Wehmhoff Square, downtown Burlington is the place to be on Thursday afternoons. There is an enormous range of products to buy and food samples to taste. It’s a great place to meet with friends as you enjoy the melodies of our local musicians. The Farmers’ Market gives you the opportunity to talk with the producers and ask questions about the food or products they sell including how it was made or grown and when it was picked. The market here in Burlington is on Thursday afternoons and much of the produce is harvested that morning.

An added incentive to shop at the Farmers’ Market is the quality of service. The producers are experts on their own produce, offering information on ingredients and advice on the best way to prepare and serve the produce.

Since all produce is locally grown and harvested in season don’t expect strawberries in December! There is good news; some of our producers are investing in high tunnel technology that allows them to start produce earlier and extend the growing season.

FARMERS MARKET DEFINITION

A farmers’ market operates multiple times per year and is organized for the purpose of facilitating personal connections that create mutual benefits for the local farmer, shoppers and communities. To fulfill that objective farmers markets define the term local, regularly communicate that definition to the public and implement rules/guidelines of operation that ensure that the farmers’ market consists principally of farm produced products being sold directly to the public.

Farmers Market Coalition—June 2010
So what does that mean? Simply stated, it brings the farmers who produce the food to the shoppers at the market. Most of the farmers attend the market weekly and follow rules of operation that say we will only sell the produce and (delete) produce that we grow on our farms.