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Enough Is Enough

June 18th, 2017 by Sallie Bingham in New Mexico 5 Comments

Santa Fe Farmers MarketI was going to write—again!—about you-know-who and the question that is haunting me: did we create him?

But I think we are all so tired, so very tired, of this topic, which has squeezed more important issues (like decisions being made behind the scenes in Washington that will affect us all) off the various forms of radar.

Some of you may remember, as I do, the extreme fatigue we felt when our beloved toddler threw another tantrum, often in public, falling to the floor, kicking and screaming.

So—enough is enough. Even our indignation feels too familiar, after a while.

Local, organic produce is of the blessings of our age—which at times seems cursed.

Instead—the Farmers’ Market here in Santa Fe I attend faithfully early every Saturday morning, meeting a group of three beloved friends who feed me enough, emotionally, to keep me going all day, in addition to the excellent eggroll Seth always buys for me—my treat for the week.

Thank you Richard, Doug and Seth for being so faithful to our blessed ritual!

I’m posting photos of the farm stands I cruised before eight A.M., when the heat had not yet risen to a crescendo and the produce was shiny and bright.

All familiar—cucumbers, radishes, carrots—except for the garlic “scapes”—I think that’s what they are called—long green onion-like veggies that pack a powerful punch.

I never leave without a bunch of Ann’s flowers. Flowers are particularly hard to grow here, in our dense, hard soil, now-withering heat (it didn’t use to be this hot) and lack of water, in addition to the challenges of our short growing season.

And today, I also bought one of the glorious dried-flower wreaths made by my friend Pilar.

All the men, women and children who cultivate these growing things, distil the tinctures, make the cider, hand out samples of homemade jams and bread—they are all up long before dawn to make the sometimes many hours drive to Santa Fe from their farms out in the state.

And I nearly forgot the lamb, beef, egg and chicken vendors.

All the hard work, which I never knew how to do, to put the freshest organic produce on my table, and on the tables of many other people.

One of the blessings of our age—which at times seems cursed.

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A long and fruitful career as a writer began in 1960 with the publication of Sallie Bingham's novel, After Such Knowledge. This was followed by 15 collections of short stories in addition to novels, memoirs and plays, as well as the 2020 biography The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke.

Her latest book, Taken by the Shawnee, is a work of historical fiction published by Turtle Point Press in June of 2024. Her previous memoir, Little Brother, was published by Sarabande Books in 2022. Her short story, "What I Learned From Fat Annie" won the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize in 2023 and the story "How Daddy Lost His Ear," from her forthcoming short story collection How Daddy Lost His Ear and Other Stories (September 23, 2025), received second prize in the 2023 Sean O’Faolain Short Story Competition.

She is an active and involved feminist, working for women’s empowerment, who founded the Kentucky Foundation for Women, which gives grants to Kentucky artists and writers who are feminists, The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University, and the Women’s Project and Productions in New York City. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Sallie's complete biography is available here.

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  1. Douglas Conwell says

    June 18th, 2017 at 3:41 pm

    And we are blessed by being with YOU my dear! Here’s to many more Markets…can’t get enough of those kind of things….
    Doug

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  2. C.m. Johnson on Facebook says

    June 18th, 2017 at 4:16 pm

    Thanks for the breath of fresh thoughts about the day to erase the latest news of the day.

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  3. Ranny Levy on Facebook says

    June 18th, 2017 at 9:08 pm

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  4. Jackie Carruthers says

    June 19th, 2017 at 7:18 pm

    Local produce is the best gift from nature. Local foods grown organically are the best source of probiotics that mother Earth has to offer. I grow a garden every year using everything organic even fertilizer. I went to Louisville and helped a friend’s daughter plant her first urban garden. I am a big supporter of being a Green Gorilla. And food from the toil of your own hands is so tasty. Just like it was when I was growing up.

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  5. Vincent Mallon on Facebook says

    June 19th, 2017 at 8:03 pm

    I would like some of the cardamon and dandelion bitters

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