Clinton Farmers Market will hold Thursday session
Organizers said there will be more than 15 vendors set up for this session, offering locally raised pork, beef and lamb; fresh baked goods and sweets; embroidered shirts and other non-food goods; handcrafted art; locally made hot sauces and spices; tallow products, and more.
There also will be a coffee truck and a shaved-ice truck on hand.
The Clinton Farmers Market will return to the Anderson County Fairgrounds for another session on Saturday, Aug. 23, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
For more information about the Clinton Farmers Market, visit its Facebook page.
Clinton sheep farmer Matthew Garafolo and his partner, Maggie Hanson , created the market for this year after the previous market operators decided not to open their market this year.
The inaugural session was held on Saturday, May 24, also at the fairgrounds.
The East Tennessee FARM group had sponsored the Clinton Farmers Market the previous three years – the first year in the city parking lot on Commerce Street and the past two years in Clinton’s Lakefront Park.
But the group announced in March that it did not intend to operate the market this year, citing a lack of vendor interest.
Garafalo and Hanson produce Katahdin sheep on their farm, which “work very well in a variety of production situations as a low-maintenance, easy care sheep,” according to the website katahdins.org.
He said that he and Hanson decided to revive the Clinton market in part as a way to help market their own products.
