Farmer's Market

The last Farmer's Market of the season was also on Saturday.
The market consists of stalls on two sides of the town square Because it is our ONLY shot - out here on the prairie where the growing season is measured in weeks - at locally grown produce, it is a community magnet.
Understandably, it is a small market so it is important to be there when it begins at 8:30 if you want to walk away with what you went there for. If you don't manage to arrive by then you still have a fine time because, as beneficiary of small town life, you know a lot of people. It is a bit like a big roving produce party.
Along with the produce, baked goods, free coffee and samples of food, there is always music. The shot above is of members of the Jackson Hole Chorale. There has been every kind of music and group imaginable - even, once, a huge flugelhorn that you had to step over to make it around the corner.
We grieve that the market is over especially just when we learned how to make chard fries from the Zuni cookbook. The chard, incidentally, that we planted for a fall garden is an inch high indicating a fall garden ( our first ) is fool hearted. Clearly there is a reason for the final market being this week.