More At The Somerset County Farmers' Market!

Customers In Line At The Somerset County Farmers' Market

Hopefully, this will inspire everyone to go out this weekend and visit one of the farmers' markets in your area!  As promised, we have more pictures from the SCFM last Saturday.   The cut flowers were gorgeous and at this vendor, they are sold as bunches by the pint or quart.

Cut Flower Bunches By The Pint Or By The Quart!

Here's a reason to get to the market early ... They still had chicken, but it looks like the eggs were sold out an hour & a half after start of market.  Love the sign!


Pastured Eggs - All Gone!  :(

Oak Bottom Shiitake was there with their Shiitake mushrooms ...

Get Your Shiitake Mushrooms Here!

And finally, a close-up of some wonderful green leafy veggies and herbs from Todd & Sarah of Hi-View Gardens!

Fresh Leafy Greens From Hi-View Gardens ....

Local Food Goes On a Roadtrip!

Everyone seems to define "local food" in a different way ...... home town, home county, home state, 100 mile radius, etc. Well, this weekend, local food went on the road and made stops on the way to Virginia and in the Prince William County Virginia area.

The weekend started with a stop at the Somerset County Farmers' Market just off of the Somerset Pennsylvania Turnpike exit behind Georgian Place. http://www.somersetcountyfarmersmarket.com/ As usual, it's always windy & cooler in Somerset!

We started with some colorful good looking produce. One of the unique items of the season are locally grown strawberries! Grandma's Produce had customers lining up for their strawberries. Grower Joel has figured out a way to produce local strawberries in late summer/early fall. What a treat at this time of year. For the technically inclined out there, here's a link to a report on how this is being done by some growers in the Somerset County, PA & Garrett County, MD area. http://www.sare.org/reporting/report_viewer.asp?pn=ONE06-060&ry=2007&rf=1

For most of us, it's just good eating .......

We also picked up some maple products and Shiitake mushrooms at the market. The mushrooms and tomato chunks drizzled with Italian dressing grilled up great for dinner on Sunday. They were a side-dish to local Angus beef steaks that we'll talk about later this week.

That's it for now ...... more on heirloom tomatoes and other products on the next post!