Will do!
We did watermelons and cantaloupes and they did well. The ice cream melons are small and have a taste that is almost a cross between a cantaloupe and a honeydew. They were a total accident - they were mixed in with a flat of slicing cukes at the nursery and we didn't realize what they were until after we had started putting them in and went to put the tag in the ground!
I'm really excited about the Market, as much for myself as for the guy starting it up and the town it is in. The town, heck the entire community, was gut punched last spring when the supermarket downtown just closed its doors with no notice. Jeff, the guy spearheading the market was the butcher/meat department manager and had no clue. In June he opened a produce stand on the grounds of the old farmer's market that sits in the municipal parking lot and has been idle for over a decade.
The whole town is behind him with his idea of putting in this Market place to the point the Mayor and Council created a committee with him as head and the local business association gave him $200 for advertising.
We love this little town, and so if I can help out by being a regular vendor - you bet I will. It is also good for me because it gives me a set location and set time for selling my stuff. So I see it as a win all around!
I think it’s great too. Our little town has a farmers market 2 days a week. There’s not a lot of tables, but the people are friendly. I rarely find anything that we don’t already have though.
The market in a nearby town has a lot more vendors. There’s a street vendor who has biscuits and gravy, coffee, and some more breakfast items and lunch stuff.
There’s eggs from pastured chickens, and grass fed beef, and raw honey etc., dog biscuits, lots more variety.