Extras:
- Jacob and Rebecca will be playing Irish music in the morning under the trees in the middle of market, followed by Elena Lacayo at 11 am.
- 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.
- Don’t forget the Columbia Heights Day Festival on Saturday! The action starts at 10am at Harriet Tubman with bands all day, free yoga, capoeira performance, cupcake eating contest sponsored by the yummy Sticky Fingers Bakery (vegans make the best desserts), belly dancers, petting zoo, and all day happy hour across the street at the Wonderland Ballroom. Just some of MY favorite things!
On to the seasonal foods:
Panorama Bakery: New this week! French breads and pastries (see above).
Quaker Valley Farm: Yellow and white nectarines are back! Super sweet white corn. Yellow and white peaches. Blackberries and red raspberries. Melons and ‘lopes. Antique Smokehouse apples are a greet, tart apple named by a man who discovered the tree growing next to his smokehouse in Lancaster, PA in 1840. Popular with the Amish for sauce. Tomatoes, eggplants, onions and red, white and blue potatoes. Fresh apple and tomato sauce, blackberry and peach jam, honey, apple butter, eggs, and popping corn.
Reid Orchard: Seedless, sweet grapes. Yellow and white peaches, Galaxy donut peaches. Nectarines, blackberries, plums. Fresh eating and cooking heirloom apples. Heirloom tomatoes.
Tree and Leaf Farm: Radishes, French filet green beans, Red Thumb and French fingerling potatoes. Also Romano green beans. Heirloom tomatoes and Sungold and Suncherry cherry tomatoes. Heirloom sweet pepper and hot peppers. Eight ball and Black Beauty zucchini. Mars red onions, Copra and Torpedo onions. Kale and chard. Basil, parsley and rosemary and garlic chives. Zinnias and celosia bouquets.
Richfield Farm: Heirloom, beefsteak, and cherry tomatoes. Peppers, eggplants. Cucumbers and corn. Cantaloupes and watermelons. Lima and cranberry beans. Bouquets. Raw honey. A couple winter squash - butternut, spaghetti, acorn: they won Grand Champion at the MD State Fair this week!
Truck Patch Farms: New this week: Basil, stir fry mix, baby Bright Lights chard, super pretty! Mint, chives, garlic chives, and dill too. Heirloom, cherry and beefsteak tomatoes: Black Krim (some say sweeter than Purple Cherokee), Brandywine, Striped German, Water Melon Beef, Aunt Ruby Green, Amana Orange, Valenace, Great White, Green Zebra, Plum tomatoes, Sungold, Sweet Million, Chocolate Cherry, and more! Yellow, Zephyr, Cousa, and Zucchini squashes, and squash flowers. Cantaloupes and Sugar Baby watermelons. Pickling cucumbers. Jade green, yellow wax, and purple beans. Curly kale, arugula, and lettuce. 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! Check out the yummy goat sausages made without hog casings for those with pork aversion.
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: Every other week, like this one, they are at the 14th & U Farmers’ Market.
See you Saturday! Please bring your own bags for shopping.