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Smart Markets comes to St. Veronica Church

Thanks to Jean Janssen, head of the local farmers markets
group known as Smart Markets Inc. St. Veronica Church in
Chantilly will be the new home for a mini farmers’ market,
beginning June 19 at 3 p.m. and continuing every Thursday
throughout the summer.

In the past six years, Janssen has taken the farmers market
concept to at least nine other Northern Virginia locations,
responding to an increasing consumer demand for farm-fresh
goods.

The long winter delayed the spring crops, but Janssen said
that summer’s best produce is on the way. Shoppers will find
canning tomatoes from West Virginia; grape, cherry and
heirloom tomatoes; sweet corn; summer squashes; sweet
peppers; and fresh herbs, to name a few of the coming crops.
Market fruit vendors also will stock cherries, apricots,
peaches, berries and yellow and white nectarines.

Mike Burner from Honey Brook Farm will bring his own
pasture-raised meats that will include beef, pork, lamb,
goat, veal and chicken. He also will bring dairy products
from Trickling Springs Creamery in Pennsylvania Dutch country
where many of the Mennonite vendors who supply other Smart
Markets take their milk for processing and fresh country
eggs.

St. Veronica’s Smart Market will host Arnaud Herodet, a
former pastry chef at the French Embassy in Washington, who
lives and bakes near the church.

If you go

St. Veronica Church is located at 3460 Centreville Road in
Chantilly.

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