Market day

We do the Mad River Green Farmer's Market every Saturday.

Yesterday was market day, and this week one of our tables had a lot of orange and white.

Carrots, leeks, golden beets (after all the red beets had sold), and salad turnips.

There are five veggie growers at that market and we all get along remarkably well. I say it is remarkable because on some level every veggie grower at a market is competing with each other, but on another level there is a shared sense of community. We try not to view other veggie vendors as competitors. Instead, we figure that as long as big supermakets in Vermont carry produce from California, it is up to all the small local growers to work together to increase the size of the farmer's market pie. The demand at a particular farmer's market is not static, and if we can all work together to get more people buying local, we can increase all of our sales.

Anyway, this is all a long way of saying there is another grower at our Saturday market that we really like -- Tunbridge Hill Farm. They are, in some ways, what we aspire to be -- family run, quality produce, local sales, and a healthy does of fun. And Jean and Wendy are really nice to deal with, and always willing to talk shop.

In fact yesterday, Zea from Tunbridge Hill (who is 7) invited Wavy to come over and help her sell mini pumpkins.

Wavy brought over her babies (in the carriage at left), and they had a blast. It is nice that Zea is so nice to Wavy. See you next week Zea!