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News<br />
Mom Jackie Utshudi and<br />
daughter Maureen<br />
Kabamba founded Les Mini<br />
Galettes in 2006, producing<br />
a Congolese traditional<br />
mini-waffle in a variety of<br />
flavors. Maybe Maureen’s<br />
young son Elijah will join<br />
in when he’s old enough to<br />
reach the baking table.<br />
Farm Fresh at Frying Pan<br />
Farmers Table at Frying<br />
Pan Park offers a preview<br />
of the market season.<br />
Dreaming of all that farm fresh produce<br />
and the treats on offer at the area farm<br />
ers’ markets? Counting the days until<br />
May when most will re-open? Stop<br />
dreaming. And stop staring at the calendar. Wander<br />
over to Frying Pan Farm Park on Thursdays between<br />
2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. and satisfy your cravings<br />
for food that hasn’t been flash-frozen or packed with<br />
preservatives so that it could make the gazillion mile<br />
trip from who-knows-where to your grocery store.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> indoor Farmer’s Table market takes place in<br />
the confines of the park’s Visitor Center—that means<br />
four walls that block the winds, a place where the<br />
littlest ones can scoot around a bit and still be in<br />
plain sight. It also means the added bonus of a venue<br />
where there are other activities, both indoor and out,<br />
to enhance the experience.<br />
Frying Pan Farm Park Manager Yvonne Johnson,<br />
and Michelle Edwards, historian and Visitor Center<br />
manager, promise different themes and activities with<br />
each week’s market open house, from wagon or pony<br />
rides, craft making, cupcake decorating, or a visit<br />
with the animals who call the park their home.<br />
And then there’s the food and the friendly and informative<br />
vendors and park staff. While a chill wind<br />
See Farmers, Page 7<br />
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