Shoppers at the Marblehead Farmers’ Market on Saturday, June 17, can expect to find spring crops including lettuce, spinach, garlic scapes, mushrooms, strawberries, kale, peas, carrots, broccoli and a variety of salad and cooking greens. Farmers will also have plants, cut flowers, eggs, pork, honey and more.
Farms featured this week are Anything Grows, Middle Earth Farm, Grant Family Farm, Bear Hill Farm, Clark Farm and Nick Cloutman with mushrooms. The food vendors will be A&J King Artisan Bakers and Bucovina Cuisines with Ukrainian food. Seafood Express and Olive World will be there.
Boy Scouts Troop 79 will sell coffee, tea, hot chocolate, lemonade and water. Craft vendors will be Jenna Diorio with jewelry and Angela Cook with ceramics. Copper Dog Books will be there, too.
The Marblehead Farmers’ Market takes place from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays through November 19 behind the Marblehead Veterans’ Middle School (accessed via Vine Street), rain or shine. SNAP benefits can be used to purchase eligible food items. HIP (Healthy Incentives Program) benefits may be used at Grant Family Farm.
For more information, visit marbleheadfm.com or email Steve at stevefowlermfm@gmail.com.
Editor Leigh Blander is an experienced TV, radio and print journalist who has written hundreds of stories for local newspapers, including the Marblehead Reporter.