“Were you raised in a barn, child?” If I heard it once, I heard it a hundred times growing up from my grandmother. She was getting on to me for racing out of the house to play without closing the door, but today at the State Farmer’s Market in Raleigh I think she would have meant it as a compliment.
More than a dozen children competed in a “Farm Animal Sounds” contest at the Market Festival, as well as in Corn Shucking and Corn Eating contests. There was quite a turnout of people there to cheer on the brave (and talented!) competitors…but all the free watermelon and corn they were giving out might have had something to do with that. It was almost like being in the Jim Graham Building during the Fair, checking out the livestock up for blue ribbons.
I think you’ll enjoy these impressions as much as the crowd did. And if you stop by the Farmer’s Market or your local grocery store and grab some N.C. watermelon and corn, it’ll be just like being there!
