Tasty Tuesday

You just can't beat Chet Bower's beets! I love beets, but my beloved spouse won't touch them; so I bought a jar of Ponderosa Farms pickled beets last week. They're great! If you'd like to give them a try, come by the store today from 4 pm to 7 pm for Tasty Tuesday. We'll have some of Chet's beets along with some salsa from Ronnie Brown too.

Maybe if we're lucky, Mary will have some of her beautiful carrots!

If you can't get to the Farmer's Market today, you can also come on Saturday morning from 8 am to 12 noon in Skubitz Plaza.

Support Our Farmers Market!

If you haven't been to our Farmers Market here in Fort Scott, you're really missing a treat!

It's a real Farmers Market with real farmers. These folks work hard on their farms in this oppressive heat day after day in order to bring you and me beautiful produce, eggs, baked goods, and more!

It's fun to talk to the Gannon family about their adventures raising goats, pigs, chickens, cows and kids. We've enjoyed their beef, pork, chicken and eggs and anxiously await a trip to the farm for goat cheese.

Ronnie Brown is known as "the pumpkin man" but brings lots of other wonderful things to the market as well.

Mary Corpstein works her magic with plants, handmade rugs and delicious vegetables. You may recognize her from her other gig as a helpful hardware gal at Mayco Ace.

Our Farmers Market is open at Skubitz Plaza on Tuesdays from 4 pm to 7 pm, and on Saturdays from 8 am until noon. Don't forget, when the market is open we're open too, so you can get your Saturday morning coffee for your stroll around the market. On Tuesdays we buy something great from the market and invite you to come to the store for a taste-Tasty Tuesdays!

These hard-working farmers are our friends and neighbors. When we buy locally grown produce from them we are supporting our own southeast Kansas economy (the money stays here!) and not using oil, gas and other resources to bring food in from other states and countries.

I understand that tomatoes and corn are coming very soon!

Good Ol' Days weekend

Good Ol' Days weekend was a blast! Thanks to Rosemary and Paula for helping out in the store and thanks also to all the volunteers who worked so hard to put this wonderful weekend together.

Monsieur Tofu is on the road Again!

It's nice to know that even if Jim and I don't have much of a life outside of the store, that our merchandise gets to travel! This photo shows Monsieur Tofu continuing his world travels with a visit to Mount Fuji.

Too bad he's going to miss the Stray Kat Kustom Kar show this weekend, not to mention the Echoes of the Trail Festival at Fort Scott Community College!

Chef in Training

Who's the cutest chef in Fort Scott? Why it's Cassidy Waide of course! She was a BIG help to Daddy Vince at the Farmer's Market a couple of weeks ago making breakfast smoothies.

All Quiet at the Fort

Things are quiet at the Fort for the moment, but the flapping of a really big helicopter over head tells me that things are going to get exciting soon!

Last year was our first Good Ol' Days experience. We worked at the Tourism booth on Main Street and really enjoyed chatting with local folks and visitors.

It really is a time for Fort Scott to shine. Don's team of hard working kids have mowed all the grass they could find, the Master Gardeners have planted beautiful flowers, building owners have spiffed up their properties too. We look forward to welcoming visitors to our fair city and encouraging them to come back again!

The Calm Before the Storm

North Main is nearly empty, and the anticipation is as intense as the humidity. The parade will start in about two hours and many, many volunteers and city staffers have been busy all week preparing for our annual city fair-Good Ol' Days.

It's been fun watching all the preparations from our front window. Inside, Rosemary and Jim have been baking cookies and bread hoping for lots of hungry visitors this weekend.