saintpaulitan
life in the other twin city

For Mother’s Day, I wanted to do something a little more original for my stepmother than just buy her a run-of-the-mill Hallmark card, so I decided to check out the St. Paul Farmers’ Market and see what they had to offer.

My wife goes here virtually every weekend. It’s a pretty cool farmers’ market, if only for the reason that it has its own dedicated space right in the middle of downtown. Patty also says they have rules about how far away the products can come from — as opposed to other Twin Cities farmers’ markets, some of which apparently allow produce from as far away as California.

The pictures I took didn’t turn out so well, in part because I was in a hurry and in part because the lighting was a little challenging. Also, I’m not a very good photographer… Anyway, I bought my stepmother a pair of handmade soap bars from the White Bear Soap Company (sorry, no Web site) and a jar of Moroccan Orange Chocolate Sauce from the River Chocolate Company. Hopefully she likes them. Either way, the St. Paul Farmers’ Market is worth checking out.

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