Community Farm & Food Celebration at Atkins Field
August 1, 3:00 - 6:00 pm
Atkins Field | 140 Granite Street, Hardwick
Free! 

Head to Atkins Field from 3:00pm - 6:00pm on Friday, August 1st for an afternoon of summer fun to celebrate the NEK's vibrant agricultural community! Enjoy horse-drawn wagon rides, baby goats, a performance by Circus Smirkus, live music by Indigenous Entertainment, family friendly activities, farmers market vendors, prepared food and dessert vendors, cocktails by St. Johnsbury Distillery, and more. Come celebrate the role agriculture has and continues to play in the community.

 There will be: 

• Horse-drawn wagon rides
• Baby goat “meet and greet”
• A performance by Circus Smirkus
• Live music by Indigenous Entertainment
• Family friendly activities
• Face painting
• Farmers market vendors
• Cocktails, prepared food, snacks, and desert vendors:
  • Cocktails with St. Johnsbury Distillery
  • Prepared foods: San Song Kitchen, MexiRico & CAE’s all local burgers!
  • Austrian baked goods & Maya’s Maple Creamees
• Milk tasting
• Sample goods from market vendors 
   

Market Vendors at the event will include: Riverside Farm, Flycatcher Farm, Broadfork Farmstead, North Hardwick Farm, Haus on the Hill, St. Johnsbury Distillery, Maple Hill Apiaries, Foster Farm, LB & D Baked Goods, Sawmill Brook Farm, Steadyfoot Farm, Northwoods Soap Works, Needle & Stitch, Stone Fence Farm, Brown's Beautiful Blueberries, Bridge Street Breads  

This free event is put on by the Center for an Agricultural Economy and the Hardwick Farmers.

The Hardwick Farmers Market (HFM) and the Center for an Agricultural Economy (CAE) collaborate to support local agriculture. As individual organizations we support farmers, the community, and local economy; by partnering together we maximize and multiply positive impacts to uplift the entire local food system. CAE sees the critical role the market plays in our community and invests in agriculture by employing and supporting the Hardwick Farmers Market Manager, and offering Atkins Field as the physical home for the market. The Hardwick Farmers Market provides a critical venue for consumers and our community to buy directly from our local farmers, prepared food vendors, youth, and artisans. The market creates opportunities to learn and build relationships within our local food system, supporting a shift away from an economy that extracts resources to one that helps regenerate the local economy, enhancing the health of the land and people. Together the organizations help create a vibrant, welcoming, free weekly gathering with live music that celebrates agriculture and brings people together.