Summer's coming (yes, it is) and we're looking forward to

The Wallingford Gardeners Market to be held on Saturday mornings from 9 AM - Noon

July 17- September 25, 2010

11 weeks in our 11th year! 

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                                             gift baskets                                          
        fresh-picked flowers                                  paintings and prints
        potted flowers, herbs, and shrubs            quilts and aprons
        fresh breads                                               inscribed garden stones        
        coffee                                                          concrete planters and garden ornaments
        honey                                                           jewelry                      
        fresh eggs                                                   cat and dog treats
        fresh fish -- again this year!                       a hot dog cart
        T-shirts, aprons, and bags from 
         Wallingford Center, Inc
                                                                              

                   

Market Manager Ellie Tessmer and volunteers from The Wallingford Garden Club, Wallingford Center, Inc. and Certified Master Gardeners will be 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.    

The Wallingford Garden Club cookbooks are almost sold out!  
More than 600 recipes in this beautiful and useful keepsake! 
They make fabulous gifts at only $15.00.
Call Gini Mita at (203) 269-0305 for your copy of

Garden to Kitchen.

This limited edition is also be for sale at 
Wallingford Center, Inc., 261 Center St., Wallingford
 (203) 284-1807

and at
the Bookseller, Wallingford Public Library, 200 No. Main Street  

     Carole and Bob Golitko will be back this year to serve up  a "Country Breakfast"  of egg sandwiches and home fries
and also roasted corn and French toast with maple sytrup
using fresh produce from our vendors.  
 
Master Gardeners will answer gardening, plant, and insect pest questions.
  

Thanks to Liz Landow and the Wallingford Center, Inc. volunteers
who give us so much help and support.  WCI still has 
"Homegrown" Tee Shirts, aprons, and canvas bags for sale
at the office at 261 Center Street (203) 284-1807.

              


    

Carole Golitko, Liz Landow, and Bob Golitko in the "Country Breakfast" Booth.
Carole and Bob are serving up egg sandwiches and home fries
and this week, roasted corn from Tancreti's Farm.
Liz is the Executive Director of Wallingford Center, Inc. and designed the new
"Homegrown" T shirts and "What's Cooking?" aprons and the "Wallingford" canvas bags.
     

                                 


Volunteers from The Wallingford Garden Club Fran Zemke, Fran Pellegrino, Barbara Hannon,
and Helen Daney with Wallingford Center Executive Director Liz Landow.