Oxford City Market Moves to the Community Pavilion on University Avenue

Oxford City Market is held every Tuesday until Thanksgiving from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Community Pavilion on the corner of University Avenue and Bramlett Boulevard.

The popular Oxford City Market, now in its third year, has a new home at the Community Pavilion on University Avenue in Oxford.

The market, which features a variety of vendors and artists, is open every Tuesday from now until Nov. 24. With this new location, the vendor’s wares will reach a larger audience and provide the marketplace with higher visibility.

“I love the new location of the market because it is walking distance from my house and I can pick up something local for dinner,” said Kayla Kuhn, an Ole Miss student.

Kayla Kuhn shops for fresh ingredients to add to her meals at the Oxford City Market Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015.

The Community Pavilion complex is located on the corner of University Avenue and Bramlett Boulevard, providing maximum visibility from one of the main roads in Oxford, a larger space to accommodate additional vendors and an area for live entertainment.

Betsy Chapman, the director of Oxford City Market, is thrilled to have a hardscape for the vendors to set up on, a grassy area for children to play and an easily accessible parking lot. The Oxford City Market’s goal is to reach as much of the community as possible.

“Our new location is walkable from many parts of town and it is right on the Oxford bus line,” Chapman said.

The Oxford City Market was founded by the City of Oxford in 2013. Their mission was to address food concerns with having pesticide free food available in the area. The founders wanted to have a place where the people of Oxford could easily find and purchase locally grown, healthy foods and buy organic products.

“We want to invite everyone in the area to be a part of the market,” Chapman said. “It doesn’t belong to one. Come be a vendor, volunteer or customer.”

Will Reed, right, carries his daughter Magnolia, 3, as they help customers at the Oxford City Market Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015. They are one of the many vendors that come to sell their fresh and local produce each Tuesday.

The Community Pavilion is a large open space with enough room for a variety of vendors. It is a place that is inviting. The sense of community that the Oxford City Market provides between vendors, customers and volunteers can be seen as kids run around, live music plays and people socialize while browsing booths of locally grown produce, handmade craft items and unique products.

“Our hope with this new location, is that it will serve a larger group of customers and will bring back old ones,” Chapman said.

For more information on the market, visit oxfordcitymarket.com or find them on Facebook.

Yokna Bottoms Farm brings fresh produce they grow locally to the Oxford City Market each week to sell to the Oxford community.

Peyton LoCicero is a senior broadcast journalism major at the Meek School of Journalism and New Media. She can be reached at pelocice@go.olemiss.edu.

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