Scenes from the August 13 Mill City Farmers Market
Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 1:00PMI had to do a double take - Zestar apples at the August 13 Market? Per Ames Farm owner Brian Fredericksen, these beauties are running about 10 days ahead of the usual harvest time.
August 13 was Gut Health Day at the Market, and Adrienne from Kiss My Cabbage had an array of fermented veggies for shoppers to choose from.
And the Ginormous Cabbage Award goes to . . . Prairie Hollow Farm!
My personal faves - Chinese Long Beans from the Bean Market. A must try - roast, stir fry or grill to fully bring out their wonderfulness.
A heaping basket of banana bread from Heritage Breads disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Jonathon from Market Chef Pantry joked that he had to go a long way to get the maple syrup for his Maple Brown Mustard (his booth is next to Horner's Corner, so Steve can just hand over a bottle). Many of the MCFM vendors use each others products - love it.
These little kids were gleefully cuttin' a rug to Jack Klatt!
Nistler's team works as a well-oiled machine to quickly move sacks of sweet corn from the truck to their stand.
This pie plate from Fringe & Fettle reminded me of my mothers old stoneware pie plates (without the hairline cracks and fruit stains acquired by decades of weekly pie making, of course).
This young fellow was enjoying his carrots.
Thank you to the Wedge Community Co-op Pop-Up Market for expanding the grain selection at the MCFM. I'm making a couscous salad for this week's office lunches using the semolina couscous they demo'd at the August 13 Market.
Wow - those are some spectacular tomatoes from Loon Organics.
Milly the goat!
