Our market operates rain or shine. And we had plenty of both last week. Buckets of rain as the market was getting started, fierce sun and heat in mid-afternoon. Wet raingear and soggy outerwear came off and people were back to wearing summer t-shirts. “It’s Florida,” beamed Tony Melli to one of his cheese customers. Then a northerly wind kicked up, and the outerwear (much of it still soggy) came on again. A day of seasonal changes.

There are lots of good purple and violet things at the m...
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