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Mrs. Boro: New Farmers Market mixture of good, bad



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By: JEANNE BRAGG
Posted: Monday, July 20, 2009 9:38 am
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I finally made it to the “new” Farmer’s Market at the Lane Agri-Park Community Center last week.

The market moved there this year from their age-old spot near Cannonsburgh, close to downtown.

The things I like about the new market are ironically the same things I don’t like about it.

I love the open, airy, buildings with the concrete floors and open sides. And I love the ample parking.

But I miss the old folksy-style atmosphere and dirt (gravel?) floor, even when compared to the clean concrete.

Organic farmer J.R. Stroud told me that some city folks weren’t comfortable driving to the new area due to congestion and suggested that Rover, the city’s bus, take a run or two out there. Not a bad idea.

I found it quite easy to get there from town. I drove down Medical Center Parkway, over I-24 and took a left-hand turn onto John R. Rice Boulevard. It necessitated going through a couple of stoplights, but once you do, you’re almost there.

I also like the fact that the current location is close to numerous grocery stores, making it easy to pick up canning supplies on the way back home.

I miss the campy atmosphere. But I love the cleanliness and especially the nice restrooms.

All I can say is ... WOW! It’s different.

Some of my favorite vendors (Rainbow Hill Farms from McMinnville and Haskell Evans from Gladeville) are back, peddling Bradley and heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers and new varieties of squash (check out the plum light-green Magda zucchini and zephyr squash, a straight neck two-toner that has a yellow stem and is pale green at the blossom end).

Corn on the cob has already made its appearance there (the few ears I bought were great) and check out the many varieties of eggplant, just begging to be taken home for a vegetarian meal.

New to me is Hick-Lo Farms, which offers a to-die-for triple chocolate Ganache Pound Cake (a bargain, in my opinion, at $10). This baker also offers coconut pies, banana pudding and so many other tasty-looking goodies that you’ll want to buy half of them before you leave her area.

There are other baked goods around. I particularly like the chess squares from Flying S Farms in Woodbury.

Also new is the Hatcher Family Dairy. You have to queue up in a line to purchase their milk, and from the looks of it, it’s going to be quite a hit.

The Martins also offer local honey, lip balm, foot cream and soaps, all made on their property in Manchester. Rocky Glade Farm from Eagleville has German Porcelain garlic that looks pretty as a picture, and is supposed to be very easy to peel.

There were herbs, planted OR by the bunch, and vibrant sunflowers and zinnias priced in the same manner. I LOVE the flowers, especially the zinnias offered by Joanna Molloy.

I made my initial foray on Friday and my second visit on Tuesday and I recommend if you choose to go only once a week, pick Friday as that day.

Some vendors come on Friday only, and if you want the pick of the crop, you’d serve yourself well to go early, although I had more than I could ask for when I left each time at 8:30 a.m.

We are lucky to live in a community where the land has so much to offer us.

Take the time to venture out and see what’s there and I’m sure you’ll be glad you did.

‘Til next week.
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By: Trvlace on 7/24/09
It is about an hour long ordeal do drive waaaaay out there and back from my home near the campus. Same with the Hospital. This is just more developer city design, designed to make the land developers rich, like they did on Old Fort Parkway. Nothing new here...yawn. Forget us old inner city dwellers.

By: Duvics on 7/27/09
trvlace, do you need a tissue for your issue?


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