Free Range Bike Clinic: Air, Oil, Advice, and More! Learn how to perform your own basic repairs, plot out a good bike route with a neighbor, complain about DC drivers, brainstorm a good name for your loyal steed.
Vote for your favorite farmers’ market at the American Farmland Trust website. The link will take you directly to a vote for the Mt P Farmers’ Market.
Quaker Valley Farm: Apricots, Yellow Cling peaches and tart cherries! Sweet Bing and Ranier cherries, blueberries, red, gold and black raspberries. Potatoes in red, white and blue! Apple and tomato sauce, jam, honey, dried apples, apple butter, eggs, popping corn. Fredi’s super tasty cherry/blueberry flag pies are back! Get there early if you want to get one before I buy ‘em all!
Reid Orchard: Gooseberries, sweet cherries, blueberries, raspberries.
Tree and Leaf Farm: Loads of fantastic, perfectly ripe blueberries from beautifully tended bushes that have never seen a lick of chemicals. Lincoln leeks and red onions. Colorado Rose, Purple Viking and Yukon Gold new potatoes. Toscano kale, white, magenta, and yellow chard, baby chard. Baby yellow squash, and Italian zucchini. Red Galactic, Oak Leaf, Summer Crisp and Romaine lettuce and salad mix. Merlin and Golden beets. Spring radishes Uncured fresh garlic, Purple basil and lettuce leaf basil, chives, rosemary. Beautiful, nutrient dense vegetables are grown without chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides.
Richfield Farm: All the squash that summer can bring forth: 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. A few green bell peppers. This is the last week for shelling peas. Rainbow chard, kale, lettuce heads, dandelion greens, maybe some red beets. Broccoli and cabbage. Pickling and slicing cucumbers, green and yellow beans, and fava beans, fennel, potatoes. Red white and blue flower bouquets. Blueberries. Some early cherry tomatoes! And some corn if we get a blast of heat on Friday.
Truck Patch Farms: NEW! A very few small sweet cantaloupes! Come early to get yours. Pickling cucumbers can be used either for slicing or pickling, they’re just smaller. Green beans and squash. Red and white Spring onions, curly kale, arugula, spring mix, lettuce, chard, cut herbs. Black Angus grass fed beef, pastured pork products and eggs. Try a pork shoulder roast slow cooked in the oven or the grill!
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, famous Dragon’s Breath, ricotta, quark, yogurt, and chocolate pudding.
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: Potatoes are back! Jams, teas, herbs, for you, catnip for your little friend. Perennials for your garden.
Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: They’re at 14th & U this week - worth the visit!