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Queen Anne Farmer’s Market-Socialize while you shop
I tend to be a fan of community Farmer’s Markets and admire people that have the patience to prepare the ground to plant, nurture, harvest and invest their time and energy to grow food. Gardening was a tradition in my family growing up. Grandpa grew everything! Then grandma cooked, canned and froze it.
Here are a few pictures I took this past summer while shopping at the Renton Farmer’s Market, Burien Farmer’s Market and Woodinville Farmer’s Market. It was fun to socialize with the community and talk to the vendors.
The Queen Anne Farmers Market only has two Thursday’s left, ending on September 25th for more information on hours and contact info click here. Since starting this blog about living in Queen Anne, I have not yet had the chance to go. After reading several reviews, the neighborhood seems pleased with the vendors and services. While reading about the Queen Anne Farmers Market I came across another website that I thought would be great to share with you.
As the market was preparing to open its second season, selling produce grown within 150 miles of our neighborhood, a few neighbors who were involved in bringing the market to Queen Anne decided to take on the next logical challenge: growing produce within 100 feet of our front doors. Thus was born the Good Neighbor Garden Project, which has just planted its first garden adjacent to the community center. Here is a story from their website.
Peaches on my Mind
by Nancie on September 13, 2008
I had the pleasure of working our market booth with Sally DeCardy last Thursday. For the last four markets of the season, the market is located on the strip now between the Community Center and the ball fields, and this is my favorite part of the market season. Perhaps because the booths are a bit closer together, our neighbors are shopping nearly tush-to-tush, and warm conversations and greetings abound. Not to mention that September is really our bounty time, our abun-dance! But back to Sally. So many silly things happened while we worked the booth, from keeping the band and the story-teller mollified with sharing space and time (again, abundance), to running out of our fantastic “Beet the System” t-shirts in sizes that suit anyone (we are still prepared for the very large and very small), that we hardly got to talk about what we really wanted to: oh, how to take advantage of the late-season peaches, strawberries, heart-shaped plums — I thought we would have to eat them immediately! To read more click here…
