Green Bay Farmer’s Market

Enjoyed a Friday night concert in Green Bay. To our surprise, the next morning we awoke at our hotel and the Green Bay farmers market was open on the street in front. We had no idea Green Bay had such a farmers market, when it was or how great it is. It consists of vendors lining both sides of the street and a few of the side streets. There is ample parking. Although it was a little late in the season, there were a good number of vendors with a lot of produce, cheese, some food stalls, flowers and pumpkins to sell. Compared to our Madison farmers markets, the produce prices were less expensive and the goods as varied and beautiful. Different from Madison’s farmers markets, the crowd was smaller and easier to navigate. They had a folk singer performing down one of the side streets in front of a semi circle of food vendors, with tables and chairs nicely set up. Way better than anything here in Madison. It was so pleasant and well organized, I definitely would encourage you to make the trip up there and see for yourself.

This is how you do it. Reliable, fresh produce every Saturday in the summer. Make it big enough so all food vendors from the local organic mushroom farmers to the Hmong families all have a share. You can find your lovely flowers here on the cheap as welp as those favorite Door County cherry delights. Don’t forget to grab a pastry and a coffee while you’re walking around. Soak it in; this is pure Green Bay.

I love this farmers market. It is nice being able to walk along the boardwalk after/​before shopping. Great idea to give out reusable bags… but my question is, where are all of the recycling/​organics bins?

We spent the night in Green Bay on the way up to Door County. Before leaving town Saturday morning we stopped at the Farmer’s Market downtown, at the corner of Pine, Cherry, Monroe and Quincy streets. The last market of 2012, which had run from June 2 to that day, October 27. We got an awesome breakfast sandwich at the Egg and Bacon Wagon, an old school silver stream trailer. We split a brat and a cup of hearty soup at Booyah-​To-​Yah and a super buttery pastry at Brillion Bakery. There were beautiful local vegetables– I saw at least three colors of cauliflower, and some speckled swan gourds. Looking forward to the spring.
Interestingly, there was oldies radio playing at the soup and brat stall. The song Hand Jive, came on as we ordered a cup of steaming hot boo-​yah, or soup, and a plump brat. A Wisconsin man behind me in line spoke up. «Hey hey hey, wait a minute,» he said. «I don’t want the health department to shut you down– it sure don’t seem safe to ladel out hot booyah with that Hand Jive song on.» This is why I love Wisconsin.