HORACE LANGFORD JR. / PVT Carolene Indersby talks to Frank Halbardier about buying cacti at the farmer's market. Other booths are pictured in the background under the vehicle canopies. Advertisement

Jim Colbert, owner of Jim's Greenhouse, was making a sale, selling a lantana, a tropical shrub, to some buyers at the Farmers Market Saturday morning.

Nearby, Farnk Halbardier was giving advice to a customer interested in his cacti in the back of a pickup truck: they grow well in the hot sun but aren't well adapted to frost.

For people who wanted something artificial, there were realistic-looking fake flowers to buy at a booth under the parking canopies in front of Petrack Park.

Marinus VanMuyden, a retired cabinet maker, was showing his carved antique, wooden cars, made out of fir, hemlock and pine using a whole array of band saws, table saws and other equipment. His wife Maria was busy stitching embroidered pin cushions, pillows and towels.

The entrepreneurial spirit was alive and well during the second weekend of the Farmers Market Saturday morning.

Roxanne Jones, a master gardener with the University of Nevada, Reno Cooperative Extension Service, said the winter vendor sale helped spur a renewed interest in the summer farmer's market this year.

The market isn't just open to sellers of produce, though some master gardeners brought their own zucchini and farm-fresh eggs, which quickly sold out.

"It's actually more of a community market because there's some people that can grow things in Pahrump, some people that can't," Jones said.

Linda Wood of Las Vegas, was pedaling her Greenstuff2, an ointment that she said will cure itching, rashes and dry skin. She got the idea after being stung by a brown recluse spider in Arizona and getting treated by a practitioner of alternative medicine who soaked her foot in herbs.

Wood said she processed the herbs for sale as an ointment, since some people thought the bag of herbs resembled marijuana.