This Saturday is Mt Pleasant’s inaugural Latino Family Day and El Mercadito (the market) is a proud participant in the first half of the day’s activities! Music provided by Lamont Plaza’s very own Alex Hiraeta and Friends: acoustic-only percussion, stand up bass, and guitars create music that local girl Jody Melto describes as “earthy traditional folk music with a salsa-esque groove that sticks in you hips”. Fresh tamales prepared by our new Latina vendor, the Adelante Mt. Pleasant Cooperativa! They will be a “transition vendor” working towards sourcing ingredients locally and organically during the season. Rosa and Lorena will also let you make your own tortillas this weekend, and rumor has it there will be horchata! Yum! Hot, Latino food off the grill for sale to take home prepared by the Latino Federation of Greater Washington (LFGW). Helmet give-away by Washington Area Bike Association (WABA) and a Spanish/English dictionary of bike parts at the Bike Clinic (courtesy of Stokes Elementary School). Brush up on your conversational Spanish and dress festive! Thanks to the Asociacion Latina de Mount Pleasant (LAMP), Vida Senior Centers, and the other local groups and businesses putting this together! This all day event includes the market in the morning, and is followed by events in the afternoon, a free picnic at 4p and a family friendly Latino movie night (with English subtitles) at 7:30p.
The Farmers’ Market Bike Clinic is also in operation this Saturday season to top off your tires, lube your chain, and show you how to maintain your bike..FREE! This week we’ll be joined by the WABA Bike Ambassadors talking up cycling, providing safety tips, doing helmet fittings, and giving away some helmets! Be sure to ask about Bike to Work Day coming up May 21 – there’s always a peloton of local riders leaving from Lamont Park!
Local Foods:
New! Welcome the Adelante Co-op: Fresh tamales and horchata prepared by local ladies to support Mount Pleasant apartment co-op in need.
Truck Patch Farms: Strawberries! Still come a little early – if they’re not all gone by noon, I’m sure my kids will make me buy out the rest! Tons of asparagus (purple and green). Lettuce, salad mix, arugula, Bright Lights and red Swiss chard, curly kale, cut herbs: sage, chives, garlic chives, and mint. Pork and beef, one more week ’til chickens, plenty of eggs.
Smallwood’s Veggieporium: Spinach, lettuce, collards, kale, wild watercress, cut herbs, and bedding plants including sunflowers in the pot in bloom, perfect for Mothers Day. Great selection of cherry tomatoes – ask to see a picture of the Isis Candy with pretty orange stripes, regular tomatoes, okra, lettuces, kale, chard and herbs. Check out their gorgeous potted herb towers for your balcony.
Groff’s Content Farm: Family farm raises 100% grass-fed and -finished lamb and beef on organic fields, pastured Berkshire pork, beautiful pastured eggs and chickens. Yummy dog treats and ask for nice big bones. Ask about ordering her fresh, farm processed chickens next week and about her neighbor’s rabbits!
Quaker Valley Orchards: Green and purple asparagus. Pink Lady, Fuji, and Golden Delicious winter apples. Applesauce, honey, jam, tomato sauce, novelty popping corn-on-the-cob, dried apples, canned peaches. Pie fillings: cherry, blackberry, blueberry and apple.
Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: As local as local gets – just 25 miles out in Boyds, MD. Delicious, creamy goat cheeses, chevre style, boutons, brie-like wedges and ricotta.
Reid Orchard: Pink lady and Fuji apples, apple cider, and canned goods. Plus your own mobile local garden center – corn, zucchini, squash, eggplant, peppers, heirloom tomatoes. Name an herb, Caitlin’s got it as a start.
Richfield Farm: Strawberries! This last little burst of heat has made the strawberry patch explode. Asparagus, spinach, spring onions, rhubarb, hanging flower baskets, herb starts.
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, mini ciabattas are great for sandwiches, sliced loaves, danishes, sticky buns, apple turnovers.
Volunteering is fun! You get a cool button and everyone loves you! Check out the Volunteer Calendar.
Facebook? Try Mount Pleasant Farmers’ Market DC. Twit? Try twitter.com/MtPFarMar.
May 8 – Fresas y Espárragos (Strawberries and Asparagus)
This Saturday is Mt Pleasant’s inaugural Latino Family Day and El Mercadito (the market) is a proud participant in the first half of the day’s activities! Music provided by Lamont Plaza’s very own Alex Hiraeta and Friends: acoustic-only percussion, stand up bass, and guitars create music that local girl Jody Melto describes as “earthy traditional folk music with a salsa-esque groove that sticks in you hips”. Fresh tamales prepared by our new Latina vendor, the Adelante Mt. Pleasant Cooperativa! They will be a “transition vendor” working towards sourcing ingredients locally and organically during the season. Rosa and Lorena will also let you make your own tortillas this weekend, and rumor has it there will be horchata! Yum! Hot, Latino food off the grill for sale to take home prepared by the Latino Federation of Greater Washington (LFGW). Helmet give-away by Washington Area Bike Association (WABA) and a Spanish/English dictionary of bike parts at the Bike Clinic (courtesy of Stokes Elementary School). Brush up on your conversational Spanish and dress festive! Thanks to the Asociacion Latina de Mount Pleasant (LAMP), Vida Senior Centers, and the other local groups and businesses putting this together! This all day event includes the market in the morning, and is followed by events in the afternoon, a free picnic at 4p and a family friendly Latino movie night (with English subtitles) at 7:30p.
The Farmers’ Market Bike Clinic is also in operation this Saturday season to top off your tires, lube your chain, and show you how to maintain your bike..FREE! This week we’ll be joined by the WABA Bike Ambassadors talking up cycling, providing safety tips, doing helmet fittings, and giving away some helmets! Be sure to ask about Bike to Work Day coming up May 21 – there’s always a peloton of local riders leaving from Lamont Park!
Local Foods:
New! Welcome the Adelante Co-op: Fresh tamales and horchata prepared by local ladies to support Mount Pleasant apartment co-op in need.
Truck Patch Farms: Strawberries! Still come a little early – if they’re not all gone by noon, I’m sure my kids will make me buy out the rest! Tons of asparagus (purple and green). Lettuce, salad mix, arugula, Bright Lights and red Swiss chard, curly kale, cut herbs: sage, chives, garlic chives, and mint. Pork and beef, one more week ’til chickens, plenty of eggs.
Smallwood’s Veggieporium: Spinach, lettuce, collards, kale, wild watercress, cut herbs, and bedding plants including sunflowers in the pot in bloom, perfect for Mothers Day. Great selection of cherry tomatoes – ask to see a picture of the Isis Candy with pretty orange stripes, regular tomatoes, okra, lettuces, kale, chard and herbs. Check out their gorgeous potted herb towers for your balcony.
Groff’s Content Farm: Family farm raises 100% grass-fed and -finished lamb and beef on organic fields, pastured Berkshire pork, beautiful pastured eggs and chickens. Yummy dog treats and ask for nice big bones. Ask about ordering her fresh, farm processed chickens next week and about her neighbor’s rabbits!
Quaker Valley Orchards: Green and purple asparagus. Pink Lady, Fuji, and Golden Delicious winter apples. Applesauce, honey, jam, tomato sauce, novelty popping corn-on-the-cob, dried apples, canned peaches. Pie fillings: cherry, blackberry, blueberry and apple.
Cherry Glen Goat Cheese Company: As local as local gets – just 25 miles out in Boyds, MD. Delicious, creamy goat cheeses, chevre style, boutons, brie-like wedges and ricotta.
Reid Orchard: Pink lady and Fuji apples, apple cider, and canned goods. Plus your own mobile local garden center – corn, zucchini, squash, eggplant, peppers, heirloom tomatoes. Name an herb, Caitlin’s got it as a start.
Richfield Farm: Strawberries! This last little burst of heat has made the strawberry patch explode. Asparagus, spinach, spring onions, rhubarb, hanging flower baskets, herb starts.
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, mini ciabattas are great for sandwiches, sliced loaves, danishes, sticky buns, apple turnovers.
Volunteering is fun! You get a cool button and everyone loves you! Check out the Volunteer Calendar.
Facebook? Try Mount Pleasant Farmers’ Market DC. Twit? Try twitter.com/MtPFarMar.