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Bethany's Farmers Market: Lemonade, anyone?

When life throws you lemons, well . . . you know . . .

At the Bethany's Farmers Market is a series of articles about the vendors who offer their produce and goods for sale at Bethany’s thriving farmer’s market. Along with the Lions Club tag sale, it makes for a bustling market atmosphere at the airport grounds on Route 63 each Saturday morning. Check in each day for the next few weeks and we think you may add this stop to your Saturday morning routine!

Erica Palmer and her mother, Julie Palmer, of Branford, were looking for a way to spend more time together. They had discussed becoming involved with a farmer’s market, so when Nelly Rabinowitz, the driving force behind the Bethany’s Farmers Market, approached them and asked if they’d like to do a lemonade booth, they jumped at the chance.

The pair had never made homemade lemonade before, but they invested in the tools of the trade and set up shop beneath a canopy with a glass container of gigantic, perfect, fluorescently yellow lemons.

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This past Saturday, the first customers we found in line at Erica’s Lemonade Stand were First Selectman Derrylynn Gorski and her young granddaughters, each of whom got a lemonade and wandered away smiling to check out the tag sale items.

“On hot days we sell a lot more than on cloudy days,” Erica said.

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While it was overcast that morning, there were still plenty of people stopping by to quench their thirst after picking up croissants and muffins at the baker’s booth next door.

“We’d like to do even more,” Julie said, “but lemonade is a handful.”


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