Like Hillcrest, this market offers lots of prepared foods as well as fresh produce. I walk past the llama rides and face-painting tables to the Gama Farm stand, where they sell fresh eggs. Our eggs are the highest quality, brags the hand-lettered sign. Gathered at 4 a.m. daily.
Chickens are free range and veggie fed.
These eggs prove so rich and fresh that their yolks look like deep-yellow sunbursts in the frying pan. Down the street, near the Sunshine Day Dreams shop, is the Good Faith Organic Farm of Jamul. I buy some of their picture-perfect radishes. I taste samples of the Olde Homestead Fudge Companies cappuccino nut fudge, and then consider buying some fresh gnocchi or vegetable-topped focaccia from the Cucina Fresca stand. But then the beat of a reggae band farther down the block draws me away.