The air is cooling, and the leaves are beginning to turn, clear signs the end of Summer is drawing nigh. You may see some geese flying South, you may be looking for fat wooly caterpillars …

…The intergenerational aspect of the grandmother pulling the red wagon and the grandson pushing from behind. The canopy tents juxtaposed with the trees juxtaposed with the pavement. The vantage point from behind the table. Looking at it transports me back to that parking lot at the intersection of 33rd and Barclay Streets. …

You won’t find a speck of it at the Living Lettuce booth on Saturday mornings or at Alluvion Aeroponics, a high-rise community in a West Baltimore industrial park where 30,000 lettuce, basil and micro-green plants grow together peacefully year round.

It’s a treat to share any recipe from Chef Doug Wetzel. A coveted pie recipe? Bring it on…

Every year we ask one of the farmers to bring their largest pumpkin. The pumpkin is set on a platform and fun begins. Come out and guess too! Here’s Harry, a former manager, explaining the rules.

If you’re a patron of the 32nd Street Farmers Market, you’re already making the world greener. For one thing, it’s far more sustainable to buy locally-grown apples at the market than to buy apples shipped to a big-chain grocery store from Washington State. The more local the apple, the smaller the carbon footprint left by long-distance transportation.

Before I met my husband Mike in a Baltimore bike lane in April 2022, I dreamed of meeting my partner at the 32nd Street Farmers Market. “I would rather someone buy me a pint of blueberries than a pint of beer,” I once wrote in my journal. While working at Farm to Face, I would get my hopes up talking to a cute customer, then see their partner stroll up with a baby carriage. It turns out that the market is also a good date spot.

From a slate of very well-qualified candidates, the 32nd Street Farmers Market recently elected four new community members and one vendor to join the ten-person all-volunteer Board; four persons on the Board were granted emeritus status. Newly elected Board members will serve two-year terms, which expire March 2027; they may run for office after a year.

In 1979, Dan Mendelson was a newly minted Johns Hopkins graduate and employee at Baltimore City’s Department of Housing and Community Development. He walked by the parking lot at the intersection of 33rd and Barclay Streets—labeled Waverly Lot by a ‘crappy sign’—and thought, “This could be a farmers market.”

In 2024, the 32nd Street Farmers Market continued to encourage and support its cadre of farmers, producers, and artisans who bring their finest products to the place customers call ‘Baltimore’s Best’!

As an undergrad, Julia Mair took a job at the 32nd Street Farmers Market selling lettuce, micro greens and pea shoots for Alluvion Aeroponics. “I needed something to do on the side and I love going to farmers markets,” she says. 

“You show up because they show up. If they show up, I show up.” Rain or shine, sweltering heat or below freezing, Merdalf has been playing his guitar at the 32nd Street Farmers Market for over thirteen years. Even on this rainy Saturday in March 2024, when shoppers are rushing to buy their groceries and spending less time lingering, he’s here—poncho, rain guitar, and his rainbow umbrella hat.

One Saturday the bean man wasn’t at the farmers’ market, he was always there every week, and I asked the woman who works with him, “Where is he?”