So you had a good day at the farmer's market? I was hoping so....

I've pickled jalapenos, frozen them, stuffed them, made bread and butter pickled jalapenos and plain old pickled jalapenos, but never heard of canning them with cherries. That's an interesting thought, if you figure it out, I'd love to know!

Annie

Will do. The young man kept going on about how absolutely wonderful they were.

Yes, it was a good two and three quarters hours. Good steady traffic, but it did rain a little bit. The other vendors told me it was not nearly as busy as usaual. Well, this next Friday I'll be there again with an array of jams and preserves in addition to what I had last Friday. One of the other vendors ask me about selling my eggs, but the board of health requires all kinds of stuff plus permits so I told her I couldn't. Don't want to get tied up with all the Riga a role. Then she suggested bartering them. Something to think about.

If you did regular canned cherries in light syrup, with one or two peppers per jar, sliced into cherry-sized chunks it would work.

The sweet-hot combo is excellent

Thanks, lazy_gardens. I might give that a try. Today I picked twenty pounds of habanero and have half a bushel of tomatoes as well as nearly the same amount of beets to pickle. Have decided to get all that, some jams and jellies done before I start playing with the cherries an peppers. Oh, there's a dozen ears of corn to put up as well.

Found the recipe! It's Jalapeño-Spiked Cherry Preserves on the University of Oregon's extension website.

Thanks, Madonna!

I'm surprised at everything you need to do to sell eggs, they're a lot safer than canned goods, most times. Here you just stick a sign in your yard, Eggs for Sale, and people stop and buy them, same with fresh garden produce.

The Cottage Food Law won't let me sell salsa, though, or pickles, any low acid products, just jams/jellies/syrups, fruit products and baked goods, appropriately labelled with possible allergens.

Annie

This is off-topic, but perhaps some can chime in on a quick question...

Speaking of the laws and policies of public selling, our local farmer's market requires vendors to carry insurance. This isn't to cover if someone eats something bad, but if they trip and fall around your booth. They want each vendor to have a $100,000 policy. The market is on a city parking lot. My insurance company would add coverage to my current policy with them - I haven't yet looked into partial year costs, but it would cost $70 per year.

Is this common for local farmer's markets?

They are trying to attract vendors, and they advertise that it's a good opportunity for gardeners like myself to sell their produce, but that insurance, on top of the space prices, favors farms and other commercial interests who already have such insurance.