Bennington Community Farmers Market

Bennington Community Farmers Market sets up in front of Bennington Community Market at 239 Main Street, with regional growers, food makers, and artisans, and bands playing country through 1970s classics. Shoppers can find asparagus, microgreens, rhubarb, and strawberries as the weeks move on, plus eggs, and staff collect cut flowers, pickled vegetables, and honey from farms that cannot attend. The grill serves Middle Eastern kababs, Jamaican chicken with mango salsa, Georgian shashlik, hot dogs, and hamburgers with fresh lemonade, while Wide Open Mic gives musicians, storytellers, and comedians a turn. Sandwiches inside use Crazy Russian Girls Bakery recipes, including lemongrass chicken banh mi, and specials use True Love Farm tomatoes or Sole Connection Farm mushrooms when they come in. The market takes part in Farm to Family and Crop Cash.

Our take: Eat from the grill, where specials follow whatever local produce is on hand, and stay for Wide Open Mic.