Sea Cliff farmers market moves to Glen Cove

Due to COVID-19, the Sea Cliff farmers market is now being held every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Glen Cove. The two-mile journey has taken market organizer Amy Peters more than three months.

For the last five years, the market had been held in the yard adjacent to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Glen Avenue in Sea Cliff but, at the end of last year, Peters started looking for a larger venue. “We were at a point where we had the maximum number of vendors — 13 — and we were packed to the gills with customers.” She approached Sea Cliff’s St. Boniface Martyr Church, which has a larger field.

But when the market was fixing to open this spring, following all the guidelines handed down by New York State, St. Boniface was not able to host the weekly event.

Horman’s Best Pickles to the rescue! The Glen Cove pickle manufacturer is a fixture at the Sea Cliff market (as well as many others on Long Island) and third-generation owner Nick Horman suggested to Peters that she move the market to the factory’s parking lot in Garvies Point, Glen Cove. (It’s a choice location, just steps away from Garvies Point Brewery and Heritage Bakers, home of Long Island’s best popovers and much more.)

At the new location, shoppers will find Horman’s pickles, of course, and produce from Beagan Youngs Farm in Old Brookville, plant-based prepared foods and snacks from Conscious Kitchen in Glen Cove, pasture-raised eggs, raw honey, local oysters, bone broth and much more.

All social distancing rules are being followed, but customers who would like to shorten the time spent at the market can order in advance online: For $1.50, individual vendors will put together orders for pick up at their stands. For $2.50, an entire order can be collated and delivered, curbside, to the customer’s car. The window for online ordering opens Tuesday at 10 a.m. and closes Thursday at 11 p.m. To order, go to seacliff.eatfromfarms.com.

Peters said the market will run through the end of October and, possibly, until Thanksgiving. She is grateful to be in Glen Cove but hopes to be able to return to Sea Cliff next year, if only to avoid having to change the name of the corporation from Sea Cliff Farmers Market to Glen Cove Farmers Market.

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The Sea Cliff Market in Glen Cove is at 36 Garvies Point Rd., Glen Cove, Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., 516-318-5487, facebook.com/seaclifffarmersmarket.