22 Jan 2012
Farmers’ Market
We live in a relatively small town, but we’re twenty minutes from Providence, RI and about an hour from Boston. (I work, you guessed it, in Boston. Thank goodness for commuter trains!) Providence is known as a paradise for foodies, with many fine restaurants. It also boasts a remarkable winter farmers’ market, which has become part of our weekend routine. It’s astonishing how much farm-fresh food is available in New England in winter: meat, eggs, cheese, seafood, and an array of produce. The produce is especially impressive considering the snow that was falling outside on Saturday. A number of vendors didn’t even make it because of the inclement weather.
Greens and roots from a farm in Scituate, Rhode Island. They were also selling lamb and wool.
The market is in this great old industrial building. I want to go back sometime and just take pictures of the space.
It’s now an “artists’ village” with living space, studio space and shops, including a violin-maker. Fascinating!
We came home with greens, lamb sausage, and pasture-raised grass-fed beef ribs. Our friends got jams and cheese as well as veggies. We did not buy a few dozen oysters and a bag of slipper shells or mussels–this time! Nor did we buy a violin…but I came close to springing for some expensive but oh so soft alpaca yarn.