Fathers Day brunch with last of the season asparagus and Dragon’s Breath cheese omelets, fresh sweet cherries and Atwater granola in Keswick yogurt, Painted Hand goat sausage, thick bacon cut from Truck Patch pork jowl, and a bouquet of Richfield Farm flowers. And sneak daddy’s bike down to the market for a little sprucing up at the Bike Clinic - degrease and lube that squeaky-mouse chain.
Paint Your Own Market Bag: we have a big stack of FREE boring white polypropylene bags that need your kids’ touch. Please contact me if you’re game for running a big, messy craft project on Saturday! Market will reimburse you for additional materials - paint, stencils, you tell me.
Rick and Mara are back on the bandstand with accordion music. Since no one got it last year, I’m repeating the free market token award for answering this question: What happens if you admit that you can play the accordion? Come to the manager’s stand and be the first to tell me! While there, be sure to pick up a free copy of the great new local food mag, Flavor, and read about your local farmers, chefs, and winemakers. And say hi to my mom visiting from California - she’ll be the one hard at work pitting cherries for the grandkids. Playing in the late morning shift will be The Mountaineers.
Free Range Bike Clinic: Air, Oil, Advice - get consultation on advanced repairs. Many thanks to Columbia Heights neighbor Mark for donating a folding bike stand! The clinic is run entirely by your neighbors with their own tools and patches and time, there is no official sponsorship or non-profit organization or nothing. Its success has been due to your enthusiasm and participation, so come by, show off your cute bike, chat with other bike lovers, watch the work on other bikes and ask questions, entertain the grommets underfoot, see if there’s anything you can pitch in to do while waiting!
Vote for your favorite farmers’ market at the American Farmland Trust website. The link will take you directly to the MtPFM vote asking for comments.
Reid Orchard: LOTS of delicious sweet cherries! Rich crimson Honeyoe strawberries. Sugar Ann snap peas are a juicy, healthy snack. Fuji and Pink Lady apples, apple butter, pumpkin butter, apple sauce, and herbs.
Tree and Leaf Farm: Lots of new goodies this week! Leeks, new red potatoes, spring onions, and baby carrots (mmm, a cute little kid salad with thesnow peas!). Italian heirloom zucchini (verde chiaro d’italia). Deer Tongue bibb lettuce, mixed lettuce heads, salad mix with edible flowers. Napa, Red Express, and Arrowhead cabbages. Kale mix with toscano and redbor, Toscano kale, chard. Red Ace, Chiogga and baby Golden and Merlin beets. Hakurei turnips. Tons of jumbo Italian lettuce leaf basil, Italian flat leaf parsley, chives, garlic chives, rosemary. Beautiful, nutrient dense vegetables are grown without chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, just love and long hours…in the rain. But as Zach quotes Twain to me, “everybody talks about the weather but no one can do anything about it.”
Richfield Farm: Plenty of bouquets! Kohlrabi, zucchini, yellow squash and patty pans. Sugar snap peas and shelling peas. Spring onions, rainbow chard, kale, lettuce heads, yellow, red and striped beets. Broccoli and cauliflower. Pickling cucumbers and green beans if the rain doesn’t wash the guys right out of the field on Friday. Maybe some fava beans - if not this week, for sure next week. Basil plants. Last week for rhubarb and asparagus! I’m cooking up some more Rhubarb Simple Syrup right now, it’ll keep.
Truck Patch Farms: Green beans and maybe some squash. Early Glow strawberries. Last week for asparagus! Spring onions, curly kale, arugula, spring mix, lettuce, chard, cut herbs. Black Angus grass fed beef, pastured pork products and eggs.
Quaker Valley Farm: Cherries! Potatoes in red, white and blue, strawberries and a few red raspberries. Asparagus is over, time to think about fruit! Apple and tomato sauce, jam, honey, dried apples and apple butter. Eggs and popping corn too.
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.
Keswick Creamery: raw milk cheeses, blue cheese, feta, ricotta, quark, yogurt, and chocolate pudding. Plenty of extra Dragon’s Breath this week!
Groff’s Content Farm: 100% grass-fed and -finished lamb and beef, pastured Berkshire pork, beautiful pastured eggs and chicken! Tasty pet treats.
Painted Hand Farm: humanely raised, grass-fed rose veal and goat meat. Goat shoulder roasts, leg steaks, shanks, chops, ground, veal scaloppini, 100% goat meat breakfast sausage links cased in collagen for people who don’t eat pork, hot and sweet Italian veal sausage, traditional German-style Bratwurst (veal and pork). Great prices on eggs! Whole goats available for summer picnics. The goats are 13-15 pounds and are quartered. Order in advance at sandra@paintedhandfarm.com or (414) 423-5663 by Friday afternoons.
Audia Farms: Jams, teas, herbs, for you, catnip for your little friend. Perennials for your garden.
Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: They’re at 14th and U this week.
See you Saturday! Please bring your own bags for shopping.