May 15, 2002

Buyers find bountiful first Farmer’s Market

An annual rite of spring, buyers shop the first Farmer’s Market of the year Saturday in downtown Traverse City. While summer fruits and vegetables are still in the ground or on the vine, shoppers found a wide variety of other items, including this trailer full of creeping phlox.

Traverse City residents Mary Kathryn Rose, 4 1/2, and her father, Jim search for the perfect hydroponic tomatoes provided by Marek Farms of Kalkaska.

Free-range goose eggs were just some of the organic grown foods for sale at the Farmer’s Market.

Flowers were in full bloom at the first Farmer’s Market of the season and early morning buyers had their pick.

Above: Traverse City Farmer’s Market buyers found plenty of potted and fresh cut flowers, including Gerber daisies, roses and tulips for sale.

Below: Buyers of organic grown foods check out a bountiful supply of baby lettuce.



Josh Swanson wraps up a bouquet of fresh cut flowers grown at his family’s Bear Lake greenhouse business.