After being away from the market for two weeks, it was fun to get back, though even at 8am the heat and humidity were making everyone sweat and look uncomfortable, except the kids and dogs playing/laying in the fountain.
Items included: baked goods, blueberries, candles, collards, cucumbers, corn, eggplant, flowers, herbs, honey, melons, peaches, peppers, pillows, plants, potatoes, seafood, soap, summer squash, tomatoes, vinegar, wine.
We bought some sweet corn (Silver King) and had it for dinner. My daughter loved helping shuck the corn, and ate part of an ear herself, professing it to be "the bestest corn I ever tasted" (make that the ONLY corn she ever tasted!). I had purchased corn labeled "pesticide free," and as we were shucking it I was unsurprised to find some earworms at the tips of the cobs. My daughter is quite familiar with bugs on vegetables from our own pesticide-free garden, where a daily ritual is to go out and "check the bugs." Still, she was fascinated, and I reminded her that when you don't put chemicals on your plants you sometimes get bugs on them, and that's OK; you just pick them off. It's something you can forget when all you buy is sterile grocery-store produce.
Can anyone tell me where this Market is West of Mobile? Also, is there anywhere to purchase grass fed beef in the Mobile Area?
Thanks, Tina
There’s a market on Thursday afternoons in West Mobile at the Mobile Museum of Art (in Langan Park) (see this post for details). Are you looking for markets in west Mobile County?
You can contact Hastings Farm in Bay Minette for grass-fed beef. You can buy it by the quarter.