Saturday, 9-20 coffee tea or ?

[lyman]

gonna be a lovely day,
and taking the day off,

headed to the farmers market to grab some eggs , and see what fresh veggies are available,


hope yall have a geat day

[Allen]

Good for you but I thought you kept Saturday hours at the shop ???

I like farmer markets---not enough people support them though. We use to have smaller "fruit stands" all over the place. ALL of them are gone now, people don't carry cash and a lot of the small vendors aren't set up for CC's. Farmers markets use to be a way of life here. We still have a very large one left in Mobile.

[lyman]

I do 20-25 gunshows a year, so that is over 1/2 the saturdays of the year I am set up with tables,

so I try to take off Saturdays, when not at a show, since the wife is usually off, or around, or if she needs to go see her mom or sister, I am here to feed the beasty cats we have
as a small business owner, I don't really get a day off, even during the week, so sometimes you have to stop looking at the emails and do other stuff

[PWC]

There's "farmers market" here in Phoenix but not atru one. Get other mailing list for boxes of pre counted veggies, fruit, and drinks, etc. Always seasonable, always good and good value gor $35. Ued to be able to order specific items in case or less than case qtis. One Christmas I bought 3ea 25lb boxes of bacon for my kids. Case of apples that my wife canned and froze applesauce. Wish they would go back to being able to order individual items.

[Allen]

We had a large "fruit market" nearby. It wasn't a farmers market because it was owned and operated by just one person. Anyway, it started out with the reputation of just selling locally grown produce plus local honey, milk, pecans, peanuts, eggs, stuff. Later they opened a bakery and sold pies, bread and cakes. As the market became larger and larger they broadened the selection to lettuce, pineapples, apples, and all types of items that we simply don't grow here.

As time went on very little that was grown here was sold there---it became just a grocery store that didn't sell meat.

It is gone now--just cleared land. It was sold for big $ for one of those mega/super gas stations.

We still have that farmers market in Mobile. My grandfather use to take his produce, get on a paddle wheel ship, and ferry to Mobile to sell his stuff there. That was before the days of the roads and bridges we have now. That connection across Mobile Bay was opened in 1926 so he didn't have many ferry trips.

[lyman]

this one is in a local park, all the vendors rent spaces, and not just food stuffs,

lots of art, pottery, and various stuff

local basically means Va, I get eggs from a guy that is roughly 90 minutes south of me,
the 3 big farm tents are all within 2 hrs of RVA, and yes, you have to know what is in season and not, and know what to look for,
those big clean yellow onions are likely bought from a distributor, as are some of the other veg, but a lot is grown ''locally''

FWIW the cantaloupe I bought looked right, but had no taste, either over watered, or some other melon type that looked similar,
locals are much more fragrant, and I took a gamble,


+ about 8 or more food trucks selling every thing from coffee to sausage biscuits to one lady that has a full on Vietnamese food booth, (and does a damn tasty spring roll)

[Allen]

Sounds similar to the market in Mobile. It is on about 10-15 acres, large old open wall sheds in the middle with concrete block buildings around the perimeter. The smaller block buildings were used for cooler storage and rented out for farmers to house their stuff.

Hurricane Frederick 1979 took out the concrete buildings. The large wooden/metal buildings lost a lot of roofing "tin" but could be rebuilt. The rest of the buildings looked like bombed out cities shown in WW2 pictures. I haven't been there in many years but looking at the aerial photographs it looks like much of the mess is still there.

The main part of the market is still in business.