Clayton Farmers' Market

Fresh from their garden, our vendors brought red and delicious looking strawberries -- shortcake time!

 Fresh lettuce and spinach must mean in is the beginning of Summer in NE Washington State!  

 Wonderful amber colored honey produced locally is sparkling beautiful in their containers ....

Fresh chicken eggs, laying hens, Rouen ducks, young chickens ....Farmers Market time ....

 Counting our blessings . . . . . .

June 19 -- Bits of sunshine, bits of light rain on Dad's Day!

Spinach, lettuce, rhubarb were popular items at Clayton FM.  Of course, all locally grown .... pesticide free, too.  Temperatures were in the mid 60's today - supposed to reach into the low 80's later this week - Yay!!!

Fresh chicken eggs sold out!

Young live chickens sold right away!

 Freshly baked cinnamon rolls - coconut cookies - all so good!

 Honey 'bears' continue to be very popular .... locally produced, of course.

Beverley, our local spinner of fine fibers - always interesting to watch.

'Banjo Bob' - local country western entertainer today .... good job, Bob!

June 26 - Next week 'Mountain Musicians' will be playing their popular cowboy / country western music .... fiddle, guitar, banjo ..... good times

Another beautiful 'sunshiny' (June 12th) day at Clayton Farmers Market - We are thankful!

 One of our vendors - 4 year old Ty walked up to me so friendly holding a 3/4 eaten fresh radish ....'want a bite'? he asked.  Of course I couldn't turn down an offer like that!  I took a itty bitty bite and it was so good!  Ty then turned to my husband asking him if HE wanted a bite ..... husband told him "not today" .... young Ty walked away munching the rest of that wonderful tasty radish!  What a great example of the 'down to earth' folks we know and love at our local Farmers Market.

Beautiful weather for Clayton Farmers Market opening day this past Sunday, June 5.  Visitors, Vendors and Musicians all present at CFM! 

Small Farm Animals were for sale, too.  Handmade crafts, local honey, Plants, Chickens, fresh eggs, freshly baked bread, rolls and cookies .... fresh coffee, lemonade and cookies for all. 

No complaints from anyone ....  Every Sunday 'till Hard Freeze .... 'bout the end of September in our area of NE Washington State. 

May 18, 2011 

Beautiful day of sunshine here in the Clayton Washington area - 90 miles South of Canadian border - 40 miles West of Idaho Border - Southern Stevens County - high of 70 degrees ... (got down to 31 last night!).

 Our hummingbirds are enjoying their feeders as are the finches, red winged blackbirds ... quail and pheasant do like their cracked corn .... the noisy magpie birds are busy, too.  Our resident Canada geese are nesting on Beaver Creek which runs through our property .... lots of ducks also. 

 Thankfully the rains are holding off for awhile -- lots of standing water in the low laying areas of our farmland.  Our Primrose plants are happily blooming as are the tulips and daffodils.  Our Formosa bleeding hearts are just beginning to show their delicate blooms.  We've had cold temperatures which has made it difficult to keep our seedlings growing at a healthy rate.