Reviews for: Yellow Springs 4 Seasons Farmer's Market

Wonderful quality,organic produce--Peach Mountain. NO pesticides,antibiotics, steroid meat products from the very special German Baptists. I love fixing a meal and knowing the people who were responsible for bring it to my table.

Going to the Yellow Springs Farmers' Market is a little like coming home, or to a family reunion--I've shopped from many of the vendors for years (some were in the Wegerzyn Farmers' Market in Dayton, Ohio, when I lived there). I can count on the produce and baked goods being excellent. It's great to see friends there. This is community life at its best. And the point is always: good food!

I'm a vendor at the YSFM and we have wonderful rapport among our vendors as well as excellent products!

though i have moved away from yellow springs, one of my favorite things to do on a weekend visit to this lovely oasis in ohio is stroll the farmer's market. i can pick up a flower --or a bouquet !, a loaf of bread, a fine cheese, or a dessert to last me through the week. even more, though, the farmer's market is the epitome of this community. to quote my lit professor, "only in yellow springs would the amish kids play with the black kids."

The farmer's market is a vital part of knitting together a very large segment of this tiny town in terms of creating a social space where people meet and at the same time support local producers and merchants and get good food (including killer cheese and croissants) not transported over 1500 miles. This is no doubt true in many places. The difference is that YS is an oasis of community, environmentally committed people, and free thinkers just 8 miles from the air force base, the biggest employer in the State of Ohio, and another 6 from the city used as the "typical" American city (my home town of Dayton) which is ravaged by everything from white flight to Wallmart sprawl. The fact that a market like ours, and a village like ours is vibrant has extraordinary symbolic capital.

It's a friendly place I can bike to, to buy locally grown veggies and fruits, locally raised and processed bison and beef and chicken, and locally made cheeses. What's not to love!

The people are friendly, the produce is great, & the prices are right. I always feel better when I shop there... =}