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Countryside Conservancy Kicks Off Highland Square Farmers' Market and Montrose Food Swap This Week

The Highland Square Farmers' Market opens this Thursday; the Countryside Conservancy's Howe Meadow Saturday market opened May 7th.
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The Highland Square Farmers' Market opens this Thursday; the Countryside Conservancy's Howe Meadow Saturday market opened May 7th.
The Highland Square Farmers' Market opens this Thursday; the Countryside Conservancy's Howe Meadow Saturday market opened May 7th.
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COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY
The Highland Square Farmers' Market opens this Thursday; the Countryside Conservancy's Howe Meadow Saturday market opened May 7th.

The Countryside Conservancy is kicking off its Highland Square Farmers’ Market for the season with a party this week at the Akron Art Museum.

The Thursday afternoon markets return for the summer, with more than a dozen vendors including, for the first time, Akron-basedOak Tree Farms Hydroponics. The first Highland Square market of the season will be followed by a party at the Akron Art Museum. One of the museums current exhibits isSNACK, which takes a lighthearted look at food and the places to buy it.

Also this week, the Countryside Conservancy hosts a silent-auction “Food Swap” at the Montrose Mustard Seed Market on Tuesday.

The Countryside Conservancy opened its Howe Meadow Saturday markets earlier this month.

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Kabir Bhatia joined WKSU as a Reporter/Producer and weekend host in 2010. A graduate of Hudson High School, he received his Bachelor's from Kent State University. While a Kent student, Bhatia served as a WKSU student assistant, working in the newsroom and for production.