Rutland Region Stores that Sell Local Food

These businesses support local farmers and artisans by selling and promoting their products. Frequenting these businesses shows your commitment to local food. If you don’t see local products where you shop, let them know you’d like to!

Boardman Hill Farmstand
399 West Street, Rutland • 802-438-9803
Find bedding plants, vegetable starts and hanging baskets in spring, organically grown fruits and vegetables from our farm in the summer and our own pork, chickens and turkey throughout the year. Cut-your-own flower bouquets from our garden beds. Also available are our own jams, jellies, salsas and preserves. In addition to our own farm products, Vermont cheeses and other products, as well as Christmas trees, wreaths and garlands are available in season. Open 7 days a week, 9 am - 6 pm.

Castleton Village Store
583 Main Street, Castleton • 802-468-2213
The Castleton Village Store has been serving the community for over a hundred years by selling many locally grown or produced products as well as grocery items. Our local producers include, but are not limited to Crawford Family Farm cheese, Blue Ledge Farm Cheese, Castleton Crackers, Laughing Child Farm eggs and produce, Champlain Valley Vineyard wines, Willie T baked goods, Stony Point Apiaries, Pelletier Maple Syrup and Candy Dish jams.

East Poultney General Store
11 On the Green, East Poultney • 802-287-4042
An 1830’s general store located in a quaint rural Vermont village. Stocked with exceptional fine wines, fresh gourmet foods, a deli, baked sweets, coffee, small housewares, gifts, a grocery, feed-n-grain, video rental and an old fashioned post office! VT Liquor Outlet. Open 7 days a week, we accommodate customer’s requests, and cook with locally grown, fresh produce, given to the chef by friendly neighbors and surrounding farms.

Shrewsbury Co-op at Pierce’s Store
2658 Northam Road, Shrewsbury • 802-492-3326
A historic general store reopened through true community effort, we sell groceries, bulk foods, specialty Vermont products, and crafts from local artisans. We have fresh baked bread, cookies, and scones every day, plus soups, sandwiches & gourmet pizza. The managers run Alchemy Gardens & have a greenhouse on-site. Local products include a variety of maple producers, Laurel Hill honey, Smith Maple Crest beef, eggs, cheeses, wine and veggies & herbs from Alchemy Gardens & Caravan Gardens. Wi-Fi. Open to everyone!

Rutland Area Food Co-op
77 Wales Street, Rutland • 802-773-0737
As a community-owned market, the Co-op is dedicated to fresh, local, natural, whole and organic foods: produce, dairy, bread, groceries, meats, cheese, loose bulk foods, vitamins, supplements, body care, Fair Trade goods, household and cleaning supplies and much more. Always open to the public~ everyone welcome! Open 7 days.

Timberloft Farm Store
190 Old Boardman Hill Rd., West Rutland • 802-438-2863
Open from Mother’s Day to Christmas Eve Day, daily 10 am-6 pm. Our season starts with our greenhouse: baskets, herbs & perennials. Vegetables, cut flowers, fruit and berries all summer and into the fall. The season will end with wreaths and trees and holiday baking. Eggs are always available.

Wood’s Market Garden
Route 7 South, Brandon • 802-247-6630
Diverse small farm with 60 acres of vegetable and fruit crops, along with several greenhouses for bedding plants and vegetable and herb starts. Farm stand open from May 1st thru fall. Two CSA options, one for when the farm stand is open, and another for fall/ winter after the stand closes.