New King Farmer’s Market on Sundays
Yummy sweet local carrots!
Porter and I went to the new farmer’s market at N E 7th and Wygant street in PDX. We got there at 9:00am after I told Porter I was taking him to a secret location somewhere, but he guessed where darn it! The market opens at 10:00, so we wandered around, had some good cofee and watched it being set up. It was the first day and when the bell rang at 10:00, it was with lots of excitement. We came away with some yummy carrots, greens, spinach, goat cheese, and one crepe with local jam and chocolate truffle to share later. When we left at 10:30 the place was very full of people like us, glad to live near a new farmer’s market!
There were no more carrots (or much of anything) by noon, but we’re also really happy there’s a new/close market. We got some clams and rapini, which we ate yesterday. We also got some chilies and ice cream sandwiches.
I guess we have to get there at 9:55 to get the good stuff.
[...] We rounded up our next-door neighbors to go on the opening day. Two other sets of neighbors from across the street got there before us. And it’s good they did because the market was such a success that most [...]
Global Greenie » The New King Farmers’ Market said this on May 12, 2009 at 5:05 pm |