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Abundance has arrived. If you’re marking your calendars, right now is the time when farm tables at the market are brimming and bursting with fruits and vegetables. It’s a wondrous sight of nature to see and it means peak season is here. I know because the sweet corn is in.
When the corn is in, the market is at its fullest. Farmer Steve Goetz from the Goetz Family Farm & Greenhouse, agrees.
“We had so many new faces at the market this last weekend,” he grinned. “It’s almost like a scout comes in and reports back, ‘Yes - they have everything now.’”
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“The Farmers Market is open!” I remember standing on the south bricks of the Sundquist Pavilion on Opening Day, May 8, shouting out those words as the market bell rang. But it didn’t seem open. COVID-19 restrictions were very much in place from last summer – hurricane fencing around Riley Park, forced entrances and exits, strict guidance for navigating the market and, of course, mask mandates.
But last Saturday, our fifth market of the year, was different. With Art on the Grand’s scores of people and our market shoppers filling downtown Farmington, we truly were open: no fencing, no forced entrances, no masks. This time I could say it and mean it: The market is open.