Our Farmer's Market IS a treat and I often find I really have to use self control...Everything looks soooo yummy and beautiful, but I've learned the hard way that I can't possibly eat as much fresh food as I would LOVE to take home. So now, I take limited cash, a recycled bag and head out on a mission to find "The Good Stuff".
Here's what I came home with today:
Yep, that's my picture...I just HAD to set up a little still life of all the "Good Stuff". I couldn't stand it that I left my camera at home...What a fabulous photo location! Around every corner, I was thinking "Oh that's a nice shot, that's a nice shot!" So I had to settle for bringin home my loot and setting it up on the kitchen table...
So what's really in My picture?
Peaches and Plums 1.49 a pound-mix and match-8.00
Bell Peppers (not sure of the type but they are tricolored and really long)-3 for 1.00
Radishes (two bunches of a good mix)-2 bunches for-5.00
Local Goat Farmer Cheese: Feta Cheese MMMMMM-5.00
Great Harvest Bread: Blueberry/Cranberry Scones and some Blueberry Cranberry Bread (SPLURGE 13.00-but they make AWESOME BREADS)
Kim Chi Pickles: SPICY AND DEELISH: 5.00
Fresh Flower arrangement: 20.00: I couldn't pass the booth it smelled SOOOO good!
Total pick: $57.00...a lot more than I usually spend but I sampled a lot more too and you know that when you sample...well, um....
I had a nice talk with the flower farmer. Seems last week she didn't make it because she collided head on with a deer. She's back to it now but is not sure she'll continue taking the hour and a half drive from her farm up here. She likes the farmer's market in Williamsburg and apparently, she isn't making enough money at my Farmer's Market to make it worthwhile. She said she knows she will continue to do the winter market because she sells wreaths, swags and such for the holidays and they are always very popular. Too bad because her flowers were just gorgeous...PERFECT, I say!
Here's her website if you want to take a look:
What else was at the market today?
Fresh farmers beef, eggs, chicken
Watermelon Farmer
Soap Vendor
Bee Farmer with Fresh Honey
Fresh Coffee Bean Vendor
Fresh Crepe maker
Fresh Sherbet Vendor
Fresh African Baker
Fresh Orchid Vendor
Fresh Spice/Dip Vendor
Tons of produce farmers
Flower Farmers
Tree/Shrub Farmer
And I'm sure a lot more that I didn't see...
Flower Farmers
Tree/Shrub Farmer
And I'm sure a lot more that I didn't see...
I'll head back next week to see if they still have some of the beautiful sunflower bunches...and my CAMERA!!!
