Farmer's Market
Our little community has a Farmer's Market just off of Main Street during the summer, or so we are informed by a sign we drive by every day, on the highway just outside of town. It happens, evidently, every Wednesday evening during the warmer months and today was supposed to be the last event of the season - so we thought we ought to go.
A bit of a disappointment, I'm afraid.
It occupied about half of an alley and consisted of, maybe, 8 'booths' selling flowers and produce. There was also the predictable table for the county extension office touting Composting, as well as a vendor for hot dogs, of course. In all fairness, the 3 booths that offered produced seemed to have high quality stuff. And I got a beautiful bouquet of dahlias for $5, so that was good too...
Somehow though, it was pretty sad.
There are some big Farmer's Markets in the East Seattle area and we've enjoyed them immensely. Perhaps our expectations were a bit too high for this one.
Kind of a pathetic ending to summer though.
posted by Cathy @ 9:57 PM
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Bisbee has a farmers market periodically on a Saturday morning. Both of the last two times we have been down there, we have been lucky enough to catch it. It is held in the park in Warren (just south of Old Bisbee) and features a Humane Society stand (we almost left with a puppy once), several produce vendors, craft and jewelry tables, stands selling delicious baked goods, hippies selling frozen fruit bars and the like, and even a family bluegrass band from Sierra Vista. It's not too big, but it's fun and diverse. We bought some pie, a peach turnover, a loaf of cherry-nut bread, the afore-mentioned fruit bar (papaya, I believe) and some pumpkin butter and strawberry-rhubarb jam from a guy from Douglas. Really pretty impressive for a small town. You'd enjoy it!
Bisbee sounds wonderful! There is one in Redmond that we visited once this summer that is like that, and Santa Rosa had a great one too. Don't forget the Kettle Korn!
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