Harvest Circle winter market opens Nov. 1 at Clifton Park Center

A new Sunday farmers market, the Harvest Circle Winter Market, opens Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026, in an atrium near the food court at Clifton Park Center, 22 Clifton Country Road in Clifton Park. The market runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Sunday through March 28, 2027.

More than 40 local vendors have signed on for the launch, and about 75% of them sell food, co-founder Shannon Onstot told the Times Union. A second Harvest Circle market opens Saturday, Nov. 7, at The ED, the city’s Market and Event Center at 57 South Street in Glens Falls, replacing the longtime Glens Falls farmers market there, which moves back to Aviation Mall in Queensbury.

Harvest Circle is not in our directory yet because the Clifton Park market does not open until Nov. 1. These are the main details shoppers need before opening day.

• The Clifton Park market is open Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Nov. 1, 2026, through March 28, 2027.
• Vendors set up in an atrium area near the food court inside Clifton Park Center.
• More than 40 vendors are expected at launch, and about three in four sell food.
• The Glens Falls market at The ED runs Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. all year, starting Nov. 7.
• Harvest Circle lists no phone number and takes questions at info@harvestcirclemarkets.com.

Where to find the market inside Clifton Park Center

Saratoga County lists the mall, home to a county DMV office, at 22 Clifton Country Road in Clifton Park. Neither the Harvest Circle website nor the mall’s website says which entrance or lot is closest to the market.

Who is selling at the Clifton Park market

Harvest Circle has not posted a full vendor list on the company website. Onstot named two newcomers to the Times Union: a Netherlands native who will sell Dutch stroopwafels, and a vendor who makes superfood cookies. The website lists seasonal produce, plants, flowers, baked goods, prepared foods and handmade goods as the general mix.

The founders want to give new farmers, growers and makers a smaller place to start than the big summer markets in Troy and Saratoga Springs, Onstot told the Times Union, which put those markets at 80 to 120 vendors. “We want our markets to be sort of an incubator, to get people started,” she said. For more on local farms, see our story on a free Oct. 3 tour of six Saratoga County growers.

Neither the Harvest Circle website nor the Times Union report says whether the new markets will take SNAP/EBT cards. The Saratoga and Glens Falls association winter markets compared below both do.

The three founders behind Harvest Circle Markets

Onstot started the company with Rebecca Breese and Meghan Mattison, and all three also sell at area farmers markets. According to the company website, Onstot owns a fine-snacks business, manages the Taste NY store at the Adirondacks Welcome Center and has 15 years of vendor management and logistics work behind her as a former supervising prize producer for network game shows.

Breese owns a farm in Cambridge, ran farm-themed events in the agricultural fair business and now does management work for local farm tours, nonprofits and co-ops. Mattison co-owns a farm in Hebron, is a certified farmers market manager and has more than 10 years of experience running markets.

The Saratoga Farmers’ Market ran a Clifton Park satellite on Monday afternoons through October, the Times Union noted, and Onstot said the founders wanted a winter market in town too. Many people shop on weekends and at night, she said, so a Sunday market should be more convenient.

Glens Falls market changes hands at The ED

The Post-Star reported Sept. 11 that Harvest Circle Markets will take over the farmers market at The ED starting Nov. 7. In June, the paper reported, the Glens Falls Common Council approved a new management agreement for the building.

A member association that dates the market to 1976 runs the Saturday market there through Oct. 31. In a Sept. 17 update on the association website, the group said, “Our proposal to remain at the Market & Event Center was not selected.” The update says a separate LLC, formed in part by two current association members, won the location, without naming the company. The Times Union and Post-Star name Harvest Circle as the new operator at The ED.

The association’s winter season starts the same day, Nov. 7, in the Aviation Mall food court concourse, 578 Aviation Road in Queensbury. The Town of Queensbury recently sent the mall a letter over what the Post-Star called minor code violations, and in an Oct. 27 release the association said mall managers expect the fixes done before a Nov. 16 deadline and the group foresees no disruption.

How the Sunday market compares with other winter markets

Each market’s website gives these winter details.

• The Saratoga Farmers’ Market winter season opens Saturday, Nov. 7, at Wilton Mall, 3065 Route 50, and runs Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. through April.
• The Saratoga winter market lists 42 full-season vendors plus 12 holiday vendors, and shoppers use the movie theater entrance across from the BJ’s parking lot.
• The Glens Falls association market meets Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon at Aviation Mall through April 24, 2027, with free parking at the mall.
• The Saratoga market’s Clifton Park satellite met Mondays from 2 to 5 p.m. at a Methodist church at 971 Route 146, and that season ended in October.

Wilton Mall has a Saratoga Springs mailing address but sits in the Town of Wilton. At the Saratoga market, SNAP shoppers trade benefits for EBT coins at the information table and can get FreshConnect coupons; the market’s own pages disagree on the rate, giving $2 for every $2 spent on one page and $2 for every $5 on another. The Glens Falls association says that market takes SNAP/EBT and Double Up Food Bucks.

Dates on the Harvest Circle calendar

The Harvest Circle website lists five dates for the first weeks of the season.

• On Sunday, Nov. 1, a ribbon cutting marks opening day at Clifton Park Center.
• On Saturday, Nov. 7, a ribbon cutting opens the market at The ED in Glens Falls.
• On Saturday, Nov. 21, “From Our Farms to Your Table” centers on Thanksgiving shopping.
• On Saturday, Dec. 19, “A Very Merry Market at the Ed” brings a visit from Santa.
• On Saturday, Jan. 9, “January Jumpstart” points shoppers to products for New Year’s resolutions.

All three themed dates fall on Saturdays, the Glens Falls market day, and no themed Sunday is listed yet for Clifton Park. Nonprofits can ask for a free information table but may not sell products or collect donations, the website says.

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