Webb City Sentinel market column - April 17, 2018

It’s finally here!  The opening of the 2018 regular market season. Next week the market will be open on Tuesday from 4 to 7, on Thursday from 11 to 2 and, of course, on Saturday from 9 to noon.

We’re starting off in a big way this Saturday. Green’s Greenhouse and Gardens is back with tomato, pepper, and herb plants. Brakers will have the first of the hanging baskets. SproutFaster is running a sale this Saturday only - buy two 30-pound bags of worm castings and get a third for half off. 

Fairhaven will have the first of their small planters and, of course, their handcrafted bluebird and wren houses. For the Birds will have their delightful birdseed wreaths. Susan’s Simple Fixin’s is back with fresh salsa.  Way Back Bakery is back with FRIED PIES!  Still Waters Farm is back, hopefully with the long anticipated asparagus.

  

Webb City High School Project Graduation serves Cooking for a Cause – scrambled eggs, hashbrown casserole, biscuit and gravy, sausage and orange juice or coffee for $6.

I’m making some of my husband Phil’s excellent chili which will be frozen and next to The Red Tamale because they go together brilliantly. All profits from chili sales go to the market’s WIC coupon program which begins in June.

The Red Bridge Trio will bring foot-stompin’ bluegrass and joyful gospel to the market stage.

Mid-Missouri Bank is once again giving away seedlings. The choices this year are:  Rose Mallow, Serviceberry, Spicebush, Wild Plum, and Deciduous Holly.

It’s the first Clickety Clack – We’re Reading Down the Track event and “Peppa Pig and the Big Train” is the featured book on the streetcar. Rick Gardner will have a model train operating in the market with some of the Peppa Pig characters. Our market assistant’s husband is face painting. It will be quick and simple – and free – just some whiskers or a button nose to create a market full of Peppa’s friends – Candy Cat, Suzy Sheep, Rebecca Rabbit or Danny Dog among others (I’m not sure if he’s going to tackle Emily Elephant!)

Some of the tomato plants that Tim Green is bringing Saturday

The street car will leave the depot on the hour, at twenty after and at forty after from 9 to noon. As of today the 9, 11 and 11:40 rides are full. You can reserve seats on-line at eventbrite.com. Just search for Clickety Clack. The tickets are free. If there are any empty seats when it’s time for the streetcar to pull out, folks without reservations will be seated.

Clickety Clack, weather and funding permitting, will happen every third Saturday of the month through December. May’s book will feature Thomas.

The event is a collaboration of the market, the Friends of the Library, the Parks Department and the Southwest Railroad Association. Since we need 23 copies of the selected book so there will be one on each bench for the kids to follow along, this is a rather pricey free event. There will be a donation jar at the information table and at the depot if you’d like to help.

Music this week will be The Loose Notes on Tuesday and the Pommerts on Thursday. Ghetto Taco is serving weekday market meals this month.

 

We want to let our customers who bring their furry family members to the market know that we have learned that it is against city ordinance to bring animals into the pavilion or the kids tent. Certified service animals are, of course, welcome. We are trying to get the word out this month and will begin enforcing the ordinance on May 1^st.