October's Farmers Market

Last Friday was Redwood Sustainable Agriculture's 2nd farmers market of the year, and we had a great turnout! There was a great showing of teachers, students, and parents making there way through the market and deciding what produce to buy. The fruits and vegetables featured at this Fridays market includes squash, kale, radishes, chard, basil, tomatoes, pop corn, corn stalk, indian corn, seeds, seedlings, flowers, and a couple water melons. While everyone was bustling their way to get to the market and select the best produce (basically everything) I went around asking people questions about how they heard about the market and what produce they would like to see in the near future. I had one parent say "Anything, it all looks great!", but the parent finally narrowed the many choices into one, "If you could I'd love to see bell peppers." Although bell peppers are a summer time fruit, I wouldn't be surprised if you see them next year. Another item that a student hoped to see were some baby carrots. This type of vegetable will hopefully make an appearance next early spring. An additional question that I asked was: How did you hear about RHS Sust Ags Farmers Market? The majority of the answers were that people heard about it from the students who were in the class. So to the students who are spreading the word of our farmers markets, nice job! 

Harry Schmidt