DURHAM FARMERS’ MARKET
Mondays, 2:15 to 5:30
Mill Road Plaza

If farmers and bakers can find time to read during their busiest season (start work before sunrise, finish after sunset), you know you’ve got some serious readers on your hands.

In the spirit of the back-to-school season, here’s a rundown of what some of our vendors have been reading this summer to keep their minds as fresh as their food:

Celeste at
45 Market Street Bakery & Cafe
Sleeping Naked Is Green
Eat More Dirt: Diverting & Instructive Tips for Growing and Tending an Organic Garden

Davyanne at Moriarty’s Greenhouse
Blue Dahlia
Farm Fresh Murder (This is a murder mystery set at a farmers’ market. “That’s how you know you’ve made it to the big time,” she says. “They start writing murder mysteries about you!”)

Jean at Meadow’s Mirth
The Wire!

Carolyn at Ramsbotham’s Riverview Farm
A customer from the Portsmouth Market brought a lovely antique book about flowers to Carolyn this summer, which she has been savoring. The book is really nice, Carolyn says, but the fact that a customer thought of her when she saw it was her favorite part.

Deb at Sugarmomma’s Maple Farm 
Cooking magazines! Taste of Home and Taste of the South are a couple of her favorites, but if it’s a cooking magazine, she’ll read it … and probably collect it, too.

Nate at Applecrest Farm Orchards
The Sun Also Rises (and if you’d like to chat with Nate about this Hemingway classic, Matt is pretty sure he could talk about it all day long.)

Matt at Applecrest Farm Orchards
The Alchemist

Abby at Wake Robin Farm
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest