Sunday Market

Coming from Pakistan, weekend markets mean getting up pretty early on a Saturday or a Sunday and and then heading of to a fragrant street for an intense bargaining sessions with the vendors, till noon. The Kitsilano market on 11th at Larch (Vancouver) is slightly different in that respect.

First ,I was there a bit early(9:30am), the farmers and other vendors do not start selling before 10am. But that did give me the opportunity to interact with the farmers before the market got crazy. I also noticed quite a bit of extra-curricular activities, as part of a farmer's market. There was face painting, a masseuse, a lady selling jewelry, a crepe cart and a couple of guitarist smack in the center of mail aisle. This made it more of a weekend fair than a farmer's market. But it did attract quite a bit of customers.

This was at Greg's stall. They were selling sweet peppers, hot peppers and eggplant. The sweet peppers were crisp and a had a slight twang to them.
I could not resist the colorful hot peppers above, but could only afford five.

Scrumptious Okanagon pears. I believe these were part of the first pick.

The triad of onions below were quite a reasonable quality and size. I always feel onions need to be particular size. And these ones were to my liking. I went for the French ones.
These are probably the most presentable mushrooms I have ever seen in a market. I just ran out of cash. Otherwise I would have invested in one of these baskets.


So on the whole, the farmer's market was quite a success. I am divided in my opinion about the other vendors providing services and selling novelties. It takes away from the true farmer's market flavor, on the other hand it did invite more customers from the neighborhood.