Farmers Market
Rain or Shine, the Riverside Farmer's Market is held on Fridays. It hailed. It was hilarious.
This is proof of California still being California despite the corporate farms and industrial dairies, there was a ton of veggies and eggs to buy fresh. Five pounds of old orchard navel oranges, they're nothing like the modern Sunkist. They're ugly, they're difficult to peel, and they're so mind blowingly good. Big fat Cherokee purple tomatoes. Amazing red-purple-white-orange carrots. Tomato sauce, sooon! Also a pasta maker guy, the pasta was expensive, but "spinach garlic"? Ooh. Grabbed.
The honey guy also was selling 'gardens in a jar', fresh no GMO seeds with some fifty vegetables and herbs packed in a cute canning jar. I'm determined to rent a rototiller and really do some planting this year. Hopefully the rototiller will crush the old gopher living places, and force them up higher, where the cats, dogs, hawks, and all new OWL can get them. There's a small owl that's taken up residence nearby, I can hear it hooting at night. It sounds so adorable, but yeah, put the chickens away before nightfall.
There was a guy at the market selling "snake away". I was just staring at it thinking "I would buy garter and ribbon snakes at pet stores if I knew they were wild caught and it was warm season just to control gophers, and this stuff makes them go away?! Crazy!"
Local harvest near you! http://www.localharvest.org/
This is proof of California still being California despite the corporate farms and industrial dairies, there was a ton of veggies and eggs to buy fresh. Five pounds of old orchard navel oranges, they're nothing like the modern Sunkist. They're ugly, they're difficult to peel, and they're so mind blowingly good. Big fat Cherokee purple tomatoes. Amazing red-purple-white-orange carrots. Tomato sauce, sooon! Also a pasta maker guy, the pasta was expensive, but "spinach garlic"? Ooh. Grabbed.
The honey guy also was selling 'gardens in a jar', fresh no GMO seeds with some fifty vegetables and herbs packed in a cute canning jar. I'm determined to rent a rototiller and really do some planting this year. Hopefully the rototiller will crush the old gopher living places, and force them up higher, where the cats, dogs, hawks, and all new OWL can get them. There's a small owl that's taken up residence nearby, I can hear it hooting at night. It sounds so adorable, but yeah, put the chickens away before nightfall.
There was a guy at the market selling "snake away". I was just staring at it thinking "I would buy garter and ribbon snakes at pet stores if I knew they were wild caught and it was warm season just to control gophers, and this stuff makes them go away?! Crazy!"
Local harvest near you! http://www.localharvest.org/