Available this week are fruiting trees, bushes and vines. Fruits available include strawberries, red and white currants, alpine strawberries and a few raspberries
Vegetable selections include baby beet greens, baby spinach, scallions, lettuce, garlic scapes, peas in the pod, string beans, zucchini, hot peppers, Swiss Chard. Several vendors will also be offering fresh herbs such as mint, chives, basil, cilantro, parsley.
Baked good will include crusty artisan bread, Michigan dried cherry and almond biscotti and triple cinnamon scones. Jams, jellies and preserves are available as well as hand painted maple buckets and lids.
Wooley Lot Farm will be offering their own potting soil – a blend of 1/3 Potter County loamy top soil, 1/3 aged manure compost and 1/3 peat moss with aragonite (sea shell flour) and Fertrell Special Starter added to the mix.
In conjunction with the Farmers’ Market this week the popular Strawberry Festival will be taking place near the gazebo on the courthouse square, a project of the New Century Club. They will be offering strawberry shortcake and sundaes for sale.
John Snyder, proprietor of Olga Gallery, Cafe & Bistro, stopped by the Potter County Farmers’ Market last week to deliver the banner pictured above to the current Farmers’ Market vendors. The banner which had been stored at Snyder’s establishment when the Food Matrix program was discontinued, promotes the bounty of local farms.
Pictured with the colorful banner are Alvie Fourness of Wooleylot Farm and Dennis Baker of the Card Creek Trading Post. The Pennsylvania Buy Fresh Buy Local® program celebrates the abundance and diversity of foods available locally. More information about Buy Fresh, Buy Local is on their website: http://www.buylocalpa.org/about/northerntier.
3 comments:
Anyone have a recipe for poor boy cookies. I got them at the farmer's market several years ago and they were so good. I believe they were an oatmeal cookie...very chewy.
We bought garlic scapes last week, never had them before. They were wonderful in a pasta dish and then I pickled the rest of them. Can't wait to try them. We also bought 2 fig trees which was such a great find and the man that sold them to us knew so much about different trees and bushes. We had tons of questions for him and really appreciated his answers.
Going back tomorrow, have a couple more questions:)
I bought garlic scrapes yesterday and can't wait to grill them with olive oil. I also bought scones from Netra & Denny Baker and they were delicious. Thank you, local farmers for all that you provide.
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