Farmers’ markets bring back the taste of summer

Wayne County, Narrowsburg markets debut Memorial Day weekend

REGION — Two farmers’ markets have chosen the Memorial Day weekend to make their debuts. The Narrowsburg Market in Narrowsburg, NY will open on Saturday, May 23 from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m., and will take place on Bridge Street in front of the library. It will continue on Saturdays through October 10. In addition to fresh produce, it will carry fresh baked goods, cheese, plants for your garden and more.

The Wayne County Farmers’ Market will open on Saturday, May 23, trackside behind the Wayne County Visitors Center, 32 Commercial Street in Honesdale, PA, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The market will be open rain or shine every Saturday through October.

Among this year’s new vendors at the Wayne farmers’ market are Kirt and Marie Gustafson of Waterdell Farm, Tyler Hill. In addition to growing herbs, heirloom vegetables and bedding plants, the couple will offer eggs and organic-flour baking mixes. Their business, The Green Farmhouse, makes natural cleaning products and handcrafted homemaking items such as aprons, dishcloths and market bags. They also make and sell gift baskets.

Journey’s End Farm, Newfoundland, joins this year’s market with farmers Kara Fitzgerald and Ryan Wood-Beauchamp offering a long list of seasonal vegetables. The list includes 10 varieties of lettuce, wild leeks, peas and many greens such as mizuna, arugula and endive. Later in the season, they will have sweet corn, tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, eggplant, tomatillos, zucchini, cucumbers, radishes, ten varieties of winter squash and much more. Journey’s End Farm also sells maple syrup, maple cream, maple sugar and maple candy.

They will join many returning vendors including Jim Yatsonsky of Yatsonsky’s Farm Market, Roger Hill of Treeline Farms and James and Carol Rutledge of Wahoo Enterprises, who sell not only homegrown vegetables and flowers, but fudge, too. Richard Tregidgo of North Slope Farms has a wide variety of shrubs, bushes, trees and flowering perennials that thrive in the region. Also returning are cheese makers Jay and Emily Montgomery of Calkins Creamery, who bring their farmstead artisan cheeses to the market; and Chris Lantzsch of Lantzsch Farms, selling eggs, beef, poultry and sweet corn.