Farmer's Market -- 02 June 2019 (Acacia Day, 14th of Meadow, Year 227)

[neotoma]

Chicken empanada, garlic scapes, sunflower plants, ancho pepper plant, pink-petaled strawberry plant, lime-scented thyme plant, hardy kiwi plant, 1/2 gallon of milk, pint of chocolate milk, a dozen eggs, 3 quarts of strawberries, apple schitz, caramel skyr made from goat's milk (!), and cornmeal made from Bloody Butcher dent corn, which I'm told will turn purplish in the baking.

I was talking to one of the farmer's, and it looks like this or next might be the last week for strawberries this year, which is a fairly short season for them.

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[madripoor_rose]

Strawberry season is about two weeks for us, our local farm is saying they should be opening for picking on the 10th. We've had SO much rain I'm surprised we'll get anything.

[neotoma]

There might not be much, so get what you can while it's available.

I've been growing my own, but you need lots of plants for even a quart of strawberries if you're keeping them in containers, and I'm not planting strawberries in the ground because I do want to grow other things. They're almost as bad as mint for growing sideways.

[madripoor_rose]

If I remember correctly, my mother tried to grow them once, in one of those tall terra-cotta pots with the pockets on the sides, but, squirrels...

The Honeoye berries from this farm are always spectacular.

[alchemine]

I'm always jealous of your farmer's market hauls! My local one doesn't have nearly that much variety, just a single row of 15 or so stalls.

[neotoma]

I don't think the one I went to on Sunday has even twenty booths. They just have a lot of variety -- the market rules are you have to grown/raise/bake your products yourself, and I think they work to make sure there are a variety of items on offer.

The kosher flour seller is definitely new this year, but the place I get my apples (and other fruit) from regularly has been there all the years I've been going to that market.

[fabrisse]

Acacia Day!

That corn looks really cool; it would be fun to bake with the meal. Lime scented thyme? that sounds great. Tell me if the caramel skyr tastes as good as it sounds.

[neotoma]

The lime-scented thyme goes into the Strawberry Honey Lime Thyme jam I make for my mother.

The corn is going to show up in cornbread soon. Maybe as early as this weekend. And maybe in homemade tortillas, if I get ambitions.