The West End's farmer's market, held every Saturday for (mumble) months in the parking lot of Lord Roberts Elementary, has finally started up again. All organic, all local, all the time. Strawberries have been available for the last couple of weeks, and now raspberries are showing up. We put berries and fruit up as it comes round, both frozen and in jars of brandy, so our icebox is starting to fill up again.
If you miss the market, there's also the farms out between Ladner and the Reifel Wildfowl Sanctuary. We picked up two flats of strawberries last weekend and Nola spent four hours cleaning, packing and freezing them. I helped. I occasionally wandered into the kitchen and said useful things like, "Wow. That's a lot of work." I am sure she couldn't have managed without me.
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I want to come and live with you and eat all your canned and frozen organic wonderfuls. (do you have a dehydrator yet? I could contribute one!)
Ready for a permanent houseguest with a big dog? Come on, you guys are just too cool and fun and do such neat things. I’ll be there tomorrow.
Damn, I’m jealous. I want your life.
Anima
We’d love to have you, sans dehydrator. We have one already. What else ya got? A deep freeze would be handy.
I don’t know. That smart-ass crack in your most recent post might make me reconsider.
Anima
I put more in that previous post, and it didn’t show up! [G] need different kinds of brackets, I guess.
Anima —returning to her Mother Earth News article on Eco-Communities
Yeah, arrow brackets are kind of a no-no. :) The Preview button is your friend.
Well, shucks, you’ll at least come visit sometime, won’t you?
MAY WE PLEASE HAVE THE ADDRESS FOR THE WEST END ORGANIC FARMER’S MKT.
THANK YOU
Mina, I tried to email this to you but your addy is apparently not working right now.
Anyway, When it happens, it’s at Lord Roberts Elementary School in the parking lot on Saturdays. LRES is located between Pendrell and Comox, one block up from Denman.
But I think it’s done for the year; it’s a seasonal (summer) thing. Your only recourse for organic produce in the West End year-round is either Capers on Robson St. or the Granville Island Public Market. There may be others, but I don’t know about them.