Indeed it was a chilly 40 degrees with brisk winds making it feel even colder at Saturday’s Deering Oaks Portland Farmers Market–-or as one farmer put it, “I’m freezing my gahoonies off.”
Still the frosty weather is part of the market shopping scene at this time of year—at least for the outdoorsy hipster crowd resplendent in winter garb ambling along the leafless byways of Deering Oaks. After all, what’s a week without getting fully sourced up on local Maine food?
Saturday morning at the Deering Oaks farmers market
Most farmers markets around Maine—which number over 30–have moved to their indoor locations by now. But Portland follows its own set of peripatetic rules. The tradition is to stay outdoors until after Thanksgiving, and the move inside occurs on the first Saturday in December. However, the winter market location is not set in stone yet. One thing is for sure, it won’t be at the Urban Farm Fermentory where it’s been for several years. Unofficially the new space is slated to open in a complex at 84 Cove St., just down from the Fermentory. I rode by there over the weekend to check it out. I didn’t see anything remotely being readied for a market space among the disparate tenants in the buildings there now.
Brunswick’s Ft. Andross
