Lettuce Thank Farmers Market Couple That You Can’t Beet

Give Thanks for Soaring Market

Elise Gendelman always seems to know the right way to go.

Good People Go Their Own Way

“It’s like the marathon… they just keep coming ,” said Waltham Farmers Market manager Leo Keightley this mid-summer in his 15th season and the 33rd for the market.

And he’s a man who would know…His weekly Saturday stroll taking the toll, the numbers of customers, has become a bountiful benediction; totals heading into the heavens, even in the rainy season.

Leo and wife Martha Creedon, part of the “original six” so to speak, or on the second line of folks starting up this fresh produce Mecca, no delay of game in any of them, are switching clip boards and tokens for perhaps bikes and brunch (on a Saturday.!)
Now a triple decade Epicurious enterprise the couple is stepping away from this arduous endeavour to pursue other things… Like fixing up a few things at the house says engineer Leo, who spills the pea beans on the huge amount of time this fresh food festival drinks in.

“Vendors to Venues” covers the job and the nomad wanderings of these farm foodies, their trail of tarragon tears through banks and government centers looking for a lot to call home.

A pentagonal process with at least five locations, “early in”was the Waltham crew to the farmers market game, all done to peaches of performances from blues gems like Annie Raines and Paul Richell, the get-a-long boogie blues of Toni Lynn Washington, the searing sounds of, “Exile on Moody Street” with guitarist Brad Faucher and drummer Dan Weston and the Smooth jazz of Hardy Ponder activist Mike Williams with his drummer son and sidemen extraordinaire.
It has been quite a joy ride …