Founder, Corrin Arasa announced that the Ridgefield Farmers Market will return for its third season with weekly markets every Saturday from 10:0am - 1:00pm, beginning June 21, 2025 and running through October 4, 2025. A firm favorite on Ridgefield residents’ summer calendars, the market takes place on the tree-lined foregrounds of Jesse Lee Church on Main Street and will feature more than 30-hand-selected local farmers and producers, along with an enticing line-up of complimentary community-focused activities and initiatives for both children and adults.
Filling a niche in town, the Ridgefield Farmers Market is now a gathering spot for friends and neighbors to convene each weekend in a convivial, open-air environment, while filling their market bags, and dinner tables, with fresh local food. Concurrently, the Market provides a platform for both established and up-and-coming food producers, along with Ridgefield’s three major local farms — The Hickories, Henny Penny Farm, Wild Iris Flower Farm, and many more — to showcase and sell their products and make personal connections with the community.
While the market is open to all, a Ridgefield Farmer’s Market Membership is available at $50 per family annually. Members receive an official Ridgefield Farmer’s Market tote – limited edition designs that will change each year – and are entitled to special discounts and unique offerings from the market vendors each week, along with discounts all-year long from a quickly growing list of local businesses including Ridgefield Prime Butcher, Fletch’s Bagels, and more. Later in the season, Members can look forward to early access to a “HooDoo Brown Downtown”, a pop-up of award-winning BBQ restaurant HooDoo Brown at the Farmer’s Market and a “Sunset Summer Picnic” at the Hickories Farm – an afternoon curated for foodies and friends of the market, featuring beautiful wine, food and florals, along with live music.
Upon arrival at the Ridgefield Farmers Market, members of the community will discover a hand-selected range of food and beverage producers and farmers, with enough variety to fuel a full weekend of deliciously healthful and sustainable consumption. New for the 2025 season are Tucker’s Pie Company, who create classic Aussie savory meat pies and quiches that are perfect for summer picnic baskets, Mexican Kitchen a culinary celebration of the vibrant flavours or Mexico including Tamales, Tacos and Ceviches, High Ridge Hydroponics, a vertical farming company that grows microgreens inside shipping containers year-round and began on Ridgefield’s very own High Ridge Avenue, and Parlor Pizza, an award-winning and much-adored pizza truck hailing from Wilton.
Returning vendors include Fatto a Mano, an artisanal Italian micro-bakery out of Westport, whose owner Pierluigi Mazzella, was named “Baker of the Year” by the Connecticut Restaurant Association,
Quartertone Coffee, a local father and son operation who turns out sustainably sourced lattes along with
selling freshly roasted, single-origin beans, Saint Ex, who have developed a cult following for their
homemade pesto and mozzarella, Spring Roll Supper Club, specializing in FIlipino street food including Empanadas, Spring Rolls and Stir-fried Noodles, and Bees Knees Ice Pops, which are handcrafted from all-natural, high quality ingredients in flavors like Strawberry Lemonade and Pineapple Ginger Cilantro. Returning food vendors also include: Bad Ass Bagels, Bubble & Brew, Saint Ex, Sunset Farms, Union City Farms, Ideal Fish, Yalla Fresh, Sweet Brioche Bakery, Stylish Spoon, Mama Hu Sushi Bakes, Wonderland Jams, D’s Gluten Free Kitchenn, Cross Culture Kombucha, Cultured Cafe, Rasta Rant Experience, Herbal Deva and Paul’s Custom Pet Food.
collaborations and complementary initiatives for visitors. On June 21, Ridgefield Little League Baseball Players are invited to swing by after their final games and receive complimentary freshly baked cookies.
On Aug 2, Ridgefield Suzuki School students will perform at a special “Music in the Market” day
including instrument-themed crafts and a lively informal parade for kids. Every week, there will be live music by a rotating roster of local musical talent, along with mindful movement and yoga classes for
both children and adults taught by Ridgefield-based practitioner Lauren Chiarello Mika. For the littlest of
locavores, there will be themed craft projects inspired by nature, including monthly pop-ups hosted by Ridgefield children’s play studio, Silly Goose. Diners around town will also find the Farmer’s Market popping up with partnerships and specialty items at different venues including a “Ridgefield Farmers Market Milkshake” featuring seasonal strawberries at launching at Prime Burger on Main Street in July!
The Market, which has quickly become a buzzing hub for the greater Ridgefield community, began as the passion project for Arasa, an entrepreneur and Founder of highly successful event company Patina
Studios. She relocated from New York to Ridgefield in 2021 and missed the “weekend ritual” of taking her children to the farmer’s market, allowing them to taste new foods, while learning about the farms and
making a connection to where their food was coming from. Arasa also enjoys mentoring small businesses
and has relished in the process of collaborating with local vendors and providing ideas and strategies to
help their businesses “grow roots in Ridgefield”
Arasa noted, “As a progressive community rooted in an agricultural past, we have a duty to honor and
engage with our local farms and farmers as well as protect the environment which allows us to grow
locally. Our Mission at Ridgefield Farmers Market is to be the catalyst that cultivates relationships
between local growers and makers within our community. We hope to educate and actively involve
Ridgefielders in supporting local agriculture and environmental initiatives.”
For the most up to date details on the Ridgefield Farmers Market, please visit:
https://www.ridgefieldfarmersmarket.org and follow @ridgefieldfarmersmarket on Instagram