PoKreeda

See ya Thursday! Hopewell. 5-7 one block past the library.

What’s starting to produce for you:
Snake beans/yard beans

String beans (not many left due to heat but have more growing)

Beets- last of spring planting, fall planting in progress

Garlic- small to lil bigger sizes, call em recipe size if you need a few cloves

Red & yellow onion- fresh out the dirt read to use.

Swiss Chard- red and white that refuses to stop giving!

Okra- crimson and jambalaya varieties. They got away from me for a couple days; big crimson pods, we will see come market morning what harvest looks like.

Juliet grape tomatoes- bringing green and a few red ones off the vines! Great salads and anything needing tomato

Pickling cucumbers; National Pickling varietie- can only make pickles but so fast and these are about to get outa hand

Pecans- in the shell; yes you need a nut cracker like the one grandma had in the junk drawer in the kitchen. Don’t worry it’s enough for a pie or two and fun to crack to see how many whole ones ya get

Kale- last of it

Cabbage- small heads and the last til fall

Rosemary, Sage- few spigs for the cooks

Eggplant-black beauty and Asian in limited supply but more on the way

Peppers- bell variety & colors

Limited pickle supply this week, time, the gardens, foster puppies & Noodle trying to get along, household chores, treating hornet stings, 26 new chicks for Runnymede Farm, building brooders and coops, the holiday and needing a 2days of NO, is the reason along with no baked goods too.

If I can get my hands on some Hanover Tomatoes, that will be the only LOCALLY sourced product I will have.

ALSO:
I’m wanting to try something new with you. Pre order and market delivery. Can we work together and make it easy for us both? How about farm pick up days?
How about your canning needs? Large quantities, locally sourced (Restaurant quality for you cooking adventures) or from my trusted foraging adventures; be it me picking, traveling to NC State Farmers Market (from the ground to the sea, you can get it here and/or you don’t have a way to get there).
We can work to make it better when it comes to food in your home and how you get it. Trust someone with experience in cooking, providing and sharing his years of giving his all to those who didn’t deserve it, to those who truly do. Just a conversation starter for now, but quick to be a thing on a personal level real soon!

See ya Thursday!

Jackson Ward Farmers Market today was great adventure! Met new people, saw some old customers and met some new farmers! Overall great day! See you next month! Abner Clay Park in Jackson Ward directly across the street from the Black History Museum of VA; 10am-2pm.

Whew! Going to so many markets is something to take on in California!

Not only do they have access to the exact same foods that take at minimum 3-5 days to get to you on the east coast, but they also have a market system that is heavily supported by the community!

There are not many places in this country where produce and fruits are grown in abundance. Farmers using organic practices as well as conventional farmers suppling who supply chain grocery stores all come together to offer their products. The farmers who specialize in proteins, raise their livestock and harvest on an as needed basis and they don’t waste any of it! Fish mongers with fresh overnight catches. Bakers (I’m in the Land of Sour Dough and it’s EVERYWHERE!), food trucks, artisans and more!

What’s even more amazing is the fact you can walk around neighborhoods and see fruit trees with ripe fruit, wild herbs growing from the curb (fennel grows wild around San Francisco and surrounding areas. Rosemary fills the air) To see these things in such a natural environment is a gift. Sad to see perfectly good fruit rotting on the ground because it’s too much for them to eat!

Pictures and videos don’t do justice for the actual thing in person. So I guess when I get home with all of the tools to improve my markets, with your help we can set our own precedent by which other markets come to US to make their markets better!

I need to get my hands dirty doing something!

Missing the garden