FRESHFARM Market Won't Return To Bethesda

As the warm weather arrives and the farmer's market season launches, one of Bethesda's three markets will be absent from the Bethesda local food scene.

The Bethesda FRESHFARM market, which has operated for the past two market seasons on Norfolk Avenue in the Woodmont Triangle, will not return this year, according to market operator Ann Yonkers. 

The news was first reported by Bethesda Now.

Yonkers tells Patch that not enough customers were shopping at the market.

"We regret not being able to continue," Yonkers wrote in an e-mail to Patch. "We just did not have enough market success in the two years we operated the market."

FRESHFARM operates several markets in the Washington, DC region, including the popular Silver Spring and Dupont Circle markets. The Bethesda FRESHFARM market launched in June of 2010 to much fanfare, taking over the space of a previous market in Veterans Park that had seen dwindling interest from vendors, The Gazette reported.

It was operated in conjunction with the Bethesda Urban Partnership.

Two farmer's markets remain in Bethesda, including the Montgomery Farm Women's Cooperative Market and the Bethesda Central Farm Market, which will celebrate the re-opening of its full summer market and its fifth anniversary this weekend.

Will you miss the Bethesda FRESHFARM market? Tell us in the comments.