Northside Farmers Market

Every Friday evening during the fall the Northside Farmers Market in West Park is open for business.

From work downtown we walked across the Roberto Clemente Bridge, one of the three sisters bridges hovering solemnly over The Allegheny River, we passed PNC Park on our left, home of The Pirates, made a quick right by Fox Sports Network, and before we knew it we were asking, "How much for the apples?"
















Overheard at the market:

"Alright sir. Thank you. You keep smiling now. You're a good man. Keep smiling and laughing, it's a great stress reliever. It'll add years to your life. Have a good night now."

And:

"Where the watermelons?"
"Well Mam, they're out-of-season. We have those in August."
"But they got watermelons in the grocery store."
"Well, those are probably from Georgia or some place. Everything you see here is from Western Pennsylvania and we got a different growing season. We got pears, apples, grapes, pumpkins. You like pumpkin pie?"
"Oh yeah, I like pumpkin pie. We'll get a pumpkin."

















We didn't buy a pumpkin, but we ran into our friend Jessica from yoga class and her family and they bought a pumpkin, we think they're going to carve theirs though. We did buy a basket of apples, two ears of corn, some muenster cheese, grapes, a cucumber, a tomato, a squash, and some peanut butter cookies all for about $12! -if you notice, the cookies didn't make it into our picture.