Our biggest farmers market is known as the Downtown Phoenix Public Market and is held every Saturday morning from 8:00 until noon. The outdoor market is improving with age as more fresh food vendors are replacing the all too many craft vendors. These squash are from Tonopah Rob’s farm, we bought a couple of them along with a bag of small red onions and some basil. Maya’s Farm sold us a large bag of mizuna greens and another of arugula along with some purplish-green okra for our friend Sonal. An elderly guy was offering samples of yulu, the seed of the bonete plant – I have no idea what this really is as I cannot find a reference on the internet but they were yummy enough that we bought a bag.

Construction across Phoenix stretching to Tempe snarls traffic, hurts business, and no one really knows if light rail really has a chance here in Arizona. But the track goes in, the street gets torn up and we all wait to see if people will wait under a 110-degree sun to get on a train going to one of the most boring downtown areas in all of America.