Start Saturdays Fresh! Greenfield Farmers' Market Opening Day
Saturday, April 29th!
Over 25 vendors are happily returning this year! The market continues to offer a wide variety of locally grown and produced farm products and local artisans. Farmers will have plenty of starter vegetable plants, hanging baskets, perennial and annual flower plants, herb plants, culinary herbs, mixed greens, baby spinach, arugula, maple syrup, honey, cheese, mushrooms, homemade jams, fresh baked breads, cookies, grass-fed lamb, beef, goat, poultry, pork, kettle corn, locally grown and produced hard cider, goats milk soap, and so much more!
As the season progresses, there will be an extensive variety of other vegetables along with a wide range of fruit and non-food items such as fresh-cut flowers, herbal skin care products, eco-friendly cleaning products, yarn, sheep skins, and artisan vendors that vary each week.
Vendors that will be at our first market:
Hart Farm
Johnson Farm
Just Roots
PK Industries
Balky Farm
Sunrise Farm
Parish Hill Creamery
The Atherton Farm
Bostrom Farm
Rainbow Harvest Farm
JuJuBee Farm
Fungi Ally
Hattapon's Thai Kitchen
M & G Kettle Korn
Hungry Ghost Bread
Hearthstone Artisan Bakery
The Spelt Flour Bakery
Melnik SweetBee Apiary
Sage Farm
Eden Pond Farm
Dr. Cookie
Shoestring Farm
Lyonsville Farm
Western Woods Coffee
Pierce Street Iron Works
Artbug Illustrations
This weekend Tom Gizzi will play an acoustic set of covers from different eras in front of Town Hall from 10 am-12:30 pm. The market also has some great things planned for our pre-Mother’s day market on May 13th with a Plant a Pansy for Mom Day – kids of all ages are welcome to stop by the market manager’s booth to plant a pansy to take home from 8:30am-12:00pm.
The market will also continue the SNAP & Save program with up to a $5 SNAP match on all approved SNAP purchases for the first two weeks of the season as SNAP customers settle into the new statewide Healthy Incentives Program (HIP). HIP will allow SNAP customers to double their SNAP dollars when they purchase fruit and vegetables from Farmers that are equipped to accept SNAP directly at their market booth. Currently Just Roots is set up with HIP, so please be sure to visit them for your fruit and vegetable purchases to get the double matching benefit prior to making your other purchases from the market. Other fruit and vegetable vendors will be set up with their own EBT machines that will allow them to accept SNAP purchases directly from customers. We’ll let you know as they are up and running. Once customers make their initial purchase they can then purchase any eligible SNAP foods with the incentive earned from purchasing approved HIP fruits and vegetables! “When a SNAP customer swipes their SNAP/EBT card for fruit and vegetable purchases, an equal amount of incentive funds are immediately and automatically added back to their cards, up to the monthly cap. For example, if a family uses their SNAP benefits to buy $15 of fresh produce at a farmers’ market, a credit of $15 will be immediately returned to their EBT card.” Find out more about HIP at: http://www.mass.gov/agr/
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