Tomorrow is a good day to be in Spokane, a day I have been looking forward to for months (really). This Satuday marks the first day of the Spokane Farmer’s Market and the SCC Garden Expo—Summer is upon us!

SCC Garden Expo: Saturday, May 12: 9:00 a.m. – 5 p.m.

The SCC Garden Expo is sponsored by The Inland Empire Gardeners and the show gets bigger and better every year. At the Expo you will find plenty of local growers selling plants of all kinds: every tomato imaginable, herbs and vegetables galore, lilacs from the Spokane Lilac society, more Dahlias than you’ve ever seen; garden art of all kinds, furniture, funky junk, local crafts and preserves, and so much more. I typically spend a few hours wandering the sale and deciding what I can’t live without.

Much of the sale is outdoors on the lawn, so on a nice day wandering the stalls quite refreshing. Shoppers often bring wagons and cart to hold their purchases, so be ware of the traffic; I recommend bringing a box or some shopping bags with you to carry your purchases. Admission is FREE and so is parking.

Last year at the sale, I found an artist selling stands for concrete leaf birdbaths, with I needed to display a large rhubarb leaf bath I had purchased at an auction a couple of years before. I also found white enamelware we used for our wedding (the best priced enamelware we found!) and beautiful blueberry plants (for only $15!). This year, I’m hoping the blueberries are back; we need a few more to create an true berry patch.

The Spokane Farmer’s Market also opens on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., starting this week. Starting June 13^th, it will also open every Wednesday. Stop by to see what’s growing in Spokane and talk with the farmers who grow your food.

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