High Plains History; Farmer's Market

[Skip Mancini] OK, what do you got here let's see where does all of this produce come from? [Machael "Roath"] North of Town. North of- out by six mile road. [Skip Mancini] In Finney County? [Machael "Roath"] Yes. [Skip Mancini] Ok, and today what are you selling here? [Machael "Roath"] I have sweet corn and cucumbers, dill pickles and squash, [uninteligible] squash, I had zucchini, salsa, cinnamon pickles, bread and butter pickles, pickle relish, sweet pickles, [laughter], some pumpkins, some spaghetti squash. Next week all have more butter nut squash, and eventually I'll get tomatos and cucumbers. [Skip Mancini] Ok. Are you here every saturday? [Machael "Roath"] Yes I am. [Skip Mancini] What's your name? [Machael "Roath"] Machael "Roath". [Skip Mancini] And you do all the gardening yourself, or do you have like a small produce farm? [Machael "Roath"] I do all gardening myself. I will get in trouble for saying that cuz I have little kids, and big kids, husbands and grandfathers that help out. So I better not say all by myself, but it is my family. [Skip Mancini] Ok, looks like theres been quite a crowd here today.

[Machael "Roath"] Yes it's been nice busy. I'm really happy with the turnout that we've been getting lately. [Skip Mancini] Well thank you. [Market Noise] [Skip Mancini] Hi. [Farmer] Hi. [Skip Mancini] I'm with High Plains Public Radio I do a weekly farm show, called "agg" basics and I was wondering if you would talk to me for a minute, I'm just talking to everybody that's brought in produce and things. [Farmer] Sure. [Skip Mancini] What are you selling here today? [Farmer] I got peaches, pears, apples, tomatoes, and a few plums. [Skip Mancini] And where did this produce come from? [Farmer] Most of the produce comes from Palisade Colorado, the tomatoes and the cucumbers I raise myself. [Skip Mancini] And is that in Kansas or Colorado? [Farmer] Concordia Kansas is where I'm from, and thats where the tomatos are from and the rest of the fruits come from Palisade Colorado. [Skip Mancini] Ok, I just ask that because we serve a five state area, so I just wondered where you were from cause maybe where our listeners are. Are you here every week? [Farmer] I've

been down here last year, my son plays football for Garden City's so I made a trip down her to see him play and I thought, well it'd be a good chance to the farmer market, and I did it last year and had a good turn out. [Skip Mancini] You have a huge truck here it's like a semi full of fruit. [Farmer] Yeah I go out, once a week, and get a full load, and we sell a lot of fruit. [Market noises] [Silence] [Market noises] [Market noises; Uninteligible murmuring] [Silence]

[Market noises] [Silence] [Market noises] [Skip Mancini] Hi. [Farmer 2] Hi [Skip Mancini] I work with High Plains Public Radio, and I do a weekly show called "agg" basics, about agriculture and gardening and things, and i was wondering if you'd talk to me for a minute- I'm just going around to all the all the different people that are selling produce and things, and find out where, would yo talk to me for a minute about it. [Farmer 2] [Uninteligible] ask me the questions and I'll awnser them. [Skip Mancini] Okay, alright. So let's see, what we have here is potatos, cucumbers, tomatoes, and onions and anything else here at the truck? [Farmer 2] I had squash earlier, and I also have beats earlier in the season, and I had a few other zucchini's, carrots, really sweet carrots. [Skip Mancini] You grow all this yourself? [Farmer 2] My husband does, he

loves growing it and then I have to do something with. Instead of canning it I bring it down here to sell it, to get rid of it. [Skip Mancini] Are you a local, are you from Finney County? [Farmer 2] We're from Finney County. We live between Garden City and Holcomb. Oh I shouldn't tell that, that gives out my secret place and everybody will come raid my garden. [Laughter]] [Skip Mancini] They won't know where you are, maybe the'll come here and buy some stuff, it looks good. Let's see are you here all the time, are you here every every week, all summer long? [farmer 2] I usually miss the first couple because my produce isn't quite ready but then I'm here the rest of the season, up until the end of september, were here every saturday till the last saturday in september. [Skip Mancini] Ok thank you. [Market noises] [Market noises; Conversing] [Unknown person] And your name is? [Skip Mancini] My name is Skip Mancini, I do the regional Programing. [Market noises; Car Starts] [Skip Mancini] Hi, I'm with High Plains Public Radio, and I do a

weekly gardening and a weekly agriculture show, and I was wondering if you'd talk to me for a minute about your produce. I'm just going around and were going to do a little sound portrait program on it. [Lenard] Alright. [Skip Mancini] I see have mostly fruit here. [Lenard] Yes ma'am, we have peaches and pears, we have a truck up on the hill there on Kansas, with tomatoes, jalapenos, anaheim peppers, pears, and peaches. [Skip Mancini] Do you grow all this food here yourself? [Lenard] No ma'am we grow all the vegetables, the fruit we pick up on the western slope of Colorado in Palisade. [Skip Mancini] Where are you located? [Lenard] We're located in actually Avondale Colorado. The fruit comes from orchard mason in Palisade Colorado. [Skip Mancini] And then are you here every week to the farmers market? [Lenard] Yes ma'am we sure are. Actually this is our third week and I see its getting better every week. There's more and more people, more and more vendors looks like tis doing quite well. [Skip Mancini] Ok, well thank you for talking to me, can I have your name? [Lenard] My name is Lenard I'm with JD Farms. [Skip Mancini] Ok. [Market noises] [Skip Mancini] Hi.

[Farmer 3] Hi. [Skip Mancini] I'm with High Plains Public Radio and I'm doing a little sound portrait that we're going to put on the air about the farmer's market, and I wondered if you wanted to talk to me for a minute about your jellies and jams, [Dianne] I make the jellies and jams. [Skip Mancini] Oh, let me get over here. [Dianne] I make the jellies and jams, my names Dianne. [Skip Mancini] Ok, and what kinds do you have here? [Dianne] Oh I have a large variety. I have a peach jam peach jelly, I have orange jelly, I have Christmas jam. I have strawberry jams and strawberry jelly, strawberry rhubarb, jalapeno, just to mention a few. [Skip Mancini] And what is Christmas jam? [Dianne] Oh its very good, its kind of a tart its strawberry-cranberry, I've taken into the fair and won some blue ribbons on it. People really seem to like real well. [Skip Mancini] Do you grow any of the fruit yourself?

[Dianne] No, if its a berry I find it and get it, a lot of it I buy, at- you know like at farmers markets here and stuff. Can it or freeze it and when its time I make the jams and jellies. [Skip Mancini] Well thank you. [Dianne] Your welcome. [Market noises] [Market noises] [Skip Mancini] Hi. I work with High Plains Public Radio and I do a weekly show about gardening and farming, and I was wondering if I can-, I'm doing a sound portrait on farmers' market here today

going around to all the places, would you talk to me for a minute about the things you have here? [Farmer 3] Well I don't know I don't - [Uninteligible] [Skip Mancini] Well I just see your selling watermelons at potatos here today where did this produce come from? [Farmer 3] South of Ulysses. [Skip Mancini] And do you grow it yourself? [Farmer 3] Yes ma'am. [Skip Mancini] Ok, and are these seeded or seedless watermelon. [Farmer 3] Both, both. [Skip Mancini] Which do you think is best? [Farmer 3] Seeds. [Skip Mancini] I Agree with you, I think there sweeter. [Farmer 3] Yeah they are. [Skip Mancini] Ok, and you grow the potatos too? [Farmer 3] Oh yeah. [Skip Mancini] Are you here at the farmers market every saturday. [Farmer 3] Just about, not every saturday but just about. [Skip Mancini] I heard you saying to the lady, just before me, hearing that you don't have any cantaloupes yet? [Farmer 3] None, and there might not be any. [Skip Mancini] Are they just not going to get ripe? [Farmer 3] Just not gonna ripe. Hail now, and everything else. [Skip Mancini] Well mine are growing pretty good now, but they sure are green.

I'm thinking were going to get a freeze before they get ripe- [Farmer 3] Its gonna wild, I'm telling ya. I don't think they'll be any. There might be, there might be a few, very few. [Skip Mancini] Well Thank you. [Farmer 3] Ok, your welcome. [Skip Mancini] Hi. [Farmer 4] Hello. [Skip Mancini] I was wondering if you'd talk to me for a minute, I'm doing a sound portrait for the radio about all the different things that you could buy here and I see you have Honey. [Watson "Nickols"] Yeah I'm from Barton County, and I have about fifty hives of bees, and I have a little surplus honey, and I make the farmers market. I have a good product, and everybody has been really satisfied with it. [Skip Mancini] And are you here every week? [Watson "Nickols"] About every other week. Honey is something you don't sell every week, ya know, to the same person so I alternate my weeks.

[Skip Mancini] Now what- I've seen honey, in the stores and other markets and things, where they say clover honey, or you know, the different things the bees get the pollen from. Do you have a specific kind here? [Watson "Nickols"] Yes I have the comb honey, the cut-comb honey is clover, I got that real early in the spring. The other is alfalfa and soy beans, mixed. They have mixed it and it's a real mild honey, and it- the self life is real good on it, it doesn't turn to suger- real soon. If it does just put it in warm water, and it comes right back to its natural state. [Skip Mancini] And then tell me about the comb honey for a minute, cuz, my aunt and uncle raised bees years ago, and i've see it and i've had it but is that something that taste different or is real special? [Farmer 4] Yeah its special in as much as its pure natural, thats just the way the bees make it. When you process honey, you- I spin it out, strain it through cheese

cloth and it is good, but its not as good as that comb honey. Theres something in that wax, and under that wax that just is real good. [Skip Mancini] Now when use that do you run out of the comb, I mean as a kid I can remember just chewing on the wax. [Watson "Nickols"] Right, or you can just spread that on your hot biscuits, or hot bread, toast and eat wax and all. Its digestible, very healthy, very good for you. [Skip Mancini] You said you had about fifty hives of bees, sometimes lately, I read about all the diffrent diseases and things, is it getting hard to raise your bees? [Watson "Nickols"] Well, my biggest problem is the sprayers, arial sprayers, I've lost a lot of bees on that. We

do have a varroa mite that has bothered us, but it hasn't been a problem this year. [Skip Mancini] Good, good. I gotta ask ya this. Do you just go out there, and do they know ya, and do you handly the bees without getting into all of the suits and the nets or do you wear all the paraphernalia? [Watson "Nickols"] I wear a head veil I don't wear gloves. I get stung occasionally on my arms and wrists, but thats good for arthritis. But my face I protect. I don't like to swell up and look like some freak. [Laughter] [Skip Mancini] Well thank you very much, looks like you've got a sweet job here today. [Watson "Nickols"] Thank you. [Skip Mancini] Thank you. [Market noises] [Skip Mancini] I forgot to ask you would you tell me how much you sell your honey for? [Watson "Nickols"] The two pound sells for seven, the three pound sells for ten, and the six pound

jug sells for seventeen. The little one pound honey comb sells for five. [Skip Mancini] Ok thank you! Forgot again, could you give me your name again? [Watson "Nickols"] Watson "Nickols" [Skip Mancini] From the Great Bend, thank you. [Market noises] [Skip Mancini] Hi. [Shirley] How are you? [Skip Mancini] Good, do you raise your own eggs, do you have your own chickens? [Uninteligible] [Skip mancini] Where- I'm here with High Plains Public Radio I'm doing a little sound portrait of the farmers market- [Unintelgible response] [Skip Mancini] I'm just recording, yeah, and you don't have to talk to me if you don't want to. [Shirley] I don't mind, I just didn't want to- [Uninteligible] [Skip Mancini] No it's not live now. It'll be like a portrait of all the different people saying well I've cucumbers and I live in such and such. Gosh I just realized there's cherries on that tree, looks like. [Laughter] So you raise- you've got farm fresh eggs here for sale?

[Shirley] Yes I do, we have our own chickens, and we raise our own beef and pork. [Skip Mancini] And where you located? [Shirley] Pierceville. [Skip Mancini] Do you come here every saturday? [Shirley] I try too. [Skip Mancini] looks like you've had a good crowd here today. [Shirley] We have had a very good crowd today, its very nice to see all these people coming out. [Skip mancini] And you said the beef and the prok is it all processed and ready to go ground beef or? [Shirley] Yes i have the ground beef for now and later on I'll be having the- more of the personal cuts of T-bones and pork steaks, and whatever, and we have the pork which is cut into different pieces, you known, and you can buy it by the piece, you can buy it by the quantity. [Skip Mancini] Are your chickens free range, do they get to go out and peck around? [Shirley] Yes they are free range. [Skip Mancini] Well good, thank you for talking to me. Can you give me your name? [Shirley] My name is Shirley. [Skip Mancini] Ok, from Pierceville. [Shirley] Yes. [Skip Mancini] Thank you. [Shirley] Thank you. [Market noises]

[Uninteligible murmuring; Market noises] [Skip Mancini] Hi, I'm with High Plain Public Radio, and I do a weekly show called "Agg" basics about farming in the area and gardening and everything. I was wondering if you would talk to me for a minute about what is selling at the farmers market were doing a sound portrait today. [Farmer 4] Ok. We just sell Buffalo meat. We come to the farmers market and we sell it out of the house, its buffalo we've raised ourselves. [Skip Mancini] And Where are you located? [Farmer 4] Scott City Kansas. [Skip Mancini] And are you here every saturday? [Farmer 4] Every saturday, all through the farmers market. Starts in June and clear into September. [Skip mancini] Ok you have recipes here. [Farmer 4] We

have recipe cards and promtional information, and- promotion stuff. [Skip Mancini] And Buffalo jerky. [Farmer 4] Bufallo Jerky. [Skip Mancini] Ok, Thank you! Hi. I went to get my tape player. I'm with High Plains Public Radio and I'm just doing a sound portrait on the farmers market here today, with all the folks that have raised things and bought things in to sell. So could you tell me about your hot sauce? [Kenna "Hyper"] It's homemade hot sauce, recipe that I have. I've got the hot, or I've got mild. Very good taste to it, and my husband yard shadows, also. [Skip Mancini] Oh, I see the little statues out here, ok, great! Look at that lion he's kinda neat. [Kenna "Hyper"] We have a friend that makes the lions, so if anybody would like them- [Skip Mancini] And do you raise the ingredients yourself? [Kenna "Hyper"] Not the tomatos, most of the other is just fresh product.

Usually I buy them here at the market, so we all kind of get together and we sell our own stuff. [Skip Mancini] Ok, and your name is? [Kenna "Hyper"] I'm Kenna, "Hyper", and my Husband Fred is the one that does the yard deals. [Skip Mancini] OK, well thank you for talking to me. [Kenna "Hyper"] Thank you. [Market noises]] [Skip Mancini] Hi. [Market noises] [Skip Mancini] Hi, I'm with High Plains Public Radio and were doing a sound portait of the farmers market here today, on the products that people grow, do you grow the herbs yourself? [Farmer 5] Actually my friend here does. [Skip Mancini] Ok could you talk to me about it for a minute. I see today you have fresh basil, lemon basil, and sweet basil and you grow these yourself? [farmer 6] Yes I do. [Skip Mancini] Where are you located? [Farmer 6] Here in Garden City.

[Skip mancini] Are you here every week? [Farmer 6] Yes, Just about every week. [Skip Mancini] What other herbs do you have? [Farmer 6] Well, I've got parsley and dill, and I've got like catnip and hoarhound, just a lot of variety in my garden. [Skip mancini] Do you sell most of those here at the market? [Farmer 6] No I just bring the basil, the dill, and the parsley, and my cucumbers. [Market noises] [Skip Mancini] Hi I'm with High Plains Public Radio and I'm doing a sound portrait, [Market noises] on the farmers market today, just talking to all the folks about what they brought into sell and where it came from, would you talk to me for a minute? [Farmer 7] Sure. [Skip Mancini] Ok I'm seeing a lot of cucumbers and then the product of the cucumbers some pickles here. [Farmer 7] I have pickles, dill, sweet, and bread and butter. [Skip Mancini] Do you making yourself? [Farmer 7] Yes I do. [Skip Mancini] And where are you

located? [Farmer 7] Montezuma Kansas. [Skip Mancini] And do you come into Garden city every saturday for the farmer's market? [Farmer 7] Well this is the first time I've been to this one, doing real well. [Skip Mancini] Ok good! [Farmer 7] And Gords- [Skip Mancini] You have gords, lot of gords. [Farmer 7] And Jalapenos, I already sold them all, and green peppers. [Skip Mancini] OK. Well it looks good. [Farmer 7] Thank you. [Market noises] [Skip Mancini] Hi, I'm with High Plains Public Radio, and we're doing a sound portrait of the farmers market today, all the diffrent people, would you talk to me about it? [Uninteligible] [Skip Mancini] Ok, your selling something really special, and the sound behind you is coming from is producing this, your selling homemade ice cream. [Farmer 8] Yes we are. [Skip Mancini] And do you have diffrent flavors

or just vanilla? [Farmer 8] Just vanilla,that seems to go over the best so. [Skip Mancini] And can you tell me about the little John Deer machine back behind you here? It's just such a wonderful looking machine thats making that ice cream. [Farmer 8] Yes, we got it- its made by an amish man in Ohio, he makes them and sells them, and we got it through him. [Skip Mancini] And how big is the bucket how much does it make? [Farmer 8] It makes five gallons. [Skip Mancini] How much do you go through here in a day? [Farmer 8] We usually do two cans which would be ten gallons. [Skip mancini] OK, its great. Are you selling anything else or just the ice cream? [Farmer 8] Just the ice cream today. [Skip Mancini] Well I'm gonna try some. [Laughter] [Farmer 8] It's a hit and miss motor. Its a hourse and a half, a lot of people know what that is. [Skip Mancini] Well it just looks great you've got your little- its on a wagon, a little wagon, its just a really neat looking

piece of equipment there. And I've seen a lot of people going by with ice cream cups so I think you probably have a good product. You have ice cream and root beer float, is that right? And you can also make a sunday, with toppings? Or you sell it by the quart. Ok. Well thank you for talking with me. [Machine noises; Uninteligible murmurings] [Skip Mancini] Ok, thank you! [Market noises] [Skip Mancini] Hi, I'm with High Plains Public Radio and I was wondering if I could talk to you for a minute about what your selling here? [Farmer 9] I don't know-- [Uninteligible] speak english, I'm sorry. [Skip Mancini] OK, thats ok. Hi,

I'm with High Plains Public Radio and I'm doing a sound portrait of the people selling things here, could you talk to me for a minute about what you're selling? [Farmer 10] I'm selling enchiladas, beef enchiladas, "lasanga", corn ready to eat, and tomatos, and gorditas. [Skip Mancini] And I've seen making the corn its like corn on the cobb, can you tell me how you make it? [Farmer 10] Yes, just butter, mayonnaise, parmesan cheese, then chille. [Skip Mancini] Ok, so you put the mayonnaise and the butter on, and then you sprinkle with the parmesan and the chille, right? [Farmer 10] yes. [Skip Mancini] Well it looks great I've seen a lot of people walking around with it, so it must be very popular. [Farmer 10] Thank you. [Skip Mancini] Thank you! Hi, did you make the

jams and jellies? [Farmer 11] No, my sister does, and shes out of town today. [Skip Mancini] Ok, well I'm with High Plains Public Radio, and I'm doing a little sound portrait for the radio of the farmers market and I was just wondering what do you have here for sale today? [Farmer 11] Well, my sister "Cliarine" "Hymen" has her smoking hot sauces, barbecue sauce, and her different kinds of jams and jellies, and she's noted for her delicious cinnamon rolls, and they have to get here early to get those, and then I make whatever- I get made, in the baked goods, and I do- bierocks is a specialty usually. [Skip Mancini] You're every Saturday? [Farmer 11] Yeah, From now till the 25th of October- I mean September. From June- the first Saturday in June, to the last Saturday in september. [Skip Mancini] Ok. [Farmer 11] From seven until twelve. We enjoyed being together doing it, seeing a lot of people that we know, and visting with them. [Skip Mancini] Now are you local? Do you live in Garden City? [Farmer 11] I live in Garden City, out at south wind, and my sister lives in town. We have another sister up in Minneola

today, that makes the tight hemp quilts. [Skip Mancini] Oh, ok. [Farmer 11] So there's three sisters and we enjoy visiting with the people, having people take our products and try them. [Skip Mancini] Well Thank you! [Skip Mancini] Looks like you sold the other bag of iris' too. [Farmer 12] Yeah we did. Also sold the chives- [Skip Mancini] Oh good! [Farmer 12] Including the cuttings. [Skip Mancini] Well thats why I left them there, a real cook would want the cuttings. What do you have for sale? [Farmer 13] I have bird houses, flower pot benches, and assorted flowers, and other gardening stuff. [Skip Mancini] Ok, and how much are the bird houses?

[Farmer 13] The bird houses are ten dollars each, the bird feeders are ten dollars each. The benches are twenty five and the flowers are a dollar each. [Skip Mancini] Ok, Thank you. Where did my mom go, cause there bought to run out of ice cream.