Maple Madness!

Maple is our theme at the market this Saturday (11 am to 1 pm in the Town Hall).

Ken McGill will kick off the sweet celebration with a maple tree tapping demonstration. I am thrilled as he will be tapping a tree in my sugar bush (which consists of exactly 2 trees). At 11:15, we will gather at the Town Hall and stroll down to the other end of the Common for the demonstration. If the sap is running, samples of this delicious spring tonic will be available.

Hope McGill will be in the Town Hall making her wildly popular maple frappes. She’ll also have maple syrup, maple candy, maple cream, and maple bread. Catherine (The Farmers Table) will have her crowd pleasing maple granola.

We’ll welcome two new vendors.

One, Sunset Farm from Alstead, will be bringing beautiful FRESH GREENS! Yeah!

Speaking of produce, Frank will be bringing his gorgeous carrots, onions and potatoes. And you can learn about joining a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program with both Abenaki Springs Farm and Hillside Springs Farm. Support your local veg grower by pre-buying your produce so the farmer has seed money (get it? seeds?) at the right time.

The other new vendor, West River Creamery, from Londonderry, VT will be bringing a variety of cheeses. They are milking 40 cows, 1/3 Jersey and 2/3 Holstein. They don’t use rbgh hormones, and do use vegetarian rennet. They use traditional methods to make their cheeses, stirring and cutting the curd by hand, then filling the molds one by one.

The Sawyers will have their cheese as well. They introduced a new one a couple markets ago and it may be my favorite. Give it a try!

Jamie Page has embarked on a new adventure: knitting cozy hats from the fiber of her own alpaca. She’ll be bringing a batch of them along to the market.

Lark still has gorgeous organic jams as well as her traditional birch ornaments. Penny’s Pantry also has loads of jams to help get us through to fresh berries.

Brookfield Farm and Not Your Ordinary Farm will both be offering meats, and Holly hopes to find time to bring along some warming lamb stew. Pair it with some Orchard Hill Bread for lunch or try Michelle’s pulled pork. Just be sure to save room for a maple frappe desert!

We’re also expecting AmieArtFarm, Irish X Herbals, Old Bridge Farm wood products and Handcrafted Jewelry.

Hope to see you there!