First fairgrounds session of Farmers Market on tap this Saturday in Clinton
Shawn Trivette works his Flag Street Produce stand at the Clinton Farmers Market on Thursday, May 7, in the Clinton paking lot on North Main Street. (photo:G. Chambers Williams III )
That follows the opening of the regular market selling season last Thursday in the new city parking lot across from Knight’s Flowers on Main Street.
Beginning with last week’s session, the Clinton market will operate each week through Halloween, alternating between the Main Street parking lot on Thursdays, and the fairgrounds off Charles G. Seivers Boulevard on Saturdays.
There will be artisan goods, baked goods, eggs, beef, lamb, crafts, and seasonal produce available at all of the markets, said Matthew Garafolo, who started the newest version of the Clinton Farmers Market last year with his wife, Maggie. The previous operators gave it up after the 2024 season.
The Garafalos will bring their Clinch River Katahdins booth to Saturday’s market, selling fresh Katahdin lamb.
Fresh produce also is now arriving at the market. Last week, Shawn Trivette of the Clinton-based Flag Street Produce brought a variety of spring produce to last week’s market, and will be on hand for Saturday’s event.
His produce included fresh kale, lettuce, and ready-to-plant seedlings. The product list will expand as the growing season allows.
Katahdin, the breed of sheep the Garafolos produce on their farm, “work very well in a variety of production situations as a low-maintenance, easy care sheep,” according to the website katahdins.org.
These Katahdin hair sheep “provide a practical option to producers who are primarily interested in raising a meat animal, with great lamb vigor [and] mothering ability, and do not want to shear or are no longer able to find shearers,” the website notes.
Garafolo said he and his wife decided to revive the Clinton market last year in part as a way to help market their own lamb products.
Details, including the schedule for 2026, can be found on the website Clintonfarmersmarket.com.
For information on Trivette’s products, visit flagstreetproduce.com.
