Pakatakan Farmers Market

Pakatakan Farmers Market pairs a Saturday farm market with a mission that invites tax-deductible contributions and volunteers to support its work. In Halcottsville, the market sets up at the historic Round Barn on Route 30, giving the weekly shop a setting that is as specific as the vendor mix itself. The season runs from May into November, with the 2024 opening scheduled for May 18. That combination of nonprofit mission, landmark location, and a vendor roster that stretches from vegetables and meat to cider, trout, pottery, and native plants gives this market a distinctly Catskills shape.

Why it matters locally

The market’s nonprofit structure is unusually explicit: it asks for tax-deductible contributions by check, cash, or PayPal and also welcomes volunteers with skills to share. That puts support for the market itself alongside the act of shopping, rather than treating the market as only a retail stop. Its location at the historic Round Barn on Route 30 in Halcottsville also ties the market to a named local landmark, giving the weekly gathering a fixed place within the area rather than a generic parking-lot setup. The vendor lineup reinforces that local footprint with New York apples in hard cider, dairy made in the northern Catskills of Delaware County, and meat, produce, and plants rooted in nearby farm operations.

What you'll find there

The mix here leans broad without losing its agricultural core: farm staples sit beside prepared foods, plant growers, and makers whose work still feels tied to the region’s materials and seasons. You can build a market bag around dinner ingredients, pantry goods, garden plants, and a few crafted items from regulars working in the Catskills and nearby counties.

• -Pick up hard cider from Awestruck Hard Ciders, made with 100% New York State apples.
• -Browse Barkaboom Native Plants for seed-grown, locally adapted native plants and cut flowers.
• -Find hand-painted hiking bags, block-printed clothing, and hand towels from Casey Beal Designs.
• -Look for medicinal herbs including comfrey, calendula, arnica, and occasionally CBD-dominant hemp from Catskills Comfrey.
• -Stock up on mushroom tinctures from Catskill Fungi, which also offers guided mushroom walks and cultivation workshops.
• -Grab organic, fair-trade, Cafe Feminino certified coffee plus hot breakfast and lunch sandwiches at Charlotteville General Store.
• -Cook with seasonal fresh mushrooms or try a growing kit from Chesterbury Farms.
• -Add pottery from Cid Smyth Pottery, made in Schoharie County since 1989.
• -Take home bowls and other woodcrafted items from Don Osmer Woodworking.
• -Choose cheese from Harpersfield Cheese, made at Brovetto’s Dairy Farm and aged naturally with milk from a Delaware County cow dairy.
• -Shop Heller Farms for vegetables and connect with a farm that also grows strawberries, blueberries, and Christmas trees.
• -Bring home handmade, preservative-free breads, rolls, cakes, cookies, pies, and preserves from Meredith’s Country Bakery.
• -Plan a meal around Berkshire pork, Jacob lamb, chicken, turkey, eggs, and meat products from Mulligan Creek Acres.
• -Pick up quiches, soups, pot-pies, dips, appetizers, and Belgian sugar waffles from Pika’s Farm Table.
• -Pour maple syrup from Shaver-Hill Farm, which has produced it on the farm since 1891.
• -Find Kamloops Rainbow Trout for food from Skytop Springs Fish Farm.
• -Buy grass-fed lamb, goat, pork, beef, poultry, rabbits, eggs, and meat products from Stone & Thistle Farm.
• -Round out the pantry with fruit jams, pepper jelly, mustards, dip mixes, and soup mixes from Tea Thyme Herb Farm.

The strongest through-line here is the Round Barn setting paired with a roster that keeps circling back to field, pasture, orchard, and workshop. The market is explicitly located at the historic Round Barn on Route 30 in Halcottsville, and even the public Wi-Fi name points back to the site itself through “Round Barn Patron”. Around that landmark, the vendors read like a Catskills cross-section: native plants from Barkaboom, naturally aged cheese from Harpersfield, rainbow trout from Skytop Springs Fish Farm, maple syrup from Shaver-Hill Farm, and hard cider made from 100% New York apples by both Awestruck Hard Ciders and Rockland Cider Works. The result is less a single-product market than a place where the region’s raw materials keep changing form from stand to stand.

Know before you go

No dogs are allowed, with service animals welcomed in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The market runs on Saturdays from 10 am to 1 pm at the historic Round Barn on State Highway 30 in Halcottsville. Public Wi-Fi is available through the “Round Barn Patron” network, which can be useful if you want to look up vendors or handle digital payments while shopping. Venmo is listed among accepted payment methods, and the market also mentions check, cash, and PayPal in its contribution information. Restrooms are not available on site.