Showing posts with label Seaside Farmer's Market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seaside Farmer's Market. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Seaside Farmer's Market

This morning on the beach we watched hundreds of glinting little fish leaping--and 50 or so pelicans hanging about to take advantage. Big surf by Gulf standards: perhaps Ike's churning things up?







A couple of weekends ago, while the poker crew was still here, we visited the last Seaside Farmer's Market of the season, E chomping at the bit to get there the minute it opened, having in mind the early bird/worm. But it's not really a surprise that a FM at the beach might be run by a certain kind of laissez-faire slacker, so our early start gave us the opportunity to watch folks set up. Instead of the pickup trucks and Good Country People we would have seen just 5 hours to the north in Toosa, we observed middle-aged women in SUV's unloading their wares. Not much here at the ditch end of summer, but one kind of produce we'd never heard of before: organic meat muffins! (Of course we should have tried one, but we didn't: adventure-challenged sometimes.)

Altho the produce was very expensive at Off the Vine (having been shipped in most instances from far far away), the Winesaps were dee-lish.