Farmers Market Opens This Weekend

The Winchester Farmers Market is proud to return to the for its fifth year this Saturday. 

Market Manager Fred Yen notes that while of all your favorite produce farms and handmade food stands, live music, and food demos will be back, you will also find new vendors: West River Creamery with cheese and maple syrup from Vermont, Copicut Farm with poultry and eggs and 7ate9 Bakery with cheesecakes. Turtle Creek Winery will have wines from their own grapes, including Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc, Pinot Noir and Riesling. is returning after a year away. 

Also new this year will be a monthly program called The Kids’ Table, where children visiting the market with their parents can stop by, sample a fruit and vegetable in season, and do a project. Look for this table on second Saturdays. 

On opening day 2012, patrons can visit a variety of booths and stalls. The Kids Table will feature strawberries and herbs. Winchester Home & Garden Club will hold their annual sale at the community table. Proceeds help beautify the commons. Winchester Youth Group from the middle school will be face painting to raise money for cancer research. 

A member of Winchester Artists Network is at the market every week. This week, Debe Holland will be showing her ceramics. 

The Market rotates vendors through the business and food vendor tents. This week, Wendy Jo New will be at the business tent selling her fine contemporary jewelry. Food vendors will be Deborah's Kitchen, Fastachi Nuts and Doves & Figs. 

The Market always features two music groups and a food demo. Music this week will be It Don't Mean a Thing from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. followed by The Hoboken Philharmonic Jazz Quartet from 12 to 1:30 p.m. Both feature Winchester musicians.

Our 11:30 a.m. to noon food demo is brought to you by Denise Costello of The Energized Body, demonstrating how to prepare five great anti-aging foods for spring rejuvenation! She will offer recipes and tastings so you can start feeling and looking youthful!

Parking around the Town Common has changed. Time limits have been reduced from two hours to half an hour, with enforcement beginning June 16. Yen encourages those who are driving to the market to look for parking in the longer-term lots: Jenks, Aberjona and Waterfield. For the locations of these lots, stop by the Winchester Farmers Market tent and pick up a flyer or look for volunteers passing them out at the market. 

At the end of the market day, volunteers collect leftover produce donated from farmers for the Dwelling Place, a soup kitchen in Woburn. 

Members of the organizing committee, visit the farms that contribute to our market and this year market patrons are invited to go along. We've already visited Ed Silvia and Copicut Farm over Memorial Day weekend. If you’re interested in going along on a farm visit, let us know!