The Greater Springfield Farmer's Market, Missouri

In peak season, the Greater Springfield Farmer’s Market is an impressive sight with over 90 vendors filling the Battlefield Mall parking lot. The market we drove up to Tuesday morning was not this peak season market.
Dad Bigbee, proprietor of the Fassnight Creek Farm right in Springfield, told us it’s been unseasonably cold this spring (we noticed) and that April temperatures in Missouri could reach into the eighties. This Tuesday morning the high was closer to fifty and the number of vendors fewer than twenty. Among this number were several meat stands, one with eggs, one coffee vendor, one bakery, and a knick-knack vendor or two.
From Dan, the only vendor offering the spring produce options of spinach or some good-lookin’ leeks, we bought our one purchase of the market, a bag of spinach, picked the previous night. Sadly, there were no other options for a kitchenless meal, so lunch today will be a simple spinach salad.