At this morning’s farmer’s market, the vendors were petering out. Gone is Lou, the tomato, melon, and pepper man; only one more week for the wonderful pear lady. The berry vendor’s time is short, too.
Pumpkins and winter squash are starting to appear alongside peppers and tomatoes. And suddenly, for the first time since we started [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘farmer’s market’
September 13, 2008
fall’s a-comin’ on — and we’re a-sleepin’ in
August 24, 2008
poor in pocket, rich in food
Farmflash:
The Canadian government supports organic food. (Don’t even get me started on our Farm Bill.)
Baltimore jumps on the local bandwagon.
Foggy River:
At the Windsor Market today, we made $100 less than we did last week, but right now we are wealthy in food. One awesome thing about the farmer’s market: the generosity of [...]
August 23, 2008
farmer’s market economics: late August
Farmflash:
Farming still dangerous, years after Robert Frost wrote “Out, out–”…
Meet Rise & Shine’s CSA in Rome. (That’s Georgia. And not the one with the Russia problems.)
Foggy River:
Change is in the air at the farmer’s market; the customers and the marketers both feel it, but in different ways.
Walking down the farmer’s market aisles, customers are overwhelmed [...]
August 20, 2008
farmer’s market etiquette
Farmflash:
Sonoma County’s Press-Democrat dives gradually into Slow Food.
In California, farmworkers continue to die of heat; OSHA law not helping workers due to lack of enforcement.
American man forced to sell Canadian farm that has been in the family for 99 years.
Foggy River Philosophy:
A word of warning: for a while, I’ve been debating whether or not [...]
August 14, 2008
the price of a radish: part two
Yesterday, Emmett and I ventured into the Big Apple… and stumbled across actual apples, not to mention apple cider (which we purchased and swigged straight from the half-gallon jug), apple sauce, and hundreds of varieties of non-apple fresh produce.
We were there on business, meeting with our literary agent on Fifth Ave. to finally put a [...]
August 10, 2008
do your farmers a favor
I want to bring up the idea of food consumers doing things to help their farmers.
Why should we help our farmers? What’s at stake? The fundamental answer comes in two simple parts: 1) the global food system is fragile; and 2) food is vital to human success and happiness. Relying on a complex and unstable global [...]
August 9, 2008
the price of a radish
How much would you charge — or pay — for a bunch of freshly picked French breakfast radishes?
Pricing produce at the farmer’s market is always a tricky endeavor. The case of the radish, I think, exemplifies farmers’ and shoppers’ competing cost value systems. I’ve parsed out the following cost value systems below:
1. The Economist. According [...]
July 28, 2008
growing fancy: quinoa
It’s not something I ever would have thought of growing myself. But when Emmett and I were wwoofing on a small family farm in New Zealand, our hosts had a few quinoa plants going. They were healthy, bushy, beautiful things, and their grains were just starting to dry.
So, when we were on our [...]
July 27, 2008
farmer’s market recession
For the past 6 weeks — since we first started attending the Windsor farmer’s market — we’ve made more money each subsequent weekend, because we’ve brought more (and a greater variety of) produce each time. Every weekend, we sold out of our pre-bagged baby red-and-green leaf lettuce mix before the market closed. We [...]
July 21, 2008
table, check. umbrella, check. quarters, ones, check…
Today [June 22] was our first farmer’s market, and I’m exhausted.
We’ve been preparing for the market for the past three days. We managed to locate, borrow or create most of the necessities: a wooden sign with our farm name, paper signs identifying the veggies, a table, tablecloth, coolers, ice, baskets, chairs, umbrella. We packed everything [...]
