Every Saturday, there is a Farmers Market event, out in a building with a huge parking lot. “It was 500 cars here when we counted once” said Peter, as we turned to park.
Lots of people mill around this rotunda, and we got the feeling that folks come here as much to talk to each other as to actually buy stuff. We got introduced to (rather shown off to) all of little Oliver’s regular friends. These included a spinner, and the vegetable guy (“This spot here in the stall is reserved for Oliver. Sometimes I tease him by putting a sack of potatoes where he’s supposed to be.”).
We got Mr Kim’s customary salmon bagel (Mr Kim was absent this particular day, though), coffee and smoothies, and hung out, talking to people. This place is a bit like going to organic church: the weekly meeting and catching up.
We got some interesting details on windpower, from Cynthia Dunsford, a local politician, who is also one of the three Plazes users on the Island. (Actually, at that moment, all three were within a 2 meter radius of one another.)
Elmine and I bought some of our food there, when we stayed at PEI last August. Nice sausages and fresh veggies. We loved it. Robert Paterson took us there. We thought it was also kind of intriguing that this was a bit of ‘alternative’ lifestyle as it were, that the concept of a market could be considered breaking usual routine.
By: Ton Zijlstra on October 15, 2008
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