In between wandering the streets of beautiful brownstones in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia, I stumbled upon a farmers market which led to a really relaxing afternoon of reading and snacking on mango donut peaches and blackberries.

To be clear, the following note says “chemical free.”  These carrots were gigantic!

and these carrots were quite, quite colorful!

Is there a merit badge for sourcing your fruits and veggies locally?

There should be if there isn’t!

Spearmint & French Sorrel
Cherry Tomatoes
Thyme & Parsley

Green & Purple Basil
Beets & A Yellow Onion
Chives & Italian Red Peppers

Farmers at the Firehouse
Pittsburgh Public Market
Strip District, PGH, PA

Marjoram
Any thoughts on how to use it?

Chocolate Mint…

Lime basil.
A kick of citrus!

Elk Cherry Terrine!

Wash it down with a fresh berry lemonade served mason jar style!

There’s a new kid on the block- the Lawrenceville Farmers Market.  This new kid is on the smaller side, but his personality is big!

There’s a booming voice that makes the Saturday morning feel like a trip to the auction house.  There’s a girl by the name of Meadow who has a vision and a love of dirt.

There’s plenty of pretty produce to take home!

From Farmers at the Firehouse
Strip District, PGH, PA

Farmers at the Firehouse
Strip District, PGH, PA

I venture this is the most beautiful egg carton I have purchased to date!

A new experiment:  lemongrass

Much more to come!

Another trip to the Pittsburgh Public Market and another edition of Bacon of the Month from the Crested Duck Charcuterie.

(Vanilla Infused Bourbon Bacon!)

(Kombucha)

NPR wrote this about the musical diddy:

Monday is March 14 — aka 3/14, a date celebrated the world over as “Pi Day,” after the irrational number. This year, to celebrate, musician Michael John Blake had the idea to compose, record and put on YouTube a musical interpretation of the most famous mathematical constant.

His approach? He decided the song would be in C, then assigned each note a number: C=1, D=2 and so on up through 9. Using those assignments, he played the sequence of pi: 3.14159 through 31 decimal places. He assigned numbers to chords, too, but could only play the chords every other note and still make it sound vaguely musical.

Finally, he used pi as the basis for the tempo — it’s 157 beats per minute, which is half of 314. He played this part on several instruments, as you can see in the video above, and layered them to make a song. The result isn’t exactly catchy, but it’s certainly melodic.

“It’s random enough to where it’s kind of odd, but then, because it’s all based in the major scale, it musically works out to where it’s sort of pleasing to the ear,” Blake says. “For me, it has this great combination of pleasant but also slightly weird — kind of haunting.”