The market features a variety of vendors selling organic produce, including Single Fin Farm in Seal Rock, where the Teal family works a small plot and sellst at the market and to Oceana Natural Foods in Newport. (Photo by Oregon Coast TODAY)

The Newport Farmers Market offers a lively atmosphere and variety of produce along with delicate delights on Saturdays through November in Newport.

One popular spot is the “How We Roll booth, hosted by manager Jen Olsen and Roy Olsen, the executive pastry chef. He calls himself an “all around badass” for his talent in making laminated or layered pastry. This delicious and difficult-to-master technique results in pastries with a thin, sugary crunch on every bite, lighting up your tastebuds with sweetness and delivering a crisp that just won’t quit.

Olsen spent 40 years as an executive pastry chef at the ski slopes in Utah before bringing his most popular creations to the coast. Their highly sought after kouign-amann, a rosette of buttery, layered croissant-like dough that is caramelized on the outside with sugar, cardamom and sea salt.

“At a place called Bake 360 back in Salt Lake City, this was our best seller, accounting for a third of total sales,” Jen Olsen said. “But it was hard to find a good work-life balance there. Doing farmers markets allows us to be more in control of our schedules and just be us. I love our story of how we came here, the community and our loyal customer base. We’ve made tons of friends.”

The Olsens have a variety of goodies on their changing menu, including gooey cinnamon buns, scones and savory ham and Swiss croissants. But be warned: the goods go fast.

Another popular booth is hosted by the local Single Fin Farm, boasting a no-till or -pesticides approach and bringing produce from a little plot in Seal Rock, only 8 miles away. It’s run by the industrious and humble Teal family: couple Joss and Kendall and their young son, Aldo.

“We grow some things in a hoop house, but the majority is grown outdoors, which many people are surprised is possible so close to the coast,” Joss said. “But it’s doable if you put a lot of time and care into it.”

The integrity of their low-impact business model is palpable in their organic carrots, beets, onions, lettuce, cilantro and parsley, with the last bunches almost gone before noon. They also supply vegetables to Oceana Natural Foods in Newport.

“After we had Aldo, we wanted to have something we could do as a family, something we can just step outside and work hard at,” Joss said. “It’s a privilege to be able to grow quality organic food and we love being able to feed our community.”

The market also features art. At Falcone Oddities, visitors can find works made with moth wings along with other insects, bones and skeletons. Olivia Falcone says she gives second life to the remains, encasing them in glass and adorned with dried flowers, moss and colorful backgrounds.

“None of the bugs I use are killed, and all the bones are ones that I found,” Falcone said. “I’ll take roadkill and process the bones at my house, or clean up hunters’ boneyards for them. The moths that I raise only live for four to seven days. Once they become moths, they can no longer eat and their only purpose is to mate and lay eggs. I let them fly around freely in a big room at our house and once they pass away, I use them for art, collect the eggs, raise the caterpillars and start the process again every season.”

Mother of four and part-owner of Old Growth tattoo shop in Lincoln City, Falcone is a busy woman, but she still finds time to give these moths, butterflies, bones and beetles another chance to be admired, and offers an appealing way to invite bugs into your home.

Newport Farmers Market is held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday through November in downtown Newport, across from City Hall on Highway101. For more information, go to newportfarmersmarket.org.

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