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The Market:
Flagstaff Community Market
Phoenix Ave. and Beaver St.
Sundays, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (May-Oct.)
(928) 774-7781
Market-Goer: Mark
Thompson
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I was last at this interesting little
market on October 9,
2005, which was the last market day of that
year. This time, summer is just kicking into gear. The
half dozen or so farmers at the market today included
several from the Chino Valley near Prescott, which like Flagstaff is in the
relatively cool northern Arizona highlands where it is
still occasionally dipping into the 30s at night. They
still had some winter holdovers -- kohlrabi and kale --
on their display table. Another farm represented at the
market, Crooked Sky Farm, is in
Glendale, at a hotter elevation down in the desert
near Phoenix. They were offering plump, ripe, mid-summer
caliber heirloom tomatoes. The market is managed by the Center
for Sustainable Environments at nearby Northern Arizona
University, which has made a concerted effort to revive
a local food economy in the region. Farmers markets are
at the center of that effort. There are now 10 in the
region, the newest of which is in Tuba City, on the
Navajo reservation. They have helped bring about a
"dramatic
shift in sourcing foods in Grand Canyon country,"
according to Gary Nabhan, director of the center at NAU.. |
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What I Bought:
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Assorted heirloom tomatoes
and one round, red Beefsteak
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heirloom tomatoes
and peppers at cliff dwellings in Walnut Canyon
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