This past Sunday I started working the Ballard Farmers' Market again, after doing the Mercer Island Market all summer. Mercer Island is a great little market, but there's no market like Ballard.
I've been vending in Ballard even before it was even located in Ballard. The market started in Fremont, as a row of farmers at the Sunday market there. But the Fremont market outgrew its space, and in 2001 the farmers moved west, where they started off in a bank parking lot on the site that is now the Ballard library. Late in 2002 we moved to our current hom on Ballard Avenue.
Ballard was this town's original year-round farmers' market, and none of the other year-round markets even come close to it in sales and vitality, in fact, Ballard in the winter is still better than almost any other market in the middle of the summer.
It's good to be back.
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I love the energy at the Ballard Market and have missed going there this past summer when I had friends to meet and a CSA to pick up at another market. Ballard does have the best selection of local foods in the winter.
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