Don’t miss the face painting, the altar, the sugar skulls, the musical performances or the fun!

Happy Halloween from the Mar Vista Farmer’s Market! Today the celebration included pumpkins for sale

and pumpkins to decorate with Smart Space,

face painting by Cola Smith,

performances by the Ghouls, Didi Pop and Family Dance Jam,

there was a costume contest and LA Costume Swap was there to help embellish your existing costumes.

New today: Les Macarons Duverger – authentic French Macarons – yummy treats!

Raw pistachios from the Santa Barbara Pistachio Company – so cool!

And in the Green Booth, the Master Gardeners were handing out seed packets and seedlings, as they do every month. Stop by!

It started out pretty gray today at the Mar Vista Farmer’s Market, but the sun finally came out and it turned into a gorgeous day!

There was a pumpkin patch,

some pretty Fall Wreaths,

Blueberries are back for a short visit – a gift of the recent heat wave,

there’s a new food booth: Smart Simple Gourmet,

and Chef Jonathan Schuler was on hand doing a cooking demo.

In the Green Booth, Food & Water Watch was there, talking about the Farm Bill and identifying GMOs in our food.

The Mar Vista Farmer’s Market was hopping with Halloween Costumes today as it was the big LA Costume Swap – part of the Green Halloween effort. I did my best Trashion effort as a Paper Bag Princess, there were Pirates galore, and the Costume swap was in full swing!

The Real Princesses were doing face painting!

Paula Daniels spoke about the Los Angeles Food Policy Task Force’s Good Food For All agenda.

Urban Green now has a pizza oven rocking the market! Along with seasonally-appreopriate pecan pies – deelish!

And Malibu Meat Pies are now a fixture at the market!

Even though it’s close to 80 degrees today, Fall is coming to the Mar Vista Farmer’s Market, with more root vegetables soon to be here!

Alex Weiser from Weiser Family Farms was here at his booth today and says they’ll soon have turnips, rutabagas, more kinds of carrots and potatoes, celeriac, romanesco cauliflower and watermelon radishes – just some of their Fall and Winter vegetables we can look forward to.

And just take a look at what’s new today:

Plus in the Green Booth, representatives from Label GMOs were on hand spreading the word about their upcoming rally on October 16th and pending legislation they’re trying to get passed that would give us all more information about what’s really in our food.

The Mar Vista Arts and Crafts Collective will be at the Mar Vista Farmer’s Market this Sunday, October 2nd, from 9am – 2pm.

Today the big news at the Mar Vista Farmer’s Market was: Dates are back!

And organic pistachios are here – flavored and regular!

The Mar Vista Farmer’s Market was hopping today!

Cuyama Apples are back!

Smart Fish Co. has Stone Crab Claws!

Janae’s Fillets Alaskan Salmon made its debut.

Jonathan Schuler did a cooking demo making Tapas and selling his cookbooks.

Sustainable Works was back in the Green Booth today talking about their upcoming Free workshops, and G2 Gallery in nearby Venice was there promoting their new CSA drop-off program.

And LA Costume Swap was on hand to promote the upcoming Costume Swap Extravaganza on October 9th! Drop off any costumes you’d like to swap at the Green Booth ahead of time or bring them on the 9th for major swappage!