Skowhegan’s Farmers’ Market on the move
SKOWHEGAN — The outside grounds at the Somerset Grist Mill, purchased last year by Amber Lambke and her business partner Michael Scholz of Albion, a baker and wheat farmer, has become the new site for the Skowhegan Farmers Market.
The duo plan to transform the jailhouse into a grist mill for flour production, stone ovens for baking bread, a restaurant and a small retail store to sell bread and locally raised fruits, vegetables, cheese, meat and dairy products.
There are four new vendors this year, including a new hard-cheese maker and Blessed Maine Herbs of West Athens. More than 20 vendors exhibit on the south side of the old jail.
Available products include locally raised beef, rabbit, pork, goat, lamb, buffalo, poultry, fruits and early vegetables, seedlings, coffee, tea, milk, cheeses and breads, maple syrup, honey and soaps.
The market has a childhood nutrition outreach program initiated by the farmers with Somerset Heart Health, Kennebec Valley Community Action Program, The Skowhegan Free Public Library, Redington Fairview Hospital and Skowhegan Area Middle School.
It also has the facilities for using the Electronic Benefit Transfer food stamp program cards.
Regular summer hours through Oct. 30 are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays.











