Hasbrouck Heights Has a Healthy Farmers Market

Posted by Cindy on June 9, 2010

If you’re ready for summer, ready for fresh summer produce, then Hasbrouch Heights, New Jersey on June 15th is when the 10th Farmers’ Market is scheduled to start. Located at the corner of Boulevard and Washington Place, next to the Kathy Dunn Cultural Center, 10 miles from mid-town Manhattan and within walking distance from many luxury Hasbrouck Heights hotels , is where you’ll experience summertime in full swing.

The Farmers’ Market is open-air and seasonal, June through October, every Tuesday from 2pm to 7pm and offers its residents and visitors the best, freshest produce from Hoboken Farms, delicious Amish baked goods from Rebbecca, gourmet coffee, the Cookie Man is back, Dr. Pickle’s promising to offer a new pickle, there’s hand-made soaps and entertainment. The Hasbrouck Heights Farmers’ Market was the brain child of the Chamber of Commerce to help bring in foot traffic to the local business’s along Hasbrouck Heights main thoroughfare: the Boulevard. The Chamber heard about how other communities are having great success with starting up a Farmers Market, so they followed suit, knowing that this proposition was a ‘win-win’ for not only the local businesses, but for the local farmers, backyard gardeners, crafters, musicians, and consumers.

With the help of the New Jersey Department of Agriculture’s ‘Jersey Fresh’ program and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who both insisted that all produce and products be Jersey made, which by the way, this guideline is enforced by 2 market inspections a season. With the rising cost of land, the agricultural business in New Jersey has been in decline; that’s why the New Jersey Council of Farmers and Communities, the grassroots, not-for-profit organization that assists the municipalities, which host this market, work very hard to keep the market all about New Jersey.

If you drop-by the Hasbrouck Heights Farmers’ Market, you’ll be handed a burlap bag with the markets logo printed on it. You’ll also get to mingle with not only the local residence, but with people from all over New Jersey, like Hackensack, Lodi, Wood-Ridge and you’ll even spot a few Mahattanites among the crowd, because they too no a good thing when they see it.

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