Your DeKalb Farmers Market

This guide to Your DeKalb Farmers Market opens with a puzzle: one hundred eighty-four national flags fly over a staff drawn from around forty countries. It follows Robert Blazer, the Rhode Island engineer who opened a small produce stand on Medlock Road in 1977 after going door to door asking neighbors what they wanted, rebuilt it in eight weeks after an ice storm wrecked it, and built diversity into the market as it grew into this site on East Ponce de Leon Avenue. More than seven hundred fifty employees here wear name tags listing their home countries and languages.