Like the first line in the Wilson Phillips’ classic “Eyes Like Twins,” I was smiling as I visited the Coral Gables market this morning.

Two weeks without my CSA farm box (today’s box is heavy on the squash), and I was ready for Florida citrus, beans and tomatoes in season, and chard.

Go early enough and you’ll see the light play off the vegetables,

find orchids in conversation,

and fractal cauliflower and their leaves that my favorite farmer is anxious for locals to cook like collards.

He helped me set up a shot with the chard, cauliflower greens, purple haze carrots, purple spring onions, and beets that spilled out of my market bag (and sent me off with an extra tomato for good measure),

and I ran into my colleague Marika with her twins (one who has mastered Downward Dog, it seems) as I left the market headed for yoga and an afternoon of positioning local vegetables…

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1. Mica:
   March 21st, 2009 at 3:33 pm

   I don’t know which I love more: the beautiful chard or the purple haze carrots and their charmingly twisted bottoms. Everything is so colorful in magical Miami-land!

2. Kristen:
   March 23rd, 2009 at 10:22 am

   thanks, Mica. I’m discovering more and more the longer I’m here, unlocking the mysteries of Miami—

3. LA cosmetic dentist guy:
   May 7th, 2009 at 4:50 pm

   wow I had no idea this was in Miami, great photos I love farmers markets (plus the vegi’s for the kids to play in is classic!) That put a smile on my face as well. :)

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Posted by Kristen Taylor on Saturday, March 21st, 2009, 12:54 pm * Filed in Food, light, Market, miami. * Tags: farmers, florida, Food, kristen, kthread, local, Market, produce, south, taylor, vegetable. Follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback from your own site.