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New location, same fresh offerings Josh’s Farmers Market moves to temporary location near Lowe’s YMCA Compiled from staff reports

This past April, Josh’s Farmer’s Market, a popular Mooresville open-air market which was previously located on Willamson Road, moved to a new temporary location after the land housing the market was unexpectedly sold.

many other great things as well as allows Josh’s customers to learn that the Y empowers everyone, no matter who they are or where they’re from, by ensuring access to resources, relationships and opportunities for all to learn, grow and thrive.

The market can now be found at 170 Joe Knox Avenue, just behind the main building of the Lowe’s YMCA.

With the additional space, Graham has been able to increase the number of vendors, providing his customers with a large and varied selection of unique offerings from craftsman-style sheds, to Amish-built gliders, swings, rockers and picnic tables, to homemade pizza, Grampian farm grass-fed beef, elderberry syrup, pimento cheese, ice cream, BBQ sauces, jellies, jams, preserves, and honey to baked goods (fruit pies, cakes, cookies, donuts and other pastries), to soaps, pottery, fresh cut and potted flowers, pumpkins and mums in the fall and beautiful wreaths, garlands and Christmas trees in the winter. The ever-popular Seafood Connection (available every Friday through Sunday) features fresh, in-season fish from the Carolina coast such as mahi, swordfish, shrimp, grouper, halibut, tuna, flounder, clams, Faroe Island salmon, live jumbo softshell crabs and more).

“This is a temporary location until we can move to our permanent 4.5-acre site just a mile south at the intersection of Williamson and Sundown Roads, hopefully by spring of 2022,” says owner Josh Graham. “We’re really excited to be at the Y in the interim. Parking and access are much easier, and we’ve doubled our space so we can represent and promote more vendors than ever before,” he adds. The land that houses the Lowe’s YMCA used to belong to Josh’s great grandparents and grand-parents, so in a sense he has “come home.” Ashley Morgan, Executive Director of the Lowe’s YMCA says, “At the Y, one of our main goals is to strengthen the community through collaborations. Our partnership with Josh’s Farmer’s Market creates a unique opportunity to expose our members to an assortment of locally-grown produce, homemade goodies, and

Josh’s Farmer’s Market, located at 170 Joe Knox Ave., is open Monday through Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sundays from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. For more information, visit www.joshsfarmersmarket.com.

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