Feeling Holy and Hot at Roseville Farmer's Market

This past Monday I attended the Roseville Farmer's Market at the Corpus Christi parking lot. It was a nice location for a small market. I was impressed by the diversity present for such a limited gathering.

I walked the short strip of sellers twice taking a look at signage and representatives at the booths to see which I found most appealing. Much like the Apple Valley Farmer's Market, Roseville was also anchored by Great Harvest bread company. It is good for farmer's markets like Roseville and Apple Valley to have a well known company that can attract customers to the market.

My first stop was at Eichten's which attracted me with their unique products and excellent branding. Each of the products I saw had their brand and some information about the product on it. I thought that the Port Wine cheese spread was unique and so I grabbed one for purchase. When I brought it to the counter the representative gave me a colder one from a refrigerator. It was nice that he retrieved the freshest product possible. While I enjoyed my experience at this booth I felt neglected by the seller. He was just turning product when I got there. I thought he really had some special products but you would not know that because he did not play them up as important. When I stopped at the Snappy Dog I got a completely different presentation.

At the Snappy Dog booth the creator and seller of these salsas was soliciting people to try some of his salsas. He allowed me to try them all and as I did he discussed them with me. I usually hate spicy food but I couldn't help but try his extra spicy which had X's on the top. It was like trying something forbidden. He also had a rhubarb which had a unique flavor that felt mild on the front end but spicy on the back. In the end I decided on buying the hot salsa which had the richest flavor. He had pointed that fact out to me when I was trying the different salsas. I really appreciated the time that the salesman spent with me and would be happy to revisit Snappy Dog at a later time.

As I headed back to the car I felt like I had gotten so much out of a market so small. I was not alone in my patronage of the market as it seemed that there were a good number of people there that morning - while most of them were older they seemed rather loyal. I could easily see myself wandering back to this market especially since it it close in proximity to where I live.