At the Pleasantville Farmers Market, Thanksgiving Shopping Starts on November 14

The Metro-North lot at 10 Memorial Plaza holds the Pleasantville Farmers Market every Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., April through December. Most of the tables are the same every week. The rest follow a rotation printed in small type at the bottom of each vendor's profile on the market's website, with lines like "Visiting 11/14 & 11/21," "2nd & 4th Saturdays of each month" and "1st Saturday of each month."

Laid out by date, that rotation splits the Thanksgiving shopping across two Saturdays. November 21, the last market before the holiday on Thursday, November 26, brings in the most visitors. Even so, the cultured butter, the Greek olive oil, the Hudson Valley wine and the alpaca scarves arrive a week earlier, on November 14. Thanksgiving shopping at the market starts on the 14th.

What is there every week

The rotation makes more sense once you know the fixed set of vendors underneath it. These vendors are listed as weekly:

• Mead Orchards of Tivoli has farmed the same 100 acres since 1916 and grows more than a hundred apple varieties, along with pears and seasonal vegetables.
• Red Barn Bakery of Irvington makes pies, tarts, cookies, muffins and biscotti, with vegan and gluten-free options.
• Edgwick Farm, a family goat dairy in Cornwall run by Talitha Jones, brings farmstead goat cheeses and fresh goat milk.
• Lovin' Mama Farm of Amsterdam grows more than 500 varieties of certified organic vegetables, herbs and flowers. In 2025, Corinne Hansch was named Organic Farmer of the Year by the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York.
• Letterbox Farm of Hudson sells pastured poultry, pork, eggs and bone broths.
• The River Garden, a Catskill flower farm, sells seasonal bouquets, wreaths and dried arrangements.
• Little Bagel bakes its hand-rolled bagels the same morning. Founder Jacob Cooper grew up coming to this market as a kid.

Maple View Farm's salad greens and Gajeski Produce's year-round vegetables are weekly too, so the produce side of the menu is there whichever Saturday you choose.

Hilly Acres Farm of Jeffersonville also comes weekly, with fresh brown eggs, and it lists Thanksgiving turkeys among the meats it raises in Sullivan County. Its online order form offers three pickup locations: the farm and two Sullivan County markets in Callicoon and Barryville. If you want a Hilly Acres bird, ask at the Pleasantville table about how pickup works.

So apples, pie, greens, cheese and eggs are covered every week. The rotation decides what goes around them.

Saturday, November 14: butter, oil, wine and wool

The market lists these vendors for the 14th on top of the weekly regulars:

• Kriemhild Dairy Farms of Hamilton churns a meadow butter to 85% butterfat from grass-fed milk. It comes on the second and fourth Saturdays.
• Demi Olive Oil sells unfiltered extra-virgin oil from a small family farm in Greece where some trees are more than 500 years old. It is also on the second and fourth Saturdays.
• Milea Estate Vineyard is a 98-acre estate winery in Staatsburg that makes Cabernet Franc and sparkling wines. It comes on fourth Saturdays and has November 14 added to its schedule.
• Alpacatrax comes for the holiday season with shawls, scarves, socks and boot warmers. They are made from the wool of its own herd, raised on a Columbia County farm that has been in the family since 1968. November 14 is its only listed date this month.
• Living Edge Designs of Rhinebeck makes cutting boards, serving platters and bread peels from walnut, cherry, sugar maple and sycamore, using dead standing and storm-damaged trees.
• Sharper Harper, more on her below.

The butter, the olive oil and the wine are the pantry items that keep. Buy them on the 14th and they will hold until Thursday. The weekly vendors' produce can wait until the 21st. Since Kriemhild and Demi are on a second-and-fourth schedule, they are not on the November 21 lineup at all.

The knife table, on both Saturdays

Living Edge Designs and Sharper Harper are the two vendors on both Saturdays, and the knife table is the one that matters before a carving. Harper Keehn, who runs Sharper Harper out of Providence, has sharpened more than 60,000 knives, scissors and garden tools across the Northeast. She works on a professional Tormek grinder and handles serrated and Japanese blades. She comes to Pleasantville each spring and fall, and the market's profile says six months is "just about the right time for a re-sharpen." Her fall dates are November 14 and November 21.

That puts a carving-knife sharpening on the calendar twice before the turkey comes out. If you drop off blades on the 14th, the rest of the week stays clear. The 21st is the last chance until spring.

Saturday, November 21: the widest lineup, with different tables

The Saturday before Thanksgiving draws the most rotating vendors of the month, and only two of them overlap with the 14th.

For a holiday table, the important addition on the 21st is 3x3 Kitchen Provisions of Riverdale. It is a dedicated gluten-free bakery and cafe run by chef Derrick Paez, a Culinary Institute of America graduate, and his wife Monika, and it sells celiac-safe sourdough, babka, quiche and pot pies. It comes on the first and third Saturdays. Atina Foods of Catskill brings small-batch chutneys, herbal jams and probiotic pickles made with Hudson Valley produce.

The rest of the 21st leans toward gifts and host presents. SallyeAnder of Beacon has made hypoallergenic soaps since 1982, some with Edgwick Farm's goat milk. Herbalist Clare Pierson of Dancing Spirits Herbs sells vinegars, salves and lip balms. Fiber artist Martha Belardo of Hudson Valley Fiber Arts brings felted pieces she calls "sweet littles."

If you shop both Saturdays, the split is simple. Get the butter, oil and wine on the 14th, the gluten-free baking and chutneys on the 21st, and the apples and pies from the weekly vendors on whichever morning suits you.

Getting there, and staying for lunch

Two busy Saturdays in a row mean a full Memorial Plaza lot. The market asks locals to walk when they can and reminds drivers about the outlying lots around the village. It also points to a newer option. Cooley Street, behind the post office, is now a two-way street with a new free parking lot and more metered spaces a few steps from the market.

Pleasantville Tavern at 446 Bedford Road, in the space that used to be Lucy's, works for lunch after the market. Longtime residents Tom Miller and John McCarthy opened it in June, and the Pleasantville Chamber of Commerce held its ribbon cutting on October 8, The Examiner News reported. The owners told the paper they wanted it to feel like a sports bar that still works for families.

If you're making a weekend of the 21st, the Jacob Burns Film Center opens I Play Rocky on November 20, the Friday night before.

After the holiday, the rotation keeps going

The posted schedule runs Saturdays through December. By the rotation, November 28 is a fourth Saturday, when Kriemhild, Demi and Milea are listed, so the Thanksgiving weekend Saturday brings back much of the November 14 lineup. On December 5, the first Saturday, Fjord Vineyards of Marlboro is listed. Matthew Spaccarelli was named New York State Winegrower of the Year in 2023. 3x3 Kitchen Provisions and SallyeAnder are back that day too.

The next afternoon belongs to the village. The Village of Pleasantville calendar lists an Ice Rink/Community Holiday Lighting Ceremony on Sunday, December 6, from 2 to 8 p.m. At last year's event, on December 7, 2025, the holiday sing and tree lighting were at the north end of Memorial Plaza, with a synthetic ice rink. News 12 reported that the 2025 event had live music, hot cocoa, photo booths and merchant deals, and that the tree was lit later that evening. The village calendar also lists Breakfast with Frosty on December 12, from 9 to 10:30 a.m.

The market itself keeps running into the new year, outdoors. Hours change in January to 9:30 a.m. to noon through March.

Harriet Libov spends her Saturdays in these villages, and the farmers market calendar is one of the local details she keeps track of for neighbors and clients. If you're hosting this season and wondering how your home handles a full table, or you're thinking about what spring might look like for your house, Let's Connect.