Monday, July 16, 2007
One of my nieces is staying the week, she is from my side of the family and is from WY. I just hope my little one doesn't go into social overload, but at the moment those two girls are making lap quilts. There is material all over the living room floor!
A few potatoes in the compost heap decided to grow rather than compost and boy did I have a great potato dish the other day. I have a couple of other volunteers to look forward to, plus all the potatoes that I planted this spring.
We tried our first farmers market last Saturday, it was a failure, but worthwhile to boot. We had fresh picked blueberries, some potted trees and plants, such as horse radish and Hebe's bushes. The problem is that our town farmers market is new this year and they moved the site so it was possible that a lot of people didn't notice the new location. The other sellers said that it was an anomaly and we should try again. Also it was a town holiday and they had a parade and race going on in town at the same time. We only managed to sell two bags of blueberries, but it wasn't like no one was buying, but no one was there to buy. I did meet the other merchants and it seems like it can be like an eccentric little group family if you stick with it.
I did trade some blueberries with Bernard for some of his home raised Shiitake mushrooms and another lady made up a bouquet of flowers for us, so I offered her some blueberries, but she wanted a Hebe bush, so I gave her two and gave the flowers to my DW.
I found Bernard fascinating, he was selling home produce, mostly greenhouse raised and seemed to be the one who sold the most, he also like to chat with everyone and give detail descriptions of his produce and then constantly babied the produce during the long pauses between the few folks that did find there way to the new location. We learned you need to bring your own shade too, or the sun can be brutal, the lady with flowers, Heather, had an extra big umbrella she loaned us.
A few potatoes in the compost heap decided to grow rather than compost and boy did I have a great potato dish the other day. I have a couple of other volunteers to look forward to, plus all the potatoes that I planted this spring.
We tried our first farmers market last Saturday, it was a failure, but worthwhile to boot. We had fresh picked blueberries, some potted trees and plants, such as horse radish and Hebe's bushes. The problem is that our town farmers market is new this year and they moved the site so it was possible that a lot of people didn't notice the new location. The other sellers said that it was an anomaly and we should try again. Also it was a town holiday and they had a parade and race going on in town at the same time. We only managed to sell two bags of blueberries, but it wasn't like no one was buying, but no one was there to buy. I did meet the other merchants and it seems like it can be like an eccentric little group family if you stick with it.
I did trade some blueberries with Bernard for some of his home raised Shiitake mushrooms and another lady made up a bouquet of flowers for us, so I offered her some blueberries, but she wanted a Hebe bush, so I gave her two and gave the flowers to my DW.
I found Bernard fascinating, he was selling home produce, mostly greenhouse raised and seemed to be the one who sold the most, he also like to chat with everyone and give detail descriptions of his produce and then constantly babied the produce during the long pauses between the few folks that did find there way to the new location. We learned you need to bring your own shade too, or the sun can be brutal, the lady with flowers, Heather, had an extra big umbrella she loaned us.
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