Plans for the new Richmond District Sunday farmer’s market on 9th Avenue (across from the library) are well underway thanks to a group of motivated residents. Their goal is to open for business in May 2011.
The market will only have about 21 stalls so the organizers at Richmond District Greens need your help to prioritize the kind of vendors they bring in on Sundays.
Leave a comment here on the post to tell them:
– What kind of fruits and vegetables you like to purchase most
– Other items you like to shop for at open air markets
They’ll be reading all the comments that come in, so encourage your friends and neighbors to stop by and leave their thoughts too.
For more information on Richmond District Greens, visit their Yahoo! Group.
Sarah B.
Produce is great, but I already belong to a primarily fruits and veggies CSA. What I would really like to see is meat, dairy (including cheese!), and breads.
Miniature pies (I don’t know the vendor, but they sell at the SFSU Thursday farmer’s market), inexpensive bouquets of seasonal/local flowers (like at the Davis farmer’s market), kale, broccoli rabe, squashes.
Fresh eggs, organic meats, Seasonal vegetables certainly, less comon vegetables.
Thing to think about also is pricing. No Ferry building prices!!!
Fresh eggs, grass-fed beef and other quality meats, breads. Agree with the pricing comment.
I’m so excited for a farmers market in our ‘hood!! Here’s the list of fruits and veggies I’d like to see:
peppers (hot and sweet), tomatoes, herbs (all kinds), broccoli, broccoli rabe, spinach/lettuces/leafy greens, peaches, oranges, lemons, apples, berries.
I’m not sure if its in the cards, but having local bread or cheese is a HUGE plus and even better would be grass fed meat and poultry! I’m so glad that this is going to happen and I’d love to help organize anyway I can!
Tomatoes tomatoes tomatoes. It’s next to impossible to get decent tomatoes in this neighborhood. I’d also like to see fresh herbs and seasonal fruits. We’re lucky enough to have a bunch of small greengrocers around here, but most of them have the same limited selection of over-the-hill produce, so I’d love to see the market emphasize produce that’s at its peak.
Fresh greens like radish flowers and frisee.
Any produce in season would be welcome! Citrus, greens/broccoli/rabe, apples/pears/quince, onions, fresh herbs, tomatoes & eggplant, carrots, celery. I’d love to see a good bread vendor; it’s hard to find good bread in the neighborhood.
In addition to organic fruits and veggies, would love pastured eggs and a great pastry vendor.
Broccoli Rabe PLEASE. It is so hard to find in the city- I have to go out to Whole Foods to find it.
Very excited for a local farmer’s market! My list for the dream farmer’s market is all affordable and organic: fruits and veggies; herbs; breads/baked goods; cheeses; ethnic food carts; flowers. Specifically- peppers, tomatoes, lettuces, onions, stone fruits, figs, citrus, grapes, berries, variety of basils. Thank you!
ORGANIC ORGANIC!!!!! Any organic vergetable and fruits! Not much organic products are around there. Other than that, nice pastery for weekend!!!
Fresh eggs, good cheese, seasonal vegetables from local sources. As much as I love shopping at our neighborhood greengrocers, I’d love to see some local stuff.
Fresh soups, local honey, bread from a neighborhood or regional baker.
Oh, and Gilroy or at least California garlic.
Red corn. 🙂
All of the above can be purchased 2 blocks away at Village MArket on 8th and California St. Acme bread (l/2 off on day old), grass fed organic meat, high end fancy cheese, etc.
What I am looking for is inexpensive fresh, ORGANIC produce. I’ve already asked the Farmer’s market director to add #2 produce/fruit (cosmetically challenged but still good and tasty), (it doesn’t have to be perfectly round to be good), slight blemish is ok, vendors in transition-farmers going thru the organic process but charge produce at regular prices)
Here’s a better list. Write down your FAVORITE vendors. That way, you know you will get the best price, selection, and service.
Here’s my friends list
Two Dog Farm, organic and inexpensive, sold at Alemany and other location
Phat Nam, ginger, Alemany
Twin Girls, organic fruits, their Citrus is inexpensive, Alemany, Mission and Ferry ,etc..
Mushroom people, Sunset etc.
She and I are vegetarians. We buy more produce than the average consumer.
My friend goes to 3 farmer’s markets a week. With our new market; if we have the good vendors, she might only go to 1 market a week.
Hi there….
I go to the Sunset Farmer’s Market every Sunday for….Arzimendi Bakery! Love them! And they need to be included.
There is a vendor from San Bruno that sells hummus and pita — yum! They should also be included.
And lots of fruit and vegetable vendors that carry a variety of food!
I’d love to see fresh eggs, leafy greens, seasonal fruit, and cheese. If there are local Richmond District producers that have something to offer (like the guy selling honey from different neighborhoods at the Inner Sunset market), I would definitely support them.
There’s lots of farmers from Half Moon Bay and Pescadero. I keep forgetting about them since they are hiding in the fog.
Not sure how they do it, but they grow lots of food. Artichoke, cucumbers, etc..
I can’t grow anything in my foggy back yard.
I’d love to see NUTS: pistachios, almonds, peanuts, cashews, seasoned or natural. I’d also appreciate a taco stand serving all the typical fare: chorizo, bistec, tripa, pollo asado, and other great meats served on 2 small corn tortillas.
Fresh local eggs; goat cheese; local produce like greens, tomatoes, eggplant – at its freshest;honey; grass fed beef;mushrooms; strawberries; cherry tomatoes.
And it would be great if we could convince that knife sharpener guy to come down here.
The Sunday market at Ft. Mason is about the same size. The “chicken on a spit” guy does a great business there. You might consider hime.
Nuts! Please nuts and honey and fresh eggs… And NUTS!
Getting the same vendors who do the Ft. Mason one would be great. Also if there’s any chance to get Downtown Bakery from Healdsburg who does the Ferry Bldg Farmer’s Market that would be great.
I would love to see a vendor selling fresh flowers!
Variety- and as organic and locavoric as possible! Make it a comprehensive produce and food love experience– focus on produce, but have seed & seedling buying opportunities for long-term investors and food carts for immediate gratification (a seconding of that suggestion). Bring people in for as many reasons as is feasible.
I would love a vendor selling sustainable fresh fish and local oysters. Organic grapes, potatoes, root vegetables, kale, tomatoes, Brentwood corn, figs, melons. I don’t want a farmer’s market that is 80% packaged and prepared foods – though local and good, i don’t want to buy that stuff every week. Produce is most important.
An area for live music would be great. Marin Co Farmers Market has live music and kids love it.
I’m really excited to have our own Farmers’ Market. I’d like to buy eggs from free-range hens, flowers, and organic fruits. I get a CSA box, but it’s mostly veggies. Also some baked goods (savory pies and/or those fantastic empanadas that I buy at the 9th & Irving Farmers’ Market. See you next Spring!
I’m thinking it might be a good location for live poultry sales. I always wanted to go the people at the Alemany market, but I hear they are no longer there.
I second the motion for a Taco truck. There isn’t any edible Mexican food within a 2 mile radius of here, and a taco cart doesn’t take up a lot of room.
I like the pastries idea as well.
Would love to buy a bouquet of fresh lavender.
Fresh flowers, fresh local veggies in season, and yes on the taco cart!!!
(for those looking for fresh bread, try the Boudin bakery on 10th & Geary, super fresh, they bake right there!)
Fresh fruit, nuts, veggies and fish!
Free range organic poultry and meats would be welcome but most importantly AFFORDABLE produce!!
Back in the early days of Farmers Markets these places were not only a place for local farmers to sell there harvest directly to the consumer and eliminate the middle man they also offered AFFORDABLE alternatives to Markets such as “Whole Paycheck” I mean Whole Foods and other organic and non organic produce markets. Nowadays the Farmers markets are selling their goods for equal or greater cost’s then what can be found in the markets. 4.99 a pound for Heirloom Tomatoes really??? Almost 3 bucks for one large peach? Who can really afford to eat an organic diet let alone support a farmers market with prices like that. I am all for the Farmers Marker I have nostalgic memories as child of navigating the bustling isles and rows with my parents as a child as they gathered a basket of the weeks best looking produce to enjoy and I know that we were making the decisions to shop at the Farmers Market A) Because it was a healthy economical alternative to the super market and B) they had one hell of a good sweet roll
Shopping to fill your refrigerator from the Farmers Market is now only a novelty idea to most middle class folks. Maybe a half dozen peaches and some flowers is about all people can really afford to splurge on.
I would like to buy eggs, fresh flowers, and nuts there as well as seasonal, local fruit and vegetables.
Organic seasonal fruits, I agree on the tomatoes, they’re tough to grow here, so that would be great, flowers. When i do make it out to the ferry building farmers market i’m always looking for what’s plentiful and good.
Brain Toniq, of course! We’ll do some tasting there, if permitted.
Cheese, cheese and cheese, PLEASE! The selections around here are pretty bad – and we have a couple good wine stores, so cheese is much needed! Oh, and bread to go with it while we’re at it 😉
It would great to have dairy products and eggs from humane sources, in addition to some local organic produce.
Gluten free breads and pastries would be fantastic!
Farm Fresh Organic Meats would be such an amazing addition to the Richmond District farmers market. Its basically impossible to buy anything organic and grass fed, unless you want to spend top dollar at private and expensive health food stores in the Marina or Pac hights.