Saturday is for produce

Three cheers for the Salt Lake City Saturday Farmers Market! This thing has grown so incredibly big over the past decade that Pioneer Park is a tent village for the day (or at least until the afternoon). Now the Downtown Alliance is starting a Sunday craft fair, which I'm going to have to check out one of these days. Anyway, for fresh produce, craft shopping, salsa tasting, corner musician listening and people watching, it can't be beat.

Today, Brandon, Erin and I took my dog Chester down to the market to buy whatever looked, smelled or tasted good. Here's their haul (green beans for Brandon, salsa for Erin):

And here's my haul (minus the beer glass and mint in the background). That would be a killer little melon ($1.75!) from Hurricane, Utah picked two days ago, the remains of an almond bear claw from Pierre bakery, and a huge bag of basil for two bucks. Two bucks. Who says farmer's markets are overpriced? OK, well I did, but that's when I was living in Boulder, CO.


The world needs more farmers markets, more local produce being grown and purchased, and more people smiling in the sunshine at each other.

Chester agrees.