Farmers Market Opens Sunday, May 8

The State Highways guys were only showing their overwhelming enthusiasm for local produce when they took down the market’s closed signs on Kenilworth Avenue and Greenbelt Road a week early. The market, nonetheless, will open Mothers Day, May 8 at 10 a.m. and run until 2 p.m. This year’s market will offer a variety of springtime vegetables including that elusive species – the fresh and wondrous garden pea. It rapidly gets too hot around here for the humble but sensitive pea to flourish but the early birds at the market should be in luck. As each delicious item comes to fruition, the range of products expands and changes through the summer. Watch for tart cherries, blueberries, strawberries and raspberries – all coming around in their natural sequence and grown within 100 miles of Greenbelt. The market’s crystal ball is confidently predicting pies in Greenbelt’s future. Occupying the parking lot between the Community Center and Roosevelt Center and with plenty of nearby parking and a bike rack at the pool, the market is in a prime spot. It’s easy to combine lunch at the market, shopping for fresh vegetables and other errands in or around the Center. It’s just a short hop to the New Deal (a market sponsor) too. Or take a swim. Better still, by biking to the pool, swimming a few laps and trotting the bike home because it’s overloaded with cabbages, almost anybody can be a triathlete.  To read more about the market, click here.