Santa Barbara Farmers Market

The day the fire started just above Santa Barbara last week I was driving a truck through on the way to Ventura. I had stopped for dinner and happened upon their weekly farmers market. The market was 2 city blocks long and in the closed street. Nearly all vendors were local farms with a few flower vendors spread through out. There were no prepared food vendors that I saw and a couple of "value added" booths with things like jams and sauces.

Since this market is in the warmer southern California there were many many varieties of avocados, blue berries, cherimoyas and other berries. Below are some of the berries that are in season . I was envious of the blueberries which have a season of about a month here in the SF Bay area.

Below is one of the many booths selling both large and smaller cherimoyas. If you have never one you search it out and give one a try. We fell in love with them in Costa Rica where we bought a bunch from someones yard and ate it for a week.