Selling to Each Other

The second Farmers' Market arrived at the Community Center on Saturday morning.  There were several people with actual farmer-like products, including lettuces, kale, and other green edibles, as well as flowers of several sorts.  And plants that would provide edibles at some time in the future, as well as a representative selection of local crafts and jams and the like.  But beyond that, it was more of a flea market in which we all sell, at small prices, our odds and ends back and forth to one another.

It works fine as a small Saturday outing and visit with neighbors and acquaintances, and there's no reason to want it to be something more than this.  It interested me that the people who were selling were, for the most part, different from the ones who were there last time.  Perhaps each market will bring us a different selection of goods and of plants and of foods and of people. 

The first Farmers' Market, two weeks ago, included live music and the Fire Dept. with a presentation on bicycle safety.  That kind of thing was missing this time.  But it was a fun stop on our Saturday trip around Point Roberts: the post office, the market, the hardware store, the llama, and back home.