Wild foods in the city? That’s right, the final chapter in Omnivore’s Dilemma proposed foraging as the ultimate in sustainability. Not entirely feasible for most of us urbanites, but this week we have an opportunity to sample syrups, sorbets and more made from wild foods foraged at MtP neighbor Dominique Kostelac’s farm near Charlottesville, VA. See below for more details!
- 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.