richmond the farmers markets run throughout the summer richmond farmers market is every friday from three to six thirty we have between twenty and twenty five vendors at the markets in richmond there's about twenty regular vendors and a number of day vendors that will be coming in this year we have some new vendors and a lot of your old favorites in jericho we meet on thursdays at the mills riverside park and that is also three to six thirty and in jericho there we have a number of neat vendors there is again a number of the of the returning vendors and this year we have a new  large vegetable vendor that's joining us so both jericho and and richmond have got local food and the whole point of vermont farmer's market is to help connect the local farmers with their customers directly with no middleman that allows you to buy directly from the farmers which makes it less expensive and lets you ask how was the food grown what kind of methods are used what's the best way i can prepare th food and if you are talking to one of the farmers about their food you will get excitement you will get you know i leaf from agricola farm who will be excited about her porch at the annual get people from richmond for the last resort prime eugenie will tell you how to prep some of those great veggies and fruits that she has so the great thing about farmer's market you have that direct contact with the farmers and you can ask them about their products we also have prepared food vendors local entrepreneurs with crafts and we also have some services such as massage therapy both markets have children's activities over some weeks and there are special events over the summer so you need to be keeping track of each market has a farmer it has a facebook page that you can find us on richmond farmer's market has a web page richmond farmer's market for mont dot org and keep an eye out for the signs we have those out every week to let you know when the market is the richmond farmer's market has still has the advantage of having our former manager a lot lauren taking care of the music so this year we have a lot of great music lined up and many of the people to her before and some new musicians so that's a great part of the recent farmer's market is sitting having something to eat doing your grocery shopping while you're listening to music the other thing is we've got the park so the kids play out the playground the parents can shop their baseball games and you can see all of your neighbors and at the jericho market we've had the same vendors there some of them for almost fifteen years it's been going for fifteen years it's been a great location in the mills riverside park with mt mansfield in the background it's also nice because there are libraries at the library is there and the park is there we have lots and lots of dog walkers who come through at the end of their dog walk we have lots of sports events going on so families can get dinner at the market so one of the things you can do when you're at the jericho market is buy dinner and sit down and listen to music we have music most we usually we try to have local musicians and they're there for the middle part of the market usually between three forty five and six fifteen get to sit at picnic table each year fresh local food and look at mommy and feel it's beautiful and the other thing that i've seen people do is go around to the veggie vendors and gather stuff up to make a picnic and a lot of the vendors will have knives so if you have want to have bread sliced or a tomato cut up they can do that for you so we're looking forward to seeing you at both the jericho farmer's market on thursdays and the richmond farmers market on friday and your local farmers are excited to meet you and share the food that they've grown for you you're helping to keep from on working landscape open you're helping to keep your local food dollars local see if the market