You’re invited to a party about the 32nd Street Farmers Market! Bird in Hand is thrilled to launch Story Seeds: Growing Home at the Farmers Market, the result of a thoughtful, years-long project by author Megan Lovely and photographer Michael Caballes. After a morning at the market, the authors will join us at Bird in Hand, just a few blocks up the street, for a conversation with influential figures in Baltimore farming and farmers markets: Eric Jackson, Denzel Mitchell Jr., and Susan Walther.
Since Lovely’s inaugural Story Seeds stand in October 2021, Lovely has gathered more than 200 stories from vendors, farmers, and community members at the 32nd Street Farmers Market through her interactive storytelling practice. These stories, more than twenty hours of recorded interviews, and photographs are woven together in multi-vocal vignettes, demonstrating how, as Baltimore Heritage executive director Johns Hopkins writes, “a market on a parking lot can bring a neighborhood together.”