SoWa Open Market

Coul­ter and I drove to an open mar­ket in Boston this past Sun­day.  The SoWa mar­ket is open every Sun­day, May –Octo­ber,  10:00 am– 4:00pm.  We arrived at 10am and were lucky, because an hour and half later, it was PACKED.  It’s  located near the Boston Sports Club and we parked in this incred­i­ble aban­doned fac­tory next store, while a boot camp ses­sion was being held right out­side.  I am talk­ing mas­sive boot camp where the instruc­tor yells, “Shit peo­ple, you are not try­ing!!”  Not my kind of morn­ing.  I was really glad to be walk­ing in the oppo­site direc­tion. (As my friends can attest, extreme exer­cise makes me uncomfortable.)

SoWa is equipped with all the goods you could ever need. Fresh dripped cof­fee from Cover Food Truck;  egg, arugula, green apple on iggy’s bread from Lefty’s Sil­ver Cart.  If you are really hun­gry you can pick up  also have cup­cakes from the Cup­cakory, hot­dogs from Boston Speed Dog, and Buck­wheat noo­dles and veg­gies from Bon Me Truck.  If you love food trucks, you MUST visit, because they are EVERYWHERE.

We met some really cool peo­ple with amaz­ing prod­ucts. Not only does SoWa have organic pro­duce, flow­ers, breads, cheeses, and meats, all  from local farms, but they also have a ridicu­lous amount of mate­r­ial goods such as hand­made children’s clothes, che­nille shower cur­tains and robes, gor­geous kaf­tans that were out of my 1 dol­lar bud­get, mod­ern printed pil­lows, and hand­made soaps! (Mrs. Mey­ers soaps had a booth with two porce­lain sinks!)

The coolest part about this mar­ket is that it’s eclec­tic, but every­thing works together. It’s big, but not too over­whelm­ing that you can’t nav­i­gate it.  It has this nat­ural, wel­com­ing feel­ing, while hav­ing some really primo prod­ucts. It also has that home grown appeal, which I love.   All in all, we left stuffed with food, and weighed down in pro­duce, busi­ness cards, sam­ples and  motivation.

buyer notes:

If you love pure soaps, these are the best! Lath­ergy

Cute, hand-sewn baby shoes and bibs, visit Lit­tle Green Bag.

Really good roasted nuts. Fas­tachi

Oh, and some nice stranger com­mented on my abil­ity to multi task while drink­ing cof­fee, nav­i­gat­ing a stroller, and a dog, down the aisles.   I thank you again.