This is a place where bare feet and imaginations run free.

“What are you ladies cooking up today?” Laura Raney, an employee at Eden Market, asks a pair of regular customers as she rings up their purchases on Monday afternoon. When they describe plans for concocting a steak and onion dinner — “similar to what we made last year,” they remind her — Laura advises them to consider adding cherry tomatoes to their recipe, pointing to where the tomatoes sit amidst the rows of fresh produce in Eden Market.

When Islanders think of Vineyard ice cream, most immediately envision the long lines and generic selections of the more commercial Mad Martha’s or Scoops. But one entrepreneurial Islander is well on her way to changing this mindset since she began selling her own homemade, all-natural and organic ice cream this summer.