LOOKINGGLASS — Mike Buckley walked through the Lookingglass Grange on Friday afternoon carrying a head of cauliflower, an acorn squash, a personal-sized apple pie and a snickerdoodle cookie the size of a dinner plate.

“I love this,” said Buckley, a Washington state native who along with his wife, Ann, recently moved to Lookingglass. “This is like what Tacoma was growing up.”

Buckley was one of dozens of people who perused through a variety of fall vegetables, nuts, breads, eggs, handmade soaps and other items at the once a week market, all the while being entertained with accordion music from Dixonville resident Richard Packham, a member of the Roseburg Accordion Club.

“We've had people come from Roseburg and other areas, and it's been neat,” said Sandy McGee, the market's fall coordinator. “It's worth the drive for people to come out here.”

A year ago, Lookingglass resident Erin Saylor found it difficult to get people to stop and browse at the pears, walnuts and other produce she brought to sell outside the Lookingglass Store. Saylor and several other farmers talked over the winter about establishing a farmers market and the Lookingglass Farm Market opened for business in May.

Over the summer, the market became a community gathering spot, said Cindy Phillips, one of the market's organizers, a retired teacher who went into beekeeping and who sells jars of honey and honeycomb at the market.

“I couldn't be happier with how things went,” Phillips said.

An open box of dried walnuts, still in their shells, enticed visitors just inside the Grange's front door. Saylor picked them from trees on her farm, placed them inside a dryer for a day and a half to remove the moisture and boxed them up and brought them to the market.

“This is about as local as its gets,” she said.

The summer market was held outside. The success of the market led organizers and vendors to agree to extend the selling season through the end of the year. The fall shift to cooler and wetter conditions sent vendors indoors at the Grange.

The pie and snickerdoodle that Buckley bought came from Bethany and Jared Coulter, who own B&J's Bakery in Lookingglass. “I grew the items I use in the pies,” Bethany Coulter said.

Anthony Szlachciuk of Anthony's Artisan Bread offered small artisan breads and stuffed chicken empanadas.

“The bread you get here has a lot of love mixed into it,” said Szlachciuk.

Corienne Geddes, who resides just north of Lookingglass, came to the market Friday and bought a jar of honey from Phillips. During the summer market, Geddes, a weaver, sold dish towels and rugs that she made.

“I didn't get rich, but it was a fun way to spend a Friday,” she said.

• You can reach reporter John Sowell at 541-957-4209 or by email at jsowell@nrtoday.com.