Ballard Farmers Market
Cobblestone street market of Washington-grown produce, running rain or shine every Sunday since two thousand.
This guide to the Ballard Farmers Market in Seattle opens with a gamble: in July of nineteen ninety-nine, Judy Kirkhoff drove to the Fremont Sunday Market, recruited a few truck farmers to follow her to a Ballard parking lot, and hung a hand-lettered banner. It follows that first summer's growth to thirty or forty vendors, and the winter that came next, when Kirkhoff kept the banner up and waited to see who would still show up in the cold and rain off the Ship Canal. You'll hear about the one farmer who stayed with her through it. Walk the cobblestones today and you're standing in the print they left.
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