Last market day....

This past Thursday was the last day for Victory Farms market stand at the Farmers' Market downtown. It was so chilly in the shade under our stand. We had less produce but still it was very beautiful. Lots of greens, potatoes, radishes, cukes, and we practically sold out everything. We were sad that this was over, as we said so long to our buddies at the market, but Gina and Charlie will continue to bring veggies to the market in Oregon Hill and at Forest Hill Park. I, meanwhile, will be exploring markets in other places. To see more produce from our last day, check out my other blog.
These photos are of a couple of the veggie critters that showed up during the season. A cuke duck and an eggplant birdsnake. Doesn't Gina look cute holding the parsley?

Market day

While working at the farmers' market, I get my coffee from Alan and his wife, who have a stand across the way. They sell coffee and their own coffee beans, Koralee Coffee. She had on a wonderful hat today and allowed me to take a photo of her in it. Really quite lovely, as were the squash blossoms we had for a special order. They were perfect and beautifully yellow. We had lots of beets and I was so excited by that because I'd wanted to try the chocolate & beet cake recipe that I'd recently downloaded. I'm steaming beets right now so I can prepare the cake later this afternoon. The Armenian cucumber looked a bit like a snake, all it needed were some googly eyes glued on. Shelia said "never name your cucumber or you won't want to cut it up." That made me laugh. The onions added more magenta to our table as did some cabbage which I never got a photo of, oh well, next week. For the recipe for the cake, check my VOX blog, where I'll post it.