Berry Knoll Garden’s booth at the Longmeadow Farmers Market.
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LONGMEADOW — Longmeadow’s one-stop shop for local goods is officially back for the summer and remains through the fall, offering items from fresh-baked bread to skin care products.
The Longmeadow Farmers Market kicked off the 2026 season on June 18 and will return every Thursday until Oct. 29 at the Longmeadow Shops, 690 Bliss Road, from noon to 6 p.m.
Longmeadow Shops Marketing Consultant Melissa Pevay said the market began around 15 years ago when a local farmer asked if they could use the Shops’ parking lot once a week to sell goods.
“At that time, there weren’t as many farmers markets popping up as there are these days,” Pevay said. “Now it seems that all the towns in our Western Mass community have a local farmers market, which is great. It’s just something fun to do with your family, it’s fresh food, it’s shopping local. We love all of that.”
Pevay said people love shopping at the market and that it has a loyal group of people visiting each week with a mix of new people sprinkled in.
The market offers two new vendors this year — Quarry Pond Farm and Bread by Cara. Pevay said she is excited to welcome both in.
Quarry Pond Farm is an East Longmeadow hobby farm. Shoppers can select from a wide range of the farm’s products, such as raw honey, beeswax candles, organic mineral tea, moisturizers, lip balm, or goats milk soap made with honey and beeswax.
Bread by Cara, an Enfield, Connecticut, cottage bakery, specializes in sourdough and yeasted bread, with items like babkas, scones and challah.
Berry Knoll Gardens is a returning vendor and will be selling “all the veggies and items that every farmers market needs to have,” according to Pevay.
Speed and Sprocket Cycle Works, a Northampton mobile bike shop, will also be stopping in from time to time.
Pevay added that the Longmeadow Shops loves doing the farmers market and propping up local, small businesses.
“We’re all for people shopping local,” Pevay said. “Whether that’s at your small boutiques, whether that’s at your national retailers that employ local people. The same goes for our friends in the farming community, shopping local is good all around.”
Shoppers can keep tabs for different farmers market guests and future events on the Shops’ Instagram and Facebook, @thelongmeadowshops, or at thelongmeadowshops.com.
