Savannah State Farmers Market

[bellhead]

Originally Posted by gentlearts

I love that idea, in theory, except folks wouldn't drive downtown and park to go there. The old Savannah Farmer's Market could be made into a showplace, with vendors and food trucks and dealers of other goods.
There is a show I watch called Fixer Upper. A young couple in Waco TX, which I understand is sort of a washed up armpit of a city, bought an old grain mill, with a warehouse, small outbuilding, and two huge grain silos. Starting in October, they are opening up a marketplace, sort of like Round Top, in TX, or Brimfield, MA Antique Markets, as well as other vendors and food trucks.

Watch that show also...

There is a huge area east of town that could be paved over until they figure out what in the hell they want to do with it for a minimum cost. The market would be a perfect fit there.

[masonbauknight]

Originally Posted by Newsboy

That farmers market y'all are referring to in Garden City is the Savannah STATE FARMERS MARKET -- owned and ioperqted by the Georgia Department of Agriculture, with similar locations statewide. As you may on may not know, the main State Farmers Marke in Forest Park is the largest in the world.

State Farmers Market - Ga Dept of Agriculture

Yes, but it's a shame that a regional Farmers' Market like Savannah's would decline to the point of no return -- due to its outdated site in Garden City. If Savannah's foodies could go back on a time machine and see the old market, they'd cry. Based on quality AND price, it was phenomenal. The Forsyth Park outfit is good, but it's a pale shadow of the the Farmers' Market of the 1960s-1970s.

[gentlearts]

So, since it is run by a government entity, nobody is invested in it's success.

[masonbauknight]

Originally Posted by gentlearts

So, since it is run by a government entity, nobody is invested in it's success.

Doesn't the same "government entity" that ran the market in 1968 run it now? I think it suffers from other factors: an obsolete site, changing demographics, other consumer options (since the 1990s, Savannah supermarket produce is of much better quality, a nationwide phenom). And farmers have better options: modern GA farmers just don't want to sell produce retail at a Farmers' Market. They make more money wholesale.

[bellhead]

When I lived in Cincinnati there was a market downtown called Findlay Market and a lot of the family's would buy produce at the wholesale place and then resell it a lot lower than the supermarket prices. A lot of market up in produce.