Looks like we’ve got another good market lined up. The nice weather will make harvesting a lot easier for the farmers. If you are thinking about working in your garden, several nursery vendors are at the market this week.

Food Front is holding its Winter Market Sunday event this weekend. From 9am-noon get free toast and coffee featuring Dave’s Killer Bread, Rose Valley Butter, and Sweet Creek Fruit Spreads, along with a free 4 oz sample of ZBEANZ Coffee. From 12-3, there will be a food demos.

Don’t forget that we are on our winter schedule. The remaining winter dates are: February 21 March 7, 21 April 11, 25. The weekly market season begins on May 2nd.

See you on Sunday,

Eamon Molloy
Market Manager

What’s Coming To The Market This Week?

You should find kale, mustard greens, spinach, salad mix, braising mix and a variety of chicories. Broccoli raab and swiss chard showed up at the last market and there should be more this week as well. Roots such as carrots, beets, leeks, parsnips, potatoes, onions, shallots, celeriac, rutabagas and radishes should be available. Apples, pears and hardy kiwi will be available as well.

Draper Girls will have plenty of lamb and goat. Pine Mountain Ranch will have a good supply of bison and chicken while Sweetbriar Farms will have plenty of pork. As for eggs, Greenville Farms, Jacobs Creamery, Pine Mountain Ranch and Sweetbriar Farms will have eggs.

The sunny weather and warmer days has everyone thinking about their gardens. Garden Color (hellebores and other perennials) and Vanveen Bulb (bulbs) return to the market this weekend to join Honeyhill Nursery (hellebores) and Graceful Blades (trees, shrubs, primroses) so you’ll have a lot to choose from. Gales Meadow Farm will return on March 7th with vegetable starts. Other vendors will be returning soon.

Check the availability list for the complete list of who’s coming this weekend and what they expect to be selling. The list is posted Thursday afternoon and updated through the weekend. For Sunday morning updates, check Twitter feed either on our website sidebar or on our Twitter page.

IN
Blossom Vinegars
Garden Color
Honeyhill Nursery
Llamamama Acres
Tastebud (no pizza this week-bagel sandwiches, soup & salads)
Vanveen Bulb

OUT
Ayers Creek Farm (back March 21)
Farris Seaman Plants
Gales Meadow Farm (back March 7)
Kookoolan Farms (back April 25)
Salmon Creek Hydroponics (back March 7)
Sungold Farm (back March 21)
Wild Oregon (back March 7)

Cheesemaking Class with Lisa Jacobs

There are still a few spots available for this weekend’s class. Learn how to make yogurt, crème fraiche and farmer’s cheese in your own kitchen from Jacob’s Creamery owner, Lisa Jacobs. Learn about milk, cheese making and taste some wonderful cheeses in a hands-on cooking class. A light dinner will be served.
- Saturday, February 20th from 5-7pm
- $75, two hour class includes light dinner, recipes and instruction for yogurt, crème fraiche and farmer’s cheese, cheese tasting, and the farmer’s cheese you make in class

Class held at Sweetwares (link), 6306 SW Capitol Hwy. Call 503-546-3737 for more information.

Cooking Ideas – Rapini with Garlic

Rapini (aka broccoli rabe or raab) is a brassica more closely related to turnips than broccoli. It has spiky green leaves with small broccoli like buds. Sometimes the buds have small flowers. Rapini is fairly easy to prepare. This week’s recipe (link) is pretty easy and can be easily adapted. As is, it’s an a great side vegetable. Toss in pasta ( penne or orechiette are best) and add pecorino cheese or crumbled sweet Italian sausage and you have a main course. Feel free to experiment. Enjoy!