The fifth season of the Downtown Farmers' Market opened on July 1, 2014, this time at the corner of Columbia and Canal Street. Several farm stands as well as several local craft vendors were on hand on the first day of the new Tuesday market that runs from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. each week from June through September. People enjoyed looking over the offerings while Anne-Marie Gazdik played her guitar and sang. "People seem happy with the new location that provides shade, free parking and easy access to several downtown high rise apartment buildings," noted Partners Market Coordinator Annemarie Holly who organizes the Market each year. Other markets are also available at Saint Anne's Hospital on Mondays, at Ruggles Park every Wednesdays and at Charlton Hospital once a month, and at Kennedy Park on Saturday mornings. Partners will have someone available each week to exchange EBT SNAP benefits for tokens that can be used with a number of the farmers at each of the markets. Click here for an eight-minute video. Click here for the Herald News article. Click here for photos of last year's market. For more information, contact Annemarie Holly at Greater Fall River Re-Creation at 508-679-0922.

(Top row, left) Anne-Marie Gazdik plays some easy-listening guitar music while Charlie Peixe of Paradise Hill Greenhouses in Westport sets up and Brittany Bertone exchanges cash for farmers' market tokens for Clara Fallon, Aide to Representative of Alan Silvia. (Middle row) Partners School Wellness Coordinator Marcia Picard and Market Coordinator Annemarie Holly talk with Representative Silvia and neighbor Verna Lucey. (Bottom row, left) UMass-Amherst nutrition student Christine Charboneau and Lindsey Magan of the UMass Extension Nutrition Education Program hand out recipes for farmers' market produce. (Bottom row, center) Ten-year-old Logan Sundbichler helps his mother, Lindsey, with a fabric purchase. (Bottom row, right) Representative Silvia looks over an item that Barbara Peters of Bar-Ken Crafts has for sale.