Westside Flea Markets
Published January 18, 2012 | 
There are several flea markets located on Jacksonville’s Westside Area but one we are familiar with is the Johnson Family Indoor Family Flea Market located on Ramona Boulevard next to I-10. The flea market is in an Old Home depot building. They offer lockable garage style spaces with two tables for vendors. The rates are fairly reasonable at $17 per day or $50 for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. If you opt to take the weekend rate you can bring your stuff in on Friday and lock it up at the end of the day and on Sunday empty out your space. They also have monthly rates at about $200 a month. Those rates are subject to change so please call ahead for reservations and information. The building has heat/air and wireless service available. There is also a small restaurant in the back that has some good food at average prices that is family owned and operated. They offer a discount for vendors. The building is opened Wednesday through Sunday from 9:00am to 6:00pm. The people are friendly and helpful if you have any questions.
The bad is that there is only one bathroom area. The women’s bathroom really could use some updating. There are several halogen lights that whine real loud in the area we were in and the air was turned off 2 hours before closing. Sadly, the wireless network was not working when we were there so we cannot say anything about that. The garage areas are not painted or cleaned up in anyway once a vendor leaves. The monthly vendors are encouraged to paint the walls, put down some kind of flooring or carpeting on their own. The place has some problems but it does have some potential. There is an open air market feel to the place that we liked.
There are several websites still active out there for the Johnson Family Indoor Flea Market but the last one is supposed to be the current one in service. It was created by one of the vendors but has been updated since October last year. The Management was doing some marketing promotions each month to help out the vendors and you will have to contact them to see if they are still doing that.
Oldest Version of the Johnson Family Flea Market
http://johnsonsfamilyfleamarketjacksonville.com/
Second Version of the Johnson Family Flea Market
http://www.johnsonsfamilyfleamarket.com/page/page/1002752.htm
Current Version of the Johnson Family Flea Market
http://thejohnsonsfleamarket.com/
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Jacksonville Westside Farms
Published December 9, 2009 | When I was growing up I thought that most of our produce came from farms around town. There use to be a lot of family farms on the north and westside of Jacksonville. I went looking for information about farms on the Westside to do a feature for this blog. Now I know that times are very tough right now and the family farm is being pushed out due to so called “PROGRESS” and the construction of new homes but can we really do without the family farm or even local farmers? With the prices of food, gas, etc. don’t we really need to go back to some of the basics of life? To that end I am looking for information about small family farms on the Westside. I believe there is still some room on the Westside of Jacksonville for small farmers to thrive and supply some of the other Jacksonville residences with much needed organically grown produce. If you are such a farmer or know of someone who is we would like to hear from you!
I have sent out some emails to some of the people who sell at the local farmers markets around town and hope to get some responses however I don’t believe that any of them are on the Westside. There is one listing for the Oakleaf GreenMarket but it closed for the season at the end of November and their website is still under construction. There are other “Open-Air” markets opened one day a week in Mandarin, The Town Center and the Beaches area. There is also the year-round Farmers Market on Beaver Street. Come-On Westsiders! What are you doing to promote your local farmers in your area?
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Promoting Local Businesses
Published February 20, 2009 | We hope you are enjoying our blog. Now that the holidays are over hopefully we will have more time to add some new and exciting content for all of those who live, work and/or play in Jacksonville, Florida’s Westside Area. We will be traveling around the different areas, taking pictures, interviewing the locals, and posting to the blog. We are still working towards getting all the different resources for our neighbors on the different pages. We apologize for the updates taking so long.
We will start things off by promoting one the new businesses serving the Westside Area in Anderson Air Systems, LLC. They have a website now and is run by uncle. He is just getting started in this business on his own but has worked in the Air Conditioning & Heating field for a very long time. So check out the website and if you need a new Heating & Air Conditioning system installed or repaired I would recommend him. He has been servicing our Heating & Air Conditioner for over 15 years.
If you know of any repair or service businesse that you would recommend then by all means please make a comment. We would all appreciate a recommendation for services and repairs to save money and/or time and to feel like we can trust them to do the job right and quickly the first time. However, please make sure you would actually recommend them to your friends and relatives as we are striving to make this blog a reliable source of information!
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