The farmers market was brought back to the farm as the Brooklet Farmers Market had its very own re-grand opening on Saturday, April 5, in its new location off Bell Road in Brooklet. Now in its second year, the market brought its own special defining characteristics of local artistry, talented vendors, and experienced floral gardening to create a special opening day.
The event, located five miles outside the center of Brooklet, brought visitors from throughout Bulloch County to enjoy all of the wonderful delights in an actual farm setting.
Housed at Strickland Farms, the new market location gave many in attendance the true feeling of being at a farm while attending the event.
Live stream from the Brooklet Farmers Market
One of the key attention-getters at the market was the fully accessible greenhouse, where many marketgoers could roam throughout, hand picking their own vegetable starter plants, flowers, and herbs.
The greenhouse has a wide selection of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, squash, okra, watermelon, cantaloupe, and many more vegetables added each week to get visitors' gardens underway for the spring season.
Michelle Wilson, founder of the Brooklet Farmers Market and Michelle's Sprout House Nursery, was a driving force behind creating this innovative farmers market for the community to enjoy and support talented local vendors.
“A year ago, we opened up the farmers market in Brooklet because I wanted to have a place where local farmers, local bakers, would be able to come together and sell what they have and show off to the community that they can buy local goods," Wilson said. "I hope that the farmers market can grow into something that people in this community really want to come out and see and share the moments with their families supporting our local vendors.”
The farmers market also had an impactful partnership with GROW Initiative GA, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of underserved, low-wealth, and marginalized individuals by promoting community engagement, equity, and access to essential resources in education, health and nutrition, and overall well-being.
Members of GROW Initiative GA offered individuals blood pressure tests while they educated many visitors on the importance of overall health, and they also informed many in attendance about their programs catered to helping the community.
Their visit to the market allowed them to further pursue their mission of showing how everyone deserves the opportunity to lead a healthy, fulfilling life, regardless of their socio-economic status or background.
The Brooklet Farmers Market plans to continue building every week from this special re-grand opening as they will be open every Saturday from 2pm-5pm, and they will have their massive greenhouse open to the public Tuesday to Saturday from 10am-5pm.
The Brooklet Farmers Market is located at 1888 Bell Rd., Brooklet, and will be open every Saturday until November 15, with the exception of September 20, 2025, which is the day of the Brooklet Peanut Festival.
If you're interested in being a vendor, the application fee is $50 a season, and booth spaces are $15 each Saturday for all vendors except food trucks, whose cost is $25. Vendors can pay by the week, half season or whole season. There is a discount for half and whole season sign up. They also offer spaces for educational vendors, who may receive four free booth spaces per season.
The Brooklet Farmers Market does accept EBT and is a part of the Fresh for Less program.
