Welcome to the Denison Farm Market

The Denison Farm Market is now open every Sunday, 12:00-3:00, through October. Held on the Homestead grounds our market features a variety of local farmers and farm products. We look forward to seeing you here on Sundays!

We will have fiddlers there each Sunday for your listening pleasure and entertainment. Additionally, if you wish to visit the Homestead, which is open during market hours, you will get a discount rate for attending the both venues.

Vendors: Your newsletter, regulations, and more information is now here.

Visitors: You will find directions to the Denison Farm Market here.

Current Farmers/Vendors

Here is our current list of vendors for 2008.  

• 18th Century Purity Farms:  Paul and Joann Desrochers; (860) 564-8733; 701 Squaw Rock Road, Moosup, CT 06354. We feature heirloom and traditional fruits and veggies.
   
• Aiki Farms: Robert and Dominique Burns, (860) 536-6407, (860) 334-3595 (fax); 769 Shewville Road, Ledyard, CT 06339; burns@aikifarms.com. Some of our specialties are wheat grass juce, mings & lentils, red winter wheat berry (sprouting) Buckwheat lettuce and pea shoots.
     
  
• Arbonne International: Kendall Stafford, (860) 447-9744; 188 Norwood Avenue, New London, CT 06320; http://www.Arbonne.com.
   
  

• Beltane Farm and Oak Leaf Dairy: (860) 887-4709; 59 Taylor Bridge Road, Lebanon, CT 06249. Beltane Farm makes a variety of artisanal, farmstead goat milk cheese on our farm in Lebanon, Connecticut. Although our award winning Fresh Chevre is our most popular cheese, we also make a number of fine French style ripened cheeses as well as our Feta. Our Oberhasli and La Mancha goats are milked twice daily and provide the milk for our cheese.

• Bittersweet Bakery, LLC: Larry Macari; (860) 413-9602; 32 Rainbow Road, East Granby, CT 06026. Artisan bread, cookies, pies and sweet bread.

• Davis Farm: Whit Davis, (860) 599-5859, (860) 599-5841; 568 Greenhaven Road, Pawcatuck, CT 06739. Stonington’s oldest, continuously active farm. Salt Marsh Hay, corn, veggies, Johnny Cake meal, eggs, and lots of Whit’s wit. Voted in 2007 to have the Market's BEST sweet corn.

• Ecoangels: Sue Andaloro; andalorosusan@yahoo.com. 
  100% post consumer recycled paper, hemp products, books for farmers and environmentalists, calendars for people in tune with nature, wallets, etc. made from used tires, binders, etc. made from old computer circuit boards, recycled wrapping paper with soy ink, solar powered backpacks, and rainforest medicine.

• Footsteps Farm: Craig and Sheryl Floyd; footstepsfarm@hotmail.com; (860) 536-8377; 55 Laurence Eleanor St., Stonington, CT. CT’s first and currently only Certified Humane Farm; pastured poultry, eggs, Heritage turkeys, Heritage hogs, pork bulk orders or by the pound at the Farm Market.

• The Funny Farm: Bob and Claudia Duffy; (860) 245-0056; 351 Shewville Road, Ledyard, CT. Rd1948@yahoo.com. Great humor, outstanding veggies, plants, herbs; a road-side stand and the friendliest folks east of the Thames River.

• Grande Marquis Farm: Ira & Christina Kettle; (860) 367-2238 Ira and (860) 367-2387 Christina; 86 Gate Street, Voluntown, CT 06384. imacowlover2@yahoo.com. Homegrown beef USDA inspected.

• The Groton Family Farm: William Burrows; (860) 235-1011; 70 Fort Hill Road, Groton, CT 06340; burrowswarren@gmail.com. Lots of free-range eggs, veggies, and such.

• Haider Farm: Ronald and Patricia Haider; 2 Doctor Nott Rd., Franklin, CT 06254; (860) 642-1811;
  Haiderfarm@gmail.com. Veggies of all sorts; contact Ron for beef and pork too. Certified organic.
  
  
• Hidden Brook Gardens, LLC: Anita Kopchinski and Bill Sokol; anitanbill@comcast.net; (860) 536-4745; 551 Colonel Ledyard Highway, Ledyard, CT; Hidden Brook Gardens, LLC, is a certified organic farm specializing in vegetables and herbs with a focus on heirloom varieties to encourage bio-diversity as well as excellent flavors. Certified organic.
    
  
• Irish Baker, LLC: Susan Godley, North Stonington
  irishbakergirl@comcast.net. The Irish Baker, LLC is committed to bringing small batch, made from scratch yummy baked goods--baked only with high-quality ingredients, love, and care--to you and your family. Requests welcome! Look for some new items this year, as well as your favorites, Signature Irish Soda Bread, Aunt Cathy's Coffee Cake, blueberries when the season starts, and whatever else we can come up with.
  
  

• Mary's Sweet Bread: mary@maryssweetbread.com; (860) 599-0340; 10 Mark ST., Pawcatuck, CT. When Mary Soares bakes her Portuguese Sweet Bread, she adds more than just flour, eggs, sugar, and shortening. That something extra you taste is her passion – for her mother, who taught her the recipe, for her love of baking, and for the bread itself. The result of Mary's lifelong, singular devotion is the finest handmade sweet bread steeped in a proud Portuguese tradition.

• Merianos Bake Shoppe: 1200 Boston Post Road, Guilford, CT 06437; (203) 453-2924. In business for more than 20 years in Guilford, we bring to the market anginetti and vienna cookies, peanut butter balls, apple strudel, stuffed breads, and an assortment of Italian specialty items like pies, cakes, pastry, and the best cannoli you've ever had!

• North Stonington Congregational Church: Contact person: Jim Lautzenheiser, lautzswood@sbcglobal.net; (860) 535-1395. Fruit pies made with fruit from local farms and church members. All proceeds from pie sales go to benefit the Church budget.

• Paul-n-Dina Garden Delights: Sherrill & Frank Janeiro, (860) 536 5440; paulndina@sbcglobal.net. Handcrafted natural herb products. Including hand lotions, lipbalms, soap, herbal pillows, garlic and specialty container gardens.

• Regan Stacey Cakes: Regan Stacey, Stonington CT
  (860) 961-8586; regan@reganstacey.com


• Stan’s Salsa: Stan’s Gourmet Foods, (860) 434-9501; 40 Sill Lane, Old Lyme, CT 06371. Stan’s Gourmet Authentic Southwest Salsa is made with fresh ingredients in Mild or Hot. Stop by and try a sample.
  Stan's salsa is produced at Sill Farm in Old Lyme, CT. Sill Farm has produced local food from local resources since 1968. Call us and ask for Ruth, Sam or Stan. Stan also provides custom barbecues with his mobile wood-fired cooker.
  
  

• Stonewall Apiary: Contact: Stuart Woronecki; stuart@ct-honey.com; (860) 822-1645; 320 Main Street, Hanover, CT 06350. Family owned & operated, Stonewall Apiary produces local honey & beeswax, provides educational programs & beekeeping services.

• Studio Farm Products: Dick and Dot Wingate, Ed and Belinda Learned; (860) 599-2530; 49 Voluntown Rd., Voluntown, CT. CSA certified organic veggies; jams, jellies, and loads more, plus Ed's beef and pork. Voted the Salsa Queen in 2006.

• Sweet Country Roads, LLC: Charlotte Abbott; 180 McDonald Road, Colchester, CT 06415;
  agatha13k@yahoo.com. A wide array of the freshest jams and jellies.

Click on a thumbnail below to see a picture from our 2007 season.

           

Where Do I Find...?

To find local farms, pick-your-own, and CSA farms, visit http://localharvest.org.

Farm Market Newsletter

If you would like to receive our regular newsletter, send an email to Dot Windgate at denisonfarmmarket@yahoo.com.

We Need Volunteers!!

Would you be interested in helping to run special events and/or to act as Market Masters? We want to see this land get used and need folks to help run events and special educational programs.

Some of our ideas for education are:

• How to put food by
• How to make jams and jellies
• How to start a garden
• How to raise the best tomatoes

Some of our event ideas are:

• See our field being mowed by Horse Drawn equipment
• A antique Tractor display
• A Steam driven vehicle display
• A BBQ Contest
• A Garlic Day

So get your organization to sponsor an event. You and your group can make money. And we can get more folks to the Farm Market.

Our Market Master

Our current Market Master is Bob Burns, who you can reach at (860) 536-6407 and burns@aikifarms.com.

We would like to thank Craig Floyd of Footsteps Farm (and past President of the Denison Society) for starting the market in 2005, and continuing as Market Master in 2007 and 2008.  You can read his comments on the Farmers Market in the Denison Society Fall 2005 Newsletter #127 .

Click on a thumbnail below to see a picture from our opening day in 2006.