Our little farmers' market has started to expand a little bit this year: each week it seems that there is one more vendor --- not always a farmer, sometimes a jewelery maker, or a photographer selling prints, but it is getting more interesting each week: who knows: it a little while we may actually get a real farmers market!
Our purchases today: two gallons of raw milk: two dozen eggs from real free range hens: a couple of pounds of green beans: 8 ears of corn: a couple of pounds of tomatoes: a couple of pounds of potatoes: and all grown or produced within 10 miles of here. We talk about trying to buy local produce, but it is really nice to be able to actually do it, even on a small scale!
Yours, in situ,
N.
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We have a nice farmers' market here where I live. You'd like it. I walked up there last weekend. Just 3 miles. Course I had to walk back, but hey, isn't that a 10K walk? Sometimes I buy local wildflower honey there.
Hi. I'm here from Michele's this early Thursday evening. Have a great weekend.
I rarely miss a Saturday morning at my local Farmer's Market, even in the dead of winter! It's my favourite place to go in Fredericton. And at this time of year? It's heaven.......
michele says hi.....and so do i!
Paul --- our farmers' market is literally 100 yards from our door! And even then, carrying several pounds of vegetables, and a couple of gallons of milk, can stretch out my arms.....
N.
I never visited the Fredericton Farmers' Market (or for that matter, the Woodstock one, which I don't remember being there long ago before the beginning of time, when I lived there...)
When I lived in the Kitchener Waterloo area in Ontario, I used to love the Farmers' Markets there --- there were two: one more "serious", and the other, in Waterloo, more "farmery": I liked the Waterloo one better:-)
By the way, we crossed comments. I got way too serious (and hence confused) in commenting on the safe harbour posting....
Nothing NOTHING beats fresh eggs. I'm stalking our nesting boxes because your hens should be laying anyway week now. (August will be any day now.)
But warm from the box eggs are the best eggs ever!
Maybe you should get a booth and sell bread. ;)
We have some decent farmer's markets around here. . . I also try to eat locally, but it doesn't always work out. I've heard that if you eat local honey, it helps build up your immunity to local allergans, but that might be a load of bunk.
Michele sent me. Now I want fruit.
buying local? wow.
I've been working in a CSA for 3 years!
I love markets like yours. They remind me of a time when life wasn't so rushed, people took the time to get to know each other, and we genuinely enjoyed going out within the community.
Contrast that with the typical big box/massive parking lot experience.
Can I come to your market, then? London's Covent Garden Market is pretty neat, so I'll content myself locally for now.
Oops, almost forgot: popped by from Michele's today!
You've a Covent Garden market in London Ont then, Carmi? How funny -- I miss the Covent Garden market in the other London, and also the one in Waterloo, Ont... they were both, in their own ways, great.
Mind you, as small as our market is, I think that it is pretty sweet.
N.
Kinda early in the season for spuds, isn't it?
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