The Country Meets the City

Coop de Villa chicken coop

Photo: Julia Ozab

The country meets the city at Eugene’s newest farmers market

BY DAVID OZAB ON JULY 6, 2011

New downtown market scheduled Sundays from noon to 3 p.m. through mid-October

In the shadow of the I-105 northbound on-ramp, a semicircle of tables sits under a canopy in a fenced lot at 5th and Washington in downtown Eugene.

On the tables, piles of green, yellow, and purple produce await the arrival of hungry customers.

Eugene’s newest farmers market is open for business. The Urban and Community Growers Market is starting off small, but Bill Bezuk, also known as The Eugene Backyard Farmer, is thinking big.

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