Reviews for: Columbia Farmers' Market

Go get em...............team!

Because I am buying from local vendors, which (1) keeps my money local; (2) reduces the need for large, fuel-consuming semi-trucks to be on the road, and (3) is a great way to get fresh fruits, vegetables, and meats (many fruits and vegetables are harvested the day of the market).

I love the Columbia Farmer's Market because the growers are knowledgeable, friendly and helpful. They've become like family over the years.

It's my go-to-place for the freshest, best-tasting, healthiest food. Over the past few years, as I've gotten to know many of the vendors. I've found that their passion for what they do is inspiring.

I support the Columbia Farmer's Market because the farmer's are there. I would rather support them than a national chain grocery store. I also prefer to by locally as opposed to food that has had to be preserved and shipped half way around the world. Oh, and the food is yummy!!

Great variety of veggies, best frsh pies ever and chance to catch up with friends.

Great produce, great people--Open three days a week. The farmers are always helpful with great tips, good recipes. This market is treasure in our community.

The food is always fresh, and there is nothing better than supporting local farmer's who grow lots of chemical free, healthy food. There is also a great diversity of products, lots of different peppers and unusual herbs and vegetables. I love going once or twice a week to stock up on the best produce around!

At the very beginning of this market, I was there helping a friend brings herbs and produce. Its been very gratifying to watch it grow to where it is now and so appreciate the goods and healthy emphasis it offers to this community.

It is a fantastic place with great variety representing farmers from all over the area. It gives us an opportunity for great food, especially a great selection of meat, that is healthy and humane.

I love buying local produce, and the Columbia Farmers' Market is gourmet quality!

John and I love the Columbia Farmers' Market because of the abundance and freshness of the produce, the variety and quality of meat, cheese and fish and the vast array of other tasty food items available. But most of all, we love getting to meet the farmers and talking with them about their goods and the care they take in bringing such high quality food items to our town. P.S. We love buying the gorgeous plants too!!

It is absolutely fabulous. The vendors are varied and very friendly to the customers. The market is trying to build a permanent facility and $5,000 will go a long way to help our community acheive its goal.

I support Columbia Farmers Market because of all the wonderful locally grown fresh food sold there.

local, local, local and FRESH, FRESH, FRESH!!! There's not a better taste...not to mention all the friends I meet greet and make at the market.

I HATE grocery shopping, but I love to find reasons to go the the Columbia Farmers' Market three times a week! Fantastic food and wonderful people!

It's a treat every week. We especially love our farm share from Danjo Farms. There's nothing better than a meal made from locally grown produce.

The food is fresh!!!!!!!!! There is always something going on. It's a great enviorment for families. There is always a live band.

I love the variety of the vendors and how local the produce is. The farmers are friendly and helpful and we get to know them personally over the years. They put on wonderful events and are a true part of the community. Much of the produce is organic.

The farmers market has the best selection of locally raised meat, locally grown vegetables and flowers and even some locally made organic icecream!

I grew up on a farm. I know the food is much fresher than from the store where much of it is trucked in from California or elsewhere. My folks farmed for 25 years and switched to trucking the produce from CA back to the MidWest for the next 25 years. They made more money trucking than farming....sigh...

It is the best of my community: a melting pot, a place to go and shop, watch, smell, see, smile, meet, and play.

I support Columbia Farmers Market because it brings income and recoginition to those locally who dedicate their time and those whose livelihood it is to farm. The market is a wonderful place to get any food type along with fresh flowers and other products all in a friendly and easily shopping environment.

The Columbia Farmers' Market is the most valuable asset to the community. There is no reasonable substitute for good nutritious locally grown food. Support and patronage of local food producers is an important step toward sustainability.

I love that it's open at very convenient times during the week, has a great selection & there you'll find the friendliest folks in town!

such a festive atmosphere, focused around quality food and community. how can you not love that?

local foods. fresh, delicious and nutritious as they can be! the best souce for quality food.

It's the people and the sense of a community that keeps the market every changing and interesting. The vendors and consumers alike are always a new and wonderous experience. And like a garden, the experience just keeps growing, with more choices, more friends, more food and so much more adventure. It truely is a wonderous and glorious community adventure!

It is a wonderful outing for my husband and me on Saturday mornings to go to the market and buy fresh foods for the upcoming week. Who doesn't love fresh corn-on-the-cob, tomatoes, eggplant, herbs, peaches, berries, etc. Also the availability of eggs and meat are great.

I have become more conscious of the harmful chemicals in produce, meat and chicken and feel more confident in buying food from the Farmer's Market. I also feel better knowing that the animals that are raised by local ranchers are humanely raised. I enjoy cooking so much more when I shop at the Farmer's Market; I enjoy buying vegetables I'm not familiar with and finding ways to prepare them. Columbia Farmer's Market is the BEST!

I really like getting my fruit, veggies and meat from a local source. It is so much better and better for you. Thank you to all the farmers and organizers involved in bringing this great farmer's marked to Columbia.

columbia farmers market is wonderful and especially large compared to other midwest markets i know of. there is a full range of foods, products and services and a genuine 'hometown' feel. in short columbia farmers market is a gem of the midwest much like the town it serves...

We can get everything fresh that is in season and it's a great community gathering.

Because it is a unifying element for the community and promotes healthy foods and local farmers.

There is so much variety of fruits and vegetables to choose from at the market. It brings together a lot of people in the community by teaching and providing healthy alternatives to buying food from a store. It also tries to make sure that there is entertainment each weekend. I'm looking forward to more events that the market will include this summer when we get to taste everything it has to offer.

There is nothing better on a Saturday morning, leisurely strolling threw the market imagining what to make for dinner that night!

I support any farmers market. I am the daughter of a farmer and know how hard it is. These folks come from all over central Missouri. They're friendly and helpful. They answer questions and are just fine people. Perhaps some money would help them have a permanent home.

Columbia Farmers Market works hard to provide a diverse selection of produce, plants and free range meats. The vendors are really great at answering any questions I may have and they take pride in their products.

Good, local food that gives me and my family a chance to eat well, stay healthy and support a sustainable economy.

the Columbia Farmers market is THE ONLY saving grace for an otherwise appallingly TOXIC, racist, narrow-minded, bigoted, under-educated, obese, 'redneck' environment existing 50 years in the past. They NEED the market to evolve, hopefully promoting kindness, tolerance, and good health!

Great variety of fresh, high quality local products. Wonderful, friendly vendors. Nice crowds - like a fair every week. One of our region's treasured community assets.

It's important for me to know where my product, meat, and dairy products come from. How fantastic to actually get to meet the people who grow, it first hand. The Columbia Farmers' Market is a wonderful event full of energy, education, and community spirit.

Columbia Farmers Market is growing and is doing an excellent job of supplying wholesome food to our community.

My family & I enjoy meeting new people & it's exciting to bring our homegrown veggies from our fields to the customers table through CFM.

It is fun and I get to talk to interesting people. Also, I get to see a lot of my friends there. What's not to like - good food, good conversations and friends. Like a coffee shop only outside. Oh, it even has coffee.

Made the BEST peach cobbler last week with fresh peaches from the Farmer's Market

Great friendly people with a nice variety of localy produced food. My happy place!

Because it brings the community together around our growing community food system, and is a point of pride for many folks in the area. It has been an entryway for many younger folks my age who are uncertain about sustainability and local food, and has been a great learning experience for them.

Vendors are very willing to answer questions and educate me about varieties of fruits and vegetables new to me.

I am grateful that the market makes fresh produce available to my family. The venders are cordial and the variety is amazing.

The variety is amazing and truly everything is locally raised! We are so lucky to have the market avaialble.

Because the market manager does a great job and things are always fresh and nice.

It is a great community resource and way to connect with local food & support local farmers.

Local produce, friendly people, good times, great vendors and quality products for all of us to enjoy.

It's an amazing market with wonderful vendors; we're thankful every time we go there to have access to such wonderful products!

In a nutshell: Food, farmers, friends, and fun. The Columbia Farmers' Market is my one stop shop for life's simple pleasures. I owe my health to a large extent to the quality of food I can purchase at the market. I like being able to identify the farmer responsible for the food on my plate, and I like being able to thank the organic farmers for taking the extra effort to grow and produce food most responsibly. Melinda Hemmelgarn

I am a vendor as well as a supporter. This market has an incredible variety of produce, meat and so many other items that are farm fresh and healthy. All the vendors are extremely friendly and eager to share information and recipes. Everyone cooperates and works together to make sure the customer has a great shopping experience.

I am a vender/ supporter. I'm a regular at the breakfast burrito stand -yum! Then I pick up some good veggies,goat cheese, fresh pasta, bread and milk. I top it all off with honey ice cream.How much fun is that? And I can gather all that goodness in a real short time.

they have the best selections of fresh produce. the vendors work together with a familiy atmosphere.

The Market Master does a great job! The produce looks great, there is a big variety. I wish I lived closer, I would go there more often.

incredible variety of FRESH and delicious food. I love supporting local farmers!!

My great grandparents would recognize it as food not a science experiment of chemicals!

the local farmers grow good, healthy food at very reasonable prices - and I prefer to support a local farmer than a large corporation that expends large amounts of fossil fuel to transport chemical-laden items of lower quality.

It's a great place for fresh vegetables, fruit, meat and eggs. You can meet your friends and make new ones. Master Gardeners are often there to teach about gardening.

For all the right reasons!! Besides the fact that they are our largest, most diversified farmer's market, they work hard to keep the public involved, and have raised over $200,000 in private funds for a community pavilion to be built. We still need more, but this crew rocks! The $5000 would help us to accomplish those long term dreams.

Nothing tastes better than locally grown product, fruit and meats. You also know that no hormones or pesticides have been used so the food is good for you too!

It has excellent produce, prices and service, and is comprised of local farmers.

The variety and quality of what is provided by the vendors is fantastic. We even have a beekeeper that makes ice cream. It is outstanding!

The Columbia Farmers' Market provides our community with SO much! It provides us with delicious locally grown and locally made food. It provides us an opportunity to venture out for some entertainment (live music, etc.), locally roasted coffee, breakfast burritos, a place to run into friends and an overall feeling of well being. The farmer's that sell at the market make their living by providing us with the very best! They (and we) deserve financial assistance in making our Columbia Farmers' Market an even better place to gather, eat and play!

The Columbia MO farmers' market is an outstanding source of local, fresh produce for this community.

Friendly and helpful vendors. Great location. Thay are always looking for a way to improve.

Because I can purchase fantastic local, organic produce, dairy products, meat products (that taste and look better than what is trucked into the grocery stores), beautiful flowers, interact with friendly vendors, socialize with friends, meet new people all while supporting the local economy and healty, sustainable living.

Small businesses are the backbone of our country and this is great way to support the local farmers and our local ecomomy. The big box stores may be cheaper, but ...I think the farmers market is the best way to eat the freshest foods grown locally and have a great time too!

I am both a vendor and a customer at the Columbia Farmer's Market. We sell our fruit and then go to other vendors for a WONDERFUL! variety of veggies, meat, breads, ice cream, chocolate and plants. We sell and shop Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. That way we can always eat the freshest foods produced by people we know.

Very friendly people, great selection on produce, on meat, on plants etc... Go all the time as a vender and as a shopper.

Better food than what is in the grocery store. Best of all it supports the local economy.

because it is the best place to get fresh wholesome food AND pretty flowers AND plants AND see friends AND support the local small farmers. [all the while showing agribusiness and supergrocers that they're sorta, like, idiots]

Farmer's market is a pleasant, centrally located place to shop for locally grown food I can trust. I also like supporting local agriculture as a way for people to earn a living that isn't just another office job or academic institution.

I have been to other markets across the state and the country with my travels and I must admit the Columbia Farmers' Market has got to be the best. The local producers with their locally grown fresh and nutritious foods are the best. The farmers are great and friendly and really enjoy growing healthy food for people who appreciate their hard work to bring their food to them. Plus the market has just about everything you would want from veggies to fruits to meats (beef, lamb, pork, chicken, buffalo and trout) to dairy (milk, cheese and eggs) to baked goods (breads, pies, cookies, granola bars and dog treats) to flowers and handmade crafts with items from their farm. The weekly entertainment is fabulous. The reltionships built from producers to consumers is fabulous. I even got one producer to grow carrots just because I asked him to. Another grew hulless pumpkins just for me. You can't get it anywhere any better than this.

It's a wonderful community market with fresh organic foods and flowers. It's also a community event that promotes our local farmers and our local economy. We have a wonderful group of very dedicated volunteers that keep the whole thing going.

Fresh ,truly organic produce, grown by friends and members of my community , music , so many smiles, and a look at Columbias ever increasing diversity ,come on , whats not to love? You dont hear that kind of laughter, shopping at Hyvee, or Walmart . How many hugs have you gotten at Shnucks lately? The Market is my way of being able to directly support the people I care about,and fill my fridge with all kinds of home grown goodness, on a weekly basis.

We have the best customers!!! They are knowledgeable, considerate, polite, loyal, and extremely grateful to have local food.

It's a great place with a friendly environment to get great food and plants and meet cool and interesting people.

It is the best resource for local and organic products. It is a great place to meet people, meet up with friends and just enjoy music. My kids love it, they enjoy the food, the ice cream, the music and playing with other children in the field.

It is the saturday morning place to be! All the farmers are local. There is a wide diversity of food product...not just vegetables & fruit, but breads, cheeses, baked goods, chocolate, dairy products, pasta...a whole meal right created by people I know and trust, sold to me right while I talk and laugh and jostle and hug and reacquaint with folks from my amazing community. There is no other experience like it.

Amazing fresh local fruits, veggies, meat, bread, plants, honey and other yummy products are provided to our community by amazing producers! We are so fortunate to have so many dedicated people who are working to provide local, healthy foods to our community. Thank you Columbia Farmer's Market!!

I am both a farmer and shopper at CFM; we bring certified Organic produce to the market and source much of our food (what we don't raise ourselves, anyway) from our fellow farmers. It's a real producer's market; no resale allowed and about a 54 mile radius for vendors, of whom we have over 80. The variety of products available is as good as most coastal markets I've been to, especially considering the strict radius and rules. Fruits, produce, diverse meats, eggs, fish, jams, baked goods, milk, cheese, and more. I'm proud to be a part of the market and to help it keep growing.

I lived in Columbia for five years. The market helped me lose a lot of weight! The vendors are my friends. I miss them.

All of the vendors at the Columbia Farmers' Market are local growers ~ there is no re-selling. The vendors are from a 54 mile radius, except for the trout & dairy. It is a fun place! Expecially on Saturday morning.

No farmers, no food! Besides the fact that the Columbia Farmer's Market has the freshest and often the most delicious food in town, it's important to know and support our community! (And the energy can't be beat!)

I suport the Columbia Farmers' Market becuase it is wonderful to be able to meet and support the local farmers, know that the food is fresh, and be a part of something that really engages the community and promotes our interaction with each other.

I support the Columbia Farmers' Market because the Columbia Farmers' Market supports me! A local economy and fresh food pair like a fine wine and a fine bar of chocolate, or like two peas in a pod.

With out Columbia's farmers market I would have never known what a quality farmers market was like. This has helped me set standards for a good farmers market since my move back home to st. louis.

They have organic farmers as well as a large variety of produce, meats, cheeses, baked goods & plants.

It is a wonderful experience meeting local farmers and buying local products. I also find that the prices were very reasonable. I have been every weekend for the last month and it has become a regular event. My friends and I enjoy the music, food, and market atmosphere.

I love fresh tomatoes right off the vine. I'm not able to plant them because I live in a condo.

I go there often. They have Ranchers and Farmers who have steroid free beef etc. You can order sides from them as well. The produce is fresh straight from the field. They also have a variety of items which can be ordered on the Internet if you like.

the farmers/merchants there are some of the best people. i can find great variety. and, it's expanding all the time.

Love the Columbia Farmer's Market. Absolutely, the BEST variety, quality and reasonable prices.