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Asheville City Market

Open Saturdays 8-1
Starting April 19th

The Asheville City Market now has more than 60 vendor members.  Come shop for the best farm-grown and handmade local foods and gifts, including:

• plants for your vegetable garden and landscape
• fresh produce
• farm-raised meats including lamb, pork, beef, and trout
• goat cheese (three vendors!)
• eggs
• farm-made ice cream
• cider
• jams, preserves, salsas
• breads, pastries, and cookies
• herbs
• honey
• natural soaps and other herbal body-care products and gifts
• hand-sewn quilts and other modern and traditional mountain crafts
• shrimp from the family of NC fishermen

See vendor information page.

Not all products available all seasons; expect about 30-40 weekly vendors during April. Typical April produce availability from the NC mountains include salad greens, cooking greens, and lettuces of many kinds, some leeks and green onions, radishes, strawberries (late in month), asparagus (late in month), and ramps.  Vendors may offer preserved produce from last fall such as dried hot peppers.

The Asheville City Market is located at the Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St., on the edge of downtown Asheville.

Directions:  take the Charlotte Street exit from Interstate 240, exit 5b.  At the top of the ramp, turn South on Charlotte Street.  South is away from the Grove Park Inn and toward City Hall.   Cross College Street, go past Tripp's restaurant, and you will see the market on your right side at the corner of Eagle Street.

View on Google Maps.

There is parking at the market and 150 more designated parking spots within a block of the market. 

Market Updates

• Market Manager Hired   Welcome Michael McCreary, Asheville City Market manager.  Mike comes to the market from the French Broad Food Coop, where he worked as Customer Service Manager and Acting General Manager.  Previously, he managed a nature center and other public service-focused projects for the city of Irvine, California.  Contact Mike at (828) 348-0340 or send him an email. 
  
• We Need Friends! Interested in volunteering your time to plan the market, plan events, provide on-site support once the market opens, reach out to farmers in the region, or other needed work? Contact us at (828) 236-1282 or email the market manager.

• Surveys. 60 market vendors were surveyed in 2003 and 60% were interested or very interested in pursuing a new centralized market with more vendor capacity in Asheville. Surveyed customers also told us that they wanted to see more choice of vendors than available at existing markets.  As a result of this survey, ASAP secured funding for a modest amount of staff time to support a group of farmer/organizers in developing the market concept.
  
• Planning Work. Since 2005, a group of about ten farmers has met consistently to move plans for the market forward. In Spring of 2006, the Downtown Commission tasked City of Asheville government to work with the farmer group to identify a site and provide planning support as needed. At the Asheville City Council's 2006/7 retreat, councilors named the market as a top goal for 2007. 
  

Friends of the Market:

• We Need Friends! Interested in volunteering your time to plan the market, plan events, provide on-site support once the market opens, reach out to farmers in the region, or other needed work? Contact us at (828) 236-1282 or citymarket@asapconnections.org.
  

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