Five farmers’ market items we love

Baton Rouge is fortunate to have a temperate climate and a thriving farmers’ market with a large selection of delicious local goods. Here are just a few items you can pick up that we can’t live without. Lucy Mike’s Culinary Creations: Handmade Italian cookies, cakes, pralines, pies and breads—just as good as anything you’d find in the old country.Delight Thyself: Juban’s Restaurant co-founder Miriam Juban and caterer Tanya Dillon offer lemon, chocolate, pecan and coconut pies and tarts as well as savory treats at the Saturday market.  Smith Creamery: Rich butter, sweet cream, and chocolate milk so thick it’s like drinking ice cream, this local creamery is bouncing back with help from Kleinpeter Farms Dairy. Bocage Honey: Sticky-sweet and floral, this sugary spread—produced locally by beekeeper Elizabeth Holloway—is delectable in tea, on toast or bagels, or in your favorite baked goods. Goat cheese: Savory goat cheese is sold at every market by Ryal’s Goat Dairy and Belle Ecorce Farm, from lemon-dill to feta, as well as fresh goat’s milk—it all adds some local savor to your baking experiments and your tailgating spread.