Bristol Farmers Market among favorite markets in the state

Residents patronizing the 2024 Bristol Farmers Market. | Laura Bailey

Posted By: David Fortier August 10, 2024

Bristol Farmers Market placed third among Connecticut’s favorite farmers market in the America’s Farmers Market Celebration state-wide contest sponsored by American Farmland Trust.

Bristol finished behind first place Coventry Farmers Market and second place Monroe Farmers Market and ahead of fourth place Putnam Saturday Farmers Market and fifth place Farmers Market at the Guilford Fairgrounds.

Each week in the summer and through early fall, the Bristol Farmers Market is held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the 10 Main St. parking lot.

Vendors at each week’s market include Better Baking by Beth, Continuum Distilling, Chicken Frosty, Gresczyk Farms, CBG Gurus, Amazing Love, Soothing Ways, Ridge Runner Soaps, the Ancient Flavors, Perkins Pure Maple Sugar House, Pure Goodness Bakery, Tonn’s Marketplace and Twin Pines Farm.

The venue features free musical entertainment, accepts Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Vouchers and WIC as well as Double Snap and EBT.

For more information, check the Facebook page by clicking here. For a link to Instagram, click here.

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