While our garden may not be much to look at due to a fair amount of rain and not enough weeding, we have found some nuggets that should tantalize your tastebuds. It seems our Vidalia onion sets did quite well!
As I write, Katrina and Rachael are roasting up the onions we harvested yesterday from our garden with some garlic. They are tossing it with mozzarella and parmesan cheese and baking it with the potato buttermilk, Bertha’s Burstin’ Loaves. You might want to get to the market a bit earlier before they sell out.
We will be providing the Groovin’ Gorgonzola Dill Dip tomorrow (due to popular demand) to go with your fresh cucumbers.
Dear Friends and Family,
PEEKABOO!
My daughter, Eva, and her friend, love coming to the market and play. Last Saturday they set up their own “fort” underneath one of the tables. It is this type of family, fun, and relational atmosphere that makes the Harrisonburg Downtown Farmers Market and the Staunton Farmers Market such a wonderful place to stock up on locally grown and produced food and products. “10 minutes of shopping, 45 minutes of visiting”.
It is stunning to see how quickly the Harrisonburg Downtown Farmers Market shelter is progressing. Come on down tomorrow and take a good look – the late Summer/early Fall target date for completion seems quite feasible!
While you are down at the market, chatting and bumping into friends, pick up Katrina and Rachael’s Basil Butter and Honey and Ginger Butter. The honey that is used was harvested by my husband, Ernie, from our backyard hives. The Basil Butter nicely compliments Sweet Corn that you may be able to pick up at the market.
Katrina Didot
A Bowl of Good
www.abowlofgood.com
abowlofgood@gmail.com
540-435-2674
You may have heard that cilantro and jalapeño peppers are now on the salmonella “watch list”. One thing you can be pretty sure of, the people from Las Vegas and other areas who got infected probably didn’t buy their produce from the Downtown Harrisonburg Farmers Market.
See:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20080710-1117-nv-salmonella-vegas.html.
So rest easy and buy a loaf of bread and some Smok’n Cuban Black Bean soup from A Bowl of Good, and then top it off with fresh tomatoes and cilantro grown by one of our Market vendors. Just another reason to buy local!
We have heard bits and pieces of why locally raised honey is better but we would like to hear from you. There’s the word that the stuff in the supermarket has been “stretched” with some kind of evil sweetener or that locally grown honey is helpful against allergies, but all I know is that it tastes great, we’re helping a local farmer and economy, and the local bee population is being stimulated.
Nate Clark at Good Earth Gardens makes your honey purchase experience even better. You can taste test the various types of honey and you can even use bread baked from A Bowl of Good as a vehicle for the testing.
They even provide an actual bee-hive for kids to try and locate the queen and learn about honeybees. Check it out at the Downtown Harrisonburg Farmers Market.
