Saturday Morning Community

One thing I love about living in Summerside is the Farmer's Market on Spring Street.  It is always bustling with friendly faces, happy people perusing the local wares of their friends and neighbours.  There are delicious foods to sample, fresh, in-season veggies, preserves, crafts, free-range, pastured meats and natural body care products.  And until I get approval for my laying hens, it is our source of farm-fresh eggs, which are from much happier hens, bigger, and more delicious than the brown eggs you can get in the grocery store and they are less expensive too.

The market is a place where children can play and meet up with friends in the designated play area, where you can chat with your MLA while in line for coffee, where the free-range pork guy will give you pepperoni samples while wearing a pig hat and showing videos of his happy, woodland foraging pigs.  It's a place where you can try new foods, learn about raising bees, and meet up with old acquaintances from university, forging new friendships (I mean you Pam!).  It is really one of my two favourite places to go in Summerside.

I thought for a quick Saturday blog post, I'd post some photos of the market.  Forgive the quality of these photos, I was furtively snapping them as I walked with a less-than-stellar camera, trying not to bug anyone by taking photos without permission.  I promise I will try to learn more about photography and borrow my sister's camera for future posts!

And here I am, dressed in my Saturday best (!) with my afore-mentioned eggs.  I would have picked up at least some greens, if not more tasty items, but I only brought enough change for a dozen eggs!

This post is shared with Blog Hop #56 at The Prairie Homestead.