‘The# FarmersMarket Guide’ a handy book for shoppers

The #Mountainair Farm & Garden Market is in its second year, surviving and thriving. In additions to Mountainair Community Garden,, local home gardeners and permaculturists and, recently noted, a small community garden at St Vincent de Paul's. Farmers markets supported by local producers, artisans and shoppers are central to local sustainability, central to iCreate's mission.

Farmers markets can carry an amazing abundance of products. At this time of year shoppers might find fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, salad greens, cut flowers, baked goods, eggs, meats, honey, jams, preserves and soaps. 

Do you patronize farmers’ markets? As you survey the eye-catching offerings there do you ever find yourself wanting more information? Like, what is this vegetable? Or, what could I cook with that particular herb? 

I have one solution: “The Farmer’s Market Guide” by Jennifer Loustau is a handy spiral-bound book designed to serve as a quick reference tool for those expeditions to farmers markets.

 ‘The Farmer’s Market Guide’ a handy book for shoppers: By Vick Mickunas
, Contributing Writer, Saturday, July 14, 2012


iCreate, as part of its SEEDS project, started the Mountainair Community Garden, which, to all appearances, is now run in something resembling informal joint custody between iCreate and interested arts council members not interested in the other programs. If anyone has a better and clearer description of the arrangement, I'd be happy to update it.