Blueberries are on strong this week! Good luck saving them for anything but pouring them straight down your open gullet like a blueberry stuffed goose, but if you can restrain yourself and keep them out of reach of the kids, they are the perfect morning treat in your granola, embedded in whipped cream on your waffles, or popping hot and juicy baked into pancakes. Not so into the cooking right now, so they find themselves in salad a lot.
All the fruits are coming in strong, they like the heat: nectarines, apricots, and peaches are showing up already!
This is the first week for cold, crisp refreshing, summery cucumbers! Cucumber salads, cucumber drinks, cucumber popsicles (?? keep your eyes peeled in July for this treat). A couple cherry tomatoes if anyone’s willing to go out and harvest – they’re all hiding towards the bottom of the plant.
But it’s not too soon for a BLT! Market bacon and Truck Patch Farm’s hot house tomatoes and lettuce or arugula on those awesome mini-ciabattas from Panorama. Or those cute little rolls from Atwater make a fun little “slider” – a mini burger with cheese and homemade special sauce.
Events at market:
- Will McKindley-Ward is back for a lovely morning set of folk/alternative/indie music, followed by a new quartet with Jeremy Mauro, Jenny Buffington, Ulrike and Lou Brauneis playing old-time Appalachian fiddle music.
- The Farmers’ Market Bike Clinic is always set up! Come have your neighbors help you get your bike back in trim, show you how to DIY, and offer advice on rides, parts, proms…that’s right, the WABA Bike Prom is coming up June 26th, you never saw a cuter and happier group than bicycle nerds in taffeta!
- Also on the June 26th, next week The Compost Cab will be hosting the first ever Community Compost Day right here at the Mt Pleasant Farmers’ Market! More details next week…
Local Foods:
Quaker Valley Orchards: Pie cherries and sweet cherries, red and black raspberries, nectarines and apricots. Red, gold, and blue potatoes. Applesauce, honey, jam, tomato sauce, novelty popping corn-on-the-cob, canned peaches. Pie fillings: cherry, blackberry, blueberry and apple.
Richfield Farm: Red, gold, yellow, and chiogga beets with their greens, tons of summer squash: green, yellow and Mediterranean, Portofino striped, and Bush Baby zucchini, yellow and white patty pan, more. Sugar snap peas and shelling peas. Kohlrabi, broccoli, kale, Tuscan kale, collards, chard. Head lettuce, spring onions, rhubarb. A few regular and pickling cucumbers. Cherry tomatoes. Green beans in yellow and green. Blueberries. Cut flowers: snapdragons, sunflowers, cosmos, bachelor’s buttons, and calendula.
Smallwood’s Veggieporium: Napa and Arrow cabbage and bok choy. Purple and yellow spring onions, baby and big beets with greens, shelling peas. Garlic scapes, hakurei turnips with greens, spinach, salad mix and loose leaf lettuce, radishes, collards, kale, Swiss chard, cut herbs: chives, parsley, cilantro, dill, mint, purple and green basil, catnip and oregano. Last week for bedding plants, especially peppers, melons, and cucumbers.
Truck Patch Farms: A few hot house tomatoes. Raspberries! Squash flowers, and squash. Beets with greens. Red, white and yellow spring onions, spinach, lettuce, salad mix, stir fry mix, arugula, Swiss chard, curly kale, radishes, cut herbs. Eggs. Pork and beef. Chickens, if you pre-order at order@truckpatchfarms.com. Ground beef and patties, ground pork, loose sausage, and ground ham. Sausages: sage, celery, applewurst, country hot, mild and hot Italian, sweet Italian with fennel, kielbasa, bratwurst. Try the new smoked kielbasa and andouille sausages. Beef steaks, pork chops and tenderloins, spare ribs, baby back ribs, pork shoulder. Breakfast sausage and bacon. Ask Bryan about goat meat.
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, both whole and cut up. Dog treats and nice big beef bones. Ground beef, nice big sausages, including spicy lamb merguez. Soap made from their own beef tallow.
Reid Orchard: Blueberries and red currants and blush gooseberries! More Dietrich apricots. Red raspberries, pink Royal Anne and Bing type Schmidt cherries. Possibly a very few sour cherries, depending on the heat. Closing in on the end of strawberries: Ovation and Jewel strawberries mixed with a few other varieties. Teeny tiny chance of a few peaches. A few more sugar snap peas. Five Dollar a Bucket winter Fuji apples.
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. The ricotta is wonderfully naturally sweet and not at all goat-y.
Atwater Bread: Organic sourdough and yeasted breads: Peasant Wheat, Caraway Rye, Cranberry Pecan, Kalamata Olive, traditional San Francisco Sourdough, Ciabatta, Country White, Chili Cheddar, Spelt, Sunflower Flax, and more. Granola, brownies, cookies, scones, muffins, and several other flavors of granola.
Panorama Bakery: Baguettes, croissants, pain au chocolat, mini ciabattas are great for sandwiches, sliced loaves, danishes, sticky buns, apple turnovers.
June 19 – Blueberries and Cucumbers
Blueberries are on strong this week! Good luck saving them for anything but pouring them straight down your open gullet like a blueberry stuffed goose, but if you can restrain yourself and keep them out of reach of the kids, they are the perfect morning treat in your granola, embedded in whipped cream on your waffles, or popping hot and juicy baked into pancakes. Not so into the cooking right now, so they find themselves in salad a lot.
All the fruits are coming in strong, they like the heat: nectarines, apricots, and peaches are showing up already!
This is the first week for cold, crisp refreshing, summery cucumbers! Cucumber salads, cucumber drinks, cucumber popsicles (?? keep your eyes peeled in July for this treat). A couple cherry tomatoes if anyone’s willing to go out and harvest – they’re all hiding towards the bottom of the plant.
But it’s not too soon for a BLT! Market bacon and Truck Patch Farm’s hot house tomatoes and lettuce or arugula on those awesome mini-ciabattas from Panorama. Or those cute little rolls from Atwater make a fun little “slider” – a mini burger with cheese and homemade special sauce.
Events at market:
Local Foods:
Quaker Valley Orchards: Pie cherries and sweet cherries, red and black raspberries, nectarines and apricots. Red, gold, and blue potatoes. Applesauce, honey, jam, tomato sauce, novelty popping corn-on-the-cob, canned peaches. Pie fillings: cherry, blackberry, blueberry and apple.
Richfield Farm: Red, gold, yellow, and chiogga beets with their greens, tons of summer squash: green, yellow and Mediterranean, Portofino striped, and Bush Baby zucchini, yellow and white patty pan, more. Sugar snap peas and shelling peas. Kohlrabi, broccoli, kale, Tuscan kale, collards, chard. Head lettuce, spring onions, rhubarb. A few regular and pickling cucumbers. Cherry tomatoes. Green beans in yellow and green. Blueberries. Cut flowers: snapdragons, sunflowers, cosmos, bachelor’s buttons, and calendula.
Smallwood’s Veggieporium: Napa and Arrow cabbage and bok choy. Purple and yellow spring onions, baby and big beets with greens, shelling peas. Garlic scapes, hakurei turnips with greens, spinach, salad mix and loose leaf lettuce, radishes, collards, kale, Swiss chard, cut herbs: chives, parsley, cilantro, dill, mint, purple and green basil, catnip and oregano. Last week for bedding plants, especially peppers, melons, and cucumbers.
Truck Patch Farms: A few hot house tomatoes. Raspberries! Squash flowers, and squash. Beets with greens. Red, white and yellow spring onions, spinach, lettuce, salad mix, stir fry mix, arugula, Swiss chard, curly kale, radishes, cut herbs. Eggs. Pork and beef. Chickens, if you pre-order at order@truckpatchfarms.com. Ground beef and patties, ground pork, loose sausage, and ground ham. Sausages: sage, celery, applewurst, country hot, mild and hot Italian, sweet Italian with fennel, kielbasa, bratwurst. Try the new smoked kielbasa and andouille sausages. Beef steaks, pork chops and tenderloins, spare ribs, baby back ribs, pork shoulder. Breakfast sausage and bacon. Ask Bryan about goat meat.
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, both whole and cut up. Dog treats and nice big beef bones. Ground beef, nice big sausages, including spicy lamb merguez. Soap made from their own beef tallow.
Reid Orchard: Blueberries and red currants and blush gooseberries! More Dietrich apricots. Red raspberries, pink Royal Anne and Bing type Schmidt cherries. Possibly a very few sour cherries, depending on the heat. Closing in on the end of strawberries: Ovation and Jewel strawberries mixed with a few other varieties. Teeny tiny chance of a few peaches. A few more sugar snap peas. Five Dollar a Bucket winter Fuji apples.
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. The ricotta is wonderfully naturally sweet and not at all goat-y.
Atwater Bread: Organic sourdough and yeasted breads: Peasant Wheat, Caraway Rye, Cranberry Pecan, Kalamata Olive, traditional San Francisco Sourdough, Ciabatta, Country White, Chili Cheddar, Spelt, Sunflower Flax, and more. Granola, brownies, cookies, scones, muffins, and several other flavors of granola.
Panorama Bakery: Baguettes, croissants, pain au chocolat, mini ciabattas are great for sandwiches, sliced loaves, danishes, sticky buns, apple turnovers.