Portsmouth Farmers’ Market Will Be *Open* Market Square Day

June 8, 2009 by Sara Zoe.

from the Seacoast Growers’ Association:

PORTSMOUTH FARMERS’ MARKET OPEN MARKET SQUARE DAY

The Portsmouth Farmers’ Market will be open this Saturday, June 13, on Market Square Day. It’s just a short walk from the annual downtown event to the farmers’ market, held rain or shine every Saturday in the parking lot of City Hall, 1 Junkins Ave., just across from the South Mill Ponds. 

The Portsmouth Farmers’ Market is a true agricultural event, with over 30 farmers selling everything from fresh produce and dairy products and a variety of meats to seasonal flowers and hardy plants for your own garden. A number of vendors prepare meals to order for breakfast and lunch, and visitors can also take home a bounty of baked goods, beverages (including wine and honey mead), gourmet sauces and jams, and frozen meals.   Hand-made bodycare products and fine crafts such as pottery, jewelry, and photography are also on display.

The ever-popular Market Square Day 10-K Road Race will pass near the farmers’ market in its route down South Street.  Between roughly 9:15-9:45 a.m., traffic may be interrupted at the corner of Junkins and South streets as police officers let runners pass, but access to and from the markets will remain open at all times from Parrott and Pleasant streets and Lincoln Avenue.

The Portsmouth Farmers’ Market is coordinated by Seacoast Growers’ Association, which also puts on five additional markets throughout the week: Mondays in Durham (2:15—5:30); Tuesdays in Hampton (3:00—6:00) and Kingston (2:15—5:30), Wednesdays in Dover (2:15—6:00), and Thursdays in Exeter (2:15—6:00). All SGA farmers’ markets offer the SGA Guarantee: 100 percent of the products sold are grown or made locally by our own vendors. 

For more information about farmers’ markets, including maps to all six SGA locations, visit www.seacoastgrowers.org.

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