The 22 farmers who started with the market in continue today with great support of their loyal customers. A diverse selection of produce compliments the diversity of the community, with over table feet of Asian vegetables, and a vast variety of Indian, French, German, Italian vegetables and bakeries. This hugely popular Thursday market recently spawned an additional market on Saturdays, also 9am to 1pm, year-round.
Your information will not be shared. Often fruits and vegetables were picked just hours before the farmers' market opens, and have traveled less than fruits and vegetables traveling through the conventional wholesale channel to the grocery stores. Talk to your favorite farmers about their harvest techniques, their favorite family recipes and their special heirloom seeds handed down through generations. Pat stopped aging 20 years ago, never looking older each time he came to market.
Our guess is he was as old as the sea, fresh as the mist and dependable as the tide. As a veteran, Pat served the U. Army in Germany, learning how to defuse bombs and assemble weapons.
We missed the chance to ask Pat if he ever used a harpoon. That would have made sense. He is considered one of our founding members and routinely signed up for new markets, even the small ones which took his pure faith in our market management and promotional abilities. Pat knew markets were grown week by week, vendor by vendor and his support has been vital to these markets. Pat was a genius at knowing his clientele and what they wanted.
Whole fish were sent to Daly City, so fresh you thought you saw them wink at you. Pat was the first fisherman to set up fileting stations at the markets, cutting fish to order, any way you wanted it. Whole salmon showed up, he brought rock fish with eyes bulging out and live crabs angry as chickens pulled from their nests.
