Love Your Farmer's Market Contest

I love have locally grown fresh food available near-by on a weekly basis. I also enjoy the prepared foods, fresh flowers, and artisan stands.

Because the farmers are super friendly, they grow the most delicious produce, and becuase its all local!

The North Union Farmers market at Shaker Square is not only a place to shop, it's a community. I buy fresh, certified local produce and meats, and also get to visit with the vendors and all of my market friends. It's a totally different experience than the grocery store, not to mention the flavor and freshness of the product available at the market!

It has everything! It's pleasant, fun, and child-friendly for my 3 kids.

It is one of the best farmers markets in the country, if not the world. The fresh produce is of a very high quality and quite diverse. Several farmers sell excellent organic meat--it is the only place in Cleveland I've found to get grass fed beef--and the mushroom stand is second-to-none for both foraged and cultivated fungus. We also like the craftsfolk and the general community atmosphere.

Some of the best meals I've ever devised started with staples from the North Union Farmers Market. One on one interaction between regular sellers and weekly buyers is always rewarding, and the variety of offerings in an open air, pedestrian, and uniquely urban setting is what brings our family back each week.

I would rather patronize the small farmer any day than the big grocery stores. I like to interact with the farmers, since I have an organic vegetable garden. Makes it interesting conversation since we have something in common.

Our yard is too small for our own vegetable garden, so these close-by markets are the next best thing!

Fresh produce.

Wide variety of items and open year round.

In the WINTER I so appreciate the N. Union farmer's market at Shaker Square still being available for my fresh food shopping. (During the summer I shop at the west side farmer's markets closer to where I live- and I'm sorry to see they're not on this list)

shaker square is one of the best!