Brighton Farmers' Market — Local services in Town of Brighton

Madness reigns.The first challenge your soul must endure is the parking lot. You wait with your vehicle half blocking traffic , creating a perfect circular vortex of anger that encompasses the street and entrance to the market parking lot. Once you attain access to the parking lot, you discover this is a false achievement ; other motorists mostly driving electric pedal cars or Subarus stop and start with no apparent thought or plan --- turns once begun are quickly abandoned , the drivers seemingly immune to geometry, time, or space, or common courtesy. After this navigating past zombie like wandering shoppers with no sense of awareness or seeming self preservation blocking all the possible paths of traffic within the parking lot itself you search in vain for a parking spot not inhabited by people sitting in the cars apparently reading novels. . At last a space opens up but the price is having to enter the market. The market is full of the oblivious hipsters and granola types who inhabit this space. It is a grotesque parody of the bazaar at Marrakech, as if dumb animals had been granted only the amount of sentience required to mock humanity. Trying to get around the athelerosclerotic clots of shoppers, dogs and ill behaved children , you must search for every item,.The constant walking up and down causes a numbness that borders on profound despair.Your conscious mind registers merely annoyance, impatience.But on a cellular level. your body cries out in weariness. The fatigue you feel is s warning: Millions of years of evolution trying to save you from becoming mired in the tar, from sinking into the warm blackness and ultimately being reclaimed by the...

I have very mixed feelings about this market.

-The live music was great -Fresh produce was decent -Parking was free which was great -Overall a smaller farmer's market Note that there is no seating if you buy food or drinks, no tables or chairs at all

The food though... what a disappointment! We tried a burger from one food truck, and birria tacos from another. The burger was dry and tasted terrible. The birria tacos were a 5/10 at best.

Additionally, we tried a hot coffee from a vender there - it was a 2/10 at best. To be fair, maybe we went to the wrong vendor? There were 2-3 different coffee vendors.

Our conclusion is to skip the food trucks and the coffee. Buy from the produce vendors, enjoy the music, and maybe bring your own chairs if you want to...

I liked the Brighton Farmers Market. If you're looking for honey or coffee or pizza or specialty organic veggies, they have it. It's not the least expensive Farmers Market I've ever been to, but it's one of the nicer ones. Kind of like Fairport canal days only without the canal...and in Brighton. I spent around $7 and got 6 oz of shiitake mushrooms and a little baggie of pearled barley. When looking over the items, be aware that there are queues everywhere. So don't accidentally step in front of a line. Parking is ample. You can park behind the market or you can park on the street or in the circle in front of the elementary school. They request you don't bring your dogs, but many did. I arrived at 9:08 and it was already very busy. All in all a fun...