The strawberries are coming on strong now. Richfield and Truck Patch will have even more berries this week and now Quaker Valley will have some early Sweet Charlie variety too. I’d still expect them to sell out by noon, so come early. We’re still awash in asparagus, my very favorite food on the grill. And market is lush with greens for fantastic salads. Pick up some great sausages and ground beef for your Memorial Day grill, and some of those cute rolls from Atwater Bakery.
Bring the kids early for Nathan the Jazzy Juggler! He will entertain us this Saturday from 9 -11 and then we’ll have The Mountaineers with an acoustic bluegrass set.
Saturday bike clinic is still on! Contest this week: submit your ideas for a good name for the Bike Thing. We’d love more volunteers of all skill levels – really, even if you don’t know how to rebuild a hub, we still want folks on hand who can help inflate tires, learn how to patch a tube, and offer opinions on routes.
Tree and Leaf Farm: Beautiful, nutrient dense vegetables are grown without chemical fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides. Baby Mei Qing pac choi (aka bok choy) has a lovely tender white rib. Escarole, endive, lettuce heads, salad mix, baby chard, turnip greens. Baby beets and hakurei salad turnips (the greens are great too). Cut herbs. Basil, flower, and veggie plants. Asparagus.
Richfield Farm: Strawberries are in full swing. Red and white spring onions, Savannah smooth leaf greens, tatsoi, lettuce heads, tons of asparagus and rhubarb, hanging nasturtium and petunia baskets, herb starts. Maybe some zucchini and snap peas!
Truck Patch Farms: MORE strawberries, MORE asparagus, curly kale, arugula, spring mix, lettuce, red chard, chives, garlic chives, tarragon, mint. Black Angus grass fed beef, pastured pork products and eggs.
Quaker Valley Farm: Strawberries! Purple and green asparagus, apples, dried apples, popcorn, canned Madison peaches, blueberry and tart cherry jams (great with Keswick’s quark), and tomato sauce.
Reid Orchard: Fuji and Pink Lady apples, apple butter, pumpkin butter, apple sauce, and herbs. Plants for your garden: heirloom tomatoes, basil, chives, cilantro, dill, french tarragon, lavender, lemon balm, lemon verbena, mint, oregano, rosemary, sage, thyme, winter savory.
Audia Farms: Jams, fruit syrups, herbs, spices, tea, perennials and garden starts.
Atwater Bread: Organic sourdough and yeasted breads: Peasant Wheat, Caraway Rye, Cranberry Pecan, Kalamata Olive, traditional San Francisco Sourdough, Ciabatta, Country White, Chili Cheddar, French Baguette, Spelt, Sunflower Flax, and more. Brownies, cookies, scones, muffins, and granola.
Groff’s Content Farm: 100% grass-fed and -finished lamb and beef, pastured Berkshire pork, beautiful pastured eggs. Pre-order poultry.
Keswick Creamery: raw milk cheeses, blue cheese, feta, ricotta, quark, yogurt, and chocolate pudding.
Painted Hand Farm: humanely raised, grass-fed rose veal and goat meat. Ask her about the veal industry and why you don’t want to buy veal from anyone else. All cuts: shanks, chops, ground, scaloppini, breakfast link goat sausage, hot and sweet Italian veal sausage, traditional German-style Bratwurst (veal and pork).
Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: This is their off week, but if you must have some, they’ll be down at the 14th & U market.
Look forward to seeing you this Saturday! Please bring your own bags for shopping.
May 30 – Snappy Peas
Come hear Will McKindley-Ward for an 11am acoustic set. Email Gabe (see below) if you want to play in the morning slot!
Saturday bike clinic: submit a cool name for the market bike clinic thing, get your tires properly inflated, then ride over to the new Bike Co-op at the People’s Media Center (4132 Georgia Ave NW, 20011) for their Clinic and Swap!
Tree and Leaf Farm: Snow peas and garlic scapes – the slim, coiled shoots that garlic sends up this time of year. Treat them like green beans. Or ask Georgia – she will have lots and lots of recipe suggestions. Zach planted my mom’s favorite lettuce from the Santa Cruz Farmers’ Market: Baby Gem – kind of like a romaine but sweet like a Bibb, also heads of romaine lettuce, good deals on escarole and frisee endive, raddicchio heads, salad lettuce heads, arrowhead cabbage (super sweet and tender, not your German grandma’s all day stewing cabbage), bunched and baby chard, salad mix, baby kale mix (toscano and red bor) golden frill mustard. Glowing red radishes, pretty striped chiogga beets, rainbow baby beets and sweet bunching onions. Basil tops. Flower, purple basil and veggie plants for your garden. The latest rain gave the asparagus harvest a big boost, so be sure to savor these last weeks of Spring’s holy grail. These beautiful, nutrient dense vegetables are grown without chemical fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides.
Richfield Farm: Mediterranean and 8-ball zucchini. Sugar snap peas! More and more strawberries. Red and white spring onions, Savannah smooth leaf greens, red leaf mustard, chard, broccoli rabe, lettuce heads, tons of asparagus and rhubarb, those pretty hanging nasturtium and petunia baskets, herb starts. Radishes, spinach and maybe some broccoli if it looks like it’s going to start bolting this week.
Truck Patch Farms: Strawberries – the ever popular big fat Chandlers and now some of the exquisitely fragrant and flavorful Early Glows. Asparagus, curly kale, arugula, spring mix, lettuce, red chard, chives, garlic chives, tarragon, mint. Black Angus grass fed beef, pastured pork products and eggs.
Quaker Valley Farm: Strawberries and asparagus, apples, dried apples, popcorn, canned Madison peaches, blueberry, tart cherry, and maybe strawberry jam, and Fredi’s delicious fresh tasting tomato sauce.
Reid Orchard: Fuji and Pink Lady apples, apple butter, pumpkin butter, apple sauce, and herbs. Plants for your garden: heirloom tomatoes, basil, chives, cilantro, dill, french tarragon, lavender, lemon balm, lemon verbena, mint, oregano, rosemary, sage, thyme, winter savory.
Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: Back this week at the top of the market! Delicious handcrafted cheeses from just outside the beltway.
Audia Farms: Jams, fruit syrups, herbs, spices, tea, perennials and garden starts.
Atwater Bread: Organic sourdough and yeasted breads: Peasant Wheat, Caraway Rye, Cranberry Pecan, Kalamata Olive, traditional San Francisco Sourdough, Ciabatta, Country White, Chili Cheddar, French Baguette, Spelt, Sunflower Flax, and more. Brownies, cookies, scones, muffins, and granola.
Groff’s Content Farm: 100% grass-fed and -finished lamb and beef, pastured Berkshire pork, beautiful pastured eggs. Pre-order poultry.
Keswick Creamery: raw milk cheeses, blue cheese, feta, ricotta, quark, yogurt, and chocolate pudding.
Painted Hand Farm: humanely raised, grass-fed rose veal and goat meat. Ask her about the veal industry and why you don’t want to buy veal from anyone else. All cuts: shanks, chops, ground, scaloppini, breakfast link goat sausage, hot and sweet Italian veal sausage, traditional German-style Bratwurst (veal and pork).
Say hi to Jessica and Jody managing the market on their own this Saturday! Please bring your own bags for shopping.