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What the Farmer’s Market Means to Me

I did not grow up on a farm but having a garden has always been a way of life for me. As a small child growing up in Tallapoosa, GA in the 1950’s some of my earliest memories are of working in the garden planting the seeds, hoeing weeds, and picking those yucky little bugs off the beans. Our garden was small but produced enough to “put up” for the winter. I must have snapped a million green beans for canning, but, boy, those beans tasted good in the winter time!

As an adult living in different places, I have always tried to have a garden even if it was just a tomato plant in a bucket! The first whiff of spring always makes me want to get out and play in the dirt.

That’s why I am so excited about our Farmer’s Market and seeing people get interested in having a garden and bringing what they have grown to the market. Not to mention what fun it is to meet people who come to the market as shoppers and vendors. There’s Homer and Louise Payne with their boiled peanuts and sausage biscuits, Dorothy Patterson with all her wonderful jams and jellies, the Cordell’s with their honey, Hoyt and Ruth Murrell with their wood and needle crafts, Freddie and Julie Collins with their tasty produce and many many more that we have come to regard as our Farmer’s Market family. It has truly become a Saturday morning event.

Guest Blogger

Peggy Deyton