Those interested in finding locally grown food and locally sourced goods in one spot have only two more chances to do so.

The Padanaram Farmers Market, located at St. Peter’s Church on Rex Field, will end its 17-week run on Sept. 25. The market is open on Fridays from June to September from 1 to 6 p.m.

“We were very lucky this year because the weather was just about perfect for farmers markets,” said Tony Melli of Oilo di Melli, who heads the market.

He said the market has consistently featured five farmers every week, with 12 other vendors visiting on a regular basis.

“It’s given them an opportunity to share what they’re producing, whether it be the farmers who are bringing in vegetables, fruit, meat or people who bring in soap, jewelry, crafts,” said Melli.

The market began a decade ago in a collaboration between Melli and Andy Pollock of Silverbrook Farm. Pollock ran the market for three years before handing the reigns to Melli. Melli thought that he would continue operations for three years and then turn it over to someone else.

“But this is my seventh year running it. I love it,” said Melli. “I realized that you can make this a community event.”

He said in the earlier days, Padanaram was like a ghost town.

“I said to myself, ‘You can’t pull out of this now.’ There was nothing here, and this was something that brings a little bit of life every Friday to Padanaram.”

Melli said the market will return next year, and he’s hoping that they can add a new farmer or two to the mix.

“We want to encourage young people in the community and the surrounding communities to continue in agriculture. To offer local people local food,” he said.

Ian Penman, a 23-year-old botany major from the University of Maine, manned Silverbrook Farm’s booth at the farmers market periodically this summer.

He said his interest in farming could be sourced to a trip to New York City.

“I grabbed a piece of ivy as a memento, and it stayed in my backpack for three days,” said Penman. “Then I put it in water and it rooted. It became this beautiful plant.”

“From there, I had some raised beds at my house. I started ripping stuff up and growing perennials,” he said.

After graduating this past December, he got a job at Silverbrook. Penman started by planting kale and onions at a rented plot located at Helfand Farm. He’s worked at both the farmers market and helped out with Silverbrook’s CSA.

“Seeing how it’s run here, it’s been eye opening, and I think it’ll help me down the line,” said Penman, adding that he’d like to start a farm of his own someday.

He said that, because there weren’t any public schools in Massachusetts that offered botany, he had to attend school in Maine to find his desired major. Before that, he had only encountered horticulture through a class at Dartmouth High.

“I think there should be more emphasis and excitement in the Dartmouth schools because it’s an agricultural community. There could be a lot of kids that could work here and get excited about it,” he said.