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Friday, April 25th, 2008

Look, we really do get out of the office. To the Olympia Farmers Market

Posted by Sue Kidd @ 05:04:41 pm

Craig and I spent Thursday afternoon eating lunch and wandering around the Olympia Farmers Market. It was pretty cold and our lunches blew off our picnic table, but we somehow managed to get back to the newsroom without frostbite. Man, it was a brrrrr kind of cold.

Wandering around the market, we noticed how many plant vendors were there, although there would have been even more, we're guessing, if the weather would start showing some springlike tendencies (ugh).

One of our longest stops was at the Lynch Creek Farm booth to admire/gush/drool over the wide selection of dahlia tubers.

The next stop was to admire the lavender -- about a dozen different varieties -- at the Spring Creek Farm booth. Craig bought a few different culinary herbs, including sorrel, thyme, oregano, cilantro and bergamot.

I'm planning on heading back to the market this weekend before I head to the fun and kitschy Hazard Factory event. On my list of stuff to buy is a sweet bay tree from the Spring Creek Farm booth. It will be a nice vertical addition to my corner garden.

Categories: Field trip!

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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. .

Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune. She is a devoted vegetable gardener, but otherwise a tragic mess at growing just about anything else. Her current obsessions are growing tomatoes on a trellis and trying to convince all her South Hill neighbors to ditch the chemicals and go green in the garden (they are very suspicious of her). She’ll blog about garden gadgets, the latest garden trends and her current garden disasters. She is also the ringleader for the Home&Garden section, so e-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com. Use it.

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