BoulderFarmers.org
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Boulder Farmers Market
Description
Every Saturday morning and Wednesday evening from April through October, the Boulder County Farmer's Market comes alive! Vibrant with color, lively chatter and friendly faces, the Market hosts thousands of Boulder County residents and out of town visitors each week. Folks come to the open-air market each week to shop, browse and meet their friends and neighbors.
The idea of the Farmer's Market is as old as time. In times past, markets were the centers of towns and villages, the place people gathered to buy or barter goods and services and to catch up on village news. Today, Farmer's Markets are thriving throughout the country, providing quality produce fresh from the field, preserving local farms, revitalizing downtown areas and creating a social opportunity for city and country folks to come together.
Historically, there have been few organized markets in Boulder. There was a time when city grocery stores featured locally grown agricultural products. But as fruit and vegetable production centralized, farms grew larger in size and fewer in numbers. Many growers decided to enter the wholesale business and abandon their seemingly less profitable retail outlets. A small Farmers Market had gathered sporadically at the courthouse for ten years, but it had limited success, due mainly to it's informal structure, lack of parking and nearby competition with the then newly consructed Pearl Street Mall.
