Oh glorious spring! You’re finally here!
Saturday was the first day of the Boulder Farmers’ Market, a sure signal that spring has arrived and summer is just around the bend.
There were just a few people there to check it out.
Aside from a wee bit of wind, it was a lovely, sunny spring day. Vendors had lots of young seedlings, lettuce and other early crops for sale.
Abbondanza farms had a particularly large bounty, including a precious selection of eggs in unusual colors — aqua, powder blue, amber, brown and apricot. (Unusual, that is, to those of us who didn’t grow up around hens.)
They were steeply priced at $7 a dozen, but I’ve been searching for a small, local source for eggs (If you’ve read anything about the poultry industry, you know that “cage-free, vegetarian fed” doesn’t mean a whole lot when you’re talking about grocery store eggs), so I sprung for a half dozen to try them out. What the heck; it was the day before Easter!
Photo by Eric Gray.
Photo by Eric Gray.
The next day, I couldn’t resist snapping a few pics of the prized eggs before we fried them up for breakfast.
They were delicious and had bright orange yolks, just as promised by the Abbondanza fellow at the market.
I’m so looking forward to a long season of discovering more treasures at the farmers’ market!
Love Boulder 