Love Your Local: Spruce Street Farmers Market
The Town of Manchester’s Neighborhoods & Families Division will host their indoor Love Your Local: Spruce Street Farmers Market on Saturday, February 12 from 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM at the Nathan Hale Activity Center, 160 Spruce Street.
With local vendors including farmers, prepared food vendors, and artisans, Love Your Local is the perfect opportunity to get a head start on your Valentine’s Day shopping or treat yourself.
In addition to the market’s slate of various local vendors, the Spruce Street Farmers Market also accepts SNAP/EBT. The market will double up to $10 in SNAP benefits (spend $10 and receive an additional $10 for fresh produce).
The current slate of vendors includes:
Farms & Food:
- Amazing Ackee (frozen vegan Jamaican patties)
- Better Together Bakery (gluten-free cookies, brownies, cookie pies, breads, protein bites)
- Bloom Bake Shop (cookies, biscotti, sweet breads, brownies, pies)
- Dondero Orchards (apples, jams, pickles, cookies, pies, crumbles)
- Fernandes Farmstead (beef, pork, honey, eggs)
- Jeff’s Kettle Corn (kettle corn)
- Oh Fudge! and More (fudge, specialty chocolates, cocoa bombs)
- Ovelle Coffee (coffee)
- Saffron Lady (hand-blended loose leaf organic tea & spice blends)
- The Tasty Empanada (frozen empanadas)
- Whimsical Olive Branch (infused olive oils, flavored vinegars, gourmet pesto)
- Wilkinson Farm (maple syrup, maple sugar, maple candy, knitted items)
Artisans & More:
- 24 Peace (eco-fashion)
- A Clay Zone (aromatherapy scented clay)
- Candle Collaborative (beer CANdles, wax melts)
- Center Street Soap (soap & soap dishes)
- For “HIS” Glory (wood flower arrangements, wood tiny towns, wood routed signs)
- Fox & Gem (hand-knit baby and children’s hats, sweaters, rompers, mittens, scarves, toys)
- Gail Ward Olmsted, Author (historical fiction, women’s fiction)
- Hippie Love (crystals)
- K9 Kouture (reversible dog bandannas that slide onto a collar)
- Manchester Arts & Crafts (notecards, coffee mugs, coasters)
- Risarranged by LMB (photographic art prints, greeting cards, canvas totes & pouches)
- Sarah Rose Aromajewelry (essential oil diffuser necklaces, earrings, and necklaces, small potted houseplants)
- Trinkets by Beanie (earrings, bangles, trinket dishes, necklaces, bracelets)
For more information, please contact Cynde Acanto at [email protected]. For an up-to-date vendor roster, visit the Spruce Street Farmers Market Facebook page.
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James Costa is the Neighborhoods & Families Coordinator for the Department of Leisure, Family, and Recreation. He began working with the division during his sophomore year at Manchester High School, and he is now a UConn graduate with degrees in Journalism & Film Studies.
Fun Fact #1: I won my car in a raffle during Manchester High School’s Project Graduation.
Fun Fact #2: My all-time favorite movies are All That Heaven Allows, Punch-Drunk Love & Twin Peaks: The Return.