Flower Mart 2021 taking a virtual turn

Daily Record Staff//February 4, 2021//

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The Mount Vernon Place Conservancy Thursday announced that Flower Mart at Mount Vernon Place 2021, planned for April 30-May 1, will largely be an online event.

The conservancy, which manages the Washington Monument and the parks of Mount Vernon place, took on the management of Flower Mart in 2019, returning the festival to its original mission of the greening of the city, while at the same time supporting local vendors and talent.

Flower Mart is Baltimore’s oldest continuous free public festival and the unofficial launch of the festival season in the city.

Flower Mart 2020 was cancelled last year due to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic.

Flower Mart was founded in 1911 by the Women’s Civic League, an organization formed to advocate for better living conditions in the City of Baltimore. A focal point of the original market was to encourage flower, plant and vegetable gardening in the yards of homes and vacant lots, thereby making them green.