We’ve been more active than ever this year, in sports, in our community, in doing the things we don’t want to put off until tomorrow.
That’s meant for a pretty hectic 2012 and 2013. It’s also meant I’ve had to cut back on a few things, including this blog. But I’m happy that the Farmers Market is still on my “must-do” list.
Even in the rain this week, I enjoyed manning the Farmers Market info tent. Then at the end of my shift doing some speed shopping before knocking off the rest of my to-do items.
With a $40 market budget, here’s what I took home:
- I couldn’t resist the strawberries and red rhubarb at Walt Skibbe Farms this time around. No one has been disappointed with that choice. Besides eating the strawberries fresh last night and this morning and throwing them in drinks, we have plans for a strawberry-rhubarb pie this evening.
- Fresh eggs and ground beef from Wettstein’s Organic Farm. Nothing beats farm-fresh eggs. If you’ve only had the big-farm produced eggs, you owe it to yourself to taste the richness of eggs from chickens who roam free, eating every bug and nutrient they can find.
- Rainbow Swiss chard (am blanking on which booth I picked this one up. So many bunches looked good this week).
- A cinnamon roll that promised to change my life and a bag of onion poppy seed hamburger buns from the French pastry specialists at Penny Pastry (which was this week’s Featured Vendor and one of the market’s newest vendors). I’d only intended to buy a pastry and welcome Penny Pastry to the market. But I overheard someone say that the cinnamon rolls were fantastic…and they were. Just as I was digging out my wallet, I spied the sign for the hamburger buns…perfect for our Father’s Day cookout.
I ended my shopping with a few dollars left over and an armful of good food for the coming week.
Virtual Farmgirl 