Laura Hughes, North Coast Growers Association — Farmers Markets

Series Title

Food For Thought

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    Contributor

    Jennifer Bell, Host

    Laura Hughes, Interviewee

    Jessica Eden, Engineer

    Episode Description

    I’m not sure if everyone knows — but the North Coast Growers Association brings us many of our fabulous local farmers markets. Because I live on Humboldt Hill, my regular grocery buying market is Hendersen Center; my social market is the huge Arcata Plaza Saturday Market; and my new “imagine if I lived in Italy” market is Willow Creek. I have made so many friends at the markets over the years and have also bought the best produce imaginable. I’ve bought tomatoes for canning (seriously, $20 a lug? super-bargain!), tomatoes for eating (no, I cannot grow cherry tomatoes — stop teasing me!), and every other item of produce that I can’t grow in my garden.

    Farmers give you the opportunity to grow the things you enjoy and are successful at. I’m thrilled that I grow the most amazing garlic — and that I don’t have to grow carrots because they always get those little maggotty things in them. When talking with Johnny Gary from Organic Matters recently — he gave me a real insight by saying that it is actually easier to farm than to garden! What?! He explained that with his dense planting of crops, if an insect eats the outside area of his crop he still has a lot that has survived, whereas a gardener’s “outside area” is pretty much the entire area of the crop. Wow…I never thought of it that way.

    Anyway, back to NCGA. I had a chance to interview the ever amazing Laura Hughes!

    Broadcast Date

    2017

    Genre/Subject

    Farmers Market

    Publisher

    KHSU

    Filename

    FFT_NC_Farmers_Mkts.mp3

    Language

    English

    Digital Format

    Audio/MP3

    File Size

    23.8 MB

    Duration

    00:10:23

    Generation

    Copy

    Collection

    KHSU

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