Buy, sell, trade.
Posted on June 14, 2008 - Filed Under Activism, food safety, green market, herbs, pet food, products, vegetables, zucchini
We finally made it to our first Green Market of the year. There are quite a few more vendors this year and more market opportunities as well. There is now a weekly market downtown every Thursday from 11-2. And the usual 2nd Saturday market in the mornings April – November. It’s nice to see more people getting involved with any event resembling local, “green” and healthy in this firmly entrenched traditional farming community where Monsanto and Round-Up are a farmer/gardener’s best friends, and the local ag(riculture) center director wonders why anyone would purchase food and produce from unlicensed, unapproved dilettantes (Seriously, he asked me how you could trust the person you were buying it from. How will you know it’s safe? Like no one, but a professional should try this at home.) But I digress.
Along with the usual natural pet food, we sold European Mesclun leaf lettuce, greek oregano, basil, golden zucchini, tonda scuro di piacenza zucchini (my new love, see previous post) and wheat grass seed.
It was kind of slow so we didn’t sell too much (I think it’s just too freakin’ hot during summer for these markets. John’s toying with the idea of putting a water misting system in our tent and charging people to walk through it. I think we should just bring an inflatable water slide.), but we sold enough to cover our costs and then some. Honestly, we mostly just enjoy the social aspect of the markets: Jett always seems to hook up with a new pal; we’ve made some friends (even got invited to an impromptu pot-luck wedding next Saturday); and just meeting and interacting with all sorts of folks for a few hours makes it a good time.
And of course, we love the bartering when the market ends. Today we traded for chocolate and mint soaps (this is the best lathering soap ever), a rosemary plant, salsa, whole wheat muffins, grass-fed beef and granola — all home grown/made/cultivated. And we pawned off our excess produce all of which needed to be harvested or thinned anyway. Everybody wins.
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