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Welcome to the McDonalds Corners Farmers Market where you can buy locally-grown food. On July 25, you\u2019ll also be able to buy locally produced yarns, spinning fibre and beautiful artisan-made garments.<\/p>\nWelcome to the McDonalds Corners Farmers Market where you can buy locally-grown food. On July 25, you\u2019ll also be able to buy locally produced yarns, spinning fibre and beautiful artisan-made garments.<\/p>\n
When: July 25th<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Time:\u00a09:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Place: MERA Schoolhouse<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Local fibre producers and spinners, knitters, weavers and felters have formed a group called Fibre Roads, with the aim of promoting the \u2018buy local\u2019 concept in the fibre arts. After all, Eastern Ontario was once a major centre of textile manufacturing \u2013 and now, people in this area are raising fleece-breed sheep, alpacas and llamas, and creating the heirlooms of the future.<\/p>\n Welcome to the McDonalds Corners Farmers Market where you can buy locally-grown food. On July 25, you\u2019ll also be able…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[646,645,617,1,8,9,325],"tags":[847,729,849,848,850,1083],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farmers-market","category-festivals","category-mera-schoolhouse","category-perth-on","category-perth-ontario-crafts","category-perth-ontario-events","category-perth-ontario-festivals","tag-farmers-market-2","tag-festivals-2","tag-fibre-artsmini-fibre-festival","tag-fibre-roads","tag-fibre-work","tag-mera-schoolhouse"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJPiZ-HZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"6980014136_e809c7d762_h\"](\"http:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/files\/2015\/06\/6980014136_e809c7d762_h-300x201.jpg\")
On July 25, Fibre Roads members will be selling at a mini-Fibre Festival at MERA. While you\u2019re at the Farmers\u2019 Market, come round the other side of the Schoolhouse and see the work of local fibre artists and watch them demonstrating spinning, weaving, carding, and other fibre work. You can even try your hand at some of those techniques!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"