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June 27, 2007
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By Cheryl McCord
New vendors to the Kuna Farmers Market this season, Karen Fleming (r) and Nina Luque-McLaughlin
dress up the Market with their colorful and artistically displayed booth. The two
long-time friends started Fancy Pickins and Home Fixins this year.
Much of the inspiration to start the business came from their many years of working
together at Greenhurst Nursery in Nampa. They decided to turn their knowledge and
hobbies into their own business of market gardening and selling delicious homemade
pies, sweet treats and potato rolls.
Both women have greenhouses and started plants in the spring for the market garden
as well as flowering baskets and salad boxes they sell at the market. Their three-acre
garden is located south and west of Kuna at the farm Karen and her husband, Bob,
have owned for thirty-five years. Before Bob’s regular farming activities were fully
underway this spring, he helped with early transplanting and planted the corn and
beans with the tractor.
Karen bakes fruit and berry pies, an art she learned from her mother. When she is
not in the garden or in the kitchen baking, Karen teaches first grade at Snake River
Elementary School in Nampa.
Nina works at Saltzer Medical in Nampa and enjoys being outside and nurturing plants.
Along with her natural green thumb abilities, Nina has an artistic flair that is
evidenced in the flowering baskets and pots she creates. Nina’s husband, Shawn,
enjoys helping with the weeding and is raising watermelons and gourds.
Stop by the Market and meet Karen and Nina. They have samples of their pies available
and can share the list of all the different produce they will have from the garden
this season.
Coming up at the Market
- July 7 – Visitor from Greece
- July 14 – Ice Cream Social and Wild West Fiddlers
Market hours are from 9 am to 12 noon every Saturday through October 27. The location
is at Sandstone Plaza at the west end of Main Street in downtown Kuna.
For more information please contact Cheryl McCord at 922-5113 or visit the website
at www.KunaFarmersMarket.com.
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