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April 1, 2011

More farmers' markets opening early

Photo credit: Baltimore Sun/Amy Davis

Baltimore's Farmers' Market under the Jones Falls Expressway isn't the only one opening this weekend.

Anne Arundel County's Farmers' Market on Riva Road will open Saturday at 7 a.m. as well for its 30th season.

And my colleague Richard Gorelick over at Dining@Large says the market in Silver Spring is opening, too. (If you go, Richard says, there's a different location this Saturday only -- Gateway Plaza at he corner of Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road.)

Farmers markets used to wait until May or June to open. Now, because farmers have so many spring crops to offer, they are opening earlier.

The Maryland Department of Agriculture is pulling together a list of all the markets, their times and locations, and we'll share that will you as soon as it is done.

Posted by Susan Reimer at 2:50 PM | Permalink
Categories: Farmers Markets

About Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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