Two New Farmers Markets

In Dixboro and at Cobblestone Farm

by M.B. Lewis

posted 7/23/2012

These summery Friday evenings in Dixboro, mandolin- and guitar-picking provides background as folks stroll past canopied stands. Shoppers fill their baskets and bags with pickled eggs, lettuce, zucchini, garlic, beeswax candles, homemade jam, soft pretzels, and more. It's no accident that the new Dixboro Farmers Market is a "throwback to yesteryear" (to quote dixborofarmersmarket.org --a surprisingly robust site that even lists a five-point "market dog policy"). Spokesman Joe Coffey waves his arm toward the mid-nineteenth-century

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