The Riverhead Farmers Market will be open on Sundays from now on.
The market’s new location allows for more vendors and the Riverhead BID Management Association, which cosponsors the weekly event with the Town of Riverhead, already has 32 vendors lined up for its Sunday “edition,” BIDMA president Raymond Pickersgill said yesterday.
Most, if not all, of the Sunday vendors will be different from those selling their goods and produce there on Saturdays, Pickersgill said.
“It’s a great location. Everybody loves it,” he said of 221 E. Main Street, the storefront on the corner of McDermott where the Dinosaur Walk Museum, and before that, McCabe’s Office Products, once operated.
The farmers market will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sundays. Its Saturday hours remain the same (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.)
During yesterday’s town board work session, Councilman James Wooten expressed concern about opening on Sundays before 12 noon, saying that the town usually doesn’t sponsor things on Sunday mornings due to church services. But he did not insist on amending the operating hours in a resolution approving the Sunday sessions which will be up for a vote at Tuesday’s regular town board meeting.
The Riverhead Farmers Market moved back indoors Nov. 1 after operating every Saturday since May on the riverfront. The indoor market opened in February at 127 E. Main Street and was a huge success. The BID Management Association began looking at other spaces on Main Street after it was told the space at 127 would not be available.
Pickersgill said there are now about 100 vendors participating over the two days. The Riverhead Farmers Market Facebook page is updated regularly with vendor information and special events.
Top photo caption: John Mantzapoulos, former Athens Grill owner, who is opening a new restaurant called Mazi in the same East Main Street space, was a vendor at the farmers market on Saturday Nov. 8.
RiverheadLOCAL photos by Peter Blasl
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