits to verify compliance and quality.
February's Vendor Lineup
Exciting times ahead! We're welcoming back some familiar faces and introducing new talent:
Returning February 15: PureFi Coffee and Jane Wild Studios
New potential vendors:
February 8th: JT's Eatery (bringing 12+ years of Miami BBQ expertise!)
February 15th: Coffee and Chill
Join us in giving these vendors a warm TFM welcome!
| Vendors NOT Attending 2/8/25 Come early for best selection!
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We always talk about our vendors and what's happening at Tomball Farmers Market and local events happening around us but we rarely talk about what we do and how we got our start. As we head into our 17th year as a true farmers market I thought I would give everyone a behind the curtain look at what all we do, how we are involved in the community and how we advocate for law changes on the state and federal levels for small farmers, ranchers and local entrepreneurs getting their start.
Tomball Farmers Market is featured in this month's Shout Out HTX magazine with our Market Manager, Amanda Kelly. She talks about all things TFM and showcases Old Town Tomball.
https://shoutouthtx.com/meet-amanda-kelly/
https://shoutouthtx.com/meet-amanda-kelly/
For those who I haven’t had the pleasure to meet, my name is Amanda Kelly, and I am the Market Manager for Tomball Farmers Market. Those who know me, know I am not who you want in your garden as I excel at killing even air plants.
So how in the world did I get here? Luckily, I am pretty good at growing people and bringing out the best in them. For 20 plus years I specialized in corporate level restaurant training, public restaurant restructuring and public relations. Our teams were sent in to fix failing and under performing restaurants to help them be successful again. Basically our teams were Restaurant Rehab before it became a reality show. We would spend 8 to 16 months fixing each struggling corporate restaurant all over the country.
My responsibilities mostly consisted of retraining and hiring staff and working with the local Health Departments to get the business back in compliance. I also worked closely with local Chambers of Commerce and local businesses around town to repair the restaurants image as their public relations and marketing specialist. And it was a great way to see the country and I loved my job.
That all changed in 2010, my husband suffered a traumatic brain event with a 1% chance of survival. And luckily, he beat those odds and had to learn to talk, walk and hold a pencil again. He finally got to come home with us but could no longer work due to all the frontal lobe damage done, he couldn’t be left home alone, so I had to stay home with him and the kids as insurance wouldn't cover home health care.
He was an enigma to the doctors as there was no visible sign of why the TBI event happened. So, I started researching and kept finding university studies around the world pointing to the food we eat having potentially contributed to it.
I started really paying attention to research around eating local, water and soil health. This lead us to becoming part of Tomball Farmers Market as patrons, working for vendors and volunteering. Eventually leading to my current job. I got to see firsthand how eating local helped my husband’s quality of life in dramatic ways.
This is why I am extremely passionate about our little farmers market, our farmers and helping the community have access to local healthy foods. We are ranked as one of the top all Local Farmers Markets in the State of Texas. Pretty impressive for our small towns farmers market.
We have worked hard to earn 4 certifications as an all-local farmers market from the USDA, Texas Department of Agriculture, GO Texan and Harris County Public Health. This means we are required to maintain 51% local farm to non-farmer vendor ratios year-round and all our vendors must handcraft or locally prepare their products within 180 miles of Tomball to qualify with us.
To help meet those requirements we have category limits so there aren’t too many of the same products at the market and offer wide range of diverse and ever-changing products for customers. This business model has fostered quicker small business growth. Our goal is to have small businesses outgrow us within 2 and half years and have the education and resources they need to be successful in brick and mortars in Tomball.
There are over 20 businesses within that have outgrown us in and around Tomball, Houston and Amazon. This growth helps us to then bring in new vendors and help them achieve success too without having long wait lists.
Our mission is to advocate for our local farmers and be able to provide them with the space and resources to help create generational wealth while also helping local small businesses grow. We work to help educate the community on the importance of eating locally sustainably sourced foods and local water and soil health.
Let’s get back to our farmers and why are local farmers important. Big Agriculture Farms strip our land of our healthy topsoil and water pollution by over farming and using harmful pesticides, fertilizers and injecting harmful animal hormones and injecting the foods the animals eat with harmful growth hormones and other harmful farming practices.
While Local Farmers use sustainable practices ensuring the health of our water, soil and animals and therefore the foods we put on our tables. One of the biggest challenges we are facing today though in farming is our farmers are aging out and there are fewer and fewer of the younger generation who want to go into agriculture. We need to inspire and nurture the next generation of farmers.
It’s small local farmers, not big AG who will heal our soil and help the environment. Because of this we advocate at the state and federal levels to get laws changed to help our farmers and our small businesses flourish.
Tomball Farmers Market is working to help in this in two ways. We have created a Student Gardening Scholarship for middle school and high school students to encourage the younger generation to get passionate about farming and ranching. Last year we were able to provide several students with all the tools necessary to start their own gardens as well as ongoing education and resources to help them along the way.
We are also working with Harris County Precinct 4 and Texas A&M’s AgriLife Extension community garden projects like Battleground to Breaking Ground. A federal program helping connect and educate Veterans with local farmers mentors and providing community garden spaces where Veterans and local community members can grow their own vegetables, plants, herbs and creating much needed therapy outlets and jobs in our community. Our goal is to help them to be able to have sustainable income and help them meet their needs.
We have our annual Harvest of Hearts Fundraiser on February 21st, coming up which we would love to see you all at that will help us raise money for both of these projects. Without local farmers and ranchers, we face not only major food insecurities and economic hardships but soil increased flooding issues and poor soil and water quality due to run off. It’s incredibly important to not only educate the community and enable and impower the next generation of farmers to get passionate but advocating for change on the local, state and federal levels to protect our communities and improve our health and the communities we live in.
So how in the world did I get here? Luckily, I am pretty good at growing people and bringing out the best in them. For 20 plus years I specialized in corporate level restaurant training, public restaurant restructuring and public relations. Our teams were sent in to fix failing and under performing restaurants to help them be successful again. Basically our teams were Restaurant Rehab before it became a reality show. We would spend 8 to 16 months fixing each struggling corporate restaurant all over the country.
My responsibilities mostly consisted of retraining and hiring staff and working with the local Health Departments to get the business back in compliance. I also worked closely with local Chambers of Commerce and local businesses around town to repair the restaurants image as their public relations and marketing specialist. And it was a great way to see the country and I loved my job.
That all changed in 2010, my husband suffered a traumatic brain event with a 1% chance of survival. And luckily, he beat those odds and had to learn to talk, walk and hold a pencil again. He finally got to come home with us but could no longer work due to all the frontal lobe damage done, he couldn’t be left home alone, so I had to stay home with him and the kids as insurance wouldn't cover home health care.
He was an enigma to the doctors as there was no visible sign of why the TBI event happened. So, I started researching and kept finding university studies around the world pointing to the food we eat having potentially contributed to it.
I started really paying attention to research around eating local, water and soil health. This lead us to becoming part of Tomball Farmers Market as patrons, working for vendors and volunteering. Eventually leading to my current job. I got to see firsthand how eating local helped my husband’s quality of life in dramatic ways.
This is why I am extremely passionate about our little farmers market, our farmers and helping the community have access to local healthy foods. We are ranked as one of the top all Local Farmers Markets in the State of Texas. Pretty impressive for our small towns farmers market.
We have worked hard to earn 4 certifications as an all-local farmers market from the USDA, Texas Department of Agriculture, GO Texan and Harris County Public Health. This means we are required to maintain 51% local farm to non-farmer vendor ratios year-round and all our vendors must handcraft or locally prepare their products within 180 miles of Tomball to qualify with us.
To help meet those requirements we have category limits so there aren’t too many of the same products at the market and offer wide range of diverse and ever-changing products for customers. This business model has fostered quicker small business growth. Our goal is to have small businesses outgrow us within 2 and half years and have the education and resources they need to be successful in brick and mortars in Tomball.
There are over 20 businesses within that have outgrown us in and around Tomball, Houston and Amazon. This growth helps us to then bring in new vendors and help them achieve success too without having long wait lists.
Our mission is to advocate for our local farmers and be able to provide them with the space and resources to help create generational wealth while also helping local small businesses grow. We work to help educate the community on the importance of eating locally sustainably sourced foods and local water and soil health.
Let’s get back to our farmers and why are local farmers important. Big Agriculture Farms strip our land of our healthy topsoil and water pollution by over farming and using harmful pesticides, fertilizers and injecting harmful animal hormones and injecting the foods the animals eat with harmful growth hormones and other harmful farming practices.
While Local Farmers use sustainable practices ensuring the health of our water, soil and animals and therefore the foods we put on our tables. One of the biggest challenges we are facing today though in farming is our farmers are aging out and there are fewer and fewer of the younger generation who want to go into agriculture. We need to inspire and nurture the next generation of farmers.
It’s small local farmers, not big AG who will heal our soil and help the environment. Because of this we advocate at the state and federal levels to get laws changed to help our farmers and our small businesses flourish.
Tomball Farmers Market is working to help in this in two ways. We have created a Student Gardening Scholarship for middle school and high school students to encourage the younger generation to get passionate about farming and ranching. Last year we were able to provide several students with all the tools necessary to start their own gardens as well as ongoing education and resources to help them along the way.
We are also working with Harris County Precinct 4 and Texas A&M’s AgriLife Extension community garden projects like Battleground to Breaking Ground. A federal program helping connect and educate Veterans with local farmers mentors and providing community garden spaces where Veterans and local community members can grow their own vegetables, plants, herbs and creating much needed therapy outlets and jobs in our community. Our goal is to help them to be able to have sustainable income and help them meet their needs.
We have our annual Harvest of Hearts Fundraiser on February 21st, coming up which we would love to see you all at that will help us raise money for both of these projects. Without local farmers and ranchers, we face not only major food insecurities and economic hardships but soil increased flooding issues and poor soil and water quality due to run off. It’s incredibly important to not only educate the community and enable and impower the next generation of farmers to get passionate but advocating for change on the local, state and federal levels to protect our communities and improve our health and the communities we live in.
Tomball Farmers Market Goals:
- Providing the community healthy in season, sustainable, agriculture products from local farmers and ranchers within 180 miles of Tomball.
- Educating the community about the importance of our local growing conditions and sustainable growing practices.
- Providing a positive community gathering place and encouraging visitors to explore, eat and shop in Old Town Tomball which strengthens our local economy.
- Providing a space for small local businesses to successfully grow into store front businesses in Tomball, TX.
- Providing educational and community service opportunities within the community.
- Providing fundraising opportunities for non-profit organizations in the community.
- Advocating for local sustainable agriculture and small businesses at the local, state and federal levels.
Vendors NOT Attending 1/11/25
Rain Song Farms
Backyard Bounty
Moss Family Farm
Dapper Goat Dairy
Little Diamnds
Rain Song Farms
Backyard Bounty
Moss Family Farm
Dapper Goat Dairy
Little Diamnds
Saturday, December 28, 2024
Countdown to New Year's Eve at the Tomball Farmers Market!
Good evening TFM Fans,
This Saturday is your last chance to shop the Tomball Farmers Market before the New Year!
Come early and discover the perfect ingredients for your New Year's Eve feast. Several of your favorite vendors like Flour House Bakery and Oso Goodies are on vacation this week so now is the perfect opportunity to try something new! Imagine a table overflowing with fresh, locally grown produce, juicy cuts of locally raised meat, and the most delectable baked goods and treats.
Our market is brimming with unique finds from local farmers and vendors, all committed to bringing you the highest quality, locally sourced food. Celebrate the season and support your community by shopping local.
We look forward to seeing you at the market!
Countdown to New Year's Eve at the Tomball Farmers Market!
Good evening TFM Fans,
This Saturday is your last chance to shop the Tomball Farmers Market before the New Year!
Come early and discover the perfect ingredients for your New Year's Eve feast. Several of your favorite vendors like Flour House Bakery and Oso Goodies are on vacation this week so now is the perfect opportunity to try something new! Imagine a table overflowing with fresh, locally grown produce, juicy cuts of locally raised meat, and the most delectable baked goods and treats.
Our market is brimming with unique finds from local farmers and vendors, all committed to bringing you the highest quality, locally sourced food. Celebrate the season and support your community by shopping local.
We look forward to seeing you at the market!
Indulge Your Senses: Harvest of Hearts Fundraiser Dinner
Friday, February 21st, 2025 TFM Harvest of Hearts Fundraiser
at the Majestic Oaks Weddings and Event Venue.
Enjoy a locally sourced gourmet feast, sip on premium spirits, and immerse yourself in a captivating atmosphere all while supporting the next generation of local farmers.
Experience a night of unparalleled elegance at our Casino High Roller themed fundraiser!
Buy your tickets early to secure your spot at this exclusive event and help us cultivate the future of farming in Tomball.
Don't miss out – tickets are limited!
https://square.link/u/OV7TO5GB
Each Ticket includes:
*Locally sourced farm to table dinner by Curtis's Cooking Collaborative - C3
*Live Painting exhibition by Art by Hannah Maria
*Free Champagne Aerialist
*Cigar Bar
*Free Curated Whiskey Experience
*Silent Auction
*Cash Bar
Experience a night of unparalleled elegance at our Casino High Roller themed fundraiser!
Buy your tickets early to secure your spot at this exclusive event and help us cultivate the future of farming in Tomball.
Don't miss out – tickets are limited!
https://square.link/u/OV7TO5GB
Each Ticket includes:
*Locally sourced farm to table dinner by Curtis's Cooking Collaborative - C3
*Live Painting exhibition by Art by Hannah Maria
*Free Champagne Aerialist
*Cigar Bar
*Free Curated Whiskey Experience
*Silent Auction
*Cash Bar
 | Vendors NOT Attending 12/28/24 Several Vendors are on vacation this week. Come early for best selection!
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What a fantastic week we've had! We're really excited for the holiday season, and this year has just flown by. Oh what great things Old Town Tomball has going on all the way up to New Years Eve.
Come early this Saturday to get the best spots for grabbing your Tomball Farmers Market goodies and watch the 59th Greater Tomball Chamber of Commerce Holiday Parade with us. The Parade starts at 10 AM to 12 PM.
There will be parking available at the Tomball ISD Admin Lot, The gravel lot on Cherry at 2920 (Main St.), behind the Depot bathrooms and at Tomball City Hall parking lot (Pine and Market Street). See map below.
Come early this Saturday to get the best spots for grabbing your Tomball Farmers Market goodies and watch the 59th Greater Tomball Chamber of Commerce Holiday Parade with us. The Parade starts at 10 AM to 12 PM.
There will be parking available at the Tomball ISD Admin Lot, The gravel lot on Cherry at 2920 (Main St.), behind the Depot bathrooms and at Tomball City Hall parking lot (Pine and Market Street). See map below.
 | We will be open at 8 AM THIS SATURDAY ONLY! In order to help you get your produce before the PARADE Starts at 10 AM. Many of our vendors will have quick snacks, handheld baked and breakfast items, District Roasters will be our ONLY coffee vendor and 4 drink vendors Popcart IcePops, ZoZo's Fresh, Cold Press Juice and Dreamland Treats. There is always bottled water at the information booth for a donation. Drop off your unwrapped toy to the Information Booth Now Through December 7th for Cancer Kiss My Kooley. We are partnering with them to bring a little joy to children who are unable to be home this Christmas as they fight to overcome Cancer! |
Could you take a moment and give us a review on our Facebook Page please? It would mean the world to us! Thank you in advance.
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Vendors NOT Attending 11/23/24
Lolitas Specialty Foods
DV8 Coffee Roasters (Leave of Absence)
We can't wait to serve you this weekend and enjoy the parade together!
~Tomball Farmers Market
Amanda Kelly & John Almquist
Lolitas Specialty Foods
DV8 Coffee Roasters (Leave of Absence)
We can't wait to serve you this weekend and enjoy the parade together!
~Tomball Farmers Market
Amanda Kelly & John Almquist