Mostly our local farmers sell the standard seasonal vegetables — at this time of year it's usually a rather sparse selection of onions and carrots, last year's daikon, some spuds or taro yams, spinach, perhaps, or shungiku (fragrant chrysanthemum greens)... But once in a while we see some pretty exotic produce...
There were long red Kyoto carrots; fennel bulbs; beetroot (still exotic in this neck of the woods), and — the first time I've seen them in our farmers' market — ice plants. They were priced at 200 yen per leaf, but no one else was buying them so the farmer gave me virtually all of them for that. Here's a close-up:
