What’s Happened to the Jack London Square Farmer’s Market?

Published: October 7, 2007, 10:41 pm

Tags: community, east bay, environmentalism, food, oakland, farmer s market, happy boy farms, jack london square, kashiwase farms, mental masala, organic, the ethicurean

As you might already know, I religiously wake up on Sunday mornings and walk down to the Temescal Farmer’s Market. Though some think it’s small, it’s the perfect size for me, and I can almost always find what I need (except on those days I sleep too late and arrive when the best stuff has already been snatched up). Well, today I happened to be near Jack London Square so I thought I’d check out the market. It’s been 2 or 3 years since I’ve been there, but I remembered it as a very long market with dozens of stalls. I remembered crowds of people picking up produce, breads, prepared foods, soaps, and crafts. Either my memory’s a bit off, or the market has significantly declined over the past years. Today it seemed to be but a shadow of my memory. It was still long, spanning several blocks, but the stands were spaced fairly far from each other, and on the last block their were only four or five stands. As I walked into the market, I quickly

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