13 Aug, 2007
A bit about what we did on Sunday, and guess what Emma bought with her first allowance
Posted by andrea tomkins in: Easy ways to make kids happy|Ottawa|Photography|Recipes and Food
In the morning we went to the Farmer’s Market at Lansdowne Park. I don’t know why it took us so darn long to get there. It’s been open since May and this is the first time we’d been.
SuperEx is being set up, so the market is actually set up in a sweet little park (hitherto unknown by us!) adjacent to the fairgrounds, between Holmwood and Fifth.
My. Lord.
I love this market.
The focus here is LOCAL and ORGANIC, which are two things that are becoming more and more important to me. (I am becoming more and more frustrated with our local Superstore. During strawberry season I couldn’t get local strawberries. And we haven’t been able to find any Canadian apples. Crazy no?)
At the Landsdown Market there were lots of tomatoes, corn, cauliflower and cabbage, garlic and onion… There was also a smattering of art, furniture, and other organic/natural products. I could have spent a lot of money there.
We bought fresh organic sweet peas and some Elk sausages. (Yes, ELK. http://www.hww.ca/hww2.asp?id=98) We also bought a baguette from my all-time favourite bakery, Art-is-in Breads (http://www.art-is-in-bakery.com/). I would have missed their booth due to lack of signage, but the swarm of people nabbing loaves left and right gave them away.
I could have eaten the whole baguette. This bread is melt-in-your-mouth delicious. Seriously, I did not see one single person leaving the market with an uncompromised baguette. Every single one had a hunk ripped right off the top.
There was even a food court, with bacon and back bacon sandwiches. We had four springrolls from a Thai place.
It was great.
Emma finally spent part of her first allowance, and guess what she bought?
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Yes, honey!
The fellow at the Ottawa Valley Honey Co. (located down d’ line in Arnprior) was very nice, offering samples and telling us all about honey production. He had live bees too. Sarah took me aside and asked me where the queen bee was. Honestly, I didn’t think there’d be a queen in the midst, but I told her to ask the fellow we’d been talking too. Sure enough, there was a queen. It was so cool. I was glad Sarah had asked the question.
All in all, our little outing was a huge success. I want to go back at the earliest opportunity. This time we’re going to bring a picnic blanket and bathing suits for the kids. Did I mention there was a kiddie pool at this park? Ahh, summer.
