Salem NH Farmers Market Announces Third Season

Salem NH Farmers Market is delighted to announce the upcoming third Season of bringing the New Hampshire Southern Tier community fresh grown and made products by local farms and vendors.

“You can’t buy Happiness, but you can Buy Local which is sort of the same thing”...

 Having the Salem New Hampshire Farmers Market cultivate each year has brought many happy and satisfied customers to our host where the Market opens on the scheduled Sundays from 12 to 4 p.m. 

The reflection of bringing the community together by having a Farmers Market has fulfilled the passion of Jane Lang, Volunteer Market Coordinator. Jane’s enormous efforts and hours each week allows the Farmers Market to open to our community.

This past winter/spring season has reached new heights in the growth of the market. They are attracting outstanding vendors bringing to our community their farm grown and freshly made products such as fresh all natural meats, diary, cheese, eggs, local wines, honey, maple, grains, soaps, lotions just to name a few. Along with many fine all natural prepared foods. Every vendor who sells at the market is the actual producer. SFM does not allow buy and sell items. Many of the items are part of the Made in NH Association.

The Summer Season Market will kick off on Sunday, June 17 from 12 to 4 p.m.  Open every Sunday through September 30, they look forward to the harvest of fresh produce from the local farms participating in the market.

The Salem NH Farmers Market made generous donations this past season from the small fees they receive from the vendors to local organizations like the Salem Lions Club, Salem Resource Center Success by Six and Seacoast Eat Local as well as offering various raffle gift baskets of market dollars to spend at the market. They also have presented market dollars to the Ingram Senior Center and Food Pantries in the area.

The Salem NH Farmers Market was accepted into the EBT/ SNAP program from the USDA Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) (Formerly the Food Stamp Program) in February and was honored to receive funding to purchase the electronic equipment and tokens from Enterprise Bank in Salem, NH. Their generous donation allows us now to take EBT cards under their guidelines at the market to buy fresh and local. The Market also accepts Debit card only transactions allowing our customers to purchase tokens $5 increments and use with any vendor at our market. These are extra dollars the vendor would not normally get if he did not take CC. The market absorbs the processing fees for them.

Due to the increasing farmers markets opening up in New Hampshire, Salem found it hard for a few of our current vendors to have the product and manpower to satisfy all the demands of operation the Markets require. Salem Farmers Market has created “Market Success Stories” The Market will purchase the items and hire a high school student to sell them so we do not lose the momentum the vendor had started. The community continues to get the product and we created a job. Jane calls that a “Market Success Store!” 

SFM offers a non profit table to local organizations allowing them to spread their message of how they are serving our community. Family Promise of Greater Rockingham County is a regular at our Market and continuously expresses how much they get out to the community from our Market.

The Salem NH Farmers Market is a Community Event for our southern tier community towns. For more information about the market please contact Jane Lang, Volunteer Market Coordinator 603-339-8424 or please visit our web site www.salemnhfarmersmarket.com and sign up for our newsletter which Jane sends out prior to every market with the list of vendors to prepare your shopping list.

Salem NH Farmers Market next two spring markets will be Sunday, May 6 and May 20 from 12 to 4 p.m. at Lake Street Garden Center. Come and taste the true favors of buying fresh and the enjoyment of buying local.

“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”

― Masanobu Fukuoka