The Alpharetta Farmers Market opens this Saturday in conjunction with the city’s springtime celebration, Alpharetta Arts Streetfest. This year the Alpharetta Farmers Market - in its third season - is putting new emphasis on two words: “Georgia” and “organic.”“We’re trying to go more green and more local,” said market manager Carol Anderson-Wood. “It’s going to take a little transition, but we’re working on it.”
Although a couple of returning vendors use conventional growing methods, new applicants must use natural farming techniques. “We’re also asking everybody to label things that are not from Georgia,” Anderson-Wood said. “We’re just moving in that direction.”
So is the nation. There are many sensible reasons to buy naturally grown, local produce - health and environment chief among them - but fans of farmers markets know the true reasons. Once you taste a radish or beet that has come out of the ground that morning, once you experience the joy of selecting carrots with the greens (and dirt) still attached and shake the hand that harvested them, once you reawaken in yourself the urge to connect, in a tangible way, with food we eat and the land we live on … once you do these things, you’ll never look back.
Alpharetta Farmers Market: 8 a.m. till noon Saturdays, Old Roswell Street, downtown Alpharetta.
AT LOCAL FARMERS MARKETS
Arugula, asparagus, beets, bok choy, cabbage, carrots, chard, dandelion, escarole, green garlic, green onions, greens, herbs, kale, kohlrabi, leeks, lettuce, microgreens, radicchio, radishes, spinach, strawberries, tatsoi, turnips, brussels sprouts
AJC
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