Montpelier, Brattleboro and tiny Chelsea beat the Queen City to the punch, but starting this winter, B-Town will finally have a year-round Farmers’ Market.

Featuring meats, cheeses, baked goods, pickles and preserves, and hearty winter vegetables, it’ll happen monthly from November through April at Memorial Auditorium. The first market is Saturday, November 22, the weekend before Thanksgiving, and locals can purchase their provender on the third Saturday of each month thereafter.

This article appears in Jun 25 – Jul 1, 2008.

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Former contributor Suzanne Podhaizer is an award-winning food writer (and the first Seven Days food editor) as well as a chef, farmer, and food-systems consultant. She has given talks at the Stone Barns Center for Agriculture's "Poultry School" and its...