Best Farmers’ Market: Best of the Capital Region 2001 (Metroland)
The Troy Waterfront Farmers’ Market was named Best Farmers’ Market in Metroland’s “Best of the Capital Region 2001” issue (vol. 24, no. 30, July 26, 2001). See Metroland’s website, as archived by the Wayback Machine.
Above: the Best Farmers’ Market entry on Metroland’s 2001 website, as archived by the Wayback Machine. Click to enlarge.
Above: the issue’s cover on the Best of the Capital Region 2001 section page of Metroland’s archived website. Cover photo by Leif Zurmuhlen. Click to enlarge.
The alt-weekly’s staff, who chose the Best Of picks (Readers’ Poll results ran separately), praised the market’s produce, herbs and new meat offerings at its then-home at the Troy Dock and Marina on River Street, open Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Here is the entry in full:
“The bounty of the greater Capital Region is in abundance at the Troy Farmers Market. Why go to a grocery store for cottony tomatoes and seed-heavy zukes that have traveled god knows how many miles, when you can get them here, fresh from the earth? Luscious, gigundo tomatoes. The tenderest baby squash and zucchini. Bouquets of fragrant herbs, including those hard to find chervils and savorys. Lettuces whose green and purple frills leave no question as to why Cain chose gardening over shepherding. And speaking of animals, this year shoppers can buy exquisite free-range and organic lamb and pork products. After visiting the Troy Farmers Market, you’ll never want to eat supermarket-bought green beans or pea pods again. Trust us.”
— Metroland, “Best of the Capital Region 2001”