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The Market:
Bath
Farmers
Market
Waterfront Park
Commercial Street
Bath, Maine / map
Saturdays, 8:30 a.m. to noon
(May-Oct.)
(207) 549-7611
Boothbay
Farmers
Market
Boothbay Commons
Rte. 27 at Back River Rd.
Boothbay, Maine / map
Thursdays, 9 a.m. to noon
(207) 882-6374
Market-Goer: Mark
Thompson
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On a week-long vacation in Maine,
I visited a sampling of two farmers markets, from among the
dozens that spring to life in the summer months.
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On Saturday, I dropped by the Bath Farmers Market,
at its picturesque waterfront site. On Thursday, I dropped by
the Boothbay
Farmers Market, located on the town common alongside the
main highway into town. |
Farmers market in Bath
has prime waterfront spot
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The Maine
Federation of Farmers Markets maintains a list of other
markets in the state.
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farmers market in Bath
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farmers market on the town
common in Boothbay
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What I Bought:
(clockwise
from upper left) Red Norland,
Yukon gold, all red and all blue potatoes
Price: $2/lb.
'wild'
blueberries
These tiny, tasty berries are actually
semi-wild, judging from the description of the woman who
sold them to me at the Boothbay farmers market. They are from a field that is tended by
her husband, she said.
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He harvests berries from the plants every
other year, and burns the fields in between, to keep the
forest at bay.
Price: $3/pint
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