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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[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.