3/15/08-Greenmarket

On Saturday, I went at 10am to work at the Greenmarket. When I was almost there, I called Davy who is the volunteer organizer. I don’t think he really knew who I was, but I explained myself to him (he knows Sophie) and he told me to meet him at the information center. I then called Sam and he met me there while I waited for Davy. Davy came after about a minute, and set me up at a goat cheese stand with a woman named Lynne. She told me the basics about what things cost, and right away had me selling the cheese to people. When there wasn’t a customer, we chatted. She had this cute little book full of photos of her goats, and said that there had been 50 new babies born in the past nine days. She was very friendly. At one point she even left my by myself for about 15 minutes while she went to got coffee (and kindly brought me back a hot chocolate.) After warning me to be careful for people who might “target me” and trick me out of money, she gave me a thing to wear around my waist that held all my change, similar to the one I had worn with Stewart. I stayed there for three hours, and at the end she gave me some cinnamon cranberry goat cheese to take home. It was very good! One of the things I noticed while I was there was how much the market had a reel sense of community. All the farmers knew each other, and would chat during the day. Also, all the customers were so friendly, and many were “regulars” and would chat for up to ten minutes. The whole market had such a nice feel about it.