Glen Ellen Farmers' Market

Glen Ellen's farmers' market is one of the newest in Sonoma Valley: a Sunday market on the campus of Woodland Star Charter School, a public Waldorf school on Dunbar Road at the edge of the village. The school hosts and organizes it, and it is meant as a year-round gathering place for the valley, with local growers, bakers, artisans and food makers setting up from 10am each Sunday. It runs on Sundays only, on school grounds rather than a town street.

Glen Ellen moves at its own pace, and its market follows suit. It is small enough to see in one unhurried loop, with room to linger and talk, and it fits neatly into a Sunday on this side of the valley: a morning walk, the market, then lunch in the village and an afternoon of tasting along the back roads of Jack London's Valley of the Moon.

Because it is young, it is still finding its shape, which makes each visit a little different.