Veggies are coming in strong!
- Blueberries, garlic, carrots, fennel, squash, tomatoes…… Our vendors are bringing in new veggies every week, often earlier than what you have growing in your gardens! To learn what’s available at the market each week, check out our Products page.
- We also have an extensive offering of meat and poultry including: beef, veal, pork, goat, rabbit turkey, duck, guinea hen, and pheasant.
- You can find fish at the market too – go to the Highland Gardens booth to get your brook and rainbow trout.
Youth Day at the Capital City Farmers’ Market
• Starting at 9:30 a.m., come check out the 4H youth exhibits. See UVM Extension judge the projects and listen directly from participants about their gardening experiences.
• Tie Dye a T-shirt at the market (bring your own with a plastic bag to take it home in, or buy one at the market.)
• Help to paint a new Capital City Farmers’ Market banner!
• Check out the live farm animals on exhibit.
• Starting at 10:00 a.m., hear singer, songwriter Lewis Franco as he entertains shoppers with his fun-loving presence and tuneful melodies.
• At 11:00 a.m. watch Ben Matchstick’s new and improved Jack and the Giant Queller puppet show.
This season we have a wide range of incredibly delicious foods from our prepared food vendors.
- Try the Syp Stewart Pierogies, topped with delicious saurkraut from Le Page Farms.
- Eat a samosa from Samosaman while shopping at the market – it’s an easy-to-carry food.
- Get a slice of pizza from Woodbelly Pizza made on-site in a wood fired oven. Before the market opens each week, Jeremiah Church selects a number of the ingredients for his pizza toppings from the farmer offerings for the week.
- Savor a chicken, spinach, or mushroom and chickpea mantu from Pakastani Foods.
- Get great Chinese foods froom Jing Ji’s Foods including egg rolls and dumplings.
- Joe Buley of Screamin Ridge Farm cooks up an ever-changing variety of amazing soups. Check out what he’s cooked up each week… such as Cuban black bean chili, chicken and brown rice with lemon and garlic…..
- Check out the market’s newest food vendor, Lalitha’s Cuisine. Lalitha provides an ever-changing menu of foods from Malaysia and India (Lalitha is a substitute vendor at the market and will not be at every market)
Take a look at our talented craft vendors:
French Metalworks
Each week we have new and full-season craft vendors featuring metal, woodwork, clay, sheep and llama fiber and much more.
- The market is a great place to get a gift for a wedding, birthday, or a gift to yourself! If you don’t know what gift to give, you can give “market cash” as a gift as well. These $5 wooden tokens, which can be used year-round at the market, can be purchased with your debit card at the Wool Shed booth.
- How about buying a beautiful craft piece to prepare you own foods? Check out the handmade pickling and fermentation crocks made by Janice Walrafen of Art Tiles. Crocks are made to order in 1 to 5 gallon sizes and include a pressure plate and lid.
Music in July – We just got an amplifier so we can hear our music better!
Many thanks to GuitarSam, in Montpelier for helping to fund it!!
- Anything Goes – July 3rd
- Sheefra – July 10th
- Michael Kennedy – July 17th
- Lewis Franco – July 24th
- Marge and John Butterfield – July 31st
Other Events in July
- This month, we start our Shop with the Chef program. July’s chef features Jeremy Silansky, of the Skinny Pancake. He’ll start off by shopping for ingredients for crepes from the farmer vendors and then preparing and providing samples later in the morning – don’t miss it on July 17th!
- Master Gardener Program – Youth Judging Day – July 24th
Enter our Monthly Prize Drawings:
Join our e-newsletter to learn what’s happening at the market and to be eligible for our monthly prize drawing. Sign up for the newsletter at the Wool Shed vending spot, located at the back of the market lot on the right. (where the EBT/and Debit card machine is located)
