What a delight to have our local farmers market a half a mile away! I started this market in 1990, and it's still going strong, I'm happy to say - if anything, it's even better than it was in the old days. The vegetable selection is broad , clean, and lush. I spent a happy hour or so chatting with Robin from Red Maple Farm, and Susan from Moose Brook Farm, and collecting a breathtaking two-bags-full of fresh, tasty veggies, some of which were blanched and in the freezer within the hour. My fourteen dollars bought me:
a huge bunch of green swiss chard
a bag of beet greens
a bag of arugula
a sugar pumpkin
two patty pan squashes
fresh green cabbage
hot peppers
fresh onions and garlic
a bag of gorgeous spinach
and a free jaw dropping look at Robin's 8 inch yellow dahlia.
(no charge for the conversation)
Enjoy!
Wonderful! I hope you post this to the I love farmers markets group at Gather!
ReplyDeleteSuch pretty pictures:)
ReplyDeleteWhoops, Sonia - I forgot again:)
ReplyDeleteNana - how wonderful to hear from you! Hope your break went well - delighted you enjoyed our little farmers market!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous photos (as usual!) and that dahlia is so beautiful!! When we first moved into this house there were some dahlias and I ripped them out. I didn't know what they were then - what a dummy, huh?
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to you on starting such a wonderful farmer's market 20 years ago. You should be so proud that it has continued and flourished.
Hi Barb! Until you said it, I didn't even realize our farmers market was 20 years old! I guess I get so distracted by taking pictures of food, and mulling over recipes in my head I just space on life reality:)
ReplyDeleteI've come to really like dahlias, even though I thought they were very stiff looking when I first saw them. Robin said she pulls her dahlia plants (bulbs?) every Fall and replants in the Spring, and every year they get bigger and bigger.