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DALLAS FARMERS MARKET |
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The
Dallas Farmers Market is located directly north of Interstate 30
in the southeast side of downtown Dallas at 1010 South Pearl
Street. The Dallas Farmers Market is open 7 days a week from 8am
to 6pm, 362 days of the year. At the Dallas Farmers Market you will find fresh produce
sold directly by the farmers who grew it.
Beginning in the late 1800s, farmers began selling their fresh produce in various Dallas locations. By 1900, the intersection of Pearl and Cadiz streets became the hub of a busy produce wholesale business. Large quantities of produce were sold along with other farm products, such as chickens, pigs, goats, and eggs. In 1939, the site of the Dallas Farmers Market opened its first shed. The site was officially sanctioned as a city owned and operated market in December 1941. |
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click here for a map showing the location of the Dallas Farmers Market |
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click a thumbnail to view a photo This lovely lady is a very interesting coffee table with her ample chest region acting as the table part. She's available in the Dallas Farmer's Market's International Market Place; a big building adjacent to the Farmer's Market, stocked over full of very unique items. |
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Also in the International Market Place there are food items available like we see here, tamales, chili and salsa. | |||
Is this a photo of a tourist with a camera? Or is this a photo of someone taking a photo of himself in a mirror with part of the Dallas Farmer's Market's International Market Place reflected behind him? | |||
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Still in the International Market Place part of the Dallas Farmer's Market, you get a small idea from this photo of the sorts of things you can find here. Shopping in the International Market reminds us of a Mexican border town, which makes sense since so much of the stuff for sale is from Mexico. | |||
Another view of the International Market Place, this part claiming to have the most chimineas in the Metroplex. At the best price. | |||
More flowers, with the Dallas downtown
skyline a short distance away.
Let's go to the main attraction at the Dallas Farmer's Market now, that being the farmers selling produce. |
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Here you get your first look at how crowded the Dallas Farmer's Market is at times. The crowds are part of what makes it a fun place. That and the freshest, best produce these Eyes on Texas have found in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Texas watermelons are very good. | |||
There are 3 covered sheds with produce vendors. You can park inside the sheds, but parking there is usually a bit crowded. There is plenty of parking outside the sheds, including an underground parking garage. Parking is free. | |||
Dozens of farmers have stalls, some very specialized in what they are selling, others seem to have a large variety. Here see see a lot of carefully arranged apples. |
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There is a lot of interaction between the vendors and the shoppers. |
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Free samples abound. You can see a bowl of cantaloupe ripe for the sampling in this photo. On this visit to the Dallas Farmer's Market, among the things sampled were cantaloupe, watermelon, mango, plums, tomatoes, peaches, cucumbers, nectarines and probably a few other things that aren't being remembered right now. | |||
Here we see a big chunk of sweet Texas cantaloupe being sliced for sampling. |
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This guy appears to be a bit startled at seeing an odd out of place head among the heads of lettuce. |
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More produce. Including a lot of watermelons. |
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On this first day of September tomatoes seemed to be everywhere. Big, deep red, very tasty tomatoes, field grown vine ripe tomatoes from Lemley's Produce. In about a month a lot of Washington apples will appear. | |||
Another look at a lot of produce, grapes, nectarines, mangoes, apples, tomatoes, peanuts and onions. |
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This lady is inquiring about the cost of a flat of eggs. You can find things like pecans and peanuts and other non-vegetable/non-fruit type things at the Dallas Farmer's Market. Such as flowers, which we see in the next photo. |
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Dried flowers and not yet dry flowers can be found here. |
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There are flower and plant sellers in the Dallas Farmer's Market complex. You can also get all your palm tree needs met here. Palm Trees are an item you definitely would not find at Pike Place in Seattle. | |||
Palm trees were mentioned above. Here we see a group of Washingtonians at the Dallas Farmer's Market, lost in a forest of palm trees. |
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A pair of tourists from Seattle sitting outside the International Market Place with the Dallas Farmer's Market behind them. |
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A different Seattle visitor, in a different week in October, this one looks like someone's mother. |
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Here we see the above mother sampling something and standing in front of a display of apples from Washington. She thought them to be too expensive, likely in part because she can go in her backyard and pick Washington apples. Apples from Washington are among the few out of Texas produce items sold at the Dallas Farmers Market. |
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