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(Jun 4, 2016)
My husband and I are new to peoria and we're excited to try this farmers market out. It was not worth getting up early on a Saturday. There were only 4 vendors and much of the produce was spoiling already. I didn't understand why one of them were selling grapes in bags that had skue numbers on them. It looked like they were from snucks around the corner. My last city I went to the farmers market every week and was very disappointed with this one.
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You should go to the downtown Peoria one. It has gotten more and more popular over the last few years, so less farmers go to Metro Center. Plus, everything at the downtown one has to be grown within 50 miles of Peoria.
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The Metro Centre market is a combination of fresh local grown produce as well as retail sales of fresh produce bought directly from wholesalers. The riverfront market is more like a flea market than a farmers market and there are vendors there that are reselling things they bought. The downtown riverfront market is not the reason for the number of vendors present. I don't know who it was that had something you thought was spoiled, but that is not typical of what you see there. I'm not sure what time of the day you arrived either. Being there for 40 years now I'd say they must be doing something right.