Farmers market withdrawal; do you have it, too? The weekend between the end of the Indoor Winter Market and the start of the Corvallis Saturday Farmers’ Market seems eternal. It reminds us how lucky we are to have fresh markets year-round for all but six weeks. Even the holidays can’t completely make us forget the longest gap from Thanksgiving to early January. So, let’s not pout about the little break in spring.

Market tents will rise early this Saturday at First Street and Jackson Avenue and be open for business from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. — for every Saturday thereafter until late November.

Come greet your farmer friends and catch up on the winter stories of those who weren’t at the Indoor Winter Market. We can only imagine the challenges they experienced during this tough winter. Find out what’s being planted this spring.

As much as we’d love to find the gorgeous peppers, tomatoes and melons we so fondly remember from last summer, there are seasonal specialties (some cruelly brief) that soon will appear, such as asparagus, rhubarb, garlic scapes, peas, fava beans, radishes and new potatoes.