S-W Farmer's Market at Hammer Heritage Square

Sedro-Woolley has had a great Farmer's Market for several years! In our lovely little town square at the northwest corner of Metcalf and Ferry. Local farms sell produce in season - greens and carrots and tomatoes, etc. Some vendors bring produce from other communities, like Yakima. Some vendors sell soap and crafts. And some vendors promote visibility for their causes. There is an agreement and set of guidelines to be a vendor. And the market is open from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. every Wednesday afternoon from late spring thru early fall. It brings a lot of visitors to the downtown core. And it's 1.5 blocks from my house!

The square is paved with bricks purchased by local contributors (like Class of 71!) and the north end of the square has GREAT public bathrooms. Just saying.

Here are some photos of the market, taken on June 3.

The gazebo is a nice spot to sit and have a latte on any day!

Our brick in Hammer Heritage Square

Last year a few Class of 71 members pooled our funds and purchased a brick for Hammer Heritage Square. These bricks are only installed about once a year - in time for Loggerodeo and other summer activities. It is fun to walk through our town square and read the commemorative bricks and see who is there. I'm hoping that our brick will give some other classes the same idea. When you come to visit S-W be sure to stop in the square and look for ours! The Farmer's Market is also held in this square, every Wednesday afternoon through the summer. This year the Farmer's Market season starts on May 27th.
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The city, as you can probably guess, has had some financial cutbacks recently. They announced in the paper that the city can afford to buy the beautiful hanging flower baskets that make the city so pretty in the summer. But this year they could not afford to hire a seasonal employee to go around and water and tend the baskets. They were looking for a volunteer. Yesterday, at the Chamber of Commerce meeting, it was announced that an employee of the Les Schwab Tire Center had offered to be the basket-caretaker this year. So we will be able to keep our beautiful baskets! They hang from utility and lamp posts downtown, as well as from the gazebo in Hammer Heritage Square. I'll take photos later. No baskets yet.

Since my day in the tulip fields the weather has turned cold and wet again. We're hoping for a big change starting tomorrow!