On an early Saturday morning, the River City Farmers Market comes to life.
Just blocks from the Ohio River, vendors set up shop under red, white and blue tents, advertising everything from fresh vegetables to locally raised meat.
“We’ve got lettuce, we’ve got broccoli, rhubarb, kale, cabbage,” lists Mike Murphy. He’s been selling produce here for 25 years. “And next week we should have kohlrabi, probably cucumbers and some radishes.”
Murphy is one of dozens of vendors crowded onto the sidewalks here.
“We have about twenty more on a waiting list,” said Marcus McCartney, an OSU extension educator and member of the farmers market’s board.
He says Marietta’s market is so popular because the town, located on Ohio’s eastern edge, is surrounded by agriculture. There are fields of corn and soybeans, dairy farms and beef producers.
“And then, with the rivers, we have a lot of flatland,” McCartney said. “So we actually have a lot of fabulous fruit and vegetable growers that you see here today.”
Source: statenews.org
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