At last we are full in tomato season. My favorite uses are gazpacho and fat slices on thin sandwiches.
On the Bandstand:
- Dan Schramm with guitar and singing in the early morning, Andrew Marcus on accordion in the late morning.
- Free Range Bike Clinic: Air, Oil, Advice, and More
Tree and Leaf Farm: Perfect tomatoes: T&L refuses to use ANY sprays on their exquisite heirloom tomatoes - not even the Certified Organic liquid copper which is a heavy metal. Eggplant, squash, poblano and jalapeno peppers, and check out their Padron Galician hot peppers. Candy Sweet, Red Torpedo, Red Candy Apple and Cipollini onions. Colorado Rose potatoes, Red Thumb, Russian Banana and French fingerling potatoes. Chard. Salad mix and lettuce heads. Bulls Blood beets. Basil, Italian parsley, rosemary and tarragon. Sunflowers and zinnias. Beautiful, nutrient dense vegetables are grown without chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides.
Quaker Valley Farm: Sweet corn at last! Lots of melons, free-stone John Boy peaches, white peaches, white and yellow nectarines, lots of blackberries, a few raspberries, and those strange and delicious red currants. Also, tomatoes, onions, potatoes and eggplant. Fresh tomato sauce! Let Fredi do the slaving over a hot stove for you, and pick up fresh tomatoes for salads and slicing. Apple sauce, jam, honey, apple butter, eggs, popping corn.
Reid’s Orchard: Blackberries and nectarines. Pink and green gooseberries, red currants, blueberries, red and black raspberries. Yellow and white peaches, plums, and apricots. Summer apples are tart and perfect for sauce and pies.
Richfield Farm: Artichokes for real this time. Heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes and corn. Cantaloupes and Sugar Baby watermelons. Squash, beans, peppers, and eggplants. Cucumbers, potatoes, okra. Bouquets, basil bunches, chives, and gorgeous raw honey from bees that feed off the farm’s flowers. If you’re interested in helping out at his stand, contact Ian Seletsky at 443-677-4035: there’s no more room on the truck for workers, and the stand is overflowing with harvest!
Truck Patch Farms: Heirloom, cherry and beefsteak tomatoes, both sweet and hot peppers. Sweet cantaloupes, cucumbers, green beans and squash. Red and white Spring onions, curly kale, spring mix, chard, cut herbs. Black Angus grass fed beef, pastured pork products and eggs. Order in advance at order@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: Raw milk cheeses, blue cheese, feta, quark, ricotta, yogurt, and 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: french filet beans, squashes, sweet little bouquets. Jams, teas, herbs, for you, catnip, sachets. Perennials.
Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: They’re at 14th&U Farmers’ Market this weekend.
See you Saturday! Please bring your own bags for shopping.