Teleidoscope

Sat, Apr 05, 2008

Piranhas

Posted at 3:32 pm MDT to Weather

The weather was wonderful for today's initial Farmers' Market. It was mostly sunny, 60 degrees F, and a little breezy. The customers came out in droves. And they weren't just enjoying the nice weather: they wanted to buy.

The market opened at 8 am, and we were getting very low on fresh vegetables by 10. Rowan (Nanette's oldest daughter who is mostly running the farm with Nanette these days) went back to the farm to do some more picking.

People mobbed us each time we got restock. It was a good thing that Rowan's friend Erin was helping with the selling. We needed three people during the feeding frenzies.

By noon we had re-stocked twice, there was nothing left at the farm that was close to being ready to pick this week, and we had nothing left on the tables but some dried chile peppers, packets of dried herbs from last season, and some bunches of green garlic.

After the other fresh veggies sold out for the third time, people who came to our booth continued to buy the garlic bunches. I'm convinced some of them didn't even really want garlic, they just wanted to buy stuff.

We packed everything up at noon (with one solitary unsold bundle of garlic, plus the dried stuff) even though the market doesn't close until 2 pm. Then Nanette and Rowan and I walked a couple of blocks to Rowan's favorite bar for lunch. (The truck couldn't be moved until the market closed, so Nanette couldn't just go home.)

This was a very nice introduction to this year's market. We didn't freeze or bake or get rained or snowed on. We had good sales. We certainly weren't bored. And we had a shorter workday than expected.

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