This last week brought us the season’s first red tomatoes from Bernie Chaykowski of Mantua Ohio. Bernie also brought along a wide variety of early season crops along with quite a few green tomatoes too. He said that there is a growing (pardon the pun) market for the green ones as people learn the joys of cooking and eating them.
Rafael Rodriguez at Haymaker 26 June 2010
Most of our vendors sold out early or were left with only scraps on their tables by market’s end at 1:00 this past Saturday. Rafael, still grinning about Spain’s 2-0 win over Chile in the World Cup this past week was able to find lucky homes for his wonderful breads before noon. He said that he didn’t understand why it took so long this week, he is usually done by shortly after 11 am. I reminded him that pride goeth before a fall, and how easily the long-shot Swiss had managed a 1-nil win over Spain early in the series. The Segovian quietly looked down at the ground and predicted that this wouldn’t be reoccurring anytime soon. Viva España!! ~Congratulations Spain! World Cup 2010!!!!~
Some of you may have seen me climbing the light pole this past Saturday. No this wasn’t a publicity stunt for the papers, I was just plugging in the power for this weeks Music @ the Market performer, Byron Walker. Byron entertained the market for close to 3 hours. I only schedule the musicians for the 10 am to noon time slot to avoid the heat of the day, but in Byron’s wife’s words, “Once he gets going, it’s tough to get him to knock it off!”. We all laughed and Byron continued to entertain us all. great job, and thank you for your playing. This next week, July 3rd, the Kent Shindig All-Stars will return to Haymaker in a big way. The band led by Kent’s own David Badagnani will feature 11 musicians this year. Please don’t miss it as the market joins in the Heritage Festival/July 4th festivities!
Byron Walker plays at Haymaker June 26 2010
