fresh food in the capital city

Join Montpelier’s Farmers’ Market for this seasonal celebration.

Market vendors, Sugar Ridge Farm and LePage Farm, will be cooking up this delicious treat between 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. to share with market customers for free.   Enjoy syrup in the traditional style – with doughnut holes and sour pickles!  (donations to cover costs appreciated).

Come join us, and enjoy the wonderful food Vermont has to offer year-round! Buy Local!

Capital City Farmers’ Market: Saturday March 20th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Vermont College of Fine Arts Gym, at the corner of East State Street and College Street, Montpelier

Our Featured Musicians on March 20th

Michael Cressey and Andy Bourke

Learn how to stretch your food market dollars at the market with Airel Zevon, Executive Director of LACE. (Local Agricultural Community Exchange)

Ariel will be cooking dishes using seasonal ingredients available from our farmer vendors at the March 6th market.  Her cooking will include creating a winter root salad and turning the scraps and peels from preparation into tasty soup stocks, as well as cooking fantastic soups from any of the cheaper cuts of meat available.

Saturday March 6th — 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Cooking at LACE’s Community Kitchen

Come to the market & learn how to make the most of your farmers market dollars.

Featured Music at the March 6th Market

Tuesday’s Quintet: with Kris Hammer on oboe, Lucy Wollaeger on bassoon, Doug Burnham on french horn, Denise Ricker on flute, and Ed Linton on clarinet.

Capital City Farmers’ Market Demo Schedule

March 20th – Annual Sugar on Snow, hosted by Le Page Farm and Sugar Ridge Farm

April 3rd – Seed Starting Demo – hosted by Cate Farm and Vermont Compost Company

Enjoy shopping for your winter veggies, fresh cheeses, pasta, frozen summer berries, and all sorts of meats this Saturday.    Each market features local wine, sweets, breads, jams, and much more.   Try a mantu, a samosa, pieroge, while relaxing and listening to the musical talent Central Vermont has to offer.

See you at the market!

Featured Musician:

Our music this week features pianist Michael Arnowitt playing colorful and beautiful Jazz improvisations.

Capital City Farmers Market Winter Dates: First and Third Saturdays December through April,  10:00 am to 2:00 pm, Vermont College of Fine Arts Gym, East State Street and College Ave,  Montpelier

• February 20
• March 6  &  March 20
• April 3   &  April 17

Want to stay abreast of Capital City Farmers Market News?

Join our newsletter mailing list by sending an email to manager@montpelierfarmersmarket.com and ask to subscribe.

See you at the market!

Want to learn how to felt at our next market?

Here’s your chance to both learn and try it yourself.   Central Vermont llama farmers will be on hand to show how wool can be felted using basic needle felting and wet felting techniques.

• Try your hand at painting with llama fibers with the needle felting process.
  
• Get your hands wet and soapy and make a felt ball, small bowl, or a mini hat.

Farmers Market vendor, Jan Stuart of Moonlight Llamas in Mont-pelier leads this demo, along with June Taylor of Chocolate Pond Farm in Jericho, and Lindsay Chandler of Northern Vermont Llama Co. in Waterville.

Llama Jose has provided some of the fiber!

Our music this week features Good Old Wagon – American roots music, including blues, rags, and old-time tunes.  Musicians Mark Greenberg and Andy Pitt capture the spirit and style of music that remains just as vital as when it was first recorded in the 1920s and ’30s.

Our new vendors for the February 6th market:

Kind Horn Farm organic icelandic sheep breeders of Vermont offering fibers and grass-fed lamb

Lawson’s Finest is a small batch artisanal microbrewery located in Warren, Vermont. Its beer is custom crafted in tiny batches at a modest production facility tucked in the woods, on the east flank of Lincoln Mountain.  Lawson’s Finest is Vermont’s newest brewery  – run by Sean Lawson, The Beer Guy

Roots Wise Herbals of Morrisville with herbal teas, oils, and salves

Shamrock Farms of Northfield with goat meat

Our other winter market vendors for February 6th are:

Amador Drums & Deborahs Hand-dyed
Amai Bijoux
Applecheek Farm
Ark of Safety, LLC
Blackwell Roots Farm
Butterfly Bakery
Fat Toad Farm
French Metalworks
Garden of 7 Gables
Gaylord Farm
Giving Tree Botanicals
Gizmo’s Pickled Plus
Greenfield Highland Beef
LePage Farm
McGurran Bee Farm
Moonlight llamas
North Branch Vineyards
Pakistani Foods
Ploughgate Creamery
Red Hen Baking Company
Samosaman Natural Foods
Screamin’ Ridge Farm
Sugar Ridge Farm
Syp Brand Pierogies
Toll a Bell Farm

Capital City Farmers Market Winter Dates: First and Third Saturdays December through April,  10:00 am to 2:00 pm, Vermont College of Fine Arts Gym, East State Street and College Ave,  Montpelier

• February 6  &  20
• March 6  &  March 20
• April 3   &  April 17

Want to stay abreast of Capital City Farmers Market News?

Join our newsletter mailing list by sending an email to manager@montpelierfarmersmarket.com and ask to subscribe.

See you at the market!

Saturday’s January 16th Winter Farmer Market:

Kimchee Making Demo Noon – 1pm

Learn from the experts about different ways to ferment food.  From small-scale, first-time beginners to larger-scale commercial operators making food in big batches, you’ll learn a process that fits your needs.   Staff will be on hand from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. to show the basic equipment needed, to teach the nutritional health benefits of fermented foods, and to hand out samples of different fermented vegetables from cabbage to peas.  We’ll also have recipes on hand to help you get started.  From 12:00 to 1:00 pm.,  see kimchee being made at the market.  Fermentation experts include Janice Lloyd, Winooski Valley Permaculture; Suzanna Jones, small-scale fermenter, Alan LePage, LePage Farm; and Lee Blackwell of Blackwell Roots Farm.

(See a sample of our other upcoming demos below.)

Musical Act: Dan Haley is Mr. Casual
Our music this week features Dan Haley is Mr Casual — a post-imperial pop duo from Central Vermont featuring the songs of guitarist/singer, Dan Haley.  He’s a veteran of NW rock band, Ed & The Boats, and has also played with Skip Battin and Pete Krebs as well as opened for Townes Van Zandt and The Pretenders.

Sit and relax and enjoy the music at our seating area, where the VT College stage used to be.  North Branch Nature Center will have hot drinks and bird-friendly coffee for sale to benefit its youth birding trip to Nicaragua. (chocolates too!)

And as always, plenty of local produce on hand as well as prepared foods to eat at the market including soups, pierogies, samosas, grilled cheese sandwiches, cookies and cakes and more.   You’ll also find local crafts featuring a range of products from wool and sheepskins to batik clothing.

Upcoming demos include:

February 6th: Felting 101 with the Herd of Northern Vermont llama owners

February 20th: Stretching your farmers market dollars – cooking healthy on a budget Cooking Demo, LACE

March 6: Simple meals – 5 market ingredients or less, Hunger Mountain Coop

March 20th: Sugar on snow with Le Page Farm and Sugar Ridge Farm

Hope to see you at the market!

Capital City Farmers Market Winter Dates

First and Third Saturdays December through April,  10:00 am to 2:00 pm

Vermont College of Fine Arts Gym, East State Street and College Ave,  Montpelier

• January  16
• February 6  &  20
• March 6  &  March 20
• April 3   &  April 17

• Yes, there IS a market on the first Saturday of January 2010 — January 2nd

This winter, while under a roof, with some heat! we’ll be featuring great local musicians every week.  This Saturday features the House Carpenters with Katie Trautz on fiddle, Dan Haley on Guitar and Mandolins, and Ted Ingham on banjo.  They are an Old-time Stringband who play fiddle tunes, ballads, and songs from the Southern Appalachian tradition, while also venturing into other American musical realms.

Enjoy hot drinks and lots of great food from all over the world while you enjoy the music.

Capital City Farmers Market Winter Dates

First and Third Saturdays December through April,  10:00 am to 2:00 pm

Vermont College of Fine Arts Gym, East State Street and College Ave,  Montpelier

• December 5 & 19
• January 2  &  16
• February 6  &  20
• March  &  March 20
• April 3   &  April 17