Welcome to the Denison Farm Market

The Denison Farm Market will return in 2008. It is held on the grounds on Sundays, 12:00-3:00 from the beginning of June through October, featuring a variety of local farmers and farm products. We look forward to seeing you here on Sundays! 

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 2007 (and 2008, we hope).  

• 18th Century Purity Farm: Joanne (860) 564-8733; pesticide-free fruits and vegetables, heirloom apples and peaches, sweet corn.

• A Sweet Affair; Homemade custom candies that make your taste buds dance.

• Aiki Farms: Robert and Dominique Burns, (860) 536-6407, (860) 334-3595 (fax); 769 Shewville Road, Ledyard, CT 06339; burns@aikifarms.com. We will be selling sprouting, lentils, mung beans, garbanzobeans, red winter wheat berry, pea shoots, buckwheat, lettuce, spicy Asian mix, Thai basil, and potatoes.
   
  

• Beltane Farm: (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.

• Country Corners Farm: Bernie Laizer; blaizer53@netzero.net; (860) 376-2259; 288 Brewster Road, Griswold, CT 06351. Certified Organic,  naturally grown, Certified Naturally Grown veggies, apples, many different kinds of tomatoes, lots of good humour. Voted to have the sweetest sweet corn in 2007.

• 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.

• 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. 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; homegrown beef USDA inspected.

• Great Harvest Bread: rksix@greatharvest.com Robert & Karen Six, Owners; 744 Long Hill Road, Groton, CT 06340; (860) 449 6771; Bread and sweets made from scratch daily right in our bakery. No additives or preservatives added.

• The Groton Family Farm: William Burrows; Groton, CT; lots of free-range eggs, veggies, and such.

• Haider Farm: Ronald and Patricia Haider; 2 Doctor Nott Rd., Franklin, CT 06254; veggies of all sorts; contact Ron for beef and pork too.
  
  
• 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. 
  
  
• John Rita Seafood: (860) 599-2437; Seafood fresh from Stonington’s own.  Stonington Red Shrimp, scallops, flounder and other great weekly specials straight from the boat. Lobsters by special order.
  
  

• 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 19 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!

• Nature's Edge Farm: (860) 546-9418; 165 North Canterbury Road, Canterbury, CT 06331.

• 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.

• Peg Moran Flowers: Elisa Whitman. The finest locally grown and raised cut flowers.
  
  

• 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: 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 Bernie Laizer 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

We would like to thank Craig Floyd of Footsteps Farm (and past President of the Denison Society) for spearheading this effort, beginning 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.