Farmers' Market Forced to End Week Early Due to Weather

The Salem Farmers’ Market will end its summer season a week early because of windy, rainy Nor’easter that has rolled through Salem.

Organizers said it was “with great sadness” that they decided to cancel the Thursday, Oct. 23 market. The market is held weekly for 18 weeks on Thursdays in Derby Square off Front Street.

“The safety of our visitors and vendors is our primary concern, and we’d rather be safe than sorry,” organizers said.

While the summer market has come to end end, the winter market starts on Thursday, Nov. 13 from 3-7 p.m. on Artists’ Row, between Derby and Front streets. It will run for five weeks (except Thanksgiving Day) and will include many of the same vendors that take part in the summer market.

Any market customers with outstanding EBT coins or coupons can be used at the winter market.

Salem Main Streets said that an average of 2,100 visitors came to the market each week and “word of mouth” was that sales were “generally up” from last year, according to Main Streets. Many weeks, vendors were sold out of their most popular items, Main Streets said.