{"id":524,"date":"2008-05-15T07:53:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T07:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2008-05-15T07:53:51","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T07:53:51","slug":"san-leandros-downtown-farmers-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2008\/05\/san-leandros-downtown-farmers-market\/","title":{"rendered":"San Leandro&#8217;s Downtown Farmers&#8217; Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/2008\/04\/new_farmers_market_in_san_lean.html\">I reported before<\/a>, San Leandro has a new Farmers&#8217; Market, this time downtown.  The downtown market is located on Parrot street, in front of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/rest\/englander.html\">The Englander<\/a> and will operate throughout the summer on Wednesday evenings from 4 pm &#8211; 8  pm.  The market was inaugurated yesterday, with a ribbon cutting ceremony involving the local politicos.<br \/>\nI think I like this farmer&#8217;s market more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafarmersmkts.com\/bayfair.html\">the one at Bayfair<\/a> &#8211; which seems to be getting smaller.  For one, it has more activities for children &#8211; including a stand where you can get elaborate balloon animals\/characters made for only $3, another where you can get a caricature made for $10 (this was not a cheap trip to the FM) and one with face painting and so forth (which we fortunately avoided).  They also have activities for adults, yesterday was cooking demonstrations (which I didn&#8217;t stay for). They&#8217;ll also have family entertainment, live music and wine tastings in subsequent Wednesdays.<br \/>\nAs you would expect, there were several fruit and veggie stands &#8211; lots of ripe strawberries, cherries and even raspberries.  There were a couple of bakeries, one stand selling honey, one selling Indian breads &#038; spreads and another one a variety of dips.  There was a flower stand, a fish stand and an egg stand &#8211; which means that if we miss the quail eggs on Saturday, we&#8217;ll be able to get them on Wednesdays.<br \/>\nAs far as food went, there is a tamales stand, a stand selling foot-long hot-dogs and teriyaki sticks ($6-9, I think) and The Englander has a burger stand.  Unwisely, we decided to eat at The Englander instead, so we didn&#8217;t get to actually taste the food from there.  Next week.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve heard rumors that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/rest\/zocalo.html\">Zocalo<\/a> may open a stand at the farmers&#8217; market to sell its beans.<br \/>\nHere are some pictures of the market:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fm.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/fm.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"203\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"almond.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/almond.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"279\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"aspa.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/aspa.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"211\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bbq.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/bbq.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"190\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cherry.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/cherry.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"honey.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/honey.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"232\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"indian.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/indian.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"283\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"oranges.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/oranges.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"258\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sonoma.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/sonoma.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"296\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"straw.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/straw.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"129\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I reported before, San Leandro has a new Farmers&#8217; Market, this time downtown. The downtown market is located on Parrot street, in front of The Englander and will operate throughout the summer on Wednesday evenings from 4 pm &#8211; 8 pm. The market was inaugurated yesterday, with a ribbon cutting ceremony involving the local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shops-markets","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}