What’s at the Woodinville Farmers Market This Week? July 16

By the time the first customers roll into the on Saturday morning, Chico Marac will already have worked a full day.

He’s up at 1 a.m. to load up produce from Jose Bautista’s farm in Sunnyside. Then the operation heads west to several farmers markets in the Puget Sound region.

It’s the season when they don’t sleep, says Bautista, who works 12 acres of vegetables and 16 acres of fruit in the Yakima Valley.

And while Marac greets customers in Woodinville with tables piled high with produce, Bautista will be in Edmonds doing the same. He’ll stay for the Sunday market in Lake Forest Park before heading home.

This week, Bautista Farms will have green and yellow zucchini, Walla Walla sweet onions, wax and green beans, cabbage, beets, pickling and regular cucumbers, Rainier and Bing cherries, apricots, early peaches, pattypan squash and green tomatoes.

The corn should be ready for next week, Bautista said.

The Woodinville Farmers Market is open Saturdays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., until fall. It’s located at 17301 133rd Ave. N.E., next to City Hall.