The Farmer’s Market Opens Today

The Westborough Farmer's Market opens today. Every Thursday through September, the market will grace the front lawn of the at the corner of West Main and Church streets from 1 to 6 p.m. 

In addition to the fruits and vegetables found at traditional farmers' markets, there will be glass ware, hand-made jewelry, a line of organic women’s clothes, natural body care products, and a line of vegan organic haircare products. Additionally, there will be locally-made goats milk soap, wood handcrafted adirondack chairs, foot stools, bird and bat houses, and candles.

graduate Dylan Smith is scheduled to perform traditional folk music each week. Also, Dorothy Hurley will come over from the library to do a children's reading about farms.  

The Farmer’s Market is spearheaded by David McMahon, co-executive director of the Dismas House of Massachusetts. According to McMahon, the Farmer’s Market “allows us to combine our interests and passions for our farm (at the Dismas House), our desire to help people in need in our programs, and also to create a regular and interesting downtown event that includes eclectic vendors and fun activities for kids, especially as we have kids of our own. Also, this market allows a diverse array of healthy and local food, art, crafts, jewelry, and more to be brought right to the customer, supporting local businesses, entrepreneurs and farms.” 

As undergraduates at the University of Notre Dame, Westborough homeowners McMahon and his wife learned of the Dismas House model, which offers a small scale transitional home environment for former offenders. The Dismas Family Farm is their newest home. The staff there are looking forward to offering the wood products and produce that the residents at the farm work hard to produce. 

“What is great about this market,” said McMahon, “is that it accomplishes many goals. The market offers seven to eight Westborough based farms, entrepreneurs, artists, and businesses opportunities to offer their wares. The market allows local and regional farms a direct-to-customer outlet for produce and helps to keep these farms as a part of our central Massachusetts landscape. The market offers fresh and healthy food to the people of Westborough, and a shopper at the market could potentially purchase a whole dinner from local sources - beef, lamb, pork, produce, wine, honey, goat cheese, and Massachusetts maple syrup.”

Opening day, Thursday, June 30 events:

•  2 pm: Dylan Smith will perform
•  3 pm: Reading from the
•  5 pm: Ribbon Cutting

All day long - Children’s crafts projects

Vendors to look for: Chrystal Brook Cheese, Dismas Family Farm, Elements Within Zinc, Elsie Kaye Glassworks of Westborough, Emery Family Farm, Five Loaves Bakery, Heirloom Harvest Community Farm, Holistic Treasures, , Nourse Farm, Rocky Ridge Beef Farm, Warren Farm and Sugarhouse, Wellsprings Bodycare of Westborough, Yummy Mummy Brownies and Zoll Wine.

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