Lethbridge Farmer's Market

Lethbridge Farmer's Market

Where:  Exhibition Park, 3401 Parkside Drive South, Lethbridge

Contact: Phone: 403 328-4491

Dates of Operation: Saturdays, May 16 to October 30, 2009

Hours of Operation:  8 am to 12:30 pm

Website: http://www.exhibitionpark.ca/f_market.htm  - Includes vegetable availability chart and vendor list.

After a few impatient weeks of anticipating the slow-coming growth of fruits and vegetables, a few things are finally ready to be picked/sold. My mother and I took advantage of my afternoon of last Saturday and headed to the Lethbridge Farmer's Market. As soon as we got in to Lethbridge and saw all of the fancy cars driving around, we remembered it was "Street Wheelers" weekend. Street Wheelers is when... well I don't fully know what takes place, but what I do know is that the Farmers Market shares a parking lot with some kind of track that was absolutely packed with people watching cars do impressive things - like screeching their tires into clouds of disgusting smelling smoke. 

REGARDLESS, the market was lots of fun. We showed up a bit late, so some booths were packed up and we didn't see fruit of any kind (we aren't sure if this is because it was sold out or because it's not quite ready yet?), but there was lots of carrots, cabbage, peas, onions, beets and little carrots. And gooseberries! I have never seen gooseberries before but I wanted to buy a bundle because they were so pretty! I didn't really know what could be done with gooseberries though, so I decided not to get any yet and research them a bit first. 

After wandering around for a bit, we ended up getting some delicious looking peas, little tiny carrots, rhubarb and a loaf of multi-seed bread that was super tasty!