Gresham Farmers' Market — Attraction in Gresham

This place is hopping! Tons and tons of great booths and carts with just fantastic food, so much music you can hear throughout, various local flair of all kinds on display and for sale and on the people too! The central park is a nice hub for kids and dogs (so many dogs!) to walk around and find some grass and a breeze to sit on & relax for a bit from the walking. Local businesses are open and even have their own carts and booths. Almost everyone uses both cash and electronic payments, so no stress there. You can find anything, really, from homemade donuts to custom knives and sharpening services to jewelry and stones to pet supplies to fresh lemonade to hot Philippino food. Even the proud men and women of the Gresham VFW Great Post 180 are present at every market day with free "Buddy Poppies" and cute little rubber ducks (no squeaker!) they hand out for free, in recognition of those that helped make our freedom free. Believe me, this is no small town walkabout....

The Original downtown Gresham market has moved. The moved to 3rd and hood. Much more room to walk. 2 streets full of vendors. Products too hand crafted item.....however certain vendor with hand made coolers and wooden signs,decoration is a total jackass. Attuide from everything if you do not buy. He was jumping around like a monkey waving his arms. Total stupid. Honestly the way he treats the street root vendor. Total uncalled for. Rude as ever too him. Other than one total rude vendor awesome..... I meet one street root . he just put of hospital without oxgyen for once. He and his wife are the vendors. They alsodo Laddys and Lassys house of Fragrances. Incense were not present with a total downers. However they are still selling street roots and making a go in having fun meeting people Check them out on the way in and out. Total cool people and completely clean and sober. Check out all the produce ...cherries are in now with raspberries....

The downtown Gresham Farmer's Market is wonderful except for one thing: parking. Particularly ADA parking. It seems that ADA spaces keep disappearing downtown, and there were never that many to start with. If the whole family goes, we end up parking out in the boondocks somewhere by the library or the strip center nearby, in the hopes that no one will park on our ramp side and block the wheelchair ramp. The spouse fortunately has a powerchair, but if your disability means you can't go very far, then you're out of luck here. Aside from that, the market and vendors are mostly lovely, though it always pays to show up earlier than later, particularly...