We went to the farmer’s market this morning. The Shift food wagon was there, and I bought two of their new and very healthy smoothies for dinner tonight and breakfast tomorrow.

I purchased a beautiful Copeopsis flower plant (above) for $12 at the Hickory Wind Farm stand. It’s in the garden now.

I  took photos of Cas, the Goat Lady, and her husband, Larry, the Goat Man.

I bought some cheese and a new and beautiful black bar of soap, flavored vanilla.

I visited Edgar and his daughter Hannah (Long Days Farm). I was looking for Hannah.

Hannah comes with her father to almost all of the markets and is the most gifted designer of vegetables for sale of anyone I’ve ever met. There aren’t many vegetables yet for her to display today, but she is a farm market artist, and her beautiful displays pop out.

I’ll be sure to get some pictures.

The farmers at the market are special people – warm, hard-working, devoted to their farms, and creative. Hannah, above, is Edgard’s daughter, and she designs the best vegetable displays of any market I’ve ever seen. There were lots of strawberries today; most of the vegetables are just sprouting.

It feels a lot like we’re visiting friends now; almost everyone knows everybody; it’s a rejection of the fast-disappearing sense if community spreading through the country.

I’ll make sure to take a photo of one of their displays. Hannah is a real artist.

The farm market is usually a family matter; the kids work just as hard as their parents. Everybody pitches in.

The two gladly posed for a portrait in my people-I-like feature.

We stopped at the Shift Food wagon; we got a wood-fired pizza, a salad, and two smoothies for me to take home (also two freshly baked Poppy Seed muffins.

The food around here is getting much better; The Shift food wagon has a lot to do with it. We also got beets and kale and some fresh wheat bread.

Caz’s husband Larry showed up to keep her company today; he usually goes to a different market. These two work hard; there are 70 goats on Caz Acrez’s farm. She’s our first stop every Sunday, and we bought some cookies and pastry, goat cheese, and a new soap flavor, vanilla.

I try to buy every fresh soap scent she produces. Caz makes the best soap I’ve ever used.  Her goat cheese is fabulous with crackers or toast. And she is a lot of fun to talk to. Her business is rapidly expanding, I told her that we were there when.

She is as lively and funny as the photo suggests. The two of them never stop working.

Caz’s e-mail is lcazacrez@gmail.com; her website is www.cazacrez.com. She’s almost out of soap.

I bought my new coreopsis plant from Kristofer at the Hickory Wind Farm stand. It’s already in the garden bed. This is a beautiful plant. There are some gorgeous flowers on Hickory Wind.

 

Country music at the farm market. We were in a hurry, and it started as a rainy and drizzly day.