Ellington Farmers Market Opens 2017 Outdoor Season with Barnyard Babies

The inaugural event of the 2017 Ellington Farmers’ Market season takes place Saturday May 6th in Arbor Park on Main Street from 9-12 and will feature this spring's newest Barnyard Babies where kids of all ages can enjoy visiting local farms’ newest spring additions including newly hatched chicks and ducklings, calves, lambs, goats and even mini donkeys!

The market features forty vendors bringing a wide variety of locally grown and produced food items. A host of guest vendors will add a wide variety to the to the weekly offerings of local produce, plants and flowers, dairy, beef, pork, lamb, seafood, poultry, cheese, honey, baked goods, specialty foods, alpaca products, handmade soaps, natural body and cleaning products, artisan wares and more. Folk singer Sheryl Stanton will be providing the musical entertainment.

EBT is accepted and up to $20 per week of matching SNAP dollars is available through the markets matching SNAP dollars program. Transactions can be made at the market booth with the big green market partner banner.

Additional market information can be found on the Ellington Farmers Market website www.ellingtonfarmersmarket.com, by following their Facebook page, and by signing up for the weekly newsletter via the website or by emailing ellingtonfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

This Week's Vendors

Produce

New England Green Mushrooms
Biossential Greens
Simpaug Farms
Melrose Place Farm
Pinnacle Produce

Meat, Animal and Dairy
Clear Mountain Alpacas
Copper Hill Farm
The Fish Market
GourmAvian Farm
Meadowstone Farm Cheese
New Boston Beef
Pine Knob Lamb
Smyth's Trinity Dairy Farm

Bakery & Specialty Foods
Dragon's Blood Elixir Hot Sauce
Jean and Milo's Kettle Corn
La Petite France Bakery
Luann’s Bakery
Never Enoughly Chnopfli
Nora Cupcakes
Norm's Best
Pastries 4 Pets
Pease Bees Honey
Sixpence Pie Company
Super Soups
The Nut Guy
Western View Farm
Whole Harmony Artisan Teas
Woodstock Hill Preserves

Plants and Flowers
Deerfield Farm
Joe's Veggies
Sean Patricks Plants
Fiano Farm
Pinnacle Produce

Hand Crafted Products
Bayberry Meadow Herbs
Blessed Creek
CT Chainsaw Sculpture
Persimmon Pearl Jewelry
Wagenbach Woodcrafts