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A FRESHFARM farmers market will begin operating next week on a block of Vermont Ave. just north of the White House, reports the Washington Post. The market has received permission from the city to operate this fall, an approval that will see Vermont Ave. between H and I Streets NW closed to traffic on Thursdays from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. for the next couple of months.
Initial news reports tied First Lady Michelle Obama to the group behind the market, but since then it's been reported that Obama is merely supportive of the idea, and not actually one of the organizers.
The market, which is being called the "FRESHFARM Market, By the White House," will feature about 17 vendors offering "pasture-raised meats, artisan cheeses, milk and yogurt, fresh fruits and vegetables, breads and baked good, cut flowers, preserves and more." The market will also offer double value for food stamp customers.
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Will they be selling organic free range bullshit there too?
I am soooooo gla dthat the White House helped make this possible! Yet another good thing that this admininstration has done!
yay! so close to my office, and perfect timing too... by the time thursday rolls around, i've exhausted my haul from the saturday courthouse FM and need just a little infusion to make it through those last two dinners.... sweet.
That's what I love about DC - everything happens so fast!
The condition is known as "premature ejaculation" or "rapid climax" and it's nothing to be ashamed of!
[Runs into closet, buries head in mother's wedding gown, cries eyes out.]
Baby wants to fuck! Baby wants to fuck Blue Velvet!
As if it really had a shot at rejection.
That's what she said.
A block from my office...nice. Any thoughts on how this might screw up traffic? The point was raised on WTOP the other day.
oh who the hell cares, "traffic" (yes, all of it) tries to run me over every morning and every afternoon crossing eye st. it can go poo itself.
The farmers market in Penn Quarter doesn't cause any more gridlock than the moron who feels it's necessary to plant his car in the intersection for two or three light cycles.
I walk down this block every day on my way home from work, and I can say that it is one of the least used streets in the city. Blocking it off for a few hours should have minimal effect on traffic.
I'm gonna start putting ghost plants all over the city in honor of all of the produce being killed by people every day.
You can plant them in the ghost treeboxes with the dead trees that DC doesn't maintain. Right next to the ghost feces and ghost vodka bottles that all the gentrified-out-of-the-neighborhood hobos don't leave there anymore.
So how will this jibe, exactly, with the Penn Quarter Freshfarm market? Will they rob from the existing vendor stock at PQ to populate the Vermont Avenue market?
I will be interested to see how the Farmer's Market crowd and the homeless from McPherson square interact with one another. "Excuse me, sir, would you like a sample of some artisanal goat cheese?"
I had that thought too. Maybe they'll try to bribe them off/away with McDonalds gift certificates and low quality organic tobacco products.
couldn't come up with a more creative name, eh?
Well, they couldn't use "Honkey Paradise®" because Lauriol Plaza already trademarked it.
actually pretty clever - is it "nearby" by the white house, or "brought to you by" by the white house? those of us who read the article know that it should mean nearby, but others... yay marketing!
hehe great comments guys, tbh looking forward to this market