The Municipal Center Farmer's Market officially opened on July 7th and was pronounced a huge success! The market opens at 3:00 p.m. on the lawn of the municipal center. Calls are coming in daily from various individuals and companies who are interested in participating. This is turning into a real community marketplace event.
Currently we are expecting the following but based on the interest in the Farmer's Market, we anticipate more as the season progresses.
Holbrook Farm - featuring fresh seasonal vegetables, including first of season Connecticut corn and tomatoes.
Your R-Bar is made with all-natural, mostly organic ingredients. With no preservatives and no salt, you're left with a light and fresh-tasting, yet nutritional snack. Wholesome ingredients, such as oats, almonds, walnuts, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, raisins, dried cherries and cranberries, among others, are in abundance and actually visible to the eye. What you get is a complementary taste and appealing texture that you just have to sink your teeth into!
Percy Thomson Meadows Farm - featuring vegetables, herbs, all natural meats (beef, pork, chicken and lamb - all frozen) and handmade all natural soaps.
Wave Hill Breads - Wave Hill Breads is an artisan bakery founded in 2005 in Wilton, CT that specializes in a three-grain crusty and chewy bread made fresh every day. Their products, available in many of your favorite grocery and health food stores, are made in the French artisan tradition with organic spelt and rye berries stone ground for every batch, King Arthur wheat flour, sea salt, and a little yeast. Their "pain de campagne" (country bread) has been called "the best bread on the East Coast" and is included in Michael and Jane Stern's book
Daily Fare - Chef Robin's famous mini scones in unique flavors such as peach pistachio, berry granola and ham & cheese. Also mini muffins will be available - a new item from Daily Fare. Each week new and exciting items will be available - suggestions welcome for new varieties.
Stone's Throw Farm - seasonal fresh vegetables
Rosalie's Gourd Birdhouses - rustic handmade birdhouses and "gourdaments" made from gourds as well as other craft items including innovative and environmentally friendly shopping bags made from farm produce bags, cork boards for memo or jewelry, felt baskets, antique farm tools and so much more.
Send a Smile will be here with handmade greeting cards for just about any occasion, individual or in sets, gift card holders (a card and gift card holder in one) and candy treats.
The Little Pink Turtle offers a unique selection of handmade hair accessories & gifts for girls, toddlers and babies at reasonable prices. With a growing selection of bows, clips, headbands and hats, your baby is sure to stand out!
Billy's Southern Style Barbeque will be "smoking" things up this summer! It will be hard to resist the smell of BBQ wafting through the Town of Bethel on Thursday nights. The regular menu includes pulled pork, brisket, bacon roll, beans, coleslaw and so much more.
Morning Glory Gardens - Colleen Plimpton - a selection of perennials from her garden and will also have available for sale and signing her award winning garden memoir, "Mentors in the Garden of Life".
Gilbert's Goodies - Gluten-free/allergy friendly baked goods, includes cookies, cookie dough, breads and other baked items.
Olive Oils of the World: Owner Ersilia Moreno is an olive oil expert and will be here to help you choose the olive oils that best suit your palette and discuss how to best use these different Olive Oils of the World for cooking. She is a true purveyor and personally sources every product she sells and does not use 3rd parties. She visits the farms and olive mills and has established a personal relationship with each of her suppliers. Her suppliers are true artisans.
Stella & Dot - fashion jewelry
Think Cosmetics - Natural Skin Care Products - A new company in Bethel that offers a full line of simple and natural skin care products, including Lip Balm, Hand Balm, Hand & Body Lotion, Salt Scrub, Lip Tint, Massage & Body Oils.
Bethel Health Department - Tick Disease Prevention Project: Representatives will be here to provide information on Tick Prevention.
Bethel High School Gridiron Club - Representatives will be here to sell raffle tickets to benefit the Bethel High School Football Team.
DAWS - Danbury Animal Welfare Society - representatives will be here to explain opportunities for pet adoption
Committee Members:
Beth Cavagna, Layna Palumbo-Haitsch, Chelsea Berg, Eileen Earle and Violet Mattone.
Email: farmersmarket@bethel-ct.gov
Questions: 203-794-8501
Entertainment this week (7/21) will be graciously provided by Bethel's own Billy Michael.
