Celebrate your local farmers market

River Wokosin, 2, slurps a forkful of mung bean noodles at the Gourmet Korean B.B.Q. booth at the Hollywood farmers market.  (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)

More to 3-year-old Nicholas Figueroa’s taste is the Caribbean-Creole essence of the Flava Lady’s shrimp served at the Hollywood farmers market.  (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)

The farm-fresh produce and prepared foods aren’t the only draws at the farmers market in Hollywood. Jadden Dempsey, 7, gets his kicks from a balloon artist.  (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)

A combo plate is the perfect introduction to Flava Lady’s spicy lair where ingredients such as curry, garlic, green onions, thyme, fresh ginger, brown sugar and mango chutney mingle.  (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)

Reiko Fukumoto is along for the ride as her father, Royd, samples the spicy flavors at Flava Lady at the Hollywood farmers market.  (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)

Dray’s Bar-B-Que, setting up shop in Westchester, is a legend unto itself and has the drippings-adorned signage to prove it.  (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)

A Dray’s Bar-B-Que stand favorite, pork ribs are tender but with that perfect snap that lets you know they weren’t precooked.  (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)

One sample and you’re hooked at Dray’s Bar-B-Que, a Westchester farmers market favorite.  (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)

Mr. Dray himself, New Orleans native Andre Weathersby. The retired meat cutter smokes his meats at farmers markets in a portable pit over mostly mesquite wood. Wife Diana is queen of the stand’s desserts, including an iconic sweet potato pie.  (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)

The smoke is how you know things are cookin’ at Dray’s Bar-B-Que, the pit that pulls in weekly at farmers markets in Westchester, Leimert Park and Mar Vista.  (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)

Papusas meet aebelskivers at the Torrance farmers market, succinctly and deliciously summing up the multicultural L.A. farmers market scene.  (Jamie Rector / For The Times)

At Delmy’s Pupusas, the thick and chewy disks are stuffed with fillings including cheese, pork, zucchini and mushrooms, and topped with curtido (pickled cabbage) and a bright, fiery salsa.  (Jamie Rector / For The Times)

Thierry Boisson ladles batter for a crepe slated to surround a fresh strawberry-banana filling.  (Jamie Rector / For The Times)

They’re Danish and they’re delicious. Aebleskivers are the positively addictive spherical pastry sold in Solvang and, luckily for Los Angelenos, at the Torrance farmers market.  (Jamie Rector / For The Times)

Proving good things come in threes, a trio of aebelskivers is served with homemade jam and powdered sugar at the farmers market in Torrance.  (Jamie Rector / For The Times)

David Mas Masumoto makes a science of raising organic peaches, nectarines and raisins on his 80-acre farm in the San Joaquin Valley near Fresno.  (Gary Kazanjian / For the Times)

Ten stories up, Jonathan McDowell of Blue Velvet restaurant in downtown L.A. harvests lavender from terraced beds. The eatery is one of a growing number that are working to wedge gardens into every available sunny space.  (Betty Hallock / Los Angeles Times)

Kaiser Permanente’s Baldwin Park Medical Center is home to a twice-monthly farmers market frequented by vendors including Monica Salembier.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Robert and Sue Moon stop by Kaiser Permanente’s Baldwin Park Medical Center for a doctor’s appointment and to shop at the facility’s farmers market.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Kim Jeng does double duty with a doctor’s appointment and produce shopping at Kaiser Permanente’s Baldwin Park Medical Center.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Kaiser Permanente’s Baldwin Park Medical Center is a boon for employees too. Dr. Shilpa Shinde takes advantage of the on-site bounty.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Fresh is the order of the day as Kaiser Permanente brings farmers markets to several of its medical facilities; this one is in Baldwin Park.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Produce tables are a portrait in color at the Hollywood farmers market.  (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)

At the Santa Monica farmers market, it’s a riot of cherries, clockwise from left: Tartarian, Brooks and Rainier.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

A mixed-berry crostata puts the markets’ bounty to sweetly delicious use.  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)