Cville has a Farmer's Market in the Downtown Mall every Saturday morning in season. Despite living here for three years or so, I never went, probably because I didn't like veggies until six months ago. I finally went yesterday, and I really liked it.
Most of the produce stalls were about the same, but besides the vegetable farmers, there were quite a few people selling baked goods, homemade chipotle jellies, or jewelry & crafts. Some local coffee companies were there as well, so most people had a cup of Shenandoah Joe or Mudhouse in their hands as they browsed.
There was also a Barack Obama booth, to sign up for volunteering?, or to receive a free button/bumper sticker with a donation. I didn't expect that from a Farmer's Market, but it is Charlottesville, so I wasn't too surprised.
I was really tempted by some of the cut flowers I saw, I don't know how one goes about growing flowers to sell at weekend markets but they were beautiful!
Anyway. I bought a curried ginger scone on a whim from this nice old man and had it for breakfast this morning. It was delicious, though I added apricot jam to keep it from becoming overpowering. I'll bet his 'sweet' scones are better than the 'savory', maybe if I go again I'll try it.
Sad to say, I think I bought a cucumber when I actually wanted a zucchini. It was labeled corretly, too, I'm just not very good with produce.
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mm curried ginger! weird to be back in the states, though, isn't it. are you in c-ville for the summer? i might head down there sometime in late august - northern VA gets so empty then.
ps. my new non-french blog is http://maviswillsaveus.blogspot.com/
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