Diego plays guitar and sings in a strong, smooth baritone voice. He sings salsa tunes, Latin standards and original songs. As well as singing and playing an instrument, Diego is a virtuoso whistler.
This market is going year-round this year! With our growing season, a winter market still has a lot to offer. You can get kale, collards, chard, spinach and broccoli throughout the year, some herbs, potatoes and lot of root vegetables. The “protein” vendors (sausage, fish, meat and eggs) should be going strong. Most of the other farmers now offer what the USDA calls “value added” products like salsa, sauce, jams and pickles. The two leanest months of the year tend to be February and March.
I picked up a jar of Nancy’s pear slices in lavender honey sauce as part of a gift basket for a friend. I also got a market basket for that same gift—one of the Ugandan baskets, woven from native grasses. See the woven hat Diego is wearing? The basket is a similar weave in different colors. It has two leather bund handles. I have two like it at home. One holds magazines. The other is a multi-purpose basket that works wonderfully as a laundry basket but also serves to carry a blanket and sandwiches for plays in the park, and important supplies like bottles of wine and hunks of yuppie cheese to social events.
