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Entries in Santa Monica Farmers Market (12)
RAIN OR SHINE
Santa Clause walks in the rain while greeting shoppers at the Santa Monica Farmers Market on Sunday, December 19, 2010.




Queen Bee
1) Bill Lewis feeds his Italian Cordovan bees some honey in their 'working hive' at the Third Street Santa Monica Farmers Market on Saturday, June 2, 2007. Cordovan bees are known for the brilliant golden color Their attractive coloration makes the queen location less difficult. 2) The queen bee can be scene in the center of a see-through working hive. A queen be is almost twice the size of the other bees and can lay 2,000 eggs per day.




Off Their Jingle Bell Rockers




Masanga Marimba Ensemble
(1,2) Santa Monica College and California State University Northridge world music professor, Dr. Ric Alviso, director of the Masanga Marimba Ensemble, performs with his students at the Santa Monica Farmers Market on Sunday. The Masanga Marimba Ensemble plays music from the Shona people of Zimbabwe, much of which is centuries old and has been passed down by oral tradition from generation to generation. Playing on Shona-style marimbas from Zimbabwe, the ensemble performs music largely based on the mbira dzavadzimu, a hand-held instrument with 22-28 metal keys often used for sacred ceremonies to call, honor, and ask for advice from ancestral spirits. (3) Nicole Hill, 30, hold up her 20 month old son Kailean Ryan while he plays on the Marimba during an intermission of the Masanga Marimba Ensemble (4) David Emerson, 27, dances during the performance.





Sunday Jazz at the Market




Valet Bike Zone
Monica Howe, 30, a bike valet and the outreach manager for the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, parks a shoppers bicycle during Santa Monica Farmers market at Main Street on Sunday July, 16, 2006. The Bicycle Valet program is a new pilot project that is sponsored by the City of Santa Monica.The project is designed to reduce the over abundance of bikes locked up to fences, trees, meters and posts throughout the neighborhood creating crowded sidewalks. On any typical Sunday, there can be more than 130 bicycles locked up throughout the streets surrounding the farmers market, according to Luis Morris, Transportation Management Specialist for the city of Santa Monica. Nine metered parking spots were being reserved for Bicycle. The entire block on Main Street between Ocean Park and Hill was reserved for the Bicycles. There were around 30 bikes parked at the valet zone at any given time throughout the farmers market hours of 9am to 1 pm on Sunday. All the tips from the valet zone went to support the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition. A group of Santa Monica Police Explores were on hand- working security, keeping an eye on the bikes.




Razor sharp




Rock on
Jason Myers, from the Jason Myers Quartet, jams on his guitar during the Santa Monica Farmers Market on Sunday, June 18, 2006 at Main Street.



