Vendor markets across Bastrop County are drawing steady crowds as residents seek locally grown produce, artisan foods and handcrafted goods.

Check out these eight, which were featured in Community Impact's March 2026 edition.

Bastrop 1832 Farmers Market: The artisan and producer market is open Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., and accepts SNAP.

Community Gardens: The artisan and producer market is open multiple dates throughout the year. 

Eden East Farm Stand: The artisan and producer market is open Wednesdays and Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., and accepts SNAP.

Elgin Farmers Market: The artisan and producer market is open Thursdays, 4-7 p.m., and accepts SNAP.

F.A.M.E. Days: The artisan market is open monthly each first Friday, 5-8 p.m.

Main Street Market: The artisan market is open on multiple dates throughout the year.

Smithville Farmers Market: The artisan and producer market is open Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. from September to May, and Sundays, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. from June to August and accepts SNAP.

VFW Post 6115 Flea Market: The artisan and producer market is open Saturdays, 7 a.m.-1 p.m.

Readers can check out more than just books at the Bastrop Public Library. 

The details: A seed library, located at the front of the Bastrop Public Library near the checkout counter, allows community members to take home packets of vegetable, herb and flower seeds for free. 

There are typically eight to 13 varieties of seeds for gardeners to choose from, depending on the season and what goals they have, said Amie Cuvelier, the librarian who spearheads the seed library. 

 “There’s the floral gardeners, the people who just want to have fun with some landscaping and the people who want to grow vegetables,” she said. “So we try to have something for everybody, and we’ve had a lot of participation from the different gardening groups in the community.”

The world's largest semiconductor plant could be coming to Austin after billionaire Elon Musk announced the project at a March 21 livestreamed event in downtown Austin.

Terafab—a joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX and xAI—would be "the largest chip manufacturing facility ever," producing a combined compute capacity of 1 terawatt annually, according to a post by Tesla on X.

The big picture: The advanced technology fab would enable Musk's companies to escalate their production efforts, he said. Musk said current global semiconductor production meets only a fraction of the energy and compute demands his companies anticipate.

The facility would generate 100-200 gigawatts of chips for Optimus humanoid robots along with terawatts of chips for solar-powered AI satellites, according to Tesla information.

A closer look: In a post on X, Musk said Terafab could be 100 million square feet. Several potential sites are under consideration for the facility, he said.

Tesla opened its new 10 million-square-foot headquarters—Giga Texas—in southeast Travis County in 2021.

The South Terminal at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is officially shutting down March 31 after less than a decade in operation.

The details: The auxiliary terminal is being demolished to make way for new midfield taxiways as part of the multiyear "Journey with AUS" campus expansion. That includes the addition of the 26-gate Concourse B with a new connecting tunnel to the existing Barbara Jordan Terminal, and the development of a temporary six-gate southern terminal called Concourse M.

The South Terminal was initially expected to have a longer presence at ABIA, and its early closure led to costly legal proceedings between the city and former facility operator LoneStar Airport Holdings.

What else: Ahead of the South Terminal closure, Austin Aviation unveiled its initial designs for the nearly 38,000-square-foot Concourse M. Its gates on the west side of ABIA's airfield are meant for relief and diversions during Journey with AUS construction as the Barbara Jordan Terminal is expanded and improved, and while Concourse B remains in development.