Tuesday Morning Farmer's Market in Sandwich

Quiet Day at the Sandwich Farmer's Market

What a difference a day makes. Yesterday I posted a picture showing the Memorial Day weekend leaving Cape Cod from this spot. I was just standing down the road and looking back. Today, it's just the typical traffic whizzing by. Farmer's markets have really become micro business markets. I do think that some of these folks are farmers trying to find year round income. Other cases it just seems that it's a venue for small business owners. Because it's so early in the growing season, there wasn't any fresh produce.

There was a meat producer, which is a form of farming. A man was selling home made kettle corn. A brick oven was set up to serve pizza. Homemade jam was one sale as was barbecue sauce. 

First Farmer's Market of the Season in Sandwich

The Sandwich Farmer's Market Season Got Off to a Rainy Start

New England vegetable gardens really don't come into bloom until late June, so May farmer's markets can be pretty bare. Today was the first one that they held in Sandwich along Route 6A. It was a very rainy and cold morning. There were only a few farmers selling stuff. One was a meat producer and one was selling pizza. It was too chilly and wet to spend much time outside. I didn't even want to get the camera wet, so I too the picture from the inside of the car.

I admit that Mom and I decided to go to the warm and enclosed Stop & Shop to buy our tomatoes. We'll check in each week to see what the local farmers have in stock.