Bethel's Downtown Farmers to Open With a Variety of Vendors

The following is information from the First Selectman's Office:

Bethel’s Farmers Market season will officially open on Thursday, July 7 at 3 p.m. on the lawn of the municipal center. Calls are coming in daily from various individuals and companies who are interested in participating. This is turning into a real community marketplace event. 

Currently we are expecting the following but based on the interest in the Farmer’s Market, we anticipate more as the season progresses:

• Holbrook Farm – featuring fresh seasonal vegetables, including first of season Connecticut corn and tomatoes.
• Your R-Bar is made with all-natural, mostly organic ingredients. With no preservatives and no salt, you're left with a light and fresh-tasting, yet nutritional snack. Wholesome ingredients, such as oats, almonds, walnuts, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, raisins, dried cherries and cranberries, among others, are in abundance and actually visible to the eye. What you get is a complementary taste and appealing texture that you just have to sink your teeth into!
• Percy Thomson Meadows Farm – featuring vegetables, herbs, all natural meats (beef, pork, chicken and lamb – all frozen) and handmade all natural soaps.
• Anna’s Italian Deli offers a wide array of delicious Italian food that is always made fresh to order. Since 1986, Anna’s has been providing great Italian food. 
• Wave Hill Breads - Wave Hill Breads is an artisan bakery founded in 2005 in Wilton, CT that specializes in a three-grain crusty and chewy bread made fresh every day.  Their products, available in many of your favorite grocery and health food stores, are made in the French artisan tradition with organic spelt and rye berries stone ground for every batch, King Arthur wheat flour, sea salt, and a little yeast. Their "pain de campagne" (country bread) has been called "the best bread on the East Coast" and is included in Michael and Jane Stern's book.
• Daily Fare - Chef Robin’s famous mini scones in unique flavors such as peach pistachio, berry granola and ham & cheese. Also mini muffins will be available – a new item from Daily Fare.  Each week new and exciting items will be available – suggestions welcome for new varieties.
• Stone’s Throw Farm – seasonal fresh vegetables
• Rosalie’s Gourd Birdhouses – rustic handmade birdhouses made from gourds as well as other craft items.
• “Send a Smile” will be here with handmade greeting cards, gift card holders and candy treats.
• Stella & Dot – fashion jewelry
• The Little Pink Turtle offers a unique selection of handmade hair accessories & gifts for girls, toddlers and babies at reasonable prices. With a growing selection of bows, clips, headbands and hats, your baby is sure to stand out!
• Billy’s Southern Style Barbeque will be “smoking” things up this summer!  It will be hard to resist the smell of BBQ wafting through the Town of Bethel on Thursday nights.  Pulled pork, brisket and so much more. 
• Morning Glory Gardens - Colleen Plimpton – a selection of perennials from her garden and will also have available for sale and signing her award winning garden memoir, “Mentors in the Garden of Life”. 
• Gilbert’s Goodies – Gluten-free/allergy friendly baked goods, includes cookies, cookie dough, breads and other baked items.

Bethel’s own Highway Robbery will be performing on the gazebo for our opening night.  Come “rock out” to songs from the 60’s and 70’s with the band while enjoying some local grub.

For more information, call or e-mail the First Selectman's Office at 203-794-8501 or firstselectman@betheltownhall.org.