Spuds

Our little farmers' market, though modest in comparison to ones elsewhere, has been putting out some fine offerings. One stand had cranberry shelling beans, and three different colors of string beans; another had a dozen different kinds of potatoes. The guy running it said they were aiming to have twenty two varieties of potatoes eventually, which will be amazing to see. They had all blue ones, Viking purple, yellow fingerlings, Yukon gold, German butterball, regular red-skinned new potatoes, red potatoes with yellow flesh, baking potatoes, and several more I can't recall at the moment. They cost the same per pound, so you could mix them in order to sample them all. This farmer had organically raised pork and beef, too, and made his own sausages. I found the fish guy, and got a little piece of freshly caught wild king salmon.
Eggs seem to be the hottest and rarest commodity, and I've heard from friends that they've seen the eggs disappear before opening time at the markets, since the vendors want them, too, and buy them before the customers are let in.