Local year-round produce
Bountiful Harvest gathers area craftspeople, growers, cooks Story by Cathy Spaulding
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rea farmers offer a variety of ways to find locally grown produce and eggs year-round, any day
of the week.
Bountiful Harvest is a new "farmers market hub" in downtown Wagoner. The shop, open since March, offers consignment space for local growers, as well as craftspeople and cooks. One of Bountiful Harvest's growers is Morning
Song Orchard and Nursery. Morning Song owners Roy and Rachel Work grow vegetables, herbs and fruit near Braggs. They sell at Muskogee Farmers' Market and have pages on Facebook and Instagram. They also sell a variety of nut trees online including chestnut, hazelnut, bur oak and northern pecan. "We try to make ourselves self-sustaining, so we don't have to get any product from elsewhere," Roy Work said. "Everything we do, we try to do it so that we're productive off of the land." For example, free-range chickens lay eggs, which the Works sell. Work also is growing 1,200 blackberry plants along a trellis wire.
Learn more • Sun Up Farms, (918) 441-5559, sunupfarmsok@gmail.com • Morning Song Orchard and Nursery, https://www.facebook.com/OklahomaOrchard; https://www. instagram.com/morningsongorchard/ • Bountiful Harvest, 124 S. Main St., Wagoner. Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. Closed Sundays and Mondays. Information: (918) 645-7731. • The egg vending machine at Atypical Hustlers Farm is about five miles south of Haskell on U.S. 64.
Roy Work of Morning Song Orchard and Nursery picks sweet peas that are ready to eat fresh from the vine. They are available from the nursery or at Muskogee Farmers' Market. (Cathy Spaulding)
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Sarah Gilbert of Atypical Hustlers Farm shows a quick way to buy fresh eggs at their vending machine south of Haskell. (File photo)
