Great Lakes Bay Harvest Market

06/10/2026

🐾 Vendor Spotlight — Luv-A-Bull Pet Products LLC ChooBee Dog Toys
It started with three pitbulls who destroyed every toy they touched.
Sound familiar? 😄

Meet Annette from Luv-A-Bull Pet Products — and if you have a dog who chews through everything, clears room in your budget, this booth is going to change your life.

Annette and her family carry ChooBee® Dog Toys — a line of chew and play toys originally designed by a Detroit-area automotive engineer (yes, really — built tough from the start 🔧) and now made right here in Bay City with USA-sourced, FDA-compliant materials.

Here's what they bring to the booth:
🦴 Maxx — for your heavy power chewers who laugh at every toy you've ever bought
🥓 Tastee Choo™ — bacon-infused nylon chew toy. Your dog is already obsessed.
🎾 Flexx & Softee Soft™ — float AND fetch-ready for your water-loving retrievers
AND most designs let you stuff treats in the holes and freeze them for extra enrichment. Frozen. Treat. Stuffed. Dog toy. You're welcome. 🐶
From teacup to XXL. Power chewers to water dogs. They've got your pup covered.

Find Luv-A-Bull Pet Products at Great Lakes Bay Harvest Market every Thursday starting June 25th · 4–7PM · Bangor Township Hall Parking Lot.

Tag a dog mom who NEEDS this. 👇🐾

06/09/2026

We've been getting these questions a lot — and we love it.

Here's everything you need to know! 👇
📍 Where: Bangor Township Hall Parking Lot — off Wheeler Road
🕐 When: Thursdays, 4PM–7PM
📅 Starting: June 25th
🅿️ Parking: Customer parking available along Wheeler Road
🐾 Pets: Friendly pets welcome on at least a 6-foot leash
💳 Payments: Depends on the vendor — cash, card, and electronic apps like Venmo and PayPal accepted

🌿 Cost to attend: FREE!

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We'll see you June 25th.

06/09/2026

🌿 Vendor Spotlight — Emerald Essence Herbals
She got fed up with toxins and artificial junk in everything she was buying.
So she made her own. From scratch. From the earth. From 100% natural sources.
Meet Sarah from Emerald Essence Herbals — and prepare to fall a little in love with her booth. 🌱
Sarah makes handmade apothecary products that actually mean something — loose leaf herbal tea blends, natural incense, herbal salves, healing oils, essential oil perfumes, and so much more. Everything organic. Everything raw. Everything made with the kind of mindfulness that you simply cannot find on a store shelf.
Her motivation? Keeping the ancient traditions of herbalism alive in today's world. Helping people heal naturally. Making products so you can look and feel your absolute best — inside and out.
And when she's not perfecting her formulations? You might find her frolicking in a field of flowers, hugging a tree, or hunting for rocks and bones. 🪨🌸 (Her words. We love her.)

If your body has been craving something real — something clean, intentional, and made with genuine care — Sarah's booth is your first stop on June 25th.

Find Emerald Essence Herbals at Great Lakes Bay Harvest Market every Thursday starting June 25th · 4–7PM · Bangor Township Hall Parking Lot.

💚 Also check out her website: www.emeraldessenceherbals.com

06/07/2026

One of our great vendors this year has fresh, locally grown strawberries! 🍓

We walked around the field today and are gonna end up getting about 50 quarts of Strawberries. This does not mean we’re gonna have Strawberries every day, but we’re gonna have them for a while this morning along with great tasting fresh asparagus!

06/06/2026

Vendor Spotlight — All You Knead

Let’s talk about the kind of baking that makes you stop scrolling. 👇

All You Knead is a Bay City-based, women-owned home bakery run by our very own board secretary, Gabby Nordstrom — and if you haven’t tried her bagels yet, June 25th is your day.

We’re talking fresh-baked bagels, cinnamon rolls, French bread, sun-dried tomato basil bread, orange cranberry scones drizzled in glaze, and dye-free options too. Everything made from scratch. Everything made with the kind of care you can actually taste.

This isn’t grocery store bread. This is someone’s kitchen at 5am bread. The kind you drive across town for — except now you don’t have to. She’s coming to your parking lot.

Find All You Knead at Great Lakes Bay Harvest Market every Thursday starting June 25th · 4–7PM · Bangor Township Hall Parking Lot.

Fair warning: get there early. 😉

06/04/2026

June is HERE. And so are we.

You know that feeling when you’ve been waiting for something for a long time — and you can finally feel it getting close?

That’s right now.

For years, Bangor Township has deserved a place to buy food that was actually made here. Bread baked in a real kitchen. Produce grown in OUR soil. Flowers cut from a real BANGOR family. Things made by your actual neighbors — people you can look in the eye and say “this is incredible, thank you.”

That place is almost here.

Great Lakes Bay Harvest Market opens June 25th — right here in Bangor Township Hall Parking Lot. Every Thursday, 4–7PM, all summer long.

21 days. That’s it.

If you’ve been waiting for something like this to come to your town — it’s coming. And it was made for you.

📍 Bangor Township Hall Parking Lot
📅 June 25th · Thursdays 4–7PM
🌿 Free to attend

Tag someone who’s been waiting for this too. 👇

04/29/2026

Meet Gabby — Secretary, Great Lakes Bay Harvest Market

She didn't learn to bake from a YouTube video or a cookbook.
She learned from her grandmas. And she was doing it solo by age 10.
That's the kind of baking that actually tastes like something. The kind you can't get from a grocery store shelf no matter how hard you try.

Gabby is the baker behind All You Knead — and if you haven't tried her bagels yet, that's genuinely the most important thing you do on June 25th. 😄
She's also a married mom of two, a bookworm, a gym-goer, and now the secretary keeping our board organized and on track. Turns out someone who learned precision and patience in a kitchen at age 10 is pretty good at keeping our board members in line and running smoothly. We're not surprised. 💚

Fresh. Homemade. Made with the kind of love that only comes from doing something your whole life.
Come find her at Great Lakes Bay Harvest Market — June 25th, Thursdays 4–7PM, Bangor Township Hall Parking Lot. 🌿

04/27/2026

Meet Sara — Treasurer, Great Lakes Bay Harvest Market 🐓
It started with a flock of baby chicks and a simple question: what if we grew more of our own food?
That was 18 years ago.
Since then, Sara and her family have built Sleepy Hollow Homestead - Pinconning into the real thing — chickens, goats, pigs, meat chickens, honey bees, fruit trees, raspberries, asparagus, rhubarb, and this year? Meat rabbits and a food forest.

But here's what that means for you:
When you buy from Sara, you're buying from someone who has spent nearly two decades learning how to do this right. Not a trend. Not a hobby. A lifestyle built one intentional step at a time — from consumer to producer, slowly and on purpose.
That's the kind of food that actually has a story. That's the kind of farmer you want to know.

You'll find Sara and Sleepy Hollow Homestead at Great Lakes Bay Harvest Market this season — and trust us, once you talk to her for five minutes, you'll understand exactly why we wanted her on this board. 🐝
She keeps our numbers straight AND keeps chickens. Honestly, we're lucky. 😄

See you June 25th at our first market!

04/25/2026

Meet Abby — Vice President of Great Lakes Bay Harvest Market 🌸

Some people join a market. I kind of grew into one.

I was one of the original vendors at our very first season with my flower farm, Urban Oak Blooms — a business I started in 2023 with nothing more than a 10x10 plot of flowers and a whole lot of hope. What started small turned into something I never expected. It wasn’t until I harvested every bloom I had so my husband’s family could have flowers to honor his grandfather during his funeral that I truly understood what flowers do for people. That moment changed everything for me. Every season since, we’ve grown and this year we’re farming over 4,000 square feet of flowers. Double from last year.🌻

So when the opportunity came to help build something bigger than a vendor booth — to actually be part of the team behind this market — I said yes without hesitation.

And Bangor Charter Township This is my community. I live here. So getting to help bring fresh, local goods right to our own backyard while supporting a new park for our township hits differently when this is the place you call home.

When I’m not at the farm or working behind the scenes on the market, I’m a wife (11 years strong with my husband this year), a mom of one soon to be TWO come August, and a fur mom to 2 dogs and a cat. One of my dogs has idiopathic epilepsy and severe allergies — we’ve been fighting hard for her for 3.5 years and she is absolutely worth every bit of it. 🐾

This market means the world to me — as a vendor, as a board member, and as a neighbor. I can’t wait to see you June 25th. 🌸

03/10/2026

Bangor Township is getting a Farmers Market 🌻

Tonight at 6 PM we’re going LIVE from the Bangor Charter Township Hall to share what’s coming this summer.

Think fresh food, local vendors, and a new weekly place for the community to gather.

Curious what it will look like?

Ask all your questions in the comments below and we’ll answer them during the live!