Click here for the recipe for Bob’s Squash Casserole on Culinate.
Bob James shows us how to make pumpkin, acorn, butternut and yellow squash dishes fresh for our families at Bluebird Market
Bluebird Market is a local organic co-op where artisans and growers market their goods. Hatch and grow your business at the Bluebird Market. We are an incubator for local small business owners in Middle Georgia. This is a Bluebird Victory Garden community gardening sustainability initiative.
Join our efforts for local growers and artisans…buy local for your business by dealing with local market vendors. Shop the market for your business and family. Saturdays 8 am until noon, 215 Barnesville Street, Thomaston, GA.
B–luebird Baskets
L–Local Artisans
U–Ultimate Spa
E–Easy as Pie
B-Birds & Bees Storytime
I–I Love Peaches
R–Relish Basket
D–Desserts & Coffee
Calendar of Events
Mark your Calendar for all the fun upcoming holiday events at Bluebird Market.
November 14th….Holiday Market Gift Basket Day
This is the day to choose from all the best of holiday Bluebird Market Baskets. Find your favorites like the Bluebird Coffee & Desserts Basket… deliver locally for Thanksgiving or Christmas as a delightful family gift. Last day to order is November 14th for FREE local delivery.
November 21st…Hurrah for the Pumpkin Pie!
Order a Bluebird Easy-as-Pie Basket for Thanksgiving deliveries locally. Find local farmers’ and their harvests along with firewood, live Christmas trees and more for a fresh and local All-American harvest Thanksgiving celebration.
November 28th…Ambrosia Day
Straight from the Orange Groves find the finest fresh picked oranges of the holiday season. Choose Bluebird Fresh-Fruit Baskets as lovely gifts for friends and family. Learn how to prepare refreshingly delicious Ambrosia for a delicious and nutritious season of wellness and taste second to none. Attend the cooking lesson at the Kitchen Show and stay for the FREE Farmers Market lunch after the show. Everyone welcome!
December 5th…Bluebird Handmade Holiday Arts Market
Everyone is excited about seeing local creativity at its peak…the very best Etsy, Indie and Folk artisan works for a patchwork of handmade and local meaningful holiday giving. Ask us to custom make a lovely Bluebird Artisan Basket of assorted local works like pottery, Art Photography and Restoration Jewels.
December 12th…A Christmas Story…gingerbread, storytelling and Noahs Ark animals
Presented by MOMS Club of Griffin Thomaston Area, this will be a local Christmas highlight for all ages. Bring your children for the wonderland of stories told in a theatrical fun day of our favorite local talent. Make a stuffed animal with MOMS Club. Delight in the Kitchen Show at 11:00, when you will make your very own Gingerbread Cottage! RSVP required for these custom made cottages as they are prebaked just for you! Cost of the Kitchen Show is $3.00 with the Farmers Market Lunch after the show. Be sure to take home a Bluebird Story Time Basket.
December 19th–Bluebird Breakfast with St. Nicholas
This delightful tradition arrives at Bluebird Market just in time for a fun holiday morning that promises to be your child’s most favorite new holiday tradition. Breakfast is at 9 am with Christmas Stories at 10. Meet Father Christmas with a bag of old fashioned toys! Receive a free portrait sitting of your child. Enjoy this special heartwarming and quiet moment in time to cherish the spirit of Christmas in our hometown.
December 26th–Spa Day at Bluebird Market
After the holidays come and relax with handmade soaps and scrubs. Enjoy soothing teas and a lemongrass hand treatment. Add Bluebird handmade soaps and teas to your Christmas list for a Bluebird Ultimate Spa Basket. You deserve this rejuvenating experience to ring in the new. Find your favorite fresh farmers market products for a New Year dedicated to your health and happiness!
Bob Baskin has a growing list of customers at Bluebird Market and the fruit is not even off the trees! As soon as the orange groves are ready to harvest, there will be a long list of orders for him to fill with these oranges coming straight to you from the orange grove trees. See Bob at Bluebird Market to place your orders now for Thanksgiving. Click here for Bob’s recipe for Ambrosia. These oranges are also available in a Bluebird Market Basket gift.
Email us: bluebirdmarket@gmail.com for your order today. $7.00/bag
- Fresh Fruit Holiday Assortment Standard$24.95
- Fresh Fruit Holiday Assortment Jumbo $34.95
- Fresh Fruit Holiday Assortment Junior $14.95
Where can you find lunch for your family on Saturday mornings picked on a local farm and served?
Bluebird Market Kitchen Show Adults $3.00
Children 12 & under Free
After the show enjoy a Free Farmers Market Lunch picked fresh from local farms and gardens. Why pay for a meal of shipped frozen veggies when you can enjoy a locally-picked fresh Farmers Market Lunch?
Bluebird Market connected with 3 local farmers and the community garden to purchase locally grown autumn greens, apples, squash, green onions, parsley and more for the delicious and nutritious Farmers Market Lunch after the Kitchen Show cooking class.
Tickets for the show are only $3.00 for Adults. Children 12 and under are free. After the show, everyone enjoyed a wonderful lunch fresh cooked from the finest of our local farmer’s fall harvests.
Join us for a Farmers Market Lunch — harvest picked fresh from local farms– each Saturday. Bring your family and friends to the show at 11 am and enjoy the Free local Farmers Market lunch after the show.
Join us in our Christmas Countdown Workshop this week as we learn the faith of Advent during the Christmas season. We will make an advent wreath and learn about the colors of the candles. We will also learn how to make recycled ornaments to place on the wreath for an advent calendar.
- Click here to learn about the colors of the candles and more about the Advent Wreath.
- Click here for the Buy Nothing Christmas Catalog.
- Click here for an advent resource page.
- Advent Online Jigsaw puzzle. Another Advent online puzzle.
- Children’s online Advent Calendar.
- Here are for click the date advent calendars online.
- Bible Verses Tree
- Advent paper tree.
- Click here for a research on St. Nicholas and why Advent helps us keep the focus on Christ.
- More cute Advent calendar links.
Join the festive fall fun at Bluebird Market Kitchen Show. Tickets are only $3.00 Adults and Children 12 and under are free. Email us: bluebirdmarket@gmail.com to reserve your seats. Immediately following the show enjoy a Free Delicious and Nutritious Farmers Market Lunch Buffet.
Saturday November 7th, 11:00 am.
Roasted Pumpkin Pasta in Pumpkin Tureen served in Individual Pumpkin Bowls
Farmhouse Wheat Bread with Local Honey
Baked Cinnamon Apples from Holland’s Apple Farm
Bluebird Georgia Roasted Coffee and Tea
Printable Outside Cover for Bluebird Market Baskets Catalog
We invite you to print and share Bluebird Market Baskets Holiday Price Catalog.
Printable Bluebird Market Basket Price Catalog
Congratulations to Bluebird Market Vendor James Family Farm for winning 10 Blue Ribbons at the Spalding County Fair in Oct, 2009.
Bluebird Market is delighted to offer locally these Award-Winning products weekly at the Market, on the Kitchen Show and in Bluebird Market Baskets now on sale.
Blue Ribbon Award-Winning Products of
James Family Farm
Heirloom Peppers
Fancy Bell Peppers
Organic HeirloomTomatoes
Large Thick Cayenne Pepper
Hot Banana Pepper
Antiqua Eggplant
White Eggplant
Black Beauty Eggplant
Mild Chow Chow
Apple Butter
Other Award winning products include Red Bell Pepper Jelly and Sweet Onion Relish.
This Bluebird is so Green.
Bluebird Market aims to forward sustainable living practices
1- encourage buy local at farmers markets
2-encourage Adopt-a-Row in our community garden
3-farm-to-school initiative
4-community supported agriculture CSA
5-Visit and encourage U-pick farms
6-Provide organic products
7-Ask grocery and eateries to buy sustainably produced food
8-Encourage local artisans and bakers and provide venue for Georgia made products and guild for local artisans
9-Encourage entrepreneur spirit and provide venue for hatching/launching small biz ventures
10-Encourage local and online networking to forward sustainable co-op
