Farmers' Market Provides Summer Essentials
Gorgas Park hosts McCann's Farm and North Light Community Center every Friday afternoon.
Even the vegetables were perspiring last Friday afternoon, with temperatures reaching the mid 90s, but that did not stop hoards of Roxborough residents from visiting the weekly Gorgas Park Farmers’ Market on Ridge and Hermitage Avenues. Typically, we list what to expect produce wise weekly on our site, but this week we were down at the park to scope it out for ourselves. Beginning before 2 p.m., (the market runs every Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.) customers began lining up for the freshest of fruits and vegetables that McCann’s Farm and the North Light Community Center had to offer. “It’s not like the grocery stores,” Roxborough resident, Kathy Cook, said. “It’s always fresh.” Cook walks to the market every week for her produce. Freshness …
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