Mt. Pleasant Farmers’ Market

• AC Valdez is back at last with that lovely charango and guitar in the early shift, then at 11a we welcome back that great band Son Cosita Seria from Veracruz! I’m sure the musicians appreciate whatever monetary or vegetative gifts you want to bestow.
• Free Range Bike Clinic: Air, Oil, Advice, and More - learn how to perform your own basic repairs, lube that squeaky chain, pump up your tires, and join WABA to get 10% off at bike shops.
• Your very own Mount Pleasant Main Street will have a booth set up to answer your questions about improving the neighborhood!

Food:

The Holly Tree Farm: From Ruckersville, VA we’ll have Black Bear Wild Foods for a trial offering this Saturday.  Hunted down from the farm and surrounding woods and fields, then handcrafted into his own long-perfected recipes, you’ll find true wild chicory coffee, wild cherry and wild raspberry sorbets, wild grape syrup, bourbon hickory nut sauce, wild raspberries, blackberries and sassafras sweet tea. Come check it out and let me know if you want to see more!
Quaker Valley Farm: Delicious, juicy Sentry peaches, white peaches, white nectarines and plums. Pink, red and white currants. Red raspberries, a few blackberries. Potatoes and sweet candy onions. Apple and tomato sauce, jam, honey, dried apples, apple butter, eggs, popping corn.

Reid Orchard: Pink and green gooseberries, sour cherries, currants, blueberries, red and black raspberries. Yellow and white peaches, plums, and apricots. Summer apples are tart and perfect for sauce and pies. A couple more sugar snap peas and a few yellow nectarines.

Tree and Leaf Farm: Gorgeous, candy-like blueberries. Baby carrots. Huge Candy Sweet yellow onions, Red Candy Apple sweet onions and Cipollini onions. Colorado Rose potatoes, Red Thumb and Russian Banana fingerling potatoes. Toscano kale and baby chard.  Slick Pick yellow squash and Italian zucchini. Salad mix, radicchio and frisee. Bulls Blood and Golden beets. Garlic, basil, parsley, rosemary, chives, and tarragon. Sunflowers. Beautiful, nutrient dense vegetables are grown without chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides.

Richfield Farm: A very small amount of the Ian’s latest experiment: ARTICHOKES, small, purple and green! And rare treat, Ian’s going to bring some of his highly potent red celery, amazing in stock. Heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes and corn. Cantaloupes, maybe some small, black Sugar Baby watermelons. Squash: yellow one ball, white cue ball, and green eight ball zucchini, yellow zucchini, light green Mediterranean zucchini, tiger striped Bush Baby zucchini, white patty pan, yellow Starburst patty pans, and regular old yellow squash. Green bell peppers, funky Hungarian pimento peppers and jalapenos, maybe some cubanelles. A few eggplants. Last week for greens: rainbow chard, kale, lettuce heads. Couple more weeks of cabbage. Cucumbers, green, yellow and roma beans, and the last week for fava beans - if you haven’t indulged in this labor intensive treat yet, you MUST, I’ll walk you through the process, it’s worth it. Fennel, red potatoes, okra if Ian has time to pick them. Bouquets,basil bunches, chives, blueberries, and gorgeous raw honey from bees that feed off the farm’s flowers.

Truck Patch Farms: Cantaloupes, cucumbers, green beans and squash. Red and white Spring onions, curly kale, arugula, spring mix, chard, cut herbs. Black Angus grass fed beef, pastured pork products and eggs. Order in advance at orders@truckpatchfarms.com for chickens.

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: Award winning Vermeer (hard cheese) and quark (like cream cheese. Raw milk cheeses, blue cheese, feta, famous Dragon’s Breath, ricotta, yogurt, and Best Of Washington chocolate pudding.

Groff’s Content Farm: 100% grass-fed and -finished lamb and beef, pastured Berkshire pork, beautiful pastured eggs and chickens. Plus tasty pet treats.

Painted Hand Farm: humanely raised, grass-fed rose veal and goat meat. Veal scallopini, rib and loin veal chops, veal cubes for shish kebabs, veal burgers, osso bucco and Italian sausages (sweet & spicy). Goat shoulder roasts for curry, goat shanks for roasting and breakfast links (cased in collagen, not pork casings).

Audia Farms: Potatoes, garlic, unpredictable garden goodies: beans, squashes, colorful carrots, sweet little bouquets. Jams, teas, herbs, for you, catnip, sachets. Perennials.

Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: At 14th&U this week. Check it out, that market has gelato too!

See you Saturday! Please bring your own bags for shopping.

• Dino Restaurant will do a cooking demo with local, seasonal goodies from your very own market.  Get inspired to cook your own versions of simple and pure Italian or get excited about treating yourself to one of their 4 course flight deals offered the month of July.
• Garrett Anderson will be performing original music from 9-11, then Jeff Rezmovic will give us that folk and bluegrass that makes the market sound. I’m sure they’ll appreciate whatever monetary or vegetative gifts you want to bestow!
• Free Range Bike Clinic: Air, Oil, Advice, and More! Learn how to perform your own basic repairs, meet a neighbor to ride to work with, join WABA and get 10% off at bike shops.
• At the manager’s stand you’ll be able to pick up a fresh free copy of Flavor magazine.
• Look out for the Thurgood Marshall kids back again selling those tasty bags of worm poop and some goodies from their school garden!

Speaking of compost, if you loved that Urban Container Gardening Workshop a couple weeks ago, you’re also likely to enjoy their latest free Composting Workshop next Wednesday 7/15 6:30-8p at the Mt P Library (3160 16th St NW): Liz Falk of Common Good City Farm will teach you how to use your yard waste and kitchen scraps to create rich soil to feed your plants, focusing on methods suitable for small yards and apartments.  Again, RSVP at ryanpfleger@yahoo.com or (202) 270-0028.

On to the seasonal foods:
Quaker Valley Farm: White and yellow peaches. Tart cherries - get them while they last! Soak them in bourbon for an adult treat. Plums and apricots.  Red, gold and black raspberries. An early variety of apple called “Transparent” for beautiful apple sauce. Red, white and blue potatoes. Apple and tomato sauce, jam, including a new batch of of red raspberry jam, honey, dried apples, apple butter, eggs, popping corn.

Reid Orchard: Pink and green gooseberries, currants, sweet cherries, blueberries, red and black raspberries. Peaches, the first plums, and apricots. The sauce apple “Lodi” is a derivative of Transparent. A couple more sugar snap peas and maybe maybe maybe, keep your fingers crossed for nectarines.

Tree and Leaf Farm: Another week of the best most perfectly ripe blueberries you ever tasted. Adorable and tender Little Finger carrots and Champion radishes. Red Candy Apple onions and Cipollini onions.  Colorado Rose, Purple Viking and Yukon Gold new potatoes. Toscano kale and baby chard.  Italian zucchini. Salad mix and frisee. Bulls Blood and Golden beets. Garlic, opal basil and lettuce leaf basil, flat leaf parsley, rosemary. Beautiful, nutrient dense vegetables are grown without chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides.

Richfield Farm: Early tomatoes! Cherry tomatoes and corn. Squash: yellow one ball, white cue ball, and green eight ball zucchini, yellow zucchini, light green Mediterranean zucchini, tiger striped Bush Baby zucchini, white patty pan, yellow Starburst patty pans, and regular old yellow squash. Green bell peppers and a couple pints of jalapenos if you get there early. Rainbow chard, kale, lettuce heads and cabbage. Cucumbers, green, yellow and roma beans, fava beans, fennel, red potatoes, maybe some okra. Bouquets and blueberries, and maybe some cantaloupes.

Truck Patch Farms: NEW! Small beefsteak tomatoes.  More of those lovely small sweet cantaloupes. Pickling cucumbers. Green beans and squash. Red and white Spring onions, curly kale, arugula, spring mix, chard, cut herbs. Black Angus grass fed beef, pastured pork products and eggs. Order in advance at orders@truckpatchfarms.com for chickens.

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: Award winning Vermeer (hard cheese) and quark (like cream cheese. Raw milk cheeses, blue cheese, feta, famous Dragon’s Breath, ricotta, yogurt, and Best Of Washington chocolate pudding.

Groff’s Content Farm: 100% grass-fed and -finished lamb and beef, pastured Berkshire pork, beautiful pastured eggs and FRESH (never frozen) chickens this week! Plus 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.comor (717) 423-5663 by Friday afternoons. Several of us cooked ‘em up for 4th of July!  I took my leftovers and stewed them in an adobo sauce for a day (chipotle salsa, ketchup, cider vinegar) and made a super yummy sloppy joe.

Audia Farms: Potatoes, garlic, unpredictable garden goodies: last week it was thin French filet beans, squashes, colorful carrots, sweet little bouquets. Jams, teas, herbs, for you, catnip, sachets. Perennials.

Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: Back this week! Creamy, fresh, soft-ripened cheeses handmade in small batches.

See you Saturday! Please bring your own bags for shopping.

Yours Truly, Mrs. Higgins

Rebbie Higgins
Market Director
Mount Pleasant Farmers’ Market
www.MtPFM.org
between 17th & Mount Pleasant and Park & Lamont Streets
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Market will be busy this weekend with all kinds of great activities!

• Dino Restaurant will do a cooking demo with local, seasonal goodies from your very own market.  Get inspired to cook your own versions of simple and pure Italian or get excited about treating yourself to one of their 4 course flight deals offered the month of July.
• Garrett Anderson will be performing original music from 9-11, then Jeff Rezmovic will give us that folk and bluegrass that makes the market sound. I’m sure they’ll appreciate whatever monetary or vegetative gifts you want to bestow!
• Free Range Bike Clinic: Air, Oil, Advice, and More! Learn how to perform your own basic repairs, meet a neighbor to ride to work with, join WABA and get 10% off at bike shops.
• At the manager’s stand you’ll be able to pick up a fresh free copy of Flavor magazine.
• Look out for the Thurgood Marshall kids back again selling those tasty bags of worm poop and some goodies from their school garden!

Speaking of compost, if you loved that Urban Container Gardening Workshop a couple weeks ago, you’re also likely to enjoy their latest free Composting Workshop next Wednesday 7/15 6:30-8p at the Mt P Library (3160 16th St NW): Liz Falk of Common Good City Farm will teach you how to use your yard waste and kitchen scraps to create rich soil to feed your plants, focusing on methods suitable for small yards and apartments.  Again, RSVP at ryanpfleger@yahoo.com or (202) 270-0028.

On to the seasonal foods:
Quaker Valley Farm: White and yellow peaches. Tart cherries - get them while they last! Soak them in bourbon for an adult treat. Plums and apricots.  Red, gold and black raspberries. An early variety of apple called “Transparent” for beautiful apple sauce. Red, white and blue potatoes. Apple and tomato sauce, jam, including a new batch of of red raspberry jam, honey, dried apples, apple butter, eggs, popping corn.

Reid Orchard: Pink and green gooseberries, currants, sweet cherries, blueberries, red and black raspberries. Peaches, the first plums, and apricots. The sauce apple “Lodi” is a derivative of Transparent. A couple more sugar snap peas and maybe maybe maybe, keep your fingers crossed for nectarines.

Tree and Leaf Farm: Another week of the best most perfectly ripe blueberries you ever tasted. Adorable and tender Little Finger carrots and Champion radishes. Red Candy Apple onions and Cipollini onions.  Colorado Rose, Purple Viking and Yukon Gold new potatoes. Toscano kale and baby chard.  Italian zucchini. Salad mix and frisee. Bulls Blood and Golden beets. Garlic, opal basil and lettuce leaf basil, flat leaf parsley, rosemary. Beautiful, nutrient dense vegetables are grown without chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides.

Richfield Farm: Early tomatoes! Cherry tomatoes and corn. Squash: yellow one ball, white cue ball, and green eight ball zucchini, yellow zucchini, light green Mediterranean zucchini, tiger striped Bush Baby zucchini, white patty pan, yellow Starburst patty pans, and regular old yellow squash. Green bell peppers and a couple pints of jalapenos if you get there early. Rainbow chard, kale, lettuce heads and cabbage. Cucumbers, green, yellow and roma beans, fava beans, fennel, red potatoes, maybe some okra. Bouquets and blueberries, and maybe some cantaloupes.

Truck Patch Farms: NEW! Small beefsteak tomatoes.  More of those lovely small sweet cantaloupes. Pickling cucumbers. Green beans and squash. Red and white Spring onions, curly kale, arugula, spring mix, chard, cut herbs. Black Angus grass fed beef, pastured pork products and eggs. Order in advance at orders@truckpatchfarms.com for chickens.

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: Award winning Vermeer (hard cheese) and quark (like cream cheese. Raw milk cheeses, blue cheese, feta, famous Dragon’s Breath, ricotta, yogurt, and Best Of Washington chocolate pudding.

Groff’s Content Farm: 100% grass-fed and -finished lamb and beef, pastured Berkshire pork, beautiful pastured eggs and FRESH (never frozen) chickens this week! Plus 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.comor (717) 423-5663 by Friday afternoons. Several of us cooked ‘em up for 4th of July!  I took my leftovers and stewed them in an adobo sauce for a day (chipotle salsa, ketchup, cider vinegar) and made a super yummy sloppy joe.

Audia Farms: Potatoes, garlic, unpredictable garden goodies: last week it was thin French filet beans, squashes, colorful carrots, sweet little bouquets. Jams, teas, herbs, for you, catnip, sachets. Perennials.

Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: Back this week! Creamy, fresh, soft-ripened cheeses handmade in small batches.