Gorgeous beets with their greens make a super two-fer produce buy - do NOT throw away those greens! Lightly saute them until they look like spinach or chard, or make a whole Beet Centered Salad with them. Squash are starting to show up! Make an awesome vegetarian grill that makes your meat eating friends drool. All they want is slicing, olive oiling and salting before hitting the grill
This Saturday the DC Dept of Health’s WIC Agency will be hosting a WIC Walk For Produce event. Meet at their booth to participate in a small parade and receive free produce. WIC is a government assistance program to get more fresh fruits and vegetables into pregnant and nursing moms and children under 6.
Katharina Ullmann will play folk music on the bandstand for us this Saturday morning, then your neighbor Pat Breslin will ply us with guitar and vocals at 11.
Also visit the Mount Pleasant Main Street booth at market this week! Ask them about how they are improving your neighborhood and see how you can get involved.
Free Range Farmers’ Market Bike Clinic: get your tires properly inflated, learn how to fix a flat AND get the bike grease off your hands in less than 5 minutes, find your best route to work, or sign up to volunteer another Saturday. ALL skill levels appreciated! Maybe you’re just cute - that’s a skill! Come hang out and make biking look cute! Also, GREAT opportunity to sign up for the WABA (Washington Area Bicyclist Association) Confident Cycling Class: Learn to safely share the road with cars, other bikes, and pedestrians, plus bicycle selection and fit, gearing and cadence, nutrition and hydration, proper use of accessories, bike handling, hazard avoidance, traffic law, proper lane placement, and simple bike maintenance.
Tree and Leaf Farm: Bunches of Matador heirloom spinach, Oregon Giant snow peas, garlic scapes. Baby Gem, Romaine lettuce heads, escarole and frisee endive, raddicchio heads, salad lettuce heads, salad mix, big Napa cabbages, tender arrowhead cabbage, and my favorite kale ever: dark green Lacinato kale. Bunched and baby chard. Striped chiogga beets and deep scarlet Red Ace beets, mixed baby beets, red radishes, and bunched spring onions. Massive bunches of gorgeous Toscano basil make great pesto or roll-ups with their large leaves. Some cut herbs, Italian flat leaf parsley. Getting towards the end of the asparagus - without herbicides, Zach gets sick of weeding at some point! Beautiful, nutrient dense vegetables are grown without chemical fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides.
Richfield Farm: Kohlrabi! Mmm, my favorite snack, like a mild turnip meets a jicama. I hear you can cook it, but I slice it up raw for salad or to use as a hummus delivery device. Mediterranean, 8-ball, and cue ball zucchini, yellow straightneck squash and patty pans. Sugar snap peas and shelling peas for those meditative moments on the porch with a beer. Strawberries and asparagus. Red and white spring onions, rainbow chard, kale, lettuce heads, radishes and broccoli. Richfield will be needing help at their stand soon so ask about employment opportunities - reasonable pay, free produce, 8:30-1:30 on occasional Saturdays.
Truck Patch Farms: Strawberries - look for sweet and fragrant Early Glows. Spring onions, 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: Lots of strawberries, apples, dried apples, popcorn, canned Madison peaches, jam, tomato sauce and eggs.
Reid Orchard: Honeyoe strawberries! 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.
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, and chicken without pre-ordering! NEW: try out the new pet food Julie had made to her poodle’s exacting specifications.
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). Great prices on eggs!
Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: We get them every other week - this week they’re at 14th & U Market.
Audia Farms: Wedding season prevents their attendance at market this week.
See you Saturday! Please bring your own bags for shopping.