**Mercedes Marriott, co-owner of V Family Farm in Independence, sells seasonal produce along with food from Thailand, Marriott’s home country.** (Photo by Jordan Wolfe/Oregon Coast TODAY)

Lincoln City Sunday Market is back, offering produce and art from local and regional farmers and artisans every Sunday through Oct. 11.

The market, held outside the Lincoln City Cultural Center, has vendors offering everything from fresh strawberies to watercolor paintings. Visitors can even buy a buttery, flaky pastry similar to a croissant made by How We Roll Bakery in Siletz.

The pastry, kouign amann, originated in Brittany in northwestern France. It’s the bakery’s specialty and is available at the market every week.

“Kouign amann is a laminated pastry,” said Jennifer Olsen, who co-owns the bakery with her husband Roy Olsen. “In the final fold — the last 35 layers — we add cardamom, sugar and sea salt. Any croissant dough should have 108 layers, just based on the way that they’re folded and laminated.”

The result is a caramelized, muffin-shaped delight.

Jennifer and Roy, whose father was a master pastry chef, started in Salt Lake City with the company Bake 360, turning it into a highly successful cafe that ended up consuming their lives.

“We needed a work-life balance, so we came here,” Jennifer said. “Took the best of what we do and put it into two farmers’ markets.”

The market, which is three years old in its current form, is overseen by a board. Melody Wilkins, the board treasurer, is proud the market takes Snap and Double Up Food Bucks, which allow people on SNAP, the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, to double their food aid.

“We’re getting it to people who really can use some help getting that fresh, healthy food,” Wilkins said. “And then we have a lot of talent in the area, and getting them a place to sell their work is really important.”

Some vendors only sell food while others specialize in art. At the stand for Birdsong Botanicals, a regenerative farm in McMinnville, visitors can find both. Each week, the farm’s partners Peter Peterson and Christian Wrigley sell freshly picked herbs, vegetables and berries along with Peterson’s watercolor prints of plants grown on the farm. They also sell tea blends, tinctures and botanical extracts.

“Most of the things we make are things we grow,” Peterson said. “We grow Tulsi, an African Tulsi in the mint family. It makes beautiful tea, so it’s probably the plant I’m most proud of.”

Another vendor at the market is V Family Farm, located on 80 acres in Independence. Co-owner Dee Marriott and her family have been farming for 30 years, and every week they bring seasonal vegetables and fruit to the market, along with produce grown in Marriott’s home country of Thailand.

“We’re known for carrying ingredients for Far East cooking,” she said. “So, a lot of bok choi, gai lan and Thai basil.”

For customers who are just starting to introduce traditionally Asian produce to their meals, Marriott recommends starting slow, for example, by adding bok choy, a leafy green, to a salad.

“Do baby steps,” she said. “And then you can step it up by stir frying with protein: That’s walking on the wild side.”

A new vendor to the market, Wright Tide Seafoods, aims to educate the public about the fish it sells out of a massive ice-filled cooler.

“We started this season with the mission to provide more local fish to the community and educate them on sustainability and where your fish comes from, knowing what fishing vessel it came from, what port it came from, when it was landed and who processed it,” said Samantha Wright, founder and CEO of the company.

Wright, who grew up in Lincoln City, began the company in September 2025 and said her husband has been commercial fishing for more than a decade. Wright sells a variety of wild-caught fish, including lingcod, rockfish and sablefish, also known as black cod. They also sell Dungeness crab and Chinook salmon in season.

Besides these array of offerings, the market has live entertainment starting at 11 a.m. Wilkins ended up being in charge of booking the acts because nobody else stepped forward.

“Now I love it, it’s one of my favorite things,” Wilkins said.

The Lincoln City Sunday Market is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. through Oct. 11, and is located outside the Lincoln City Cultural Center at 540 N.E. Highway 101. For more information, go to lincolncitysundaymarket.org.

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