RDFM Mission:

The Rochester Downtown Farmers Market is a project of the Rochester Downtown Farmers Market Association, seeking to support sustainable agriculture and the family farm by sponsoring a market to provide farmers with a well-organized retail marketplace, to provide local access to quality farm products, and to strengthen the ties between the family farm and the community.

The Rochester Downtown Farmers Market Association is a 501(c)(4) non profit organization.

Info about our Markets:

• The main outdoor Market is open every Saturday, rain or shine, from the first Saturday in May through the last Saturday in October. Hours are 7:30 am - noon.
• The new mid-week Market is open every Wednesday, June 13th through September 26th, at the Kmart parking lot on 9th St SE. 2012 hours: 2 pm - 6 pm.
  
• All of the RDFM's 100 vendors are local growers who live and farm/garden within 50 miles of Rochester, MN.
• No pets are allowed in the Market vending areas (except service animals).
• There are around 450 free parking stalls within a one-block radius of the Sat. Market, plus street parking. Additional spaces in the downtown parking ramps - a nice walk across the bridge to Market!
  
• A bike rack is located at the Market sign on 4th St SE.
• Disabled parking spaces are located next to the walk-in entrance from the east parking lot.
• There are 2 Market wagons for our customers' use during regular Saturday Market hours. Customers at the Wed. Markets may use Kmart shopping carts.



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VIDEOS AND STORIES OF INTEREST:

2/1/2012 "GROWERS ONE AND ALL" — A STORY ABOUT THE RDFM, FROM THE FOLKS AT MAKING IT BETTER MN.

CHEF GREG JAWORSKI (NOSH RESTAURANT, LAKE CITY, MN) AT OUR MARKET, COMPLIMENTS OF "COOKING UP A STORY": FARMER'S MARKET: A CHEF'S PERSPECTIVE.

1/30/2010 "COOKING UP A STORY" HAS JUST PUBLISHED ITS COMPLETED VIDEO FEATURING STEVEN SCHWEN: Sustainable Energy: Thermal Banking Greenhouse Design

8/6/2010 ANOTHER WONDERFUL PIECE FROM "COOKING UP A STORY", ABOUT THE GROWING INTEREST IN FARMERS MARKETS AROUND THE COUNTRY.

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