Peachy the Magazine October November 2014 | Page 78

Peachtree Road
Farmers Market
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If you’re in Atlanta and want to satisfy
your farm-to-table culinary aspirations,
you should spend a Saturday morning
in the parking lot at the Cathedral of St.
Philip in Buckhead. This is where the
Peachtree Road Farmers Market (PRFM)
takes place from April to mid-December. Founded in 2007 as a joint project
by Gina and Linton Hopkins of the
venerable Restaurant Eugene and the
Cathedral, PRFM is the largest market

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of its kind in Atlanta. Everything your
eyes will feast on there has been grown,
raised, produced or fashioned by the
vendors who frequent the market.
PRFM is a cornucopia for the senses so
get ready for the assault—from greens
heady with the scent of the dirt they
were recently plucked from, to brilliantly vibrant seasonal produce, to
the smell of sizzling sausages and the
classic flavor of a Nutella crepe.