Get the Most from Your Farmers Market: 10 Tips from a Market Manager

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Farmers Market season is upon us with many markets already open while others, like ours, must wait until late June or July before farmers’ fields are productive.   Together, my husband and I run our local farmers market – coordinating with the town, recruiting vendors, connecting with customers and devising eccentric activities that keep the [...]

Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24: Harvest Supper & Benefit

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In the heart of ski country, spring replaces late winter slowly–so slowly that when most gardeners around the country are celebrating the season with the first shoots of asparagus or tender salad turnips or sweet peas, we’re still struggling under several feet of hard-pack, glacial mounds of snow.   It is a barren and desolate [...]

Dreaming of the Farmers Market

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I’ve been dreaming of the farmers market–literally. Last night I dreamt that my husband and I were handling the final arrangements for this year’s market when we were thwarted by a ne’er-do-well. We really do need to get those applications out for the summer season. I miss the market. Though it consumed our entire weekend [...]