The peaches and nectarines are delicious and juicy, but hard to keep up with - either I buy too few and my 2 year old son eats them all before anyone else gets a chance to nab one, or I buy so many, we can’t quite get to them all before they are going over the edge. In this heat, obviously I should refrigerate half of them! But if I don’t manage that, I throw them in the blender (and now that the freestones are in, they’re really easy to pit, even when they’re turning to mush in my hand), then freeze them in ice cube trays. Instant daquiri! Peaches are complemented perfectly by rum. Or by vanilla if you want to make a decadent smoothie.
Also outstanding in Peach Clafouti - lots of eggs and milk and a bit too much sugar.
Extras:
- Banjer Dan is back in town! In the morning shift, he’ll regale us with original and classic banjo tomfoolery - especially popular with the kids. Then we’ll have Chris Ousley back for some sweet guitar and banjo playing.
- Free Range Bike Clinic: Air, Oil, Advice, and More! Learn how to perform your own basic repairs, admire other clunkers recently dragged out of the basement. Join WABA and get 10% off at bike shops.
- Local school CentroNia will be on hand to sell their homemade soaps and salt scrubs using their very own garden’s herbs. Great prices! They’ll be sharing a stand with the Thurgood Marshall gardeners.
On to the seasonal foods:
Quaker Valley Farm: White and yellow peaches and nectarines. Look for their big, tasty “Loring”, a yellow freestone peach. Fredi says they work great for grilling, or skinning and freezing for winter. Blackberries and red raspberries. Melons and ‘lopes. Tomatoes, eggplants, onions and red, white and blue potatoes.A very few sweet corn - they’re between patches. Apple and tomato sauce, jam, honey, apple butter, eggs, and popping corn.
Reid Orchard: Yellow and white peaches, nectarines, blackberries, plums of many colors and shapes! Fresh eating and cooking apples.
Tree and Leaf Farm: Cherry tomatoes and heirloom tomatoes. Heirloom sweet peppers and hot peppers. Zucchini, fingerling potatoes, onions. Little Gem romaine lettuce, deer tongue lettuce hearts, Romaine leaves sold by the half-pound. Beet greens and chard. Parsley and rosemary. Beautiful, nutrient dense vegetables are grown without chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides.
Richfield Farm: Heirloom, regular and cherry tomatoes. Multicolored peppers, including green, purple, lime green, and white bell, poblano, Yummy, mini-bell, pimento and eggplants. Artichokes. Cucumbers and corn and maybe okra. Lambkin Melons - like a cross between a honeydew, crenshaw, and a cantaloupe. Honeyloupes, cantaloupes and Sugar Baby watermelons, and heirloom Charleston Gray and Yellow Doll watermelons. Lima, green, yellow and cranberry beans. Bouquets. Raw honey from bees that feed off the farm’s flowers.
Truck Patch Farms: Heirloom, cherry and beefsteak tomatoes: look for Black Krim, Brandywine, Striped German, Water Melon Beef, Aunt Ruby Green, Amana Orange, Valenace, Great White, Green Zebra, Plum, Sungold, Sweet Million, Chocolate Cherry, and more! Sweet, hot, and bell peppers. Yellow, Zephyr, Cousa, and Zucchini squashes. Cantaloupes and Sugar Baby watermelons. Pickling cucumbers. Jade green, yellow wax, and purple beans. Red and white onions, red chard, curly kale, arugula, spring mix, 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: Raw milk cheeses, blue cheese, feta, ricotta, quark and yogurt, and chocolate pudding.
Groff’s Content Farm: 100% grass-fed and -finished lamb and beef, pastured Berkshire pork, beautiful pastured eggs and chickens, and tasty pet treats.
Painted Hand Farm: humanely raised, grass-fed rose veal and goat meat. All cuts are in!
Audia Farms: Potatoes, garlic, unpredictable garden goodies: sometimes thin French filet beans, squashes, colorful carrots, sweet little bouquets, we never know! Jams, teas, herbs, for you, catnip, sachets. Perennials.
Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: At 14th & U this alternate week.
See you Saturday! Please bring your own bags for shopping.