Farmer’s Market in Reston

August 17, 2024
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Every Spring and Summer there are farmer’s markets all over Fairfax County, Virginia. The towns in the county have them on different days, presumably to avoid duplication. And competition, for that matter. 

Anyway, Reston has a farmer’s market from early May through mid-November on Saturdays. So I went over to Lake Anne to take a look and snap a couple of photos. See below. 

Reston, VA, USA — August 17, 2024. A photo of workers at a catering stand that offers Halal, Mediterranean and Healthy foods at a Reston Farmer’s Market.
Reston, VA, USA — August 17, 2024. A photo of shoppers and produce at a stand that offers eggs, tomatoes and flowers at the Reston Farmer’s Market.

Lake Anne is the original location envisaged by Reston’s founder, Robert E Simon in 1964. It was supposed to be a kind of urban Utopia.  Actually, the 1960s were chock full of utopian schemes. Over the years, though, there just wasn’t enough room for development around Lake Anne. And as it turned out, the brutalist architecture featured around Lake Anne, didn’t afford enough choice to accommodate a change in scenery.  

A square format photo of a mysterious stairway that leads to nowhere, located by Lake Anne in Reston, VA

Eventually what is now Reston Town Center, where we live, became the hub. It’s about a 10 square block area that bears more than a faint resemblance to the upper East Side of Manhattan. It’s a mixed use area, meaning office buildings, apartment, condos, and high-end restaurants and retail stores are located there. 

Reston, VA — July 26, 2022. A wide angle photo overlooking Reston Town Square Park bounded by apartment and office buildings.
Reston, VA USA — November 4, 2018. A photo overlooking Reston Town Center Park on a Fall afternoon.

As Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote back in 1849, “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”

JFB