Farmer's Market

Next to our apartment in North York is a public area called Mel Lastman Square. Practically everyday they have some concert, fair, or other event going on. Now that it is summer, the Farmer's Market has re-opened every Thursday. If you've never been to a farmer's market before, it is where producers bring there stuff to sale directly to the public. Really good quality food rather than the barely ripened mass production food you'll see at the supermarkets. Imagine vine ripened tomatoes that actually taste like tomato. Yummmm....

In this picture you can see tomatoes, apples, strawberries, asparagus, brocoli, peppers, etc etc etc.

Here's a few more shots. The beekive was from this table that specialized in organic honey from bees that feed on alphalfa or wild flowers.

The last shot was of this stall that sold homemade carribean sauces. I tried his sauces and found them to be mild and weak in flavour. Very close to a spicy plum sauce in fact. Of course, I didn't want to tell the guy that I've had better. Then again he is selling to Torontonians and they are not a hardy people. I've seen then get puffy and swollen from eating the "hot" peppers from the hotdog stands. You know the ones....the pickled peppers that pretend to be hot peppers and are only put out to make the weak tongued feel tough.

Anyhow I love my life right now. Here it was about 10 a.m. and I am sitting in the shade watching people go to work as I enjoy my breakfast with my gf.