Asides

Durham Farmer’s Market

Last Saturday, Mike and I visited the Durham Farmers Market to see how it’s faring in its new Durham Central Park Pavilion. It was good to see the place so packed. The new digs definitely seem to have attracted more vendors and buyers than I ever remember in its former parking lot location.

Of course, we knew we had stuff coming from Vollmer (not to mention some veggies left from the week before), but we nevertheless were tempted into several purchases. We came home with baby bok choy, sunflower sprouts, asparagus, baby beets and pea shoots. But they had more than produce. We also picked up some Italian pork sausage from Fickle Creek Farm in Efland, bison burgers from Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farm in Roxboro and, of course, a block of feta cheese (actually they call it Pheta) from Chapel Hill Creamery. Looks like we’ll be eating well–and almost entirely local–for a while.

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