‘FARM Market’ moves to Lakefront Park, and Thursday mornings
When Clinton’s “FARM Market” opens for its third year this coming May 18, it’s going to be in a new location with a new time.
The market will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Thursday throughout the growing season, and for 2023, it will move to Clinton’s Lakefront Park.
The previous two years, the market had been staged in the city parking lot on Commerce Street with late afternoon hours.
But Kathy Mihalczo, president of the East Tennessee Farm Association for Retail Marketing, or FARM, which sponsors the market, said that construction work underway at the Commerce Street location prompted the group to find a new location this year.
“We’re glad to be back in Clinton,” she said. “We had to move the market because of work being done in the downtown area, and we moved it to mornings because it’s a little bit cooler,” Mihalczo said.
She said “plenty of vendors” have signed up already, and as before, everything sold at the Clinton market will have been produced by the people who are selling it.
“All of our baked goods and gourmet foods are produced in health-certified, inspected commercial kitchens,” Mihalczo said.
More vendors are still being sought.