Eating locally is getting easier all the time, as farmers markets open for the season all around Shasta County.
By the time my personal favorite, Marketfest in downtown Redding, opens on June 25, it’ll be possible to go to farmers markets on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. No excuse, really, to go without fresh, locally grown organic vegetables, fruit, honey and other products.
The Redding Certified Farmers Market already is operating every Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to noon in the lot next to City Hall. The Sunday market at Turtle Bay starts June 14.
The Cottonwood Creek Farmers Market and Artisans Fair is every Friday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the parking lot of Etc. Mercantile Store in Cottonwood’s historic downtown. Like Marketfest, it features live music and hot food booths as well as produce and arts and crafts.
The Shasta Growers Association has information on other area farmers markets at its website. Click here.
- That high-pitched squeal heard all over Redding last night came from our own Phil Fountain, exulting after his Los Angeles Lakers squeaked out a 105-103 victory over the Denver Nuggets. What a game! The refs were, as they say, “letting them play,” which meant a basketball game as physical as your average rugby scrum. The Clash of the Titans, otherwise known as the Eastern Conference finals between Orlando and Cleveland, begin at 5:30 p.m. today on TNT. My sofa needs seat belts.
- Speaking of joyful noises, the Shasta County Community Band is seeking more musicians to join its 100-plus-member ranks for the annual July 4 fireworks show. If you play a brass, woodwind or percussion instrument and can read music, you’re welcome to join. There are no auditions and rehearsals start June 29. For more information, call community band director Larry Grandy at 242-2363, or the Arts, Communications and Social Sciences Division at 242-7730.
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