Guide to Downtown Des Moines Farmers' Market

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Guide to Downtown Des Moines Farmers' Market

Today I want to share with you one of my favorite things about our city - the Downtown Des Moines Farmers’ Market! 

From May until October, Court Avenue is closed down on Saturday mornings to make room for produce, flowers, and tons and tons of quality people-watching. It's hard to wake up early on a Saturday, but I never regret it and once I get downtown, I immediately feel a deep sense of pride for our city. We get to live here?!

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Newsletter

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photo by Liz Brown

photo by Liz Brown

What's up, guys? I've started a newsletter as a way to keep you informed about things happening here on the site, as well as various events throughout the City. 

If you sign up, you'll receive Say Hello to the City in your inbox every week and there will be links to articles you might have missed and also a few tidbits about fun happenings in Des Moines (there are so many art shows lately, you wouldn't even believe it!) 

Sign up by clicking here. See you soon!

hanging out at the drive-in

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hanging out at the drive-in

As a kid we were a mere twenty minutes away from the local drive-in theater and we only went once. I still remember the movies that were playing: the Princess Diaries and Pearl Harbor. Obviously, that was a very long time ago. The last couple of years I've written up "to do lists" for the summer and the drive-in has always been high on the list, but somehow I've neglected to go. Until this year!

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film ain't dead. des moines ain't boring.

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film ain't dead. des moines ain't boring.

Did you hear? I wrote a guide to Des Moines over on Design*Sponge (which you can read by clicking here.) It was super hard to narrow down all the places I thought were worth visiting, but I ended up putting together a list I feel proud to share. After the jump are a few pictures that didn't make it onto the guide, but that I thought were too good not to show you guys. 

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