If you’re heading to the Farmers’ Market this Saturday, Aug. 12, you’ll find tomatoes, corn, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, summer squash, cabbage, beets, potatoes, beans, carrots, onions, garlic, as well as a wide variety of salad and cooking greens, cut flowers, potted plants and much more.
The farms will be Anything Grows, Middle Earth Farm, Grant Family Farm, Bear Hill Farm, Clark Farm and Old Stone Farm.
National Sharpening will be there, along with Seafood Express, Hives and Honey, A&J King Artisan Bakers, Olive World and Bucovina Cuisines. Singer/songwriter Tim Foley will be the performer. Craft vendors will be Amy Kostecki with jewelry, Angela Cook with ceramics, the North Shore Glass School, Molly Brandt with Jewelry and Sally Marcy. Look for Copper Dog Books, too.
Scouts BSA Troop 79 will be brewing coffee and tea, and will also have lemonade and water.
Grant Family Farm is accepts SNAP and HIP payment. The Marblehead Farmers’ Market takes place from 9 a.m.-noon on Saturdays through November 19 behind the Marblehead Veterans Middle School (accessed via Vine St.), rain or shine. Snap benefits can be used to purchase eligible food items. For more information see marbleheadfm.com or email Steve at stevefowlermfm@gmail.com.
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