Event: SLOWednesday with Gerard Craft, Dave Hillebrand and Brett Palmier
Apr 28, 2009 St. Louis, farmers' markets, slow food, sustainable agriculture
Mark your calendars, this year’s SLOWednesday events start just two weeks from tomorrow, and the first is sure to be a hit…
May 13, 2009: Terra Madre Update
Intended to foster discussion and introduce innovative concepts in the field of food, gastronomy, globalization, and economics, Terra Madre is a bi-annual conference hosted by Slow Food international in Torino, Italy.
The last event was held in October of 2008, and Slow Food St. Louis sent three major delegates to represent them: Gerard Craft of Niche Restaurant, Dave Hillebrand of Prairie Grass Farms, and Brett Palmier of Biver farms. Enjoy this opportunity to offer them a belated welcome home and an ear to listen to their stories.
- SLOWednesday events take place at the Bottleworks in the Crown Room after the Farmers’ Market, at 7:00 p.m. Talks begin at 7:30 p.m., and Schlafly asks that everyone interested in ordering food and drink place their orders and be settled in before that time. Events are free and open to the public.
Tags: biver farms, Gerard Craft, prairie grass farms, Schlafly, slow food
Last Week at the Market – Fennel
Jul 2, 2008 St. Louis, farmers' markets, missouri
Sorry for the late and brief run down this week but I didn’t spend as much time at the markets last week as I usually do.
Maybe it’s a tough call, but I personally think the highlight was fennel. Probably a lot more people will pick the increase in fruit with all the berries and sweet cherries arriving, but I’m more of a vegetable man and fennel is right up there with the Brussels Sprouts and cauliflower.
At Maplewood the fennel came by way of
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Tags: biver farms, Centennial Farms, Claverach Farms, clayton farmers' market, Farrar Out Farm, Kimker Hills Farm, Maplewood Farmers Market, Silent Oaks Farm, Tower Grove Farmers' Market
Last Week at the Market – Dropping the ball
Jun 13, 2008 St. Louis, farmers' markets, missouri
In that I typically do this by Wednesday I dropped the ball this week. Thing is, overall at the markets I went to, there was little of new interest to see last week. It was the radishes and lettuces I’d seen before. There are obviously some turnips floating around somewhere though because we had them at Lambstravaganza.
At Maplewood Biver Farms had some excellent strawberries that went quickly and the only other market I made it to was Kirkwood Farmers’ Market on Saturday. I’d forgotten how strange that market is though. With the exception of Farrar Out Farm and Eckert’s it’s sort of a baby-Soulard with all the non-local product brought over from produce row.
Was there anything new and exciting at Tower Grove or Clayton last weekend?
Tags: biver farms, farrar out farms
Last Week at the Market – Tons of Stuff!!!
Jun 4, 2008 Illinois, St. Louis, farmers' markets, missouri
Wednesday
This week at Maplewood Farmers’ Market I made it in time to be one of those people that swept the Our Garden strawberries out from everyone. As I approached the booth there were ten pints and by the time I left the booth there was one. Two were mine! They were rather small and a bit tart but still better than any others I’d had to this point.
A bunch of new lettuces cropped up this week from Centennial Farms including magenta, butter crunch, and Nevada summer crisp.
Claverach added turnips, spring onions and cucumbers.
Root Cellar also had arugula which I don’t recall seeing last week. It was amazingly clean too. Generally Claverach takes the prize for cleanest vegetables which is a huge bonus when buying from them. They are outright obsessive about cleaning their lettuces especially which I’m sure goes a long way towards restaurants fighting over them.
Ken Muno (Goatsbeard) had his Camembert wheels which I can never remember what he calls after the fact. (Prairie Bloom maybe?)
Saturday
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Tags: Baetje-Farms, biver farms, Centennial Farms, Claverach Farms, clayton farmers' market, farrar out farms, goatsbeard farms, Goshen Farmers' Market, greenwood farms, Hinkebein Hills Farm, Maplewood Farmers Market, prairie grass farms, Scharf Farm, soulard farmers' market, The Root Cellar, Tower Grove Farmers' Market
Last Week at the Market – Ian Strikes
May 28, 2008 St. Louis, farmers' markets, missouri
Last weekend was Ellie’s birthday and celebrating it multiple times in a way that required sleeping in, I made it only to the Maplewood Farmers’ Market. And I was incredibly late to boot so I witnessed nothing new, personally.
I hear there was more kale and baby bok choy, and Ian bought the last strawberries from Biver Farms and seemingly enjoyed them with an export IPA from Schlafly.
Perhaps someone that hit the other markets, including the opening weekend at Clayton, will chime in with anything new they saw.
I’m curious if any more strawberries will have popped up, but I’m afraid all this rain may have slowed down this weeks crops.
Better luck this week.
Last Week at the Market – Sheep!
May 21, 2008 Illinois, St. Louis, farmers' markets, missouri
With the sun shining last week,the Maplewood Farmers’ Market migrated over to their usual spot and with it a few more vendors arrived.
Though The Root Cellar was still slinging the most in the way of lettuces, herbs, and the new addition of radishes, Claverach made their first appearance and stole the thunder with their freakishly immaculate micro greens and icicle radishes of their own.
Saturday, at Tower Grove, things were scaled back a bit from the opening week as the additional vendors selling crafts were no longer winding around the walking path on the Northwest edge of the market. The one vendor remaining on that far side was Greenwood Farms who incidentally has “lunch meat” ham that while a bit thick for what you might generally consider to be lunch meat, is some of the greatest breakfast ham I’ve ever had
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Tags: biver farms, Claverach, Goshen Farmers' Market, Maplewood Farmers Market, The Root Cellar, Tower Grove Farmers' Market
Last Week at the Market
May 14, 2008 St. Louis, farmers' markets, missouri
As expected the Farmers’ Markets last week were meat and plant heavy and vegetable light.
At the Maplewood Farmers’ Market (thankfully under the patio tent because of the rain) it was the relatively slim pickings you would expect on opening day. The Root Cellar from Columbia had the most produce including a bit of asparagus that went really quick. Mostly, however, they had various herbs and greens including what I can only assume is the weed of leafy greens: chard. Someone with a better green thumb than I can chime in but it seems like chard is available pretty much the entire growing season.
Also at Maplewood
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Tags: biver farms, Centennial Farms, goatsbeard farms, greenwood farms, Hinkebein Hills Farm, Maplewood Farmers Market, prairie grass farms, Tower Grove Farmers' Market
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