The Wallingford Gardeners Market will be held on Saturday mornings from 9 AM - Noon
July 12 - September 13, 2008
on the Railroad Station Green
intersection of Routes 5 and150 (Colony Street and Hall Avenue)
in the heart of downtown Wallingford, CT
At the Gazebo!

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When you shop at the market, you support our local economy.  Your dollars go toward good fresh food, grown and harvested with care by local farmers and boutique gardeners.  You buy direct from the producer; no middlemen; no long distance trucking costs.

     Our Market features:

        fresh produce                                           crafts from local artisans
        fresh-picked flowers                                  gift baskets
        potted flowers, herbs, and shrubs               paintings and prints
        fresh breads                                             sketches and silhouettes
        coffee                                                      quilts and aprons
        honey                                                      inscribed stones                      
        fresh eggs                                                concrete planters and garden ornaments

   And much much more.

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Market Manager Ellie Tessmer and volunteers from The Wallingford Garden Club, Wallingford Center, Inc. and Certified Master Gardeners are on hand every week to make your shopping experience delightful and to dispense gardening information and advice, plant and insect
identification, and recipes and cooking instructions for the fresh herbs and produce.    

2008 is our ninth season.  Here's what's planned for this summer:

Music on the gazebo by The Wallingford Brass Quintet
(July 12, August 9, 23, 30, and Sept. 13)

Cooking demonstrations by Bob & Carole Golitko
 

New Recipes
Flower and dried flower arranging
Tours of the downtown flower gardens 
 Tours of the Trees of the Center Street Cemetery 

                                    Organic Farmers

            Lori Mossberg of "The Farmer's Daughter" and

                Michael Melillo of "Natures's Mirror" Farm

                            at the market last summer.