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Park(ing) Day, 2025-09-20

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Strong SacTown will again be hosting a Park(ing) Day event on Saturday, September 20, 2025. The location will be 20th Street & L Street, adjacent to the Midtown Farmers Market, and the time 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. The location should attract curious people from the farmers market, as well as passerbys. You can sign up with Strong SacTown at https://bit.ly/sstparkingday2025 (the link in the newsletter and meeting slide below is malformed, so use this one) to help with planning and hosting on the day, including setup and breakdown. Whether you stop by or get involved, don’t miss it!

The international Park(ing) Day website provides background and history about the events. Note that Sacramento’s day is Saturday, September 20, not Friday, September 19. It also provides a description of the event:

“On Saturday, September 20, Strong SacTown is hosting Park(ing) Day, a community celebration where we reimagine Sacramento’s streets. We’ll highlight the new daylighting law (AB 413), invite neighbors to brainstorm how we can use these reclaimed spaces, and enjoy fun activities like bike tune-ups, games, and a mini bike lot. This is a chance to spark creativity around how Sacramento can use daylighted corners for seating, greening, and gathering.”

Note that in addition to Park(ing) Day, the Midtown Farmers Market runs 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM, and the Sacramento Porch Fest in midtown runs 12:00 noon to 10:00 PM, all in this most livable neighborhood of Sacramento.

biking to the midtown farmers market

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The Sacramento midtown farmers market at J and 20th has been going for two Saturdays now. The market is somewhat different from the main Sacramento Farmers Market I usually attend because it has more prepared food, though it still has a good complement of fresh and dried food. The market is only 8 blocks from my house, though the main one under the freeway on Sundays at 8th and W is only 16 blocks, Chavez Plaza on Wednesdays is 11 blocks, Fremont Park on Tuesdays is 1 block, Capitol Park and Capitol Mall on Thursdays are 3 blocks and 12 blocks respectively. Clearly I’m blessed to be in the middle of so many farmers markets. This density of urban amenities is why I love living in midtown. I’ve heard great things about the Saturday Oak Park farmers market, and will visit as soon as I can.

bike valet at Midtown Farmers Market
bike valet at Midtown Farmers Market

The more unique character of the Midtown Farmers Market Sacramento, however, is that it encourages shopping by bike. Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates (SABA) is providing bike valet service for the market, and a lot of people are coming by bike. There have never been less than two cargo bikes, and sometimes many more, and the large bike valet corral has at times filled up with bikes. Impressive!

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