The Farmer’s Market is Switching Gears

The Farmer’s Market is switching to Autumn mode.  I could snap photos at the Farmer’s Market all day long.

 

I made a quick stop at the Farmer’s Market for the last of the tomatoes and here is what else I found. 

 

The last of the beans I would suspect.  The end of them will be when we get our first frost.  But, we still have lots of time before that happens.

 

I love the vibrant yellow of these squash.  And I love these white squash.  Not sure what kind they are and I have no clue what to do with them except maybe put them in a bowl and admire them. :)  Anybody out there know what to do with them?

And more peppers.  Peppers everywhere.  I need to start digging around for some pepper recipes.  Do you have any good ones?

Piedmont Triad Farmer’s Market

 

So, me and my camera took our trip to the Piedmont Triad Farmer’s Market yesterday.  It was hot.  We are melting down here in the South.  High 90’s, hot, and humid and it’s only June!  The nice thing about this Farmer’s Market is that is well organized and sheltered.   That means lot’s of shade. 

I tried to grow cabbage one year.  The bug’s really liked it.  :(

I had my pick of tomatoes.  Lot’s of different varieties but the one I saw most were German Johnson’s.  I don’t know why but North Carolinian’s  LOVE their German Johnsons. :)

I Love to eat green beans sauteed in a little bit of olive oil and salt and pepper.   

This guy has some nice looking tomatoes and I love the name of his farm!  Lick Fork Farms!  Isn’t that a great looking sign?  I just had to take a photo.

      

More German Johnson’s and peaches.

You can get the best peaches at the this market.

 

I loved this sign too.

And look how gorgeous these peaches are!

You can find lots of garden plants there too.  This market is HUGE.  

I thought these jars were pretty.  Makes me want to can some salsa myself.  I might a bit later in the summer.

 

These Rosemary Flatbreads looked delicious too.  I am definitely going to try my hand at making these for myself. 

And how pretty are these jars of preserves? 

Not a Blueberry in sight.  I was mistaken about it being “Blueberry Day”.  I was a day early.  We actually might go back today to get some Blueberries.  I guess all the vendors were saving them up for today.   I have some new tart pans I’d like to try out.  Blueberry tart sounds pretty good.  :) 

Enjoy the weekend!

In a Pickle

So here is my dilemma.....I have pickles to sell. Wonderful pickles that are crisp and not too sweet and not too sour. Little children and dogs love them....well, maybe not dogs.....and plenty of grown ups ask me when the pickles will be ready. I have one neighbor who tells me all the time that I need to sell them. He insists that I could be on Donny Deutsch's show "The Big Idea" and I want to believe him! But, after much research I have liability worries on my mind. Of course I discover all this liability information after I enthusiastically ordered 250 plastic containers to try and save money over the glass canning jars that I usually use.

I have a farmer's market available to me and was primed to start pickle production for the Saturday morning markets this summer but that all came to a screeching halt when I saw the nasty word "Listeria" in one of the online articles I was researching. You see, my pickles are not cooked.....that is what makes them so crisp and delicious. And since I can't control how the farmers grow the cucumbers that I buy at the big farmer's market....I would be taking a risk.
Grow your own cucumbers you might say. I do. But my little suburban garden can only grow so many and I need cucumbers all summer long. I have to supplement with crops from the larger Farmer's Market. It is sad really. But the reality is that lawsuits are real and the amount of money I would make selling my pickles would not make it worth the aggravation. I am too much of a realist. And I don't have the blind pickle ambition it would take. So, I will just continue making my pickles for family and friends and that is good enough for now.