The Watershed Agricultural Council is featuring a different Catskills farmers' market every week during the 2013 growing season. This week's markets are the Cornell Cooperative Extension Farmers' Markets.
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Delaware County sponsors three farmers’ markets in Sidney, Walton and Deposit. Established for the convenience of local residents and participants, these markets accept Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) through Women, Infants & Children (WIC) and Delaware County Office for the Aging. In addition to cash sales, WIC clients and income eligible senior citizens may redeem their farmers’ market nutrition program coupons at these local markets.
The Sidney Farmers’ Market is held every Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Video Entertainment parking lot, 89 Main Street through September 24. Brookside Market Gardens and Whitetail Meadow Farm offer beets, chard, herbs, kohlrabi, melons, onions, peppers, spinach, cabbage, beans, squash, tomatoes and other fresh vegetables and fruit.
The Walton farmers’ market is open on two Wednesdays ONLY – August 7 and September 4 -- at UHS Delaware Valley Hospital, 2 Titus Place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Brookside Market Gardens and Catskill Cattle Company with fresh meat and produce available including beets, chard, herbs, kohlrabi, melons, onions, peppers, spinach, cabbage, beans, squash, tomatoes and other fresh fruits and vegetables.
The Deposit Farmers’ Market is also open on two Thursdays ONLY--August 15 and September 19 -- during the WIC clinic at the First United Methodist Church, 107 Second Street 2013 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Brookside Market Gardens and Catskill Cattle Company will offer the same products available at the Walton location.
Contact Jeanne Darling at (607) 865-6531 or email vsd22@cornell.eduif you would like information about participating in one or all of Extension’s Farmers' Market sites in 2013.
For more farmers’ markets accepting FMNP, SNAP and EBT throughout the region, contact Kristan Morley at the Watershed Agricultural Council kmorley@nycwatershed.org or (607) 865-7090, ext. 293.
