Foodie and Chef Market at Garden on the Bridge
Part of Willimantic’s townwide Local Food Festival!
5/18/2014
Garden on the Bridge
451 Main Street
Willimantic, CT06226
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Visit over *30 CRFM vendors offering all the best that spring has to offer, and explore one of our favorite little cities as we POP UP at Garden on the Bridge and celebrate local food and art all around Willimantic!
Connecticut Food and Farm presents Badass Bartending: Craft Cocktails For Spring at Cafémantic's event space at 750 Main, 12:30.http://www.eventbrite.com/e/badass-bartending-craft-cocktails-for-spring-tickets-11498374949
Visit the CLiCK Vintage Kitchenware Sale at Garden on the Bridge.
Kid's can plant some seeds and take them home in a CowPot (thanks for the donation, CowPots!) at the The Willimantic Food Co-op, from 12-1, where you'll also find organic and heirloom seeds, seed potatoes, and garden plants from local greenhouses.
Enjoy a farm-to-table "Sunday Dinner" at Cafemantic or explore theWillimantic Downtown scratch-cooking restaurants we love like Nita's Restaurant (Polish cooking) and Tacos La Rosa Official, (authentic Mexican).
Wind down CT Beer Week 2014 at one of New England's most famous breweries: Willimantic Brewing Company.
Check out Willimantic's free-ranging arsty side as the Worry No More All-Stars play their brand of local funk at the market, and galleries and museums welcome you: Swift Waters Artisans' Cooperative, The Keri Gallery, and the Windham Textile & History Museum.
JUST a few miles away in Lebanon, Oak Leaf Dairy will have OPEN FARM hours, 11-2! Meet the baby goats, see the piece of farm heaven they live in, and taste the cheese made from the milk of the goat herd.
AFTER the market, head around the corner to The Mystic Cheese Company's Grilled Cheese Get Down at Graywall Farm in Lebanon, serving special seasonal grilled cheese's featuring Melville and Melinda Mae along with a green salad and gazpacho from the Caseus Grilled Cheese Truck, seltzer and soda from Hosmer Mountain, Ice Cream from The Farmer's Cow and a Hannah Fair performance! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-grilled-cheese-get-down-tickets-11284326725
WHAT A DAY we have planned! To Willimantic! You come, too!
*CRFM Vendors include:
Food Trucks:
NoRA Cupcake Company
Skinny Pines Woodfired Oven Pizza
Yellow Rose BBQ
Dairy
The Mystic Cheese Company
Oak Leaf Dairy
Buttercup Farm
Cato Corner Farm
The Farmer's Cow
Produce and Garden Plants:
Falls Creek Colgan Farm
18th Century Purity Farm
Wayne's Organic Garden
Topmost Herb Farm
Specialty:
The Fish Market
Stonewall Apiary
Fabyan Sugar Shack
Carol Monnerat Artisan Truffles
Farm To Hearth
Meriano’s Bake Shoppe
Dragon’s Blood Elixir
Norm’s Best
Shayna B's & The Pickle, LLC
Sleepy Moon
Baker’s Dozen Dog Treats
Soleil & Suns Bakery LLC
Sixpence Pie Company
Pure Love Granola
DiFiore Pasta Co.
Whole Harmony Teas