Medfield Farmers Market Isn't Just Farmers

Here it is mid-August and the Medfield Farmers’ Market this month is featuring farm fresh corn and peaches along with numerous colorful vegetables at the White Barn Farm booth from Wrentham each Thursday from 2 to 6 p.m. The market is located on North St on the lawn in front of the historic First Parish Meeting House (UU Church.) Of course other weekly and semi-weekly food vendors include: Little Beehive Farm in Holliston, with six bee hives that provide an assortment of honey products as well as fresh honey; a granola vendor, whose Nutty Bird product is a traditional cereal, home-made from natural grains, nuts and seeds; a no grain-ola of nuts and fruits by Chrisssy’s Crumbles ; a sheep farmer, Lightning Ridge Farm of Sherborn, with many cuts of lamb and fine wool products and T.C. Scoops a familiar ice cream chain. Non-food vendors range from Medfield Bike Repair Service to The Bruin Co. Home Improvement, Arbonne Beauty Products and fresh flowers.

Then there are the artists. The newest vendor this month is Kimberly Hartvigsen, a Medfield resident and fabric artist Box Pleat, who began designing and creating vintage style doll clothes for high end fashion doll collectors. Now she focuses on quilting, from exotic piece work to free-motion quilting on whole cloth. Her most recent major piece, completed just before the move to Medfield, was accepted for a second round of jurying in an international art competition. The booth will have some small less expensive items: bean bags, embellished shirts for little kids, and mug rug sized pieces. Throws and the larger wall hangings fall in a higher price range generally. Rarely, pieces are part of a small numbered series, but generally they are one of a kind as she explores her art. Look for this new booth as you browse the market this month. Look also for the new hand crafted Farm Pond Pottery and original greeting cards by Mary Millay. Also participating weekly is a creative vendor who has a patent pending for a gardening helper. The bucket can carry gardening tools, collect the weeks pulled and help the gardener get up from the kneeling position when weeding is finished. Appropriately named, the apparatus is the “get-up-bucket.

A church sponsored bake sale table is one of the weekly vendors offering take away delicacies to eat as you shop or have for dinner. Proceeds from the sale of these items, baked by First Parish cooks, are donated to the church for the upkeep of the building.

Parking is available in the rear of the building and along North Street. Visit the market often before it closes in October and bring friends.