It is printed on the back of the business cards. It is also the reason the store exists.
Christina Myers spent fifteen years covering government and politics. She was ready for a change. Then this property on Route 29 came up for sale — in earlier lives a dairy farm, an apple orchard, a horse farm.
She and Tim bought it to build a home and grow a serious amount of their own food. The idea of turning the outdated barn into an old-time shop arrived soon after. Old Saratoga Mercantile opened as a place where local farmers could sell seven days a week, not just from a porch or a Saturday market stall.
The original promise was winter greens. Everything else — the cooler, the fish, the apothecary shelf, the two thousand items — grew out of what the family needed and what neighbors asked for.
5 acres
Home, retail, and four high tunnels just west of the village.
100+
Local farmers and producers filling the baskets we don’t grow ourselves.
365 days
Harvesting greens through winter, not only when the weather is polite.
Covered, open-air greenhouses keep lettuce, spinach, kale, and arugula growing all winter. We harvest every morning because we can — year-round farmers with the luxury of picking the same day you eat.
Feeding your family with the best ingredients starts where the plants do — in the ground. Foods that are grown here and certified organic fill our baskets. We do the research so you don't have to.
Tim, Christina, and Kaleb still cut greens for the store. Around that core is a network of farms — meat, eggs, dairy, fruit, honey, syrup, bread baked especially for us, and a household-and-body aisle held to the same standard as the food.
The store has a small footprint and a lot packed into it. It is not a supermarket. It is the kind of place where someone will remember what you liked last time.
