Dekalb Farmers Market

CartLegger: 7th Jul 2008 - 16:18 GMT

I gotta agree with you on this one Peter. With all the nutritional wonders of NYC, nothing can quite measure up to the magic of the Dekalb Farmers Market. The food is from everywhere, the people are from everyhwere, the customers are from everywhere, all under one wondrous roof

One question though: When I was growing up, I had the idea that there was a sort of New agey religious that the employees were expected to follow. Not that it was up to them, but related to the owners somehow. I am sure this is incorrect, but what is the reality of working at the farmer's market?

zagg: 8th Jul 2008 - 01:41 GMT

One these saturday's I'll bother to photograph Sarnia's Farmer's Market.

Question: it has the name of different countries near the ceiling - does this Farmer's Market boast of international bearings? Our market is all about the local, local, local. Furthest fruit comes all the way from... TWO HOURS away. Gah.

P.S my veggie loving friend: I'm happy to say my garden gave birth to a big bouncin' baby zucchini yesterday.

colavitos ghost: 12th Jul 2008 - 20:32 GMT

before reading your comment, zagg, i was thinking just the same thing...

if the products are coming from somalia and belgium it wouldn't exactly fit the definition of what i think of as a "farmer's market". maybe it's more like a regular market.

Jay: 30th Jan 2010 - 00:29 GMT

Remember working on the design of the C130 Hercules at Lockheed-Georgia's plant at Dobbins AFB in Marietta in the early '60's. Drove each day from apartment on Peachtree. Shopped at Rich's in Buckhead. Noticed Stone Mtn. statue of Stonewall Jackson. Was told that "if there's a hell, Sherman's in it.......the south shall rise again."

Jay: 18th Feb 2010 - 13:59 GMT

Also remember the culture shock....a transplanted Brooklynite, working in Marietta.Was told that I had a funny (Brooklyn) accent....couldn't find a decent pastrami sandwich or bagel anywhere. Came back a few years later....visited "Confetti" & stayed in Buckhead at the Ritz Carlton. Best hot dogs in town were at a stand near Georgia Tech. Best girls were found at Emory.