Hiking the Farmers Market

This past Saturday, the Farmers Market on Sandy Ridge was very busy. Even with masks, we decided it was better to walk the perimeter for exercise and return to shop during the week, when it isn't quite as busy. While walking back behind AB Farmers Market Garden Center, we found a path we thought was a trail. As seen in the above photo it is so beautiful and natural back there. On into the trail, as it winds toward I-40, there is an old barn. The barn is not safe to enter, but to look at, it is so beautiful.

Catherine Bishir said that "agricultural old outbuildings are North Carolina's most endangered architectural resource" (shared by Benjamin Briggs, here, 2004). Finding and documenting these old barns was a passion of the late Greensboro photographer Carol Martin. We wish she were still here so that we could see if she every found this one.

Once we realized that this path was not really a trail, we headed back to the parking lot. If this property is, indeed, part of the farmers market, perhaps the community would be served to add some kind of hiking trail. More and more people are out walking these days. Happy exploring, whether you can get out and physically explore, or remain at home and explore through books and the Internet. May we all find a way to help preserve Greensboro old agricultural outbuildings and our public-access green space.