So, in the summer months, there is a Farmers Market that takes up a few blocks of Downtown Greenville's Main Street. The first Saturday it was open, it just happened to coincide with Artisphere. One of our annual art festivals. I'm not sure if this is a regular happening or if it was just a coincidence, but it was nice to hit both events in one stop.
The Saturday Market is usually pretty crowded. Add in Artisphere and there are even more people milling about! The two events wove pretty seamlessly together separated by maybe one block. I don't really remember.
We decided we would walk all the way down through the market to Artisphere first. Check out the veggies and their prices as we walked, but wait until we came back through to buy any as to not have to lug bags of kale up and down Main Street.
My favorite part of Artisphere were the demonstrators. Glass Blower Ryan Gothrup from Virginia made a beautiful drinking glass which was promptly recycled for the next demonstration.
Ryan Calloway is a local blacksmith who had some amazing work on display. He was making curlicues for another piece.
I didn't get the name of this artist, they were giving away free prints! You would pick which one you wanted and they'd make the print right then. Pretty cool, eh?
On our way back through the market, we stopped at Parson's Produce for a couple bunches of kale.
They also had some other pretty produce that we didn't purchase, but I just loved their set up I had to grab a few photos!
We also bought some broccoli from a vendor whose name I committed to memory but now cannot drudge up. It was delicious, though!
And fresh peaches from Watsonia! I love getting peaches from these people because their tee shirts say "Peaches make you sexy!" Haha. :)
The Saturday Market is usually pretty crowded. Add in Artisphere and there are even more people milling about! The two events wove pretty seamlessly together separated by maybe one block. I don't really remember.
We decided we would walk all the way down through the market to Artisphere first. Check out the veggies and their prices as we walked, but wait until we came back through to buy any as to not have to lug bags of kale up and down Main Street.
My favorite part of Artisphere were the demonstrators. Glass Blower Ryan Gothrup from Virginia made a beautiful drinking glass which was promptly recycled for the next demonstration.
Ryan Calloway is a local blacksmith who had some amazing work on display. He was making curlicues for another piece.
I didn't get the name of this artist, they were giving away free prints! You would pick which one you wanted and they'd make the print right then. Pretty cool, eh?
On our way back through the market, we stopped at Parson's Produce for a couple bunches of kale.
They also had some other pretty produce that we didn't purchase, but I just loved their set up I had to grab a few photos!
We also bought some broccoli from a vendor whose name I committed to memory but now cannot drudge up. It was delicious, though!
And fresh peaches from Watsonia! I love getting peaches from these people because their tee shirts say "Peaches make you sexy!" Haha. :)
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