The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday approved use of a parking lot near the train station downtown for the New Canaan Farmers’ Market’s 2023 season.
The Farmers’ Market will operate 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays from April to November in the Lumberyard Lot following the selectmen’s 3-0 vote at their regular meeting.
“The farmers and vendors are excited to get back to the market and we’ll be starting in just 61 days, so it’s coming along fast,” Market Master Lexi Gazy said during the meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference.
Relocated two years ago from its longtime home at the Center School Lot, the Farmers’ Market had a successful season in 2022, Gazy said.
“People are finding us more at the railroad station,” she said. “They’re actually hopping off the train to buy from us, so that is wonderful.”
First Selectman Kevin Moynihan and Selectmen Kathleen Corbet and Nick Williams voted 3-0 in favor of Gazy’s request to use the Lumberyard Lot.
The selectmen also approved her request to use the area for a “winter market” pickup from Nov. 25 through much of March 2024. There had been a full winter Farmers’ Market in New Canaan and the proposed pickup is “kind of a happy medium between having a full farmers’ market and not having anything at all,” Gazy said.
“The extra income in the winter will be good for the vendors,” she said.
For the winter market that kicks off this fall, buyers will navigate through the Farmers’ Market website to the sites of individual vendors to place their orders, and then rendezvous at the Lumberyard Lot for pickup, she said.