Lansdale Farmers Market

We're finally getting out and about in this area - after nearly six weeks of confinement.  Last week, Kathy discovered the Lansdale Farmers Market, held on Saturdays in the center of Lansdale.  Like many communities, Lansdale has attracted many local small farmers and crafts people to sell their produce and wares to local residents.  Like other farmers markets, this one had a festive air. However, we detected a discriminatory attitude:

Luckily, Baxter and Flip weren't with us, or they would have had a word with management about the entire exclusion of cats from the event.

The sign, however, is welcoming and shows local produce to advantage:

Kathy couldn't wait to throw all sorts of things into our backpacks:  garlic scapes, leafy K-2, beets with bushy greens, long-plump-crisp asparagus, summer squash, olives, luscious raspberries, eggs laid just yesterday!, and many more items of produce.  Here, Kathy is patronizing a produce truck that looks like it has graced many a farmers market:

The market boasts vendor tents with many exotic spices --

-- and mushrooms (we picked up some tasty looking chanterelles).

The vendor who sold us Moroccan argan oil gave us a recipe for exotic amlou, a Moroccan spread consisting of argan oil, ground almonds and honey, which is a spectacular spread or dip.

Kathy has been in the market for a walking stick - not so much to lean on, but to carry and help her train her back to walk more erectly.  This seems to help keep her back muscles from aching.  Well, who did we find at the market but a wood craftsman who told Kathy he thinks he has just the stick for her.  He promised he would bring it to next Saturday's market.  We look forward to seeing him again next week!

There was something for everyone at the market.  Music was provided last week by this band, and today by a solo guitarist:

We were even joined by a local representative of the biker set and his motorcycle mama:

David, for his part, found the vendor stall for Cardinal Hollow Winery, a local small volume winery that specializes in the Whiskey Mead that we enjoyed so much at Round Guys Brewery the other day. We decided this was a fit reason to buy a few bottles for gifting to relatives and friends (not to mention one for ourselves).

All in all, we considered this a successful morning of browsing and shopping.  We congratulated ourselves for resisting the temptation of two spectacular baked goods vendors.  You have to draw the line somewhere, you see.