Greensboro's Downtown Farmers' Market

Organic fruits and veggies.

Thanks to Jamy, we visited the downtown farmers' market on Greene Street today here in Greensboro. The place is great. Amazing farm fresh tasting vegetables, meats, baked-goods, and cheeses. They do take credit cards, and the prices are reasonable.

Green Street's "Green Grocery"

Downtown Farm Market is a community supported agriculture (CSA) market featuring the best natural foods grown on the most eco-friendly North Carolina farms. NC farm fresh!

To be frankly honest, I've come to the belief that the vegetables at your local grocery store aren't worth the money they ask. The underdeveloped, unripened, pesticide covered, tasteless foods are commercially created to make money- not be vessels of nutrition, and is poisoning our idea of what food should be. Getting fresh tomatoes, peaches, and plums today was literally like raiding a candy store. The foods were fresh, and sweet. They actually had taste! Imagine that? Remind me again how supermarkets managed to convince us tomatoes taste like what they sell? (They taste like butt to me.) Because, they really don't taste like tomatoes. A fresh vine ripened tomato tastes nothing like the chemically induced puberty of a supermarche's Weird Science tomatoes.

Farm fresh natural produce direct from the farm! Locally grown organic produce, Homeland Creamery Milk & Ice cream, local honey, cheese butter, free range chicken, free range eggs, grass fed beef, buffalo meat (NC Bison), lamb, goat, rabbit, turkey, quail, country ham, bacon, sausage, pork chops, dried fruits, cakes, bread, homemade jams, jellies, sauces and more. 

Inside the Farmers' Market

For the record, this isn't the farmer's market on Yanceyville street that I've yet to manage to get to since the weird hours are always in conflict with my schedule. It's also not the "massive" farmers market out on Sandy Ridge Road which was built where no one lives, and no one wants to go. (I've been saying for years a centrally located open and free farmers market is what's missing here in Greensboro.) This is a little retail establishment perfectly situated right downtown, and is split into two adjacent buildings. In one you have the majority of products, in the other, a giant white dog that winks and wags its tail at you in the dark as you try to figure out if it's real. (It is, and scared the crap out of me when it winked.) The dog (and his owner) also sells homemade, high quality hummus, jams, and middle eastern spices and foods. It's pretty bloody groovy, and everyone we met was super nice to us making sure we only received the freshest quality products.

Downtown Greensboro's Farmers' Market

505 N. Greene St.
Greensboro, NC
(One block North of Marriott Hotel)
336 210-1947
M-Sat 9-6
greenmarket505@aol.com (Mike Causey)