WILTON — Planning Board members approved a permit Thursday to operate a bakery and café in a small space on Main Street.

Details for the opening of the Baker’s Market Café are still being worked out, Betty Shibles told the board, but she is hoping for a May opening in the space at 285 Main St.

The former site of Charlie LaVerdiere’s office became a bookstore, a print shop and then an art studio. Now it is undergoing work in preparation of opening as a place to buy pastries and coffee to consume either in the café or outdoors by the stream, she said.

“It’s like a farmers market, only it’s a bakers market,” she said.

Rather than baking on site, certified bakers will bring their goods to sell. Bakers already on board include Marbles Family Farm, which will provide cinnamon rolls, cookies, pies and other pastries; Knowlton Corner Farm with cinnamon and maple sticks; L.E. Hughes with pies; and Law Mountain, a new local business, with jellies and jams. There will be others, she said.

Shibles said she wants to use the space to work with children, bringing them in when the market is closed to the public to learn snack preparation, etiquette such as setting tables and the use of tablecloths, and food shopping, she said. The bakers would help with teaching the children to create snacks. If there is interest, she would like to see it expand into an after-school program, she said.

The board approved her permit based on securing all other necessary state permits.

In other business, the board approved a permit for Dean and Sherry Harding to move and expand their Sizzle Tanning Salon in the Cousineau Mall in East Wilton. They intend to move next door into the space formerly used by Western Maine Community Action and expand it to include a hair and nail salon.

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