The Kirkwood Farmer's Market

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 A perfect opportunity to have a healthy snack or just experience a taste of town history. Located one block east of the historic Kirkwood Junction, the farmer's market has been a thriving consortium of local plant and produce vendors since 1978. Open every day, the street-long market is filled with perfume, a familiar blend of pollen from discount pansies lining the sidewalk with salt and butter from piping hot kettle corn.

Endless rows of hand-picked berries and melons line the wooden stands, blending into a soft spectrum of colors. Farmhands chirp friendly greetings as customers weigh each choice with selective care. Picking up a peach and inhaling its sugary scent completes the old-world fantasy, stimulating warm nostalgia for a simpler time when meals were grown instead of ordered. Tiny bistros are snugly tucked along the sides of the covered marketplace, where one can get hot gumbo, smoothies, burgers or Asian cuisine.