The Blog Farm

Friday, May 7, 2010

Introducing Mostly Sunny

Tomorrow is opening day at the Kootenai County Farmer's Market. I chose the name of our farmer's market business to be "Mostly Sunny". We went with this rather than our blog name of The Beer Garden because we obviously can't sell beer at the market. The Beer Garden blog got it's start on The Spokesman Review's blogroll on Huckleberries Online and many of our local friends know me as Sunny and they know Jeff as Bent. These names were simply monikers that originated from the Spokesman's blog world. Hopefully, this clears up any confusion...

I am very excited to be a part of the market this year and I must admit....I'm a little nervous as well. I have no idea what to expect and I know that many folks who participate have much larger growing operations than we do. So I guess my only real fear is we won't have as much to sell...at least not in the front end. I heard from a fellow market vendor that some vendors simply don't show up until they have produce to sell. Nevertheless, we want to be there on opening day just to get a feel for how the market operates...if I run out of plants to sell then rest assured we will be back to the market when harvest time comes around.

Here is a preview of some of the plants that we will be selling tomorrow:

Straight Eight cukes
Cabbage - Amazing
Various Herbs
Various Peppers
Various Tomatoes













16 comments:

  1. Your peppers are gorgeous. What's your secret?

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  2. Thanks Rachel...idk...lots of love I guess..lol

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  3. Good luck! I can't wait to see how it went for you.

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  4. I love the new name, an excellent choice. Hope you do really well at the farmer's market, you have some nice looking plants and might be the only ones selling celery.

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  5. Good Luck and I know you will do well. I had a taste of some of your things last year and they were great. The Stickman

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  6. Good luck! How very exciting. If we lived closer, I would definitely be a loyal customer!

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  7. Looking good! Good luck at the market! :D

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  8. Thanks Ribbit, It went pretty well considering the weather conditions...I'm still shivering : ) I will post about it next week. : )

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  9. Thank you Stickman...we will definitely be bringing you and your wife some produce this summer...and hopefully some Bent's Beer : )

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  10. Thomas, thanks so much...I really appreciate you sending me the Cherokee Purple tomato seed...the plants look the best of all my tomatoes so far : )

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  11. dietplaid, thanks...it went really well today : )

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  12. Mr. H, Thanks...it was fun but really chilly today...hopefully by next week we get some warm temps... I believe I was the only one there with celery which was kinda cool. I started most of it back in February so it is quite mature. If you are ever in the Saturday market area, please stop by and say hello : )

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  13. Your starts look great! Hope the market went well.

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  14. Thanks Dan, the market went well...all except for what felt like freezing cold temps : ) The weather is starting to warm back up this week so hopefully next weekend it will be much nicer.

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