Real Life Still Life
There's beauty as well as flavor at your farmers market, plus this week's schedule
It Was a Buzzy Saturday
There was a wait for the bus home from Green City Market in Lincoln Park Saturday morning, so I had a few minutes to wander down from the bus stop to South Pond on the grounds of Lincoln Park Zoo. These pretty yellow flowers were attractive to me, but even more so a lot of busy bees getting their fill of nectar.
More South Pond photos below, but first, a look at the market’s colorful splendor.
Picture Perfect Produce
Obviously the primary reasons to visit your local farmers market are buying delicious and nutritious food, produced locally and sustainably; supporting our farmers; and helping build a resilient and prosperous local food ecosystem. But it also is darn pretty, the splashes of vivid colors a delight to the eye and the camera.
Witness these bell peppers from Nichols Farm and Orchard (Marengo, Illinois) at Green City Market’s Lincoln Park location Saturday (September 9), in glorious shades of yellow, orange, red and green. It’s like a still life, only in real life.
Nichols also has the widest range of apple types in the area, including heirloom varieties such as Cox’s Orange Pippin (one of my favorites), a cultivar first grown in England almost two hundred years ago.
Green City was back to its regular order of business just two days after hosting its epic Chef BBQ fundraiser and tasting event. Check out Local Food Forum’s Friday and Saturday editions for photos from the BBQ.
My market haul: Shishito peppers and Sungold cherry tomatoes from Froggy Meadow Farm (Beloit, Wisconsin), sweet potatoes and tomatoes from Nichols Farm and Orchard; first-of-the-season apple cider, grapes, Italian plums and peaches from Mick Klug Farm (St. Joseph, Michigan), and a jar of pickled peppers from Pickled Prince that I picked up on a mostly social visit to The Lincoln Park Farmers Market.
The week’s regional farmers market schedule follows, then some more photos from South Pond.
Glad you took the time to walk around North Pond & share the life in still life!
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