The Honey Lake Bee Company is one of the vendors that brave the cold to display their products at the Palatine Winter Farmers Market
Palatine’s Winter Farmers Market this year will be held as an outdoor drive-through, allowing more vendors and safe social distancing during COVID-19, organizers said.
The winter market will kick off Nov. 7, a week after the last summer farmers market on Saturday. The summer market averaged more than 1,000 customers per day, with vendors saying they had their best year of sales, said Marge Duer, the market’s founder who now leads the market committee for the Sister Cities Association of Palatine.
The winter market will be held outside the Palatine train station, 137 W. Wood St. — where it’s typically held indoors — and will offer a variety of goods, from savory to sweet and fresh to frozen. Having it outside will allow for 17 vendors, more than the 10 or so that typically fit inside the train station, Duer said. Knife-sharpening also will be available there.
The winter market takes place 10 a.m. to noon on the first and third Saturday of the month — except Jan. 2. — from November to April. Orders should be placed by noon on Wednesday that week.
Read more here, or visit the Palatine Winter Farmers Market web page here.
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