Concord’s Winter Farmers’ Market offers artisan goods and community gathering

Just behind the clock tower in downtown Concord, tables of cheese, pastries, candles and soaps fill Eagle Square, drawing dozens of customers to the Winter Farmers’ Market.

This marks the market’s fourth season, with over 35 local vendors selling artisan goods from November to April.

Brenda White, who co-owns Blakeney’s Bakery in Contoocook, looked around at the many unique vendors gathered in the atrium and compared the market to Boston’s Fanueil Hall.

“It’s something that we’ve built up over the course of the year before COVID started,” said White, who also serves as a member of the market’s board. “Over the last three years, it has increased from being an average about 350 [people] to now — we’re closer to 650 every Saturday morning.”

At his booth, Noah Courser-Kellerman of Alprilla Farm sells biennial crops, like carrots, onions and cabbage because they grow throughout the summer, bloom in the winter and set their seeds before dying out the following summer.

Courser-Kellerman has run the farm in Warner alongside his wife for the past two years.

“We switched to this marketing model, in part because of labor… and in part because it’s a niche that isn’t being filled,” Courser-Kellerman said.

The market is open every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

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