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| - The Artscape Wychwood Barns are the coolest thing to hit this neighbourhood in quite a while. Saturday mornings (8 am to 1 pm in the summer, 9 am to noon in the winter) several dozen farmers, artisans, chefs, and bakers set up shop in the bright, funky Covered Street Barn (#2). The doors on the north side lead into artists' housing, and there are local non-profits' offices in the building to the south.
There's a good diversity here; two families selling meat, several bakers, one or two cheesemakers, and a bunch of fruit and veggie sellers. Additionally, you can usually buy eggs, wool, beeswax, t-shirts, herbal mixes, lots of prepared foods, and get your knives sharpened.
Favourites: the Mennonite family's garlic sausages (NOM NOM NOM OH HAPPY HAPPY ME); St. John's bakery's Italian bread; the yam guy's soup; the most beautiful onions I've ever seen. I bet the cheese is fantastic, but it's too pricey for me.
That's my only problem - it ain't cheap. On the other hand, it's convenient, ecological, and you get to meet your neighbours as well as the vendors, who seem like cool people who produce things they really care about.
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