Santa Barbara is a little beehive of agriculture nestled on the CA coast - within the top 1% of counties in the US for its high level of agricultural production, it has 8 farmers markets a week - and they are beautiful. Filled with streaked tomatoes of every shade (and combination thereof) from deep purple to bright green, yellow carrots and purple carrots, golden-white bell peppers and maroon ones (??), mountains of green-golden-purple figs, deep red-yellow-orange stalks of chard, and heaps of every leafy green under the sun… this, filled with hundreds of young people on bicycles, families, people running into one another (I have been to two farmers markets since arriving here 6 days ago, and have run into people I know - keeping in mind that as of yet I know only about 5 people in Santa Barbara - both times)…. this town knows how to put on a good produce fair.
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