In season: lots of flowers, plus asparagus (sold out by 10:30am) and parsnips (do parsnips ever sell out?). We bought parsley, dill and rosemary plants from Renaissance Acres.

In season: basil, tomatoes, corn, melons, the last of the summer squash, the first of the winter squash, lima beans for succotash, red and green and yellow and purple peppers, early crop apples (Cortland, Macintosh), pears (Spartlett, Bartlett).

Also seen at market: a crop of tables for Democratic presidential candidates, with the Clark campaign handing out Clark bars.

Market news for Saturday, 21 September 2002.


Rain the past few days should help dry fields. Weather radar showed up to 4 inches in Lenawee County (unconfirmed by field reports).

Last week's Saturday market was very busy, with an away game meaning locals who shied away from market because of the inability to find parking suddenly reclaiming the streets of town.

Today's game is in town (Utah, 12:05pm) so expect traffic congestion. The city is planning to spend $1.8M on a new "Adaptive Traffic Control System" (see news story, 15 Sept 2002, Ann Arbor News).

Thursday, September 19, 4 - 6 pm (3rd Thurs. of each month)
Farmer's Market Commission Meeting
Market Office
315 Detroit Street
Call 734-994-2780

Ann Arbor Historic Market District includes Kerrytown.

Barefoot Doctors is on Ann St. near the Ann Arbor Farmers Market.

Herbert Conant (1999 obituary) was Market Master for the Ann Arbor Farmers Market from the late 1960's to 1973.

The People's Food Coop is one block south of the Ann Arbor Farmers Market.

The Good Thing photo of the Ann Arbor Farmers Market.

Renaissance Acres Organic Herb Farm, Whitmore Lake MI. Peter Stark.

Michigan Daily 1996 article on the Ann Arbor Farmers Market.

Ann Arbor Farmers Market Growers Association

City of Ann Arbor page on the Ann Arbor Farmers Market.

NRE 361 report on the Ann Arbor Farmers Market.

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recipes, schedules, links to farmers, dates, produce in season, prices, links to local businesses near the market, weather, crop information, organic information, etc.