Vendor Listing
APPLEFEST 2024
Saturday, September 21, 2024 from 9-12pm Rain or Shine!
Apple Pie Baking Contest – Enter here!
- $100.00 cash to the 1st Prize winner in the Adult division (18+)
- $50.00 cash to the 1st Prize winner in the Junior division (ages 9-17)
- Prizes awarded at 11:30 by special guest judges Brien Brock, Chairman of the Candia Selectboard, Matt Crispin from Forest Fed Farmstead, and Lynn Garland 4H Extraordinaire!
FREE Fun Kid’s Activities are everywhere again this market!
- Enter our Pie Eating Contest for kids ages 10 and under – to be held at 10:30
- Young Farmers Club is back with fun learning opportunities about cows and age based craft projects
- Candia Clovers 4H will be back to help the kids with a fun cow craft
- Rin Arts Ceramics pick up your glazed coil pots! (If you missed August’s Market, Rin is bringing back the glaze this month so no one misses a chance to finish their coil pots.)
- Animal Guests: cow (live baby cow if mother nature cooperates)
- Learn how to milk a cow (Thanks to our sponsor Charmingfare Farm’s fun milking cow!)
- Learn how to make apple cider from an antique cider press – ongoing throughout the market with Candia Native Carlton Robie!
- Live Music provided by Papa Joe’s Storytelling. Award winning storyteller, Papa Joe is returning this season to entertain the young and old with his mesmerizing tales and music!
- KNIFE SHARPENING – Doc Cobb from the Candia Agricultural Commission will be here to sharpen your dull KNIVES on an antique grinding stone. Donations accepted to benefit the Candia Agricultural Commission’s Winter Lecture Series. DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR KNIVES in a safe container. LAST TIME THIS SEASON!
- Special Guest : The Book Bug – a mobile free library housed in a 1969 VW Bug named Diego. They will be here offering FREE books for everyone again this month. They will also be accepting DONATIONS of your used books in return
- Now accepting SNAP and Granite State Market Match EBT payment
Location
Expected Vendors
| Vendor Name | Products |
|---|---|
| 603 Perfect Blend | Loose leaf teas, gourmet flavored sugars, spice blends and rubs, balsamic vinegars, tea infused candles, iced/hot tea steeping pitchers, tea steeping accessories, iced or hot tea by the cup including fruit bursting boba, FREE samples of tea |
| Anderson’s Mini-Maples | Maple syrup, maple coated pecans, maple sugar, maple candy |
| Appolo Vineyards | FREE wine tasting and sales |
| Ava’s Confectionery | Spreads: Caramel, Chocolate Hazelnut, Caramel Hazelnut Candies: Nougat, caramels, toffee bark, Fudge, Tuffes/Bonbons Special for September: Caramel Apples |
| B.Blossoms | Fresh cut flowers |
| Back to Nature Farm | Butchered quail, quail, chicken, and duck eggs, vegetables, mushrooms, potted vegetables and herbs, pork and honey |
| Barkallicious | Dog treats, chicken jerky, dog cakes |
| Blackwater Mustard Company – NEW | Gourmet mustards sold at the Community Table. |
| Boppy’s Bakery – NEW | Sourdough boules, yeasted rolls, english muffins, Challah style breads and rolls (at the Community Table this month) |
| Brodie’s Bakery | Breads, cinnamon rolls, cheesy garlic swirls, rosemary focaccia bread, lemon cookies, chocolate chip cookies, ginger molasses cookies (at the Community Table this month) |
| Candia Clovers 4H | |
| Candia Dollars for Scholars – NEW | Learn all about the scholarship opportunities offered by the Candia Dollars for Scholars program |
| Cathedral Ledge Distillery – NEW | Organic and gluten free whiskeys, bourbons, gins, vodkas infused with various flavors, and maple liquer made with NH maple syrup – offering sales |
| Community Table | Seasonal fruits and vegetables including FRESH NH Corn, honey, sunflower oil, mustards, LOBSTER (bring your own cooler to transport), Fresh FISH available for preorder purchase through The Daily Haul here. Pick up at the market between 9-12pm. We will also have a few favorite varieties available for sale on a first come first serve basis. |
| Cora Hillside Micro Greens | Micro greens and eggs, seasonal produce |
| Essential Elements Soap | Goat milk soap, artisan soap, bath bombs, goat milk lotion, sugar scrub, lip balm, soap savers/washcloths, shower steamers, crochet items, jewelry made by her daughter |
| Feather Candle Company – NEW | Handmade soy wax candles |
| Food and Bloom Farm – NEW | Cut flowers, annual and perennial seedlings, pressed flowers, pressed flower greeting cards and bookmarks, flower press, “flowerfetti” dried flower bouquets |
| Forest Fed Farmstead | Seasonal vegetables, eggs, fresh herbs, biscuits and focaccia bread |
| Fresh Start Farms | Season produce, red Lettuce, Romaine Lettuce, Kale, Collard Greens, Bok choy, garlic scapes, mint, spring onion |
| Girard Farm | Meats, eggs |
| Guptill Canning | Jams, salsa and pickles |
| Henshaw’s B. Haven Honey | Local honey sold at the Community Table |
| Holy Moly Snacks | Beef jerky chips, FREE samples of all flavors |
| I Whisked It | Scones, muffins, cake, cake slices, cupcakes, cake jars, coffee cakes – SPECIALS this month: Apple Cider Doughnuts and Carmel dipped apple slices!! |
| Jack’s Honey – NEW | Honey, honey sticks, beeswax lip balm, beeswax candles, wooden honey dippers, bee themed wood boxes, home grown catnip |
| JP’s Eats | Made to order egg sandwiches from local farm products |
| Ken’s Corn | Kettle Corn & fresh squeezed lemonade |
| Kitty Stoykovich Designs – NEW | Hand made jewelry |
| La Peony Desserts – NEW | French macarons, cakes, cake pops, cresent cookies, French madelaine’s, ricotta cookies, coconut pralines |
| Little Painted Creations | Hand painted home decor and functional items |
| Long Blue Cat Brewing Co. | FREE Beer tasting and sales |
| Made with Love | Homemade crochet items |
| Manna& | Sourdough products, breads, cookies, cinnamon rolls, focaccia, chili garlic sauce, peanut noodles, Thao iced tea, Vietnamese coffee |
| Mimi Rae’s Gluten Free Bakery – NEW | GF cookies, breads, cake pops, chex mix, granola, mixes |
| Moose River Farm – NEW | Eggs, pasture raised chichen, turkey and pork, all antibiotic free and non gmo feed |
| New England Wagyu – NEW | Pasture raised 100% Wagyu beef raised in Peterborough, NH |
| NH Mushroom Company – NEW | Fresh specialty mushrooms, mushroom tinctures, mushroom coffee, mushroom chia, mushroom apparel, mushroom powder, Freash brewed mushroom chia and coffee |
| Oddball Brewing – NEW | FREE craft beer tastings and sales |
| Red Gate Farm | Beef, pork, lamb, chicken, eggs |
| Rockingham Brewing Company | FREE Beer tasting and sales |
| Sun Fox Farms | Sunflower oil sold at the Community Table |
| Swallow Ridge Cheeses | Artisan cheeses: Cheddars (sharp, farmhouse cheddar w/tomato-basil, w/ jalapeno, and with caraway seeds), Gouda (w/rosemary, w/cumin) Baby Swiss and aged Swiss, Brie, Tuscan and w/Italian herbs (not all cheeses available at all markets) |
| The Daily Haul – NEW | Fresh FISH available for purchase through their preorder program here. Pick up at the market between 9-12pm. We will also have a few favorite varieties available for sale on a first come first serve basis at the Community Table. |
| The Enchanted Bean – NEW | Vanilla products – extract, paste, beans, sugar, salt |
| The Protigal Brewing Company | Local nano brewery – FREE samples |
| Willow Hill Pottery – NEW | Handmade pottery items – mugs, trinket dishes, plant hangers, bowls |
| Wood Shack Juices of NE – NEW | Super foods from super berries! All natural syrups, spreads, tinctures, wellness gift kits, dried herbs. (Elderberry, Elderflower, Blueberry, Strawberry, and more) |
| Yankee Pies – NEW | Hand pies, apple, blueberry, strawberry rhubard, etc. Whoopie pies: chocolate, pumpkin, birthday, maple cream, raspberry |