Hollis Bridge Farmers Market · Season 18

Saturdays on the green.
May to October.

Forty-eight farms, bakers, cooks and makers on the town green every Saturday morning, rain or shine. Run by a volunteer board, paid for by pancakes, open to anyone with a bag.

This Saturday SNAP is matched here

The 2026 season May 2 to
Oct 31 Saturdays 8 to 1

Saturdays 8 to 1May 2 to October 31Hollis Bridge Town Green48 vendorsMusic at 10SNAP matched to $25Rain or shineDogs on a leash welcome

This week

Posted Friday, for Saturday.

The board writes this card every Friday afternoon after the vendors check in. If it says peaches, there are peaches. If a farm is away, it says so here first.

Want it in your inbox Friday night? Write to hello@bushel.example and say "Friday card".

Saturday 8 to 1 · rain or shine September 5

In season: Tomatoes at full tilt, sweet corn, the last of the peaches, peppers, eggplant, melons, and the first delicata squash from Kestrel Hill.
Music: The Tillerman Sisters, 10 to noon at the bandstand. Three-part harmony, one banjo. Bring a chair.
Special: Tomato tasting at the info tent from 10: fourteen heirloom varieties, blind, and you vote for the winner. Kids' seed-saving table all morning.
Away: Broadmeadow Dairy is at a wedding. Copperhen Eggs doubled their order and will still sell out by 10. Come early.

Posted Friday, September 4, by the board

The vendors

Forty-eight tables, and everything on them grown, raised, or made within fifty miles.

Season vendors are here every Saturday in the same spot. Day vendors rotate through; the Friday card says who. A red chip means they joined this year, so go and say hello.

Heirloom tomatoes and sweet peppers piled in wooden crates on a market table — Old Post Road Farm, August

Sourdough loaves and baguettes in a wicker basket, seen from above — Crumb Bakehouse, 7:45 am

Produce 14

Hollis Bridge Orchardapples, peaches, cider
Stonewall Row Farmvegetables, since 1961
Two Sisters Farmgreens, roots, garlic
Cutter's Ridge Vegetablestomatoes, peppers, corn
Little Eddy Farmcertified organic mix
Halfmoon Greenssalad mix, microgreens
Kestrel Hill Producesquash, melons, potatoes
Brambleworth Berriesstrawberries to blackberries
Old Post Road Farmheirloom tomatoes
Dooley's Mushroomsshiitake, oyster, lion's mane
Pennywhistle Farmbeans, cucumbers, pickling
Redgate Melons & Cornsweet corn from July
Ferncliff Herbs Newculinary herbs, plant starts
Ash & Alder Farm Newasparagus, rhubarb, leeks

Bread & pastry 6

Crumb Bakehousecountry loaves, baguettes
Tinderbox Sourdoughwood-fired boules
Mabel's Piesfruit pies, hand pies
Hollis Bridge Bagel Co.boiled Friday night
Windfall Pastrycroissants, galettes
The Flour Barrel Newrye, seeded, gluten-free

Meat & dairy 8

Broadmeadow Dairymilk, yogurt, butter
Sable Creek Creameryaged cheeses
Whitcombe Goat Dairychevre, feta
Hardscrabble Farmpasture pork, sausage
Bluestone Beefgrass-fed, by the cut
Lark Hollow Lamblamb, wool, sheepskins
Copperhen Eggssells out by 10
Fenwick Trout Farmfresh and smoked trout

Prepared food 8

Salt & Ember Kitchenwood-fired flatbreads
The Pierogi Carthot now, frozen for later
Cornhusk Tamalespork, chicken, sweet corn
Long Row Preservesjams, marmalade, chutney
Marigold Kombuchaon tap, bring a jar
Bee & Boon Honeyraw honey, comb
Northbound Coffeepour-over cart
Quiet Hen Kimchi Newkimchi, sauerkraut

Flowers 5

Dahlia Alleydahlias, August on
Hedgerow Floralsmixed bouquets
Thistle & Ferndried flowers, wreaths
Sunfield Flower Farmzinnias, sunflowers
Late Bloomer Newbouquets by the bucket

Crafts 7

Stubb Potterymugs, bowls, planters
Hollis Bridge Woodturnersbowls, spoons
Threadbare Textilestea towels, aprons
Salt Marsh Soapsoap, balm, no scent too
Copper & Canewoven baskets
Bookbinder's Daughterletterpress cards
Ironwood Boards Newcutting boards

SNAP & match

Your SNAP dollars go twice as far on the green.

Bushel doubles SNAP, dollar for dollar, up to $25 every market day. No sign-up, no paperwork, no separate line. The match is paid for by the Hollis Bridge Community Fund and the pancake breakfast we run in April.

$25matched per card, every Saturday

$28kmatched last season, across 1,900 visits

Find the red tent.
It is the one by the bandstand with the Info sign, open the whole market. Bring your EBT card. You do not need anything else.
Pick a number.
Tell the volunteer how much SNAP you want to spend today. We run the card at the tent and hand you wooden tokens, one dollar each.
We double it.
For every SNAP dollar, up to $25 a day, you get a red match token. Match tokens buy fruit, vegetables, herbs, and plants that grow food. Both kinds are good all season.
Shop like anyone else.
Every booth takes tokens; look for the tomato card on the table. Vendors make change in tokens and cash out with us after close, so nobody is ever counting quarters.

WIC and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program checks are welcome at every produce booth and matched the same way. Questions before Saturday: snap@bushel.example, or the info tent at (555) 555-0148 on market mornings.

The season

What arrives, and when.

Twenty-seven Saturdays, and no two look the same. This is the rough order of things in Hollis Bridge; a warm April or a wet June can move any of it by a fortnight. When in doubt, ask the farmer.

Hands arranging dahlias and zinnias in galvanized buckets at a flower stall — Dahlia Alley, late August

May

Asparagus, rhubarb, ramps, radishes, spinach, and the first strawberries if the week runs warm. Plant starts by the flat.

June

Strawberries in earnest, sugar snap peas, garlic scapes, lettuces, new potatoes, and the first zucchini nobody asked for.

July

Blueberries, sour cherries, cucumbers, green beans, sweet corn by the Fourth, and tomatoes from the high tunnels.

August

Tomatoes at full tilt, peaches, peppers, eggplant, melons, okra, and dahlias by the bucket.

September Now

Apples, pears, grapes, late corn, leeks, the first winter squash, and every kind of tomato at once.

October

Pumpkins, delicata and butternut, brussels sprouts on the stalk, cider, storage onions and potatoes, the last of the flowers.

A folk band playing under a canopy tent on the green, seen from behind the crowd

Music & events

A band at ten, every Saturday.

Two hours at the bandstand, a tip jar, and a small stipend from the board. Bring a chair or sit on the grass. Bands that want a Saturday next season write to music@bushel.example by March.

Sept12

10 to noon · bandstand
Hollis Bridge Brass
Fourteen players, a sousaphone, and one march they refuse to cut. The scouts run a corn roast on the Elm Street side from 11.
Sept19

All morning · info tent
Tomato Fest
Salsa contest judged at 11:30 (enter by 10, bring a bowl), a blind tasting of every tomato on the green, and Fiddler's Green playing old-time tunes under the oak.
Oct3

Pressing from 9 · bandstand
Apple Day
Hollis Bridge Orchard brings the cider press. Bring your own apples or buy a peck and press it. The Windrow Boys play bluegrass; the pie contest is judged at noon.
Oct31

Parade at 11 · the whole green
Last Market
Costume parade for kids and dogs, a chili cook-off between the vendors, the Tillerman Sisters back by request, and every pumpkin half price at noon. Then we roll up the tents until May.

Become a vendor

Forty-eight booths. A handful open every season.

Bushel is a producer-only market: everything on your table is grown, raised, or made by you within fifty miles of Hollis Bridge. If that is you, we would like to meet you. The application is one email, and a jury of five reads every one.

Fees

Day vendor	$35per Saturday, 10 by 10 space
Season vendor	$45027 Saturdays, same spot all year
Double booth	$800season, 10 by 20, corners first
Community table	$0one a week for nonprofits, the scouts, the library

Bring your own tent, table, and weights (25 pounds per leg; the green is windy). Power is available at six booths for $5 a day, first come.

The jury

Three board members and two current vendors read applications twice a year. They look for things we do not have yet, for food that is actually yours, and for tables that will look right next to the ones already here. Prepared-food vendors need a county cottage-food license or a commercial kitchen; everyone carries $1M liability insurance naming the market.

Dates

Jan 15Season applications open for 2027
Feb 28Applications close, no exceptions
Mar 15Jury decisions by email
Apr 18Vendor meeting and pancake breakfast
RollingDay-vendor waitlist, all season

How to apply

One email. No form, no portal, no fee to apply. Put these five things in it:

What you sell, in a paragraph
Where it is grown or made, and by whom
Three photos of the product and one of your setup
Season or day vendor, and which Saturdays
Licenses and insurance, if you have them yet

Email vendors@bushel.example

We reply to every application, including the no's, within two weeks of the jury.

Volunteer & the board

Nobody here gets paid, including the treasurer.

Bushel is a 501(c)(3) run by a nine-person volunteer board: three farmers, a librarian, a nurse, a retired accountant who keeps the books, two parents who started as SNAP shoppers, and a high-school senior with a full vote. About forty more volunteers set up tents at six, staff the info tent, count tokens, and walk the green with a trash grabber.

The board meets the first Tuesday of the month at 7 in the library community room. Anyone can come, and the minutes go up on the info tent board the Saturday after.

Find us on the green.

Where

Hollis Bridge Town Green
Common Street at Elm
Hollis Bridge
Open in Maps

Look for the bandstand and the red tent. The market fills the whole green, church side to library side.

Parking & getting here

Free parking in the library lot on Common Street and the First Church lot on Elm. The green itself closes to cars at 6 am. Bike racks by the bandstand, and the number 4 bus stops at Common and Elm at ten past the hour.

Restrooms in the library from 9, and two by the Elm Street gate all morning.

Good to know

Dogs are welcome on a leash, with a water bowl at the info tent; please keep them out of the food tents. Rain or shine: we close for lightning only, and we post it here and on the sign at the green by 7.

Info tent on market mornings: (555) 555-0148. Every other day: hello@bushel.example.

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