Originally published August 22 2005
Farmers' markets see increased business as people seek healthy foods
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Farmers' markets are enjoying a new popularity as people seek fresh, healthy foods.
John and Donna Webb of Sheboygan bought some vegetables before walking to another stand to buy lilies recently at Sheboygan's farmers' market in Fountain Park.
More and more people are shopping at farmers' markets, vendors said.
At the two major farmers' markets in Sheboygan County, at Fountain Park and in Elkhart Lake, variety is the spice of life.
"We're at the peak of our season," said Jan Drees, organizer of the Elkhart Lake farmers' market.
At Fountain Park, people pick and choose from items as varied as the usual fruits and vegetables to cakes, from fresh roasted coffee to flowers, from canned salsa to egg rolls and organic herbs.
Katie Vue of Sheboygan stands behind a long table along Ontario Avenue covered with vegetables.
The Cedar Lake 54-year-old has been selling fresh herbs, grown organically without a stitch of herbicides or pesticides, at the market for four years.
Several tents down, Billy Vang, 44, of Sheboygan sells bouquets of Oriental lilies, snapdragons, and zinnias from his three-acre garden.
He started growing flowers as a way to unwind from working 10-hour shifts at Kohler.
Both Vang and Goodine found a way to tap into a niche at the farmers' market.
Other booths sell flowers and herbs, but both do it a little differently.
She trades recipes with them and talks about unique uses for her herbs, which range from common herbs like basil and thyme to the unusual chocolate mint, orange mint, lime basil and lemon basil.
Vang strives to give his customers more than what they would get at a standard flower shop.
I grow 27 kinds of salad greens and as I pick them I put them in the bowl and sell them by the bag," Goodine said.
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