Lauren Knapp and friend will be playing folksy country music in the 9-11 shift, and Christopher Ousley will be playing banjo and guitar for us in the 11-1 shift. Since there won’t be any torrential rain this Saturday, perhaps we can shower them with gifts of produce and coins! If they keep your kids entranced for 10 minutes while you get to have a conversation or shop, be sure to show your appreciation!
Free Range Bike Clinic: Air, Oil, Advice! Meet other bike enthusiasts and find someone doing what you want to do - commute, race, bike camp, tote kids, haul cargo.
Volunteer Needed for Paint Your Own Market Bag: I still have that big stack of boring white polypropylene bags that need dolling up. Please contact me if you’re game for running a big, messy craft project on a Saturday! Market will reimburse you for additional materials - paint, stencils, you tell me what you need and I’ll set you up.
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: Gooseberries! Sweet cherries, blueberries, raspberries! Still some more Honeyoe strawberries and Sugar Ann snap peas.
Tree and Leaf Farm: Loads of Lincoln leeks, Yukon Gold new potatoes dug Thursday - medium starch makes these buttery potatoes versatile for most preparations. New potatoes are most amazing in the first 15 days from digging, so get them now! Yellow sweet spring onions (last week for these!). Baby carrots. Heirloom zucchini are light green, large and tender. Deer Tongue bibb lettuce, Summer Crisp and Romaine lettuce heads, chicory greens, salad mix with edible calendula flowers. Red Express cabbages. Magenta, white and yellow chard plus baby chard. Large Red Ace, Chiogga and Golden beets. Baby hakurei turnips. Opal basil and lettuce leaf basil with leaves as large as your hand and chives, garlic chives. Beautiful, nutrient dense vegetables are grown without chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides.
Richfield Farm: Every imaginable kind of zucchini, yellow squash, even white. Shelling peas. Spring onions, rainbow chard, kale, lettuce heads, dandelion greens, yellow, red and striped beets. Broccoli and cauliflower. Pickling cucumbers, green beans, and fava beans. Flower bouquets. Blueberries. Fennel.
Truck Patch Farms: Green beans and squash. Spring onions, curly kale, arugula, spring mix, lettuce, chard, cut herbs. Black Angus grass fed beef, pastured pork products and eggs.
Quaker Valley Farm: Bing and Ranier cherries, strawberries, red, gold and black raspberries. A few early nectarines! Potatoes in red, white and blue. 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. Keep an eye out for their unique “scratch” cheeses - experiments or recipes that are still being worked out and are only available briefly - last week’s Briemeer (a vermeer that developed a brie rind) was delicious!
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 (717) 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: Back this week! Creamy, fresh, soft-ripened cheeses handmade in small batches.