Name: Ariel Leath Business Name:  Sinplicity Website: www.SinplicityIceCream.com How long have you been at Reston Farmers Market? Two years. What do you sell?  At the famers market, we usually carry six ice cream flavors and four or five sorbets, including salty caramel, cappuccino crunch, thai peanut, lemon ginger and blackberry cabernet sorbet. Each week we have different whoopee pies, including black forest and oatmeal cream pie. We also have ice cream sandwiches made with macaroons, sugar-honey pecans and a dark chocolate cookie. Where are you based?  Falls Church, VA What’s your story? …

Name: Jodie Cook Business Name: Creekside Farm and Orchard How long have you been at Reston Farmers Market?  Ever since it started. I do believe it’s been about 14 years. We’ve been here since the very beginning. What do you sell?  Eggplant, broccoli, our famous lettuce mixes in the spring and fall, sweet corn, melons, peaches, apples, cherries, plums, and green beans. We’re also well known for our tomatoes.  Where are you based? Berkeley Springs, WVA What’s your story? My husband, Adam, got started when he was 14 on one acre of land. With a single table and umbrella, he would take his yield …

Name: Shaima Ismati Business Name: Kool Earth, www.KoolEarthUSA.com How long have you been at Lake Anne's craft market? This is my first year. What do you sell?  T-shirts, sarongs, jumper dresses, scarves, totes, tanks and wraps made with organic cotton and bamboo rayon, a fiber that is softer than cotton with a natural sheen to it. I also use soy- and hemp- based fabrics. We work with suppliers that practice fair trade, meaning no sweat shops, and manufacture virtually everything in the US. Where are you based? Ashburn, VA What’s your story? I worked for an airline for 25 years. I’m a very …

Name: Mark Glascock Business Name: Glascock’s Produce Website: www.GlascocksProduce.com How long have you been at the Reston Farmers Market? Since it started, about 14 years ago. What do you sell?  We sell everything from asparagus to zucchini, A - Z. We raise everything under the sun having to do with agriculture. We begin the markets with garden starts, then slowly get into fruits and vegetables and finish the markets with pumpkins, apple butters and apples.  Where are you based? Berkeley Springs, WV What’s your story?  I’m a third-generation farmer. I used to get dropped off at my …

Name:  Lisa Gee Business Name: Smith Family Farms Website: www.BeefandHayProducer.com How long have you been at Reston Farmers Market? This is our first year. What do you sell? Grass-fed beef, pastured poultry, brown eggs, pastured pork and quality hay. Where are you based? Gainesville, VA What’s your story? We are a fifth generation family farm, committed to raising our animals and growing our produce in an environmentally-friendly way. Andrew “Buster” Smith was born on the farm in 1919. He married, had six children, and died there in 2000. His children farm this land to this day. What’s the…

Name: Beth Vosoba Business Name: Essence De Provence, www.EssenceDeProvence.com How long have you been at Reston Farmers Market/Crafts Market? Two Years What do you sell?  Soaps, lavender essential oils and lavender flowers. I make pillows with the flowers, lotion with cocoa butter and body butter with olive oil. I make all of the wreaths myself. Our website is like a virtual trip to the best markets in the Provence. I try to choose the things that you would keep as a souvenier from a trip to the Provence. Where are you based? Arlington, VA What’s your story?  I am in love with everything …

Name: Mary and Ken West Business Name: Mt. Olympus Berry Farm Website: www.MtOlympusFarm.com How long have you been at the Reston Farmers Market? Since the beginning of time. Seriously, we were one of the first vendors 14 years ago. What do you sell?  We grow 20-plus varieties of tomatoes, 30-plus varieties of peppers, only about 10 kinds of eggplant now, summer squash, winter squash, cucumbers, onions, greens, lettuce, melons and cantaloupes. We have a “pick your own” at the farm for strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and pumpkins. Suffice it to say, we grow most everything but corn. …

Name: Ed Sharp and Anne Jordan Business Name: DRC Studios Website: www.TheArtistsUndertaking.com How long have you been at Lake Anne Craft Market? This is our first year. What do you sell?  Copper garden art, wall art and sculpture. Where are you based? Anne: Fairfax;  Ed: Alexandria What’s your story? Ed: I started 15 years ago in the Florida Keys. A lot of people in the Keys do this kind of work; it’s kind of a minor industry down there. I bought a wall fountain for myself and would look at it and say, “oh, I see how you did that, and that and that.” So I started for myself. Next thing you …

Name:  Mike McCormick Business Name: Ladybug Mountain Farm How long have you been at Reston Farmers Market? Since the beginning, about 14 years. What do you sell?  Fresh cut peonies in the early spring, hydrangeas in the early summer, gladiolus, rhubarb, herbs and some other vegetables. What’s your story?  I started growing a geranium that my mother gave me when I was about 8 years old,  followed by a sweet potato on our windowsill. Then, I was a teacher — so I needed to grow my own food. I didn’t really love gardening as a kid, because of the weeding and cultivating. I do a lot of mulching …

Name: Lynn Dysart Business Name: A Bit More, Sweets & Specialties, Springfield ,VA How long have you been at Reston Farmer’s Market? five years What do you sell?  I sell 19 types of cookies, shortbreads, biscotti, linzers, tea breads, glazed nuts, sweet and savory scones and custom-decorated sugar cookies. I also feature gluten-free items made with rice flour and potato starch. What’s your story?  For quite a few years, I took care of all my kids as they were growing up. I was making my glazed nuts and lemon bread, and giving it away so many times as gifts. People said, ‘you should sell it.’ …