Seattle - Saturday morning - U District Market - at 50th NE and University Way. Go early for best parking or take the bus from Downtown.

Wednesday - Columbia City Market - South Seattle. Yum and full of great restaurants for dinner afterwards.

Sunday - West Seattle is very much like U. District - don't forget to check out Eats or Cupcake Royale. Lots of free parking around and much less hectic than U. District.

The Seattle Markets are well run and mostly all organic. There are very strict rules of what can and cannot be sold, so no gack or crafts.

In E. Bay --
I am partial to the Oakland Farmer's Market and lunch at cafe 817 and if we can't make that, Berkeley Saturday market, but a bit too, well, dogmatic.

France and beyond:
In Paris, I'm fond of the Sunday Raspail Market on Boul. Raspail (all organic). The one up by Batignolles on Saturday is also good. I like the little markets everywhere as well. Some are not so little...

The Marylbone Farmer's Market on Sundays behind the Waitrose is great and not touristy like Borough. You can actually walk around and feel like you are about to get trampled.

I am never going to recommend the Seattle Pike Place Market, because very little of it is locally grown and its aimed at tourists.

As usual, I'm going suggest you all go to egullet.com and look up farmer's markets.

They know their stuff.

lala