For two blocks between Geneseo and Cleveland, Public Road stops being a through-street on Sunday mornings. Tents go up, a musician sets up in the middle of the market, and by 9 a.m. the sidewalk in front of East Simpson Coffee Co. has the density of a small festival. If you have lived in Lafayette for more than a year, you already know this. What you may not know is how quickly it happened, and how much of the Front Range's small-farm economy now passes through those two blocks on one morning a week.
The short version: a Sunday routine that used to be scattered has consolidated. The market is the reason. Learning who is actually selling there this year is the fastest way to understand how the food scene around you has shifted.
A market that Lafayette kept losing, and then didn't
Lafayette has had farmers markets before.
