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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I agree with you there is a general lack of produce. I also know that they would not allow one of the long time vendors run their CSA out of there booth last year, which seems very strange. The 2 produce farmers that are there are also not the friendliest of people and to be honest I have some concerns about where their produce comes from. As far as the cherry lady, I imagine she was kind of rude to you, it's a fair question and as a consumer you have a right to ask whatever you want to, she was kind of right though at least around here most farmers do use minimal spray, if for no other reason than money matters to them and pesticides are expensive, not to mention the time it takes to spray! Stinks the cherries were bad, it was a terrible year for them but ours were amazing!! There are some amazing vendors too and that store farmers and artisans has nothing but amazing local products, but if produce is what you are after it is not the place to go which is too bad!