Head to Atkins Field from 3:00pm - 6:00pm on Friday, August 1st for an afternoon of summer fun to celebrate the NEK's vibrant agricultural community! Enjoy horse-drawn wagon rides, baby goats, a performance by Circus Smirkus at 3:00pm, live music by Indigenous Entertainment, family friendly activities, farmers market vendors, prepared food and dessert vendors, cocktails by St. Johnsbury Distillery, and more. Come celebrate the role agriculture has and continues to play in the community.
This free event is put on by the Center for an Agricultural Economy and the Hardwick Farmers.
Learn more: caevt.org/fun
The Hardwick Farmers Market (HFM) and the Center for an Agricultural Economy (CAE) collaborate to support local agriculture. As individual organizations, we support farmers, the community, and the local economy; by partnering, we maximize and multiply positive impacts to uplift the entire local food system. CAE sees the critical role the market plays in our community and invests in agriculture by employing and supporting the Hardwick Farmers Market Manager, and offering Atkins Field as the physical home for the market. The Hardwick Farmers Market provides a critical venue for consumers and our community to buy directly from our local farmers, prepared food vendors, youth, and artisans. The market creates opportunities to learn and build relationships within our local food system, supporting a shift away from an economy that extracts resources to one that helps regenerate the local economy, enhancing the health of the land and people. Together, the organizations help create a vibrant, welcoming, free weekly gathering with live music that celebrates agriculture and brings people together.

Image: Paul Ruta and his team from Black Horse Farm take 2023 event attendees on a horse-drawn wagon ride around the community orchard at Atkins Field. Photo by Kent Shaw