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Have You Tried the New Peacotum Fruits Yet?

August 3, 2010

They look a bit like plums, they taste like an ethereal combination of peach, plum and apricots, a taste described by some as fruit punch, and the Market is one of the few places you’ll find these lovely fruits.
Peacotums were developed by Floyd Zaiger of Modesto, CA, a scientist gifted at breeding plants using hand-pollination. [...]

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Dinner at the Market

August 1, 2010

The Market has just the answer when you want to pick up dinner. Asian, Mexican and American cooks prepare your dinner on the spot. Part of the fun is watching them cook. They move fast, and they’ve honed every movement for efficiency. And you can see from their faces they have fun cooking for us.
They’ll [...]

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Berry Tasting at the Market

July 27, 2010

The Market gives us a chance to discover on our own that a berry isn’t just a berry, and a cherry isn’t just a cherry.  Each fruit has a number of cultivars, varieties with different tastes, characteristics and growing requirements.
Take apples for example. We recognize that a Honeycrisp apple looks and tastes a little different [...]

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Setting Up the Market – Photos

July 22, 2010

The Market has a comfortable rhythm. Every Wednesday, early in the afternoon, the vans, cars and trucks roll on in to City Hall, where Market volunteers direct them to their spaces.  The vendors set up their canopies and tables, arrange their produce, chat with one another, and prepare for us shoppers.  At 4, the Market bell [...]

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Vitamin K for Your Bones

July 21, 2010

Vitamin K, once a quiet vitamin we heard next to nothing about, is now “hot.” Studies have indicated it’s necessary for building bone. Just how it all works is still a bit of a mystery. Food sources high in Vitamin K include the usual suspects, the leafy greens, and a few other vegetables–all available at [...]

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Kids’ Events at the Market

July 21, 2010

Did you see the sensational mural behind the musicians at last week’s Market?
That’s the brain child of Grace Wan and Amy Yang, who plan and supervise Kids’ Events at the Market. Grace and Amy are the youngest members on the Market’s steering committee—they’re in high school!
For the mural, Grace and Amy worked with Marci Knutsen [...]

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