Florenceville-Bristol Outdoor Summer Market
Thursdays 10-2 July –September
The weather was delightful, with the sun shining though a few clouds and the market was jam packed with people and vendors offering all kinds of goods, foods, arts, crafts and all round good vibrations!
There’s just something about a Farmer’s Market that speaks to us all and brings out our inner social butterfly. People laugh more and… naturally this has been researched…have 10 times as many conversations with others as they do in a regular store.
I met lots of wonderful new folks, along with making the acquaintance of a little piglet named Wilbur, of course. His “foster mama” Jessica told me that Wilbur was the runt of the litter and wasn’t getting enough to eat so she had adopted and bottle fed him. He was a cute and frisky l’il rascal, but will grow into a 600 pound adult.
There were so many delicious edibles to be had it was hard to choose something for lunch! I settled on a tasty home-made vegetable samosa with a dab of chutney sauce. I love ethnic foods, and we do not have many ethnic restaurants available to us out here in the boondocks so I considered this a rare treat!
There were sticky buns, Mrs. Wang’s Dumplings (must come back to try!) and the Hilltop Farm booth was kept busy grilling up home-made sausages for the hungry crowd.
Artist Gladys Neilson was on hand making Garden Sculptures. These nifty little sculptures are easy and fun to make, and Gladys offers workshops on how to put them together. You start with a wire frame armature, then you wrap the wire in tin foil to pad it up, and begin wrapping that with strips of old t-shirts dipped in Power-Tex.
The tuition for a day long workshop is only $90 per person and Gladys asks that you have at least 3 people to attend the class. Add more students to a class, and she will adjust the price down.
Call her at 392-6280 for more information or to schedule a workshop
