Today we visited the excellent Farmer's Market in Arcata. It's kind of a market/community picnic/outdoor concert all rolled onto one. Not as manicured or fancy as the one in Berkeley, but equally fabulous produce and definitely more relaxed. JoAnn says Arcata is the last protected zone for the American hippie and they were also present in abundace. We bought figs, tomatoes, nectarines, sugar snap peas for later and sampled some Ethiopian and Mexican prepared food for a tasty lunch. Everywhere you looked there were kids munching on huge juicy peaches. There was also a hula hoop station and a crew of jugglers. The band was of an age with us, doing a great job on the American songbook with a jazz inflection. Quite the event and a lot of fun.
