Strawberry season is now honestly upon us with several varieties to choose from – ask your farmer for advice on picking your favorite! Plenty more asparagus – might be time to start thinking about putting some up. I loved having frozen asparagus this winter that I’d blanched and bagged last spring. Smallwood’s Veggieporium is bringing the first little Japanese salad turnips of the year: I made a delicious almost-minestrone this week with sauteed onions and garlic, turnip greens, Quaker Valley Orchard tomato sauce, pasta, and white beans. There is precedent for using radish greens too, but I haven’t tried it yet – can anyone confirm whether this is a good idea?
Events at market:
- The Farmers’ Market Bike Clinic, staffed by neighbors and random passers-by, can top off your tires, lube your chain, or show you how to maintain your bike..FREE! It always depends on who turns up, but feel free to use the pump and stand!
- Welcome back The Lamont Park Deluxe – Rick and Mara on accordion! Followed by Katherine Lininger and Friends as Los Amigos Fuertes, playing lovely folk/blues/traditional music.
Local Foods:
The Adelante Co-op had a great opening day last week, thanks everyone! Peruvian chicken and beef, pineapple and asparagus from from the grill, El Salvadoran arroz casamiento (rice with black beans), Puerto Rican arroz con gandules (rice with pigeon peas), ensalata, horchata, and those fabulous thick, homemade tortillas.
Truck Patch Farms: Strawberries: Bright colored Chandlers, popular old fashioned Earliglows, and large European Darselects. Asparagus, lettuce, salad mix, arugula, Swiss chard, curly kale, cut herbs. Pork and beef, and maybe some chickens, if you pre-order at order@truckpatchfarms.com, plenty of eggs.
Smallwood’s Veggieporium: Baby hakurei turnips with their lovely, nutritious greens, spinach, salad mix, loose leaf lettuce, and head lettuces including succulent and tender Bibb lettuce heads, three varieties of radishes, collards, kale, mustard greens (purple osaka and green), swiss chard, cut herbs: parsley, cilantro, dill, catnip, mint. Bedding plants: summer squash, cucumbers, sunflowers, cherry tomatoes, regular tomatoes, hot and sweet peppers, okra.
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 pre-ordering fresh, farm processed chickens.
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: Handmade, artisanal goat cheese. Fresh chevre and ricotta cheese and delicious crottins and brie-like wedges of creamy, soft-ripened cheese.
Reid Orchard: Pink lady and Fuji apples, maybe some of those Pennsylvania strawberries, and canned goods. Bedding starts for your garden: eight different kinds of hot and sweet peppers, corn, zucchini, squash, eggplant, heirloom tomatoes, and a huge variety of culinary and ornamental herbs.
Richfield Farm: Strawberries, great 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 get to talk to everyone! Check out the Volunteer Calendar.
Facebook? Try Mount Pleasant Farmers’ Market DC. Twit? Try twitter.com/MtPFarMar.
May 15 – Strawberries and Turnips
Strawberry season is now honestly upon us with several varieties to choose from – ask your farmer for advice on picking your favorite! Plenty more asparagus – might be time to start thinking about putting some up. I loved having frozen asparagus this winter that I’d blanched and bagged last spring. Smallwood’s Veggieporium is bringing the first little Japanese salad turnips of the year: I made a delicious almost-minestrone this week with sauteed onions and garlic, turnip greens, Quaker Valley Orchard tomato sauce, pasta, and white beans. There is precedent for using radish greens too, but I haven’t tried it yet – can anyone confirm whether this is a good idea?
Events at market:
Local Foods:
The Adelante Co-op had a great opening day last week, thanks everyone! Peruvian chicken and beef, pineapple and asparagus from from the grill, El Salvadoran arroz casamiento (rice with black beans), Puerto Rican arroz con gandules (rice with pigeon peas), ensalata, horchata, and those fabulous thick, homemade tortillas.
Truck Patch Farms: Strawberries: Bright colored Chandlers, popular old fashioned Earliglows, and large European Darselects. Asparagus, lettuce, salad mix, arugula, Swiss chard, curly kale, cut herbs. Pork and beef, and maybe some chickens, if you pre-order at order@truckpatchfarms.com, plenty of eggs.
Smallwood’s Veggieporium: Baby hakurei turnips with their lovely, nutritious greens, spinach, salad mix, loose leaf lettuce, and head lettuces including succulent and tender Bibb lettuce heads, three varieties of radishes, collards, kale, mustard greens (purple osaka and green), swiss chard, cut herbs: parsley, cilantro, dill, catnip, mint. Bedding plants: summer squash, cucumbers, sunflowers, cherry tomatoes, regular tomatoes, hot and sweet peppers, okra.
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 pre-ordering fresh, farm processed chickens.
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: Handmade, artisanal goat cheese. Fresh chevre and ricotta cheese and delicious crottins and brie-like wedges of creamy, soft-ripened cheese.
Reid Orchard: Pink lady and Fuji apples, maybe some of those Pennsylvania strawberries, and canned goods. Bedding starts for your garden: eight different kinds of hot and sweet peppers, corn, zucchini, squash, eggplant, heirloom tomatoes, and a huge variety of culinary and ornamental herbs.
Richfield Farm: Strawberries, great 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 get to talk to everyone! Check out the Volunteer Calendar.
Facebook? Try Mount Pleasant Farmers’ Market DC. Twit? Try twitter.com/MtPFarMar.