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?
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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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