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Liberty Street Market Returns After 2020 Reboot

Kwesi Wilson (left) and Tyir Ozaka lean on a pickup truck full of watermelons they brought to the Liberty Street Market last year. PAUL GARBER/WFDD FILE

A revived urban farmers market in Winston-Salem is back for a second season. 

The Liberty Street Market opened in 2014 but it took a community-wide effort last year to realize the vision of a reliable and affordable food resource for the location off of U.S. 52. It is considered a food desert with few commercial markets in the area.

The accent is on local meat and produce. Priority is given to farmers within a five-mile radius of the market, but that hasn't kept it from growing. City officials say there are almost twice as many vendors compared to last year. 

The market runs on the first and third Fridays of the month and SNAP/EBT is accepted. 

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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