Bruce Aidells founded Aidells Sausage Company in 1983 and has been selling sausages for all the years I’ve been coming to the San Francisco farmers market, even before it moved down the street.

My father ordered a sandwich of the Maple & Smoked Bacon Breakfast Link – chicken, turkey and bacon – flavored with maple sugar and sweet potatoes.

Eatwell Farm specializes in lavender, including lavender salts and lavender products. They also sell bunches of wheat, which I’m guessing are decorative.

Roli Roti Gourmet Rotisserie founder Thomas Odermatt parks his silver truck on the Ferry Building’s east side.

Rotisseries turn rows of Sonoma Select Free Range Chickens from Fulton Valley Farm. Juices from bronzed birds drip down on the potatoes, adding to the flavor. On the bottom right spit, they were cooking pork knuckles. Sadly, they weren’t ready yet.

It was far from lunch time, but I couldn’t resist ordering a Roli Combo ($6), a juicy quarter-chicken with a side of addictive rosemary-roasted potatoes. A lime wedge added some acidic bite to the proceedings.