{"id":2097,"date":"2006-05-13T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2006\/05\/13\/tower-grove-farmers-market-opening\/"},"modified":"2006-05-13T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-13T17:12:00","slug":"tower-grove-farmers-market-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/tower-grove-farmers-market-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower Grove Farmers&#8217; Market Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5685\/203\/1600\/S3500001.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5685\/203\/320\/S3500001.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>While this one will appeal mainly to the local folks, I figure a new farmers&#8217; market is always good news.  Spent some time this morning (and took some pictures) at the opening of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tgmarket.org\/\">Tower Grove Farmers&#8217; Market<\/a>, which will run every Saturday morning through the summer.  While the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soulardmarket.com\/\">Soulard Market<\/a>, towards downtown, is a St. Louis institution (over 150 years old), I&#8217;m very excited to now have a farmers&#8217; market in walking distance of the house. For those of you in town, the Market&#8217;s being held in the pavilion right by the tennis courts in Tower Grove park.  The weather was less than ideal, but a good crowd showed up for today&#8217;s opening festivities &#8212; clearly more than expected.  In addition to farmers and ranchers hawking their wares, there were a number of craft vendors, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5685\/203\/1600\/S3500007.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5685\/203\/320\/S3500007.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Plenty of musicians on hand to entertain the crowd&#8230; Unfortunately, after this guy finished playing, the politicians and dignataries took to the stage&#8230; ugh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5685\/203\/1600\/S3500002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5685\/203\/320\/S3500002.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>While there weren&#8217;t a lot of vendors on hand, the one&#8217;s who came had some great looking produce.  Of course, all of the vendors were local, and many sold organic produce and\/or free-range, cruelty-free meats and dairy products.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5685\/203\/1600\/S3500005.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5685\/203\/320\/S3500005.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>It was a great way to spend a few hours this morning, and I look forward to making the Tower Grove Farmers&#8217; Market a Saturday morning ritual.<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/farmersmarket\" rel=\"tag\">farmersmarket<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/stlouis\" rel=\"tag\">stlouis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/towergrove\" rel=\"tag\">towergrove<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/localfood\" rel=\"tag\">localfood<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/food\" rel=\"tag\">food<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/organic\" rel=\"tag\">organic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/freerange\" rel=\"tag\">freerange<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/crueltyfree\" rel=\"tag\">crueltyfree<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/Missouri\" rel=\"tag\">Missouri<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this one will appeal mainly to the local folks, I figure a new farmers&#8217; market is always good news. 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