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People walk through Wickham Park in Manchester on a recent autumn afternoon. KNOX is hosting its annual Harvest Market on Nov. 17 in Hartford.
Brad Horrigan / Hartford Courant
People walk through Wickham Park in Manchester on a recent autumn afternoon. KNOX is hosting its annual Harvest Market on Nov. 17 in Hartford.
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KNOX, an organization that coordinates a variety of greening programs in Hartford, plans a Harvest Market at 75 Laurel St. on Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Local produce, food trucks, bread and cheeses, games, live music from local bands and goats will be available. More than 20 farms, artisans and other vendors will have stalls at the market.

KNOX touts its Harvest Market, now in its eighth year, as “the original Thanksgiving Market in the region and the only one in Hartford.” There is no entry or parking fee at its Laurel Street greenhouse. A food truck from Bear’s Smokehouse BBQ will be onsite, along with a range of vendors, including Hartford Baking Co., Rustling Wind Stables & Creamery and Juicy J Juice Bar.

KNOX is a nonprofit, started in 1966, that maintains community gardens throughout Hartford and trains city residents and schoolchildren to tend plots of vegetables and greens. The group said it plants more than 1,000 trees and grows $400,000 worth of produce each year. A little over a third of KNOX’s revenue has come from providing landscaping services in recent years, according to tax filings, with government grants, contributions and fundraising making up the rest.