May 25 was the first day of the sixth season of the Hilliard Farm Market in the parking lot of the Hilliard United Methodist Church, 5445 Scioto Darby Road.
CHILLICOTHE- For Owl s Nest Garden Farm, a small-scale flower farm in Piketon, the pandemic was devastating. The majority of my customers are florists - I sell primarily wholesale to florist businesses and they all closed down, said owner Adrianne Roach. I had no place to sell my flowers except for the farmers market, and in the beginning, flowers weren t even allowed to be sold at the farmers market.
While Roach says she is still hanging on by her fingernails, Roach managed to turn a profit in 2020, she says. When the end numbers came in, it was a near thing but we barely hung on, she said.