This salad is the direct result of a trip to the farmer’s market. I hesitate to give an exact recipe, since the hope is that you tailor your family’s meal after what you find at your market! So consider the recipe below as a guideline only.

We set out with the intention of making a Corn, Nectarine, and Blueberry Salad that I’d spotted in a magazine, and I printed Travis a picture of each ingredient we hoped to find. This turned it into a neat scavenger hunt.

Any similar hunt will be a great way to engage kids with the market and the sellers! If you don’t have exact ingredients in mind, then challenge your kids to find things you spot along the way: “Find me a root vegetable” or “Find me something red!” you can say.

Don’t forget to check out the other fun that a farmers’ market has to offer while you’re there.

Travis got to sample fresh lemonade, pick out a toy made from organic catnip for our cat, check out homemade crafts, and more. Nibbling a bite of fresh basil was a must!

Babies love the scents and sounds of a farmers’ market, too, so consider adding this to your summer hit-list of baby field trips!

As it turns out, we couldn’t locate everything on our scavenger hunt ingredient list, but we did find perfect corn, and the biggest scallions we’d ever seen!

So when we got home, we improvised the salad. We had beautiful local peaches in place of the nectarines, and no blueberries (but the salad was just fine without them!), and added lots more basil and scallions than called for since we had a big bounty. I present to you, our Farmers Market Corn and Peach Salad.

Ingredients:

• 3 ears fresh corn
• 2 peeled and chopped ripe peaches
• 1/4 cup chopped scallions
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 tablespoon fresh-squeezed lime juice

1. Cut the kernels from the corn cobs and place in a large bowl.
2. Add the remaining ingredients and stir to combine.