From a Farmer's Market to a Museum
To conclude blogging about my recent trip to Maine, I'd like to share some photos taken at the Eden Farmer's Market In Bar Harbor. Like many wonderful farmer's markets, you can find impeccably fresh vegetables, fruits, poultry, and meats. There is also a nice selection of delicious smoked meat and a variety of artisanal cheeses, preserves, baked goods, honey, maple syrup, seedlings, cut flowers, organic soaps, and other skin-care products. I like shopping at Eden to stock up on staples and fresh goods and it's also really nice to visit and catch up with all of my farmer friends.
Later in the day, we went to see the exhibit at the Wendell Gilley Museum in Southwest Harbor. Wendell Gilley was a bird watcher and an artist who carved birds in wood on Mount Desert Island. His carvings are superb and he is considered one of the leading bird carvers of all time. In fact, Gilley was a pioneer in the field of decorative bird carving. Shaun, my gardener, is an avid bird watcher and he was very, very impressed with these extraordinary carvings, as I think you will be, too.
1 Here I am with Christy and Sarah at the Eden Farmer's Market in Bar Harbor.
2 Native grown and freshly dug new potatoes
3 I really miss my sour cherry trees at my old home on Turkey Hill. I bought some of these and made a sour cherry clafouti .
4 So many fresh, sweet, and juicy red raspberries
5 Beautiful and tender baby zucchini
6 Bread Box Bakery has great stuff.
7 Pull apart breakfast bread - it has brown sugar and cinnamon chopped up into the dough.
8 Bread Box Bakery is a small in-home bakery.
9 Crisp heads of cabbage
10 Nice full heads of oak leaf lettuce
11 Colorful buckets of flowers
12 A very patient and adorable little corgy
13 Skeins of hand-dyed wool - someday I'll find the time to knit!
14 Love this logo
15 Hakurei Turnip are delicious sliced thinly and eaten raw in salads.
16 Such beautiful beets and carrots
17 My shelling peas are finished, but they're still available in Maine!
18 So much amazing produce!
19 It's always great to see my friend Maggie of Smith Family Farm. I love their dairy products. http://www.smithfarmmdi.com/
20 And also the fabulous cheese makers, Anne Bossi & Bob Bowen of Sunset Acres Farm. http://www.sunsetacresfarm.com/
21 Painted Pepper Farm always has great products. http://www.paintedpepperfarm.com/home.html
22 After the farmer's market, we took a drive along the shore to see the amazing rock formations.
23 It's really not a good idea to be standing on the cliffs in inclement weather. People are always warned about rogue waves.
24 Avid hikers were out despite the weather.
25 Pretty, pretty foggy
26 A solitary cairn
27 That water looks so cold, and it is!
28 One of many beautiful stone bridges in Acadia
29 Is it a bird carving?
30 After lunch, we celebrated Cheryl's birthday. Gretchen is setting down a New York style cheese cake, which I made the day before for my new baking show. Happy Bithday, Cheryl!
31 I wonder what Cheryl wished for?
32 I actually baked three of these cakes and each one turn out perfectly - no cracks!
33 Bryan stopped in to give birthday wishes to Cheryl.
34 Kevin and Cheryl
35 After the birthday celebration, we paid a visit to the Wendell Gilley Museum.
36 A great story
37 These are some typical birds made for Abercrombie & Fitch - much too beautiful for just $3.75!
38 A majestic bald eagle
39 And another with baby chicks
40 A common loon
41 A long-billed curlew
42 A pair of marbled godwit
43 An Atlantic puffin - its colorful triangular bill is its most striking feature
44 A belted kingfisher - plunges into water headfirst for fish
45 A great horned owl, one of the largest owls
46 A great gray owl - often hunts by day
47 A barn owl - the only owl with a white heart-shaped face
48 American kestrel - a swallow-like falcon
49 Northern parula - a neotropical migrant that winters in Central and South America and breeds in Maine
50 White-winged crossbill
51 Evening grosbeak - a bird of the north
52 Woodcock - a very elusive species
53 Another woodcock
54 Northern Flicker - in the woodpecker family
55 Green Heron (Upper Left), Common Loon (upper right), Lesser Scaup (lower left), Pintail
56 Upland sandpipers
57 Members of the museum are free to use this terrific woodshop.
58 Basswood is the wood of choice for bird carvers.
59 There are many fine projects going on in the shop.
60 A work in progress
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Well Martha, once again, you've had a fun experience. All those beautiful veggies look "good enough to eat", and the bird carvings are fabulous.
Gloria!!
Posted by: Gloria | July 26th, 2010 at 12:13 am
The produce at the market looks very fresh and inviting. Don't carrots look better bunched like that with their friends still attached? They also keep better and last a little longer too. It was lovely to see you baking that cheesecake for the birthday.
Posted by: Christian / @vfbr2001 | July 26th, 2010 at 1:46 am
I love this post. Being in the south where it is so hot and dry, it was a joy seeing that rain. And I will take 2 of everything at the farmers market!!! Made me very hungry. The carvings are incredible. Thanks for sharing it all with us!!!
Posted by: Sherry Rhodes | July 26th, 2010 at 8:09 am
Ah Martha, there are so many wonderful hand dyed and spun wool out there today. You really should learn to knit. I restarted knitting about five years ago and have progressed to knitting things I would have never imagined I'd have been able to knit. It is a great way to relax and I'd love to share some of the beautiful things with you.
Maine is such a beautiful state. I hope to one day be able to visit. Your photos of the coastline and those of the farmers market (which was wonderful to look at) were almost eatable.
Posted by: Jamie | July 26th, 2010 at 8:09 am
Martha, thanks for sharing this blog.
Posted by: KLBrown | July 26th, 2010 at 8:51 am
Hi Martha,
What a beautiful museum and it was so nice to learn a little bit about Wendell Gilley. It was great that his wife kept over 100 pieces of his work to help start that museum. People also lend some of the pieces they own which is good. I can’t believe he only received $3.75 per bird when he first got started! They have a DVD for sale in the museum store that I just might get – it’s called Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver. I guess he was a storyteller too which is something I like. His work is so beautiful and since I’ll probably never see that museum, thanks for all your realistic pictures! Remember that father and son team you had on your old show that made duck decoys? That was interesting too.
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Happy belated birthday wishes to Cheryl and I hope she liked the cheesecake you made. She probably wished there would be some leftover to take home! What can I say about the Farmer’s Market except I wish I could be there shopping. I would like to try the Hakurei turnips which I’ve never tasted. Thanks again Martha. Trish
Posted by: Trish | July 26th, 2010 at 10:24 am
Beautiful market and produce! Love the farm markets and it's fun to chat with the farmers. Martha...that cheesecake is PERFECT...and imagine to have baked 3 of them all without cracking...you are baker extraordinare!
Posted by: sherey | July 26th, 2010 at 10:45 am
This looks like a wonderful time! We were just up in Georgetown, Five Islands, ME. It was so spectacular and we rented a home right on the ocean. We ate at Five Islands Lobster Co., Red Eats, and the Robinhood Meeting house a five star restaurant in a casual atmosphere. Please stop by my blog to see photo's too! Love yours Martha! xxjamilyn
Posted by: Jamilyn | July 26th, 2010 at 10:47 am
You covered it all regarding a perfect day in Maine.
Thanks, it was fun and we did not gain an ounce.
Happy Birthday Cheryl!
Posted by: Margie | July 26th, 2010 at 11:35 am
Love your orange jacket and you look like you've lost weight, not that you looked heavy before !!!
Hubby and I were up in ME Dock Square...what a pretty place, I've never been to Bar Harbor that is on the list !!!
Enjoy your summer....I sure have been
it's been perfect I think !! I've taken lots of time away from blogging and the like !!!
Nice post....
All the best,
Kathy
Posted by: Kathy :) | July 26th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Hi Martha, I have never seen such a beautiful farmer's market! All of the items looked absolutely pristine and I'm sure they all would be delicious! Your photos are fantastic! In the 1st half of the blog, I loved #'s 12,29(live seagull),30&32! Every photo in the second half of this blog was stunning! Wendell Gilley Museum is a definite place I would love to visit in person! Thank you so very much for showing us all of your wonderful photos of the museum! All of his carvings are superb and look so much like live birds! Hope things are improving at your farm. Love, Jan
Posted by: Jan Erickson | July 26th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Cheryl and Kevin look alike. Wendell Gilley story is fascinating and he must have been very talented. I love those carvings..
Posted by: ann | July 26th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
You commented that you miss your sour cherry trees from Turkey hill. Have you not planted a new orchard at the farm?
Posted by: alex | July 26th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
It is very peaceful looking at your photos! Everything about farmer's markets is WONDERFUL!
Posted by: Wendy | July 26th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Love the Farmer's Market...I'm in CA and enjoy our market here.
I can't find how to contact you or staff on your website, so I thought I'd try here...I've been making some cute paper medallions with your Martha Stewart border punches and posting them on a crafting site. The girls there love them and there seems to be a newfound interest in border punches. I thought you and/or your crafts department might like to take a peek here,
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/mb.asp?cmd=display&forum_id=10&thread_id=3011274
Posted by: Lisa Soares | July 26th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
It is seldom that i see a farmer's market looking so beautiful with its produce laid out so invitingly. The raspberries were nice and plump and looking really good. I love sour cherry. Hope to see you in Bar Harbour. Thanks Martha. If there are any fans of yours reading this that live in Canada, my word press blog has a contest for me to win the dream of a lifetime...so if anyone could vote for me each day until Aug. 9 i would really appreciate it.
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I AM A SOUTH AFRICAN LIVING IN SECUNDA. I SO MISS YOUR SHOWS THAT WE SAW ON CHANNEL 182. WIL WE SEE ANY TV SHOWS AGAIN HERE ?? I ADORE YOUR SHOWS .....THANK YOU ....YOU ARE A WONDERFULL PEROSON...LOVE AND GREETINGS FROM SA
Posted by: liana claasssen | July 27th, 2010 at 2:18 am
The farmers market is like eye candy too me...how lusicious all the veggies look! Then the bird museum was so interesting they ar e so vividly colored and so life like, Thanks foer sharing. Gloria wilson, Inpls.
Posted by: gloria wilson | July 27th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
Beautiful photos of Maine, Martha!
The Bangor Daily News confirmed that the Woodlawn Museum in Ellsworth, Maine is restoring their 180 year old stone walls.
In conjunction with the stone wall restoration project at Woodlawn, the museum has planned a stone wall symposium in collaboration with the Grand Auditorium in Ellsworth, Maine on August 14 at 7:00pm.
I am happy to report that our stone wall documentary, Passages of Time: The Story Behind New England's Stone Walls, will debut at the Grand Auditorium that evening to help highlight the importance of preserving New England's stone walls.
I'm aware how you respect the landscape and wanted to share this news with you.
Sincerely,
Alice
Posted by: Alice Linkiewicz | August 1st, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Sorry I wasn't at the Gilley Museum when you visited, but I WAS at the Farmers' Market at the same time--getting fresh flowers for the galleries from Matt. You saw the last fading blossoms of the prior week.
Thank you for the nice publicity. Come back for a carving class sometime. Cheers, Nina Gormley
Posted by: Nina Gormley | August 5th, 2010 at 10:55 am
I've always wanted to go to the Eden market and hope to now! I hear rave reviews about it and I sure recommend the Gilley Museum as well. Glad to know you enjoyed the exhibit and hope you will return next year to check it out again!
Posted by: Jennifer | August 6th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Hi Martha,
Saw your Seal Harbor fellow was in today and picked up the 4 Ipomoea indica baskets... they were indeed fabulous! Thank you!! I was searching the web for Wendell Gilley bird carving information, and saw your blog. Have you found any of his carvings? Get this, I was in the junk store on Maine street in Ellsworth yesterday and found TWO of his small early carvings on drift wood-- a Canada goose, and a Mockingbird....and what a deal too--only $5.00 each! Now I have three. Jim
Posted by: Jim Dickinson | July 17th, 2012 at 3:27 pm