M. Planet has become accustomed to the fresh lettuce and herbs from Kountry Fresh Farms. Because of this, when they aren’t at the Farmers’ Market, a sort of brain-freeze happens that requires the purchasing routine to be re-evaluated. Usually a bag or two of lettuce is perfect for the week’s lunch salads. This weekend, Kountry Fresh had sold out of all of their delicious offerings during the week and was not at the market. Thankfully, Avery farms has a nice salad blend as well.
Farmer Avery: “oh! you’re back!”
M. Planet: “ah, yes. Koss Farms is not here today, so I will need to purchase more of your salad mix”.
The acquisition of purple asparagus, rhubarb, and a large quantity of salad mix had already been made from Farmer Avery that morning. We talked a little about Koss Farms (Kountry Fresh), and Farmer Avery shared that he used to have a stall next to Koss, and that they only had one type of lettuce at the time. Apparently they have really branched out, as there are frequently at least five varieties of lettuce, as well as herbs, at the Koss stand.
There was a group selling tomatoes: beautiful orange, pink, and red ones. They also had a basket of mixed ones with a sign saying “Small and Ugly tomatoes” – for 75c/pound cheaper than the others. They were neither small nor ugly, but a selection was made from these. So far, they have been sliced and eaten with a little salt, made into a tomato and red onion salad with some salt, pepper, and red wine vinegar, and eaten in salad. They aren’t as flavorful as expected, but then, these aren’t from The Great Tomato Woman’s gardens! They’ll be fried one of these days (a la Full Scottish Breakfast) as well.
Grabbed a couple bunches of herbs from Sola Gratia (dill and oregano). Will try to root the oregano; the dill will go into salads and was part of a pickling brine for the purple cauliflower obtained in an earlier trip:
Cary’s Garden of Eatin’ had quite a selection; picked up some cucumbers from them for salads and sandwiches and just plain eating.
