This is the last of three Farmers’ Market posts.
We’d all like to have our vegetables grown without chemical poisons to kill unwanted insects and weeds, but we can’t all have our own vegetable garden. The next best thing is to buy your vegetables at the Farmers’ Market. You’ll get organically grown vegetables with flavour that you have probably all but forgotten existed in a vegetable.
How about some novelty carrots? Maybe you had a special dinner for Easter? Maybe the Easter bunny got carried away and painted these carrots. I’m told they taste just like the orange carrots but they add a great splash of colour and more nutrients to your meal.
Researchers in Wisconsin are working to develop and promote these colour phases in carrots. Here is what the various coloured carrots are said to provide:
- Orange: Beta and alpha carotene pigment. Vitamin A for healthy eyes.
- Purple: Anthocyanin, beta and alpha carotene pigment. Additional vitamin A, and said to help prevent heart disease.
- Red: Lycopene and beta-carotene pigment. Lycopene is the same red pigment that gives tomatoes their deep color and is linked to a lower risk of certain cancers, such as prostate cancer.
- Yellow: Xanthophykks and lutein. Both are linked to cancer prevention and better eye health.
- White: The nutrients don’t come from the pigment but from the fiber, which promotes healthy digestion.
Need a good bowl, door stop, or rolling pin? Choose from these beautiful handmade products.
Or maybe you’d like to have a handmade wooden box to keep special things in? Each box is a work of art, lovingly polished by the artist.
Perhaps you have a special place in your house or garden that needs a piece of metal sculpture to highlight it. Not only are choices available on the table, but also on the post to the right where the man is standing.
So many things to choose from. If you need some time to think, why not take a load off your feet and sit down to listen to the band playing right by the market stands.
If you’re feeling too chilly, the Espresso and Deli shop is right next to the band’s stage. Pop over and grab a quick bite and a cup of coffee to bring over to the band area. Bundle up your coat, sip your hot coffee and enjoy the music.
Who knew that a chilly spring day could be so much fun?
The farmer’s market is the place to go when you are looking for good nutritious food and some fun on the side. Thank you for another lovely set of pictures!
Thanks, Peter. There was so much to see that I couldn’t cram it all into one post. Thanks for “enduring.”
No sweat!
Looks like a wonderful place to spend a day! Love the metal sculptures. Such talented artists, gardeners and apparently musicians. 🙂 Thanks for sharing more amazing photos.
It was cold but a great place to bring a bagful of money and exchange it for wonderful treats. Or do what I did, just browse and enjoy with the camera this time.
What a great market. Would be easy to spend a lot of money there.
Very easy, and you’d be getting something for your money.
That’s a great looking market. It’s unusual for me to see people so bundled at a Farmer’s Market. Our usually are only open in the summer months.
I suspect that it really gets into full swing in the summer. Only the brave and foolish were out there that day.
I love farmer’s markets – thanks for sharing this one. 🙂
I had so many pictures I couldn’t do it all in one post and I had a hard time choosing only enough for one post. It’s really an old tradition – market day – and I’m glad to see that it’s still being kept alive.
Love those cute wooden boxes.
Oh the treasures I could keep in those! I could use a dozen of them.
I got to go with you for a pleasant walk through the farmer’s market and didn’t have to wear a coat. 😉 Did I see someone playing a washboard in that band? I’d be at the café holding onto a creamy cup of hot chocolate.
YES! A washboard! I hadn’t noticed it. Good eyes, Lori.
You must’ve really been up in them thar hills if someone was playing a washboard for an instrument. 😉
Well, I guess the band was trying to sound as if they were (from the hills).
That is some farmers market! I take carrots and their color for granted. I looked with such interest at the other colors that I could sense the regular orange carrots getting jealous and that’s not fair since they’re so taken for granted .
It would be a great blog post idea for Cathi at overthehillontheyellowbrickroad.
loved this, I was laughing out loud at the nutrient/vitamin info. I totally get it!
we’d definitely need to have a chat and a cuppa!!
talk shop…. carrots and fish. LOL thanks for sharing this Anneli 🙂
That would be fun!
I am “working” on it, actually….. now if things can just work out right! we shall see.