A Trip To Finley Market

Yesterday we took a trip to Finley Market in Cincinnati. Finley Market is the oldest continuously operated public market in Ohio. It has quite a few options for buying locally grown and raised food. It is always a cool place to go to but here are some of the things we found yesterday that add to our green lifestyle.

Beeswax and Honey

I’ve been trying to use less electricity on things that aren’t necessary. One thing that you can cut electricity back on is light. As it begins to cool off you can burn candles and use them for light versus having lights on and burning coal. The most common candle is paraffin, which is not good for you (they give off the same kind of fumes as your car exhaust only a much smaller amount). The next better choice is soy, but I prefer the clean burn of beeswax. It has been hard to locate any other than at Whole Foods and they added something to theirs to give it color and scent. We came across Bee Haven Honey at the market where they had quite a few beeswax candles to choose from.

There were plain tapers:

A few hand carved candles:

There are some slow burn candles

Tea candles and a wax lantern:

We ended up getting some tapers and tea candles. I think I’m going to go back and get a lantern soon to see if I can brighten up the rooms with them.

They also sold honey. I’m a big fan of honey for the taste and the other things you can use it in such as bread. Thought they had a few different kinds we ended up getting raw honey. Local raw honey is supposed to help with your allergies. We’ll see how well that works (there are some dangers associated with raw honey so make sure you read up on it before trying it).

Raw Honey:

Flavored Honey:

The proprietor was nice enough and patient enough to answer all of my crazy questions. I will definitely be going back and I recommend them to everyone.

After buying some bee-based products we wondered over to Skirtz & Johnston and bought some granola for our homemade yogurt. We also split a cannoli. From the bakery we saw that they had installed solar panels on the roof, which of course made me ecstatic.

Not the best picture

We walked around more checking out everything they had before we stopped in to get something a little more substantial than a cannoli. We stopped at a wonderful Vietnamese restaurant, Pho Lang Thang. I couldn’t name what we had there but we ended up splitting a pretty good vegetarian meal that consisted of cucumbers, carrots, tofu, rise noodles and some sort of sprout.

At the end of the day we had a great experience and we got a few cool new green things. If you are ever in Cincinnati look up Finley Market and check it out. And if you look around I bet you can find something around where you live.