{"id":27722,"date":"2020-04-23T22:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27722"},"modified":"2020-04-24T22:38:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T08:38:39","slug":"farmers-market-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27722","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Market with COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Local farmers markets have thankfully been declared essential businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Weds I had to run into Keck for a quick pickup and gladly noted that the mid-week market at Pukulani Stables was open. I would stop by after completing my errand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=27719\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/CK00-07-20109-DC-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"The Pukulani Stables mid-week farmers market in Waimea\" class=\"wp-image-27719\"\/><\/a><figcaption>The Pukulani Stables mid-week farmers market in Waimea<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The market was running light on vendors, but doing just fine on customers. Many of the non-food vendors were not there, <a href=\"https:\/\/eppixadventures.photoshelter.com\/index\">Warren and his photographic prints<\/a> were missing, the candy gal with homemade cakes and brittle absent, as were the various gift and craft vendors. Selling non-essential items they are likely not covered in the closure exemption, and the usual tourists who are their real customers are gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who was there are the usual produce vendors. I immediately head to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Honopua-Farm\/100002903199612\">Honopua Farms<\/a> table looking for beets and lettuce. To my pleasure they have both and I scoop up a bag of beets. Fresh veggies will go well with all of the basics from our last Costco run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone was doing well with the recommended virus precautions, I saw no-one without a mask, and the vendors had gloves.  The folks waiting for orders at the food trucks were standing in a widely separated arc under the jacaranda trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=27721\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/CK00-05-20109-DC-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"The Red Barn food truck serving up grilled sandwiches at the mid-week farmers market in Waimea\" class=\"wp-image-27721\"\/><\/a><figcaption>The Red Barn food truck serving up grilled sandwiches at the mid-week farmers market in Waimea<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole scene was a little weird, out of place on the pretty warm and sunny day.  I find I am growing used to the new normal, to the point that anyone without a mask now gets my attention rather than the reverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also put in an order at <a href=\"https:\/\/redbarn.dudaone.com\/\">Red Barn<\/a>, their grilled ruben sandwich is worth the wait.  In this troubled time I enjoy supporting a local vendor, particularly one who makes such great sandwiches.  Not my first ruben from them, more than a few ordered here before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=27720\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/CK00-04-20109-DC-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"A hen and chicks forage in the grass and fallen jacaranda blossoms\" class=\"wp-image-27720\"\/><\/a><figcaption>A hen and chicks forage in the grass and fallen jacaranda blossoms <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As I wait for my sandwich a hen and chicks forage in the grass and fallen jacaranda blossoms. The chicks dart about and peep, oblivious to the somber mood of the people living through a pandemic and the impact on our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local farmers markets have thankfully been declared essential businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Weds I had to run into Keck for a quick pickup and gladly noted that the mid-week market at Pukulani Stables was open. I would stop by after completing my errand. 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