mmmmm

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

If, for any reason, you haven't had the gingered goat cheese they sell at the farmers' market, go fix that. (Well, OK, you will have to wait another week.) Mmmm. Drool.

Anything else everyone absolutely ought to try there?

Comments

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

At the stand nearest the street, they sell a kind of basil (Genovese, I think) that's labelled as the best basil for pesto. And yes, indeed it is.

[arcanology.livejournal.com]

Is that also known as "the farmer's market open only while many of their prospective customers are at work" or am I confusing them with someone totally clueless?

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

You're confusing them with someone who isn't open until 6:30pm. I suppose many of their prospective customers work until 6:30 or later, but then again, I don't think you could name a time that it's not the case that many prospective customers are working.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, yes :(. The one in Arlington Center is open a little later -- 7 -- and has many of the same people, including the cheese sellers.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

You have to admit that people are much more likely to be at work at certain times than others. If they were open an hour or two later (or on weekends), people would be much more likely to be able to get there. I'm only able to get there because I'm a teacher so I'm pretty available in the summer, but once the school year starts it'll be pretty hard for me to get to Davis by 6:30.

[turil.livejournal.com]

Don't most people work 9-5?

There's also always your lunch break. Back when I had a job, I used to go to the farmer's market right when it opened at lunch time. Yum, fresh fruit and veggies for lunch!

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

My lunch break? Like the one where I'm on duty supervising a table of 14-year-olds and don't even get to go to the bathroom?

Sorry, sore spot.

Anyway, as for 9-5...I dunno; I think that's traditional but I don't think most people do it. Especially in a techie-heavy place like Davis I think most people start later, end later. And I think even people working relatively traditional hours are likely to work a bit later (9-5 isn't an 8-hour day after you've taken that lunch break), and then with traffic and so forth you might not get *home* from that job in time to go to the farmers' market, or if you do they're closing.

Like your icon, though.

[la-ti-da.livejournal.com]

agreed. plus i don't work in davis so i can't go during my lunch break. i wish they had it on the weekends!

[arcanology.livejournal.com]

Yeah, just an extension until 7 would be more helpful. And actually arlington center might also be more helpful. What day is that one?

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Also Wednesdays.

If you google for "massachusetts farmers markets" or something like that, actually, you should get a list of all of them. But I can't guarantee the others will have The Goat Cheese :).

[arcanology.livejournal.com]

That's okay, gingered goat cheese sounds to me only vaguely preferable to a sandpaper and onion sandwich. To each their own.

[nonnihil.livejournal.com]

Mmm, sandpaper.

[jadelennox]

No, seriously, looks freakish, tastes heavenly. I've been buying it in Arlington.