Farmers' Market at the Williamsville Mill

By: Eva rafferty (Jul 12, 2012)
We make a point to travel to different Farmer's Markets every weekend to scope out the scene. We also belong to a CSA and purchase pastured meats and poultry from local farms so we are not strangers to eating well or sustainable agriculture.

This market seems to focus heavily on "finished goods" such as cheeses, baked goods, services, soaps, etc, and less on food. The SPCA was even there with 3 young kittens in a pop-up tent. There were 2 vegetable stands and only 1 of them was purchase-worthy and just barely.

My biggest annoyance about our visit was when I stopped to ask the only woman with cherries if her fruit was "low spray" or "no spray". She proceeded to give me a lecture about how "all farmers are low spray" (NOT true) and tried to convince me that pesticides were a wonderful creation. Her cherries were the worst ones we've had all summer.

We make the drive out to East Aurora for the market in the Tops plaza and will continue to rely on the vendors there in addition to scoping out different markets, but we won't be going back to this one.

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