{"id":3812,"date":"2012-08-07T20:36:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T03:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=3812"},"modified":"2021-08-30T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T17:00:52","slug":"farmers-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/farmers-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers markets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oh, I love me some farmers markets.  I love the festival feeling. I love the little individual stalls. I love the flowers. I love the fruits and vegetables. I love the hand made goods. I love being out and about, milling around other people admiring all these things I love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it turns out, this week has been designated Farmers Market Week here in the State of Washington. Farms and fresh food are definitely something worth celebrating, if you ask me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gem loves the markets as well. She loves the flowers, especially, and all the colors, the crowds, the blueberries, and all the energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today, we went to the farmers market in Renton. This one had a bonus of a kids area, staffed with volunteers, with homemade play-dough and cookie cutters to make ornaments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gem was so taken with the dahlias that an elderly woman working in one of the stalls gave her one.  Gem was beside herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then she spent the rest of our time at the market looking for the white water-filled buckets that were used the anchor the tents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her flower needed water. So she she made a job for herself of finding all those water buckets, and dipped her flower’s stem in the water of every single one of those buckets at the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are more farmers markets in the state than I imagined. I hadn’t even heard of the Renton market till we visited it today. Here’s a listing of more farmers markets in Washington State<\/a>. Go check them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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