Fort Lee Farmer's Market Returns Sunday

The Fort Lee Farmer’s Market opens for the season Sunday, offering everything from apple cakes and fresh bread, to sun-dried tomatoes, olives and hummus, in addition to the usual farmer’s market fare like fresh produce.

Highlighted vendors at this year’s market include the following:

• Sunden's Stone Pointe Farms of Old Tappan, offering fresh produce
• Senor Peanut, offering (what else?) nuts and other related items
• Meredith Breads of Kingston, NY, a new vendor this year
• Mortgage Apple Cakes run by Angela Logan
• Semi Sweet Desserts
• Vesco Foods, offering olives, marinated mushrooms, pickles and sun dried tomatoes
• Mediterra, another new vendor, offering authentic hummus

The Fort Lee Farmer’s Market is open every Sunday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. through Oct. 30 in the plaza area of the .

Also, to celebrate the opening of the market Sunday, the Fort Lee Film Commission and the Fort Lee Historical Society will kickoff their historic jitney tours of Fort Lee.

The tours, which begin at the farmer’s market, are free to the public and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Sign up is from 9 to 11 a.m. Sunday at the market.

Tom Meyers, executive director of the Fort Lee Film Commission, wrote in a blog post on Patch that, “among the stops along the way will be several important film locations on Main Street as well as in the Coytesville section of Fort Lee. The tour will also stop at the old Universal Studio location in West Fort Lee.”

Noting that the film commission recently received a $2,000 Bergen County special projects history grant for the publication of a film history map of Fort Lee, Meyers says he hopes to have the map ready for distribution to jitney tour participants Sunday and that the tour will be based in large part on the locations on the map.

The Fort Lee Farmer’s Market is from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday outside the Fort Lee Community Center at 1355 Inwood Terrace. Jitney tour signup is from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Fort Lee Film Commission’s table at the market. The tour is from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.