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Farmer's market, memorial day weekend
May. 24th, 2015 11:34 am We'd planned last night to go today; I woke up and said I was too tired. My husband said "I'll make you some toast, and let's go." He was right. He was absolutely right. My daughter: "Many years of marriage are a good thing."
The market is already in full swing, and we left with ten bags of produce, as well as three bouquets of flowers (sweet peas, yellow iris, anemones) and three plants for the back porch planter (Serrano pepper, marjoram, savory; I anticipate pruning the last two with ferocity). The bags, oh the bags: exquisite tiny flavorful pioppini mushrooms, blackberries and raspberries at 3 for $10, tiny beautiful Brussels sprouts, yellowwax beans, hydroponic real watercress (there's something sold a lot as watercress here that's flavorless and doesn't have crunchy stems), a big bunch of basil, pluot, aprium, apricot, nectarine, rutabagas, red buttercrunch lettuce... just damn. There are more than that, but I can't remember.
You can really see the effects of the drought; Twin Girl Farms and Kawa[argh, forgetting the name; movingfinger would know] peaches, both of which usually sell their stone fruits the size of my clenched fist, had fruits two-thirds or even half the size of last year. I actually prefer smaller stone fruits, because the enormous ones are bigger than a serving and you can't keep a cut peach. Nonetheless, it's obviously bad for the farmers, who are selling more fruit -- and thus a bigger part of a tree's production -- per pound. One of the stands had a "Pray for Rain" placard clipped to the tent, and I think we all are.
e: My daughter found it, Kashiwase Farms.
The market is already in full swing, and we left with ten bags of produce, as well as three bouquets of flowers (sweet peas, yellow iris, anemones) and three plants for the back porch planter (Serrano pepper, marjoram, savory; I anticipate pruning the last two with ferocity). The bags, oh the bags: exquisite tiny flavorful pioppini mushrooms, blackberries and raspberries at 3 for $10, tiny beautiful Brussels sprouts, yellowwax beans, hydroponic real watercress (there's something sold a lot as watercress here that's flavorless and doesn't have crunchy stems), a big bunch of basil, pluot, aprium, apricot, nectarine, rutabagas, red buttercrunch lettuce... just damn. There are more than that, but I can't remember.
You can really see the effects of the drought; Twin Girl Farms and Kawa[argh, forgetting the name; movingfinger would know] peaches, both of which usually sell their stone fruits the size of my clenched fist, had fruits two-thirds or even half the size of last year. I actually prefer smaller stone fruits, because the enormous ones are bigger than a serving and you can't keep a cut peach. Nonetheless, it's obviously bad for the farmers, who are selling more fruit -- and thus a bigger part of a tree's production -- per pound. One of the stands had a "Pray for Rain" placard clipped to the tent, and I think we all are.
e: My daughter found it, Kashiwase Farms.
