Today's post is on the Buena Park Farmer's Market. If you've lived in OC all your life, like I have, you'll know what Buena Park is. If not, you may be scratching your head.
To give you a brief background, Buena Park is the "center" of the Southland, home to Knott's Berry Farm, Ripley's Believe it or Not, Medieval Times, and the now closed Movieland Wax Museum.
Over the past couple of years there's been a surge of remodelling in addition to shopping plazas cropping up. The old fashioned Buena Park Mall was given a face lift, the Krikorian theater was given a water fountain, Portillo's came to brighten up the Mall parking lot with their neon lights and unique building design, Wal-Mart flew in to take their share, Target came in to take over the Sequoia Athletic Club, GameStop came to reside in the same Target plaza, and a slew of other chains like Chili's, Juice It Up!, Panda Express, Office Depot, Sprint appeared.
Oh and I forgot to mention that there's 2 Starbucks within 1 minute of each other, the only difference is that one has a drive-through.
Amongst the new establishments that appeared, the one that pleased me most was when I received a flyer in the mail advertising the Farmer's Market. Yes, little Buena Park now has a Farmer's Market! I've always had to drive to Irvine, Garden Grove or Santa Monica for Farmer's Markets so I was anxious to see what mine had to offer.
I went the 2nd weekend that they were open to give them a little time to work out the kinks. You can see the tents and activity from the main street of La Palma and there is plenty of parking due to it being a part of the mall's parking lot.
After parking, and a short walk, I saw that it was just one row of tents.
The usual fruits were there, baskets of delicious looking strawberries and cups of cherries
And there always seems to be orchids at farmer markets...
Some beautiful mushrooms
Some cool looking alien-like peppers
And a farmer's market isn't complete without some yummy smelling vendors cooking up food.
And the rotating chicken spit
Other cooked foods vendors include gyros, tamales, roasted corn, and hamburgers.
Since the market is so new, it's still very small. It doesn't take very long to finish walking the row and I didn't feel the desire to purchase anything. Other notable vendors include the hummus table but they didn't give out samples. :(
I would suggest checking it out if you live nearby. And if you don't, come visit anyway so you can help this little market grow. :)
Buena Park Farmer's Market
Parking lot in Buena Park Mall
Cross Streets La Palma Ave and Stanton
Every Saturday from 9 AM-1 PM (I believe)
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