Following the very successful farmers’ market, green technology building expo, and live music concert at Bartlet Mall during Earth Day weekend that attracted about 800 people over the course of four hours, a select group of farmers will return in about 36 hours.
The Newburyport Farmers’ Market opens its first season on Saturday, April 26 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Pond Street by the Bartlet Mall.
This weekend’s participants include:
- Mike Vedrani from Amesbury with his amazing Powow River Maple Syrup
- Pettengill Farm from Salisbury with annuals, planters, and mixed containers
- Arrowhead Farm from Newburyport with spring hanging baskets, lots of herbs and vegetable plants, pansies, patio pots, “Living Salad Bowls,” and a small selection of fruit trees
- Arrowhead Farm’s Community Supported Agriculture program with information about memberships for this season
I will plan to stop by around 10 to buy some of the maple syrup. I sampled it last weekend, and man, was that stuff sweet. One of the ladies suggested I drizzle maple syrup over ice cream, a concept that sounds so simple and yummy yet I never considered it!
Spearheading the farmers’ market (which I just realized uses an apostrophe after the “s” and not before it as I’d recently written in various Earth Day press releases) is Arrowhead’s Dick Chase.
He hopes more farmers–and a larger selection of products–will be on hand as the growing season progresses.
Dick’s motto? “Buy Local, Its Fresh!”
See you Saturday… and over coming weeks!
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