Country Mercantile is not exactly a roadside farmers’ market or field stand. Shelves are lined with all manner of specialty foods along with their own bread, flavored butters, hand dipped gourmet chocolates and nuts, plus in-store churned ice cream.  We sampled our way through the store (mostly I did) trying chocolates, jams and even asperagus ice cream.  Oh yeah, they do have some local produce.  We picked up some just picked sweet corn.  I can’t wait to try it!

Pasco Farmers Market

The corner of 4^th and Columbia is home to a couple dozen vender booths.  There are some very creative crafty booths but many are offering local fruit and vegetables.  Cherries are ready.  We brought home delicious Chelan and Ranier.  A big bag of spinach and some snow peas rounded out our “good for you” buys; add to that a sampling of local baked goods that were just too good to pass up.  I envied those with a place to display them as we walked past a booth filled with bright spring colored floral bouquets.