Tuesday's Market, 30 June 2009

It was really great being at the Tacoma Farmer's Market on Tuesday. While bunching our cilantro (which was a big seller this week) I had the opportunity to spend time interacting with some of our customers and really enjoyed how unique each person is. (Reminds me of the uniqueness of our salad). Some people just stopped by to say how much they loved our booth; it caught their eye as they were walking by and made them stop in their tracks. They felt compelled to enquire as to exactly what we were doing with those flowers in our salad?

We truly appreciated your feedback, as we are evolving and changing each week and we know we are on the right track when we get this kind of response.

Some regulars stopped by to pick up their weekly supply of salad greens, arugula, onions, spinach and orach mix, herbs, edible flowers, etc. Others came to see what lagniappes we brought to the market this week. They discovered 3 varieties of beautiful rose petals, evening primrose leaves, strawberries, bachelors buttons, purple basil, lemon thyme, radish flower, and that is to name only a few.

Many people recognized flowers from our booth that they have growing in their garden but did not realize they could eat, so stopped by just for informational purpose and left with excitement and a sense of purposefulness. (I think there will be a lot of grazing going on in a few gardens in Tacoma this holiday weekend).

I was especially taken by one of our returning customer who brought her digital camera and showed us pictures of the salads she made with our salad mixes. We encouraged her to (and hopefully she will) post them on our blog so you can all see them and be inspired to beautify your salad as she did. Her salads were truly masterpieces, a work of art. The only problem with creating such a magnificent salad is you don’t want to disturb it; you just want to keep staring at it. I guess that's why digital camera and printers were created, so you can have your salad and eat it too. This beautiful lady shyly confessed to us that she takes photos of the meals that she makes because they are so beautiful. We boldly confessed to her that we do the same!

I must add that I find after a glass of red wine, the food definitely looks and tastes even more beautiful and succulent.

Bon Appetit!