At one end of the Ballard Farmers Market (held Sundays).

I like hearing the story of the Ballard Farmers Market (one day, 5 years ago, the Fremont Market sent off some of its stalls to Ballard to grow a baby farmers market). I like thinking of Fremont as the queen bee market, sending off a daughter bee with part of the hive.

The Ballard market is about the size of the city block it sits on (it has spawned an extra arm down a side parking lot, however). Aside from the fruits and vegetables and flowers (cherries, asparagus, and peonies are in season), it has a few arts and crafts stalls, such as a photography stall, several jewelry stalls, and other misc. There are bread, cheese, meat, and fish stalls (seriously, it’s like an outdoor grocery store), but I believe the two crowning glories would definitely be the crepe stall (four crepe chefs means you will never have to wait too long) and a European pastry stall. Mmmm… flaky pastry.. drool.