Photos: Heirloom Farmers Market
The Heirloom Farmers Market at Jesse Owens Park, 400 S. Sarnoff Drive features about 20 vendors from Southern Arizona who sold produce, Mediterranean food, pastries, pasta sauce, chilis and homemade organic offerings.
This east-side market runs every Friday from 8 a.m. to noon through September.
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C.J. Miles loads up a bag of green flat beans from the Grammy’s Farms booth at the Heirloom Farmers Market at Jesse Owens Park, 400 S. Sarnoff Drive. “They’re the best green beans around,” she said. Grammy’s Farms is located in Cochise. In addition to fruits and vegetables, a variety of homemade jams, pickles and whole-grain mustards are sold.
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Market-goers browse and chat at the Grammy's Farms booth at the Heirloom Farmers Market.
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A crate of organic peppers sits for sale at Thom Richardson's RichCrest Farms booth.
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Zach Duerkop, 6, bites off a chunk of grape while brother Sam, 8, at left, tries a green flat bean from the Grammy’s Farms booth at the Heirloom Farmers Market. Grammy’s Farms is one of about 20 vendors from Southern Arizona with a booth in the park.
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Mary Lester, right, gives Sophia Lester, 2, a taste of bread at Mark Lenart’s Petrou Foods tent at the Heirloom Farmers Market. Lenart sells all-organic olive oils, balsamics, olives and pickled garlic.
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Joyce Wallace, right, buys a pastry from Connie Quijada at A Great Location Cafe’s booth at the Heirloom Farmers Market. Helping count change in the background is Jordan Murguia, 10. A Great Location Cafe is located just north of the park at 20 N. Sarnoff Drive.
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At the RichCrest Farms booth a customer hands over a handful of tomatoes to buy from Thom Richardson. RichCrest Farms operates out of Dragoon and is one of about 20 vendors from Southern Arizona selling produce at the market.