North East
Community Center
P.O. Box 35
51 South Center Street
Millerton NY 12546
tel: 518-789-4259
fax: 518-789-9279
Fast Facts about the Market
When: Saturdays from 9-1
Where: Dutchess Avenue, across from Herrington's in Millerton
What: greens and vegetables, meat, honey and maple syrup, eggs, herbs and flowers, baked goods, pickles and kim-chi, yogurt and cheese, and live music almost every week!
How? Through generous sponsors and underwriters!
Who: Students in the CPSB will assist the farmers, and also sell some items from local producers as part of an entrepreneurial project. During the week they will visit and work on the farms. Other stands will be staffed by the growers themselves.
Why? To promote local farms and sustainable and organic farming practices, which are best for human health and the environment.
What else? weekly events such as cooking demonstrations, spinning demonstrations, musical performances, and more - check back here as we update the schedule throughout the summer!
Download the 2009 Rules and Farmer Application
Watch this space for the 2009 Schedule of Events, Chef Demos and Performances!
Join our Facebook page for regular updates about new vendors, new products and exciting events!
News from the Market - June 19, 2009:
We have new vendors (Welcome, House on the Hill Bakery and SONAR Jewelry) new musicians on the schedule (Salisbury Drum Circle! Corey Bush and Friends!) see the links above for details on all our vendors and performers.
Also very exciting: our new market manager, Katharine Millonzi, will be joining us next week. Katharine will be supervising the student workers, helping them learn all about farming and food, as well as how to run their own business, as their summer job.
Katharine's background couldn't be more perfect: she just spent a year on a Fullbright Fellowship in Italy, studying local foodways. Before that she earned her master's degree from Slow Food International's Institute of Gastronomical Studies. (There's a mouthful, a delicious one!)
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NECC is proud to be the sponsor of Millerton's newest attraction, a farmer's market, Saturdays from Memorial Day through Columbus Day!
Spearheaded by volunteer Karen Kisslinger, this project seeks to promote and assist local farms and promote the value of food grown and made without chemicals, both for human health and the environment. (Most of our growers are either organic or otherwise "clean-grown" - all will provide a statement of growing practices upon request!
NECC Student Project
Students staffing NECC’s table are participants in our job training project, the Community Partnership with Schools and Business. Their job this summer is working at the market, visiting and helping on many of the participating farms, and running their own entrepreneurial business, purchasing products from local farmers and producers and selling them at the market. Any profits will be reinvested in the program. They are selling:
Honey, soap & candles - Pine Hill Farm, Sharon
Goat cheese, goat yogurt & ricotta - Four Brothers, Millerton
Cow’s milk yogurt - Hammond Dairy, Amenia
Pickles, sauerkraut & kim-chi made through lacto-fermentation - Adamah project, Falls Village, CT
Farmer's cheese and camembert - Amazing Real Live Food Company, Pine Plains
Gourmet mesclun and salad greens- Sky Farm, Millerton