Markets are still open and tomorrow’s going to be gorgeous! This rain is great for our gardens, though a little rough on our farmers harvesting for us for tomorrow. But it’s worth it for MtP customers, because you guys come out every Saturday no matter what! Thanks for the tremendous support this year.
Both our orchards are back in cider: stop buying juiceboxes and get a nice thermos for school to send filled with real juice!
Prunes are longer, oval shaped dark purple European plums with a yellow flesh. They are not nasty, shriveled, black digestive aids. They are delicious straight, but also appear in several traditional European desserts. Check out this very pretty Zwetschgenkuchen – nothing to it, just a tart shell with quartered and pitted fresh prunes laid out and sprinkled with sugar and baked. I think I’d eat it with cardamom ice cream. Reid Orchard will have plenty of other recipes to try too.
Happenings at market:
Get ready for some kid friendly entertainment! The Jazzy Juggler is back from 9 – 11 with his goofy antics and derring-do, followed in the 11-1 slot by a woman in a gorilla suit shilling for a good cause! With face painters!
Welcome local non-profit Neighbor’s Consejo – the community agency that helped make MtP the place it is now! Come talk to them about their outreach program, get involved, and help us in their fundraising efforts!
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative will be on hand again with bounty from their urban farming endeavor, free seeds, and great advice on growing and preserving vegetables.
Farmers’ Market Bike Clinic: Air, Oil, Advice, and More! Join WABA and get 10% off at bike shops. Volunteer and get a free WABA membership! It pays to hang out on the bandstand. You don’t need any mad mechanic skillz, volunteers can be used for outreach, chatting, data collection, triage.
On to the seasonal foods:
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.
Panorama Bakery: Baguettes, croissants, pain au chocolat, sliced loaves, danishes, sticky buns, apple turnovers, yum!
Richfield Farm: Here comes autumn: broccoli, a little cauliflower, maybe some romanesco and winter squash. But summer’s not really over: heirloom and beefsteak tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, zucchini and other summer squashes, and corn. Cantaloupes and watermelons. Shelled and unshelled lima beans, green and yellow, and cranberry beans. Bouquets. Raw honey.
Truck Patch Farms: Stir fry mix, baby Bright Lights chard, curly kale, arugula, and lettuce. Basil, mint, chives, garlic chives, and dill. Heirloom, cherry and beefsteak tomatoes. Summer and Zucchini squashes, with adorable little squash flowers. Cantaloupes and seedless Sugarbaby watermelons. Pickling cucumbers. Jade green, yellow wax, and purple beans. Black Angus grass fed beef, pastured pork products and eggs. Order in advance at order@truckpatchfarms.com for chickens.
Tree and Leaf Farm: Nero Tondo black radishes, salad greens with edible nasturtiums, lots of torpedo onions, butternut squash, broom corn, collards, kale, chard.
Painted Hand Farm: German-Style Bratwurst links. Also available various cuts of naturally-browsed goat meat and humanely-raised veal.
Keswick Creamery: Raw milk cheeses, blue cheese, feta, ricotta, quark and yogurt, and chocolate pudding. The Wallaby is back! My favorite melting cheese for grilled cheese sandwiches and cheeseburgers.
Reid Orchard: Cider is back! Seedy and seedless eating grapes. White and yellow peaches, nectarines, blackberries, Stanley prune plums for classic German and Italian tarts, tortes, and cakes. Fresh eating and cooking heirloom apples are coming in like wildfire: an early Fuji called Yataka, Honeycrisp, Gala, Prima, McIntosh, Ginger Gold, and Golden Supreme. Tons of heirloom tomatoes!
Quaker Valley Farm: Fresh pressed apple cider! Concord grapes and green grapes. Yellow peaches. Sweet white corn. Blackberries and red raspberries. Melons and cantaloupes. Honeycrisp, Ginger Gold, Antique Smokehouse and Gala apples. Tomatoes, eggplants, onions and red, white and blue potatoes. Apple and tomato sauce, the best jam in DC, honey, apple butter, eggs, and popping corn.
Groff’s Content Farm: 100% grass-fed and -finished lamb and beef, pastured Berkshire pork, beautiful pastured eggs and chickens, and tasty pet treats.
Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: Beautiful goat cheeses, but they’re at 14th & U this weekend.
Audia Farms: Robert needed to take a break from market for the rest of the season. Please come tell me what you’ll miss the most from his stand!
See you Saturday! Please bring your own bags for shopping.
September 12 – Prunes
Both our orchards are back in cider: stop buying juiceboxes and get a nice thermos for school to send filled with real juice!
Prunes are longer, oval shaped dark purple European plums with a yellow flesh. They are not nasty, shriveled, black digestive aids. They are delicious straight, but also appear in several traditional European desserts. Check out this very pretty Zwetschgenkuchen – nothing to it, just a tart shell with quartered and pitted fresh prunes laid out and sprinkled with sugar and baked. I think I’d eat it with cardamom ice cream. Reid Orchard will have plenty of other recipes to try too.
Happenings at market:
On to the seasonal foods:
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.
Panorama Bakery: Baguettes, croissants, pain au chocolat, sliced loaves, danishes, sticky buns, apple turnovers, yum!
Richfield Farm: Here comes autumn: broccoli, a little cauliflower, maybe some romanesco and winter squash. But summer’s not really over: heirloom and beefsteak tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, zucchini and other summer squashes, and corn. Cantaloupes and watermelons. Shelled and unshelled lima beans, green and yellow, and cranberry beans. Bouquets. Raw honey.
Truck Patch Farms: Stir fry mix, baby Bright Lights chard, curly kale, arugula, and lettuce. Basil, mint, chives, garlic chives, and dill. Heirloom, cherry and beefsteak tomatoes. Summer and Zucchini squashes, with adorable little squash flowers. Cantaloupes and seedless Sugarbaby watermelons. Pickling cucumbers. Jade green, yellow wax, and purple beans. Black Angus grass fed beef, pastured pork products and eggs. Order in advance at order@truckpatchfarms.com for chickens.
Tree and Leaf Farm: Nero Tondo black radishes, salad greens with edible nasturtiums, lots of torpedo onions, butternut squash, broom corn, collards, kale, chard.
Painted Hand Farm: German-Style Bratwurst links. Also available various cuts of naturally-browsed goat meat and humanely-raised veal.
Keswick Creamery: Raw milk cheeses, blue cheese, feta, ricotta, quark and yogurt, and chocolate pudding. The Wallaby is back! My favorite melting cheese for grilled cheese sandwiches and cheeseburgers.
Reid Orchard: Cider is back! Seedy and seedless eating grapes. White and yellow peaches, nectarines, blackberries, Stanley prune plums for classic German and Italian tarts, tortes, and cakes. Fresh eating and cooking heirloom apples are coming in like wildfire: an early Fuji called Yataka, Honeycrisp, Gala, Prima, McIntosh, Ginger Gold, and Golden Supreme. Tons of heirloom tomatoes!
Quaker Valley Farm: Fresh pressed apple cider! Concord grapes and green grapes. Yellow peaches. Sweet white corn. Blackberries and red raspberries. Melons and cantaloupes. Honeycrisp, Ginger Gold, Antique Smokehouse and Gala apples. Tomatoes, eggplants, onions and red, white and blue potatoes. Apple and tomato sauce, the best jam in DC, honey, apple butter, eggs, and popping corn.
Groff’s Content Farm: 100% grass-fed and -finished lamb and beef, pastured Berkshire pork, beautiful pastured eggs and chickens, and tasty pet treats.
Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: Beautiful goat cheeses, but they’re at 14th & U this weekend.
Audia Farms: Robert needed to take a break from market for the rest of the season. Please come tell me what you’ll miss the most from his stand!
See you Saturday! Please bring your own bags for shopping.