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Thursday afternoon marks the start of a six-week trial for a farmers’ market in the parking lot of the Historic Schoolhouse in Portola Valley.
The market could have as many as 17 vendors, according to the website Portola Valley Farmers’ Market. The website is run by La Honda resident and goat’s milk chocolatier Maggie Foard, who also manages the two Woodside farmers’ markets and their associated websites.
Among the vendors expected in Portola Valley is Webb Ranch, a Ladera institution since 1922 that closed its produce stand this years and plans to sell its organic fruits and vegetables through local farmers’ markets.
Go to this link for more specifically on the June 13 market in Portola Valley.
Go to this link for more information on the two farmers’ markets in Woodside as well as the new one in Portola Valley.
The Portola Valley Town Council in April authorized a six-week trial run for a farmers’ market in April. That decision did not meet with universal acclaim. Residents of Family Farm/Hidden Valley, a Woodside neighborhood within hearing distance of the Town Center, objected vigorously, saying the market could interfere with equestrian activities and create “noise.” There are enough farmers’ markets as it is, they added.
The Thursday market lists acoustic music by Mystic Cowboy. It happens that the town’s first free summer concert will also be taking place on Thursday afternoon a few hundred feet to the west on the plaza at Town Center. The concert and the market are not associated with each other.