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Certified Farmers markets are the perfect place to know who produces your food and where your food comes from. You are able to ask questions directly to the farmer and we cheerfully answer them all. We also like to have fun with our customers and enjoy their wit and humour. Throughout the farmers market season we have contests that our customers enthusiastically embrace.
This is one of our predator control dogs. Chompers is still a puppy here. The chicken is a pet meat bird. We asked our farmers market patrons to write captions for this picture. Here are some of the best.
Every time a hot chick would walk by, Chompers had to roll over and show off his best bits...
"I told you Chompers that it was the chicken that crossed the road - not a dog!"
"No I won't tickle your belly, and don't ask me again!"
Chompers was noted to become exhausted with the sheer number of, "Why did the chicken cross the road" jokes.
I don't know what happened? He just belly up and lay there...
Ok, I won that one now get up and lets go back to the starting line and try again.
Faithful Chomper, taking his job seriously, keeps a close eye on a chicken.
"NO! I will not limbo with you again, now get up"
“Aw, come on, I did the Dog now let’s do the Funky Chicken
Chicken to Dog: I told you I’m not scratching you today.
The rules were simple. We asked our customers to write a limerick either about our eggs or chicken. The prize was a 3 lb. Clucky Plucky chicken.
Here is a sampling of some very clever limericks
When preparing your own local hen
Remember it’s that close to Zen
To reflect on its life
One led without strife
For dinner, you’ll want it again (and again and again)
There is a fine Lady from Lake
Whose chickens we all like to make
They’re plump and they’re good
And taste as chicken should
Be sure it’s “Clucky Plucky”, not fake!
The winning Limerick was by Gayle Adamowicz Bray - Honorary Limerick Queen, Napa, CA
There once was a lady named Jackie.
Some people thought her a little whacky.
She treated her customers like guests.
Her chickens and eggs were simply THE BEST.
To sell them, she sure has the knacky.
How many of you can say you're the winner of a free Clucky Plucky Chicken because of your outstanding limerick? Yeah, I didn't think so....
As a great way for people to think about where their food is coming from, a Clucky Plucky Turkey Limerick contest was proposed.
Sample Limerick
There once was a Clucky Plucky Turkey
Who did not graduate from Berkeley
It lived its life free
Under a walnut tree
And its disposition was quite perky.
The winning limerick was from a fellow named Gary who was thinking up turkey limericks while painting his house. Here it is:
There once was a farmer named Plucky
Who said to herself, “I’m just lucky!
I raise darn good turkey
Which I make organic jerky
That everyone says isn’t yucky!”
The prize was a Clucky Plucky Turkey Leg.