Ambler Farm has had a tent at the Wilton Farmers' Market every week for the past three years, volunteer Florine Kruger will proudly tell you.
The tables underneath the tent are covered with baskets overflowing with greenery, and customers come and go frequently.
Ambler Farm, a town property farmed by a nonprofit group called Friends of Ambler Farm, harvests produce that is 100 percent organic.
Although this year – because of the cold spring – the farm is a few weeks behind its normal growth schedule, there's plenty of lettuce, spinach, arugula, beets, kale and broccoli, among other items, to choose from, volunteer Jim Meinhold said.
The farm's most sought-after produce is mixed lettuce, priced at $4 per pound, and garlic, priced at about $1 per head and not ready until early July, Meinhold said.
"We get good business here," he added.
Ambler Farms farmer and director of agriculture Jonathan Kirschner said the best part of selling at the Farmers' Market is "meeting the people."
"You want to be able to engage with the members of the community," Kirschner said, because farming can be an isolating profession.
He added that visitors to the farm itself, located at 257 Hurlbutt Street, are always welcome.
"It's one of the few farms where you can come and walk around the field," he said.
Ambler Farms has a farm stand from June to October on Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., to "give people as much opportunity ... to shop at the farm as we can," Kirschner said, besides being at the Wilton Farmers' Market every week.
See the farm's website for more details.
The Wilton Farmers' Market is held every Wednesday from 12:30 to 5 p.m., June 5 through Sept. 25, at the Wilton Historical Society, located at 224 Danbury Rd.
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