There’s a new farmer’s market in town. This year the San Ramon farmer’s market is in Bishop Ranch and run by Bishop Ranch. Because it’s held in an office building parking lot it has a very different feel from the former SRFM held at a historic farm site.
On the plus side are some new vendors, more prepared food, and a nice area for music. (Today was a three-person Zydeco band who had washboards available for children to play along.) The downside was some high prices–$7 a dozen eggs (when I was at the Boulder, CO market two weeks ago I was shocked by the prices, but this beat theirs) and a fish vendor who had nothing under $20 a pound.
But the fruit was great–I got cherries and apricots, and blueberries from my favorite blueberry farm. Yum. Now if I could get myself to stop eating it all.
A couple of the venders did a great job of displaying their offerings–Dirty Girl Farms and Happy Boy Farms had nice looking stands and the women running them were friendly so I wanted to buy from them.
It was also fun to go with a friend and her 3yo daughter who played along with the music and tasted all the fruit. That’s what a good market is all about.
We had so much fun. I’m trying to keep myself from the blueberries, so I won’t eat them all in one sitting.
Sounds like spring to me!