Entries from October 2009
Thursday, October 22 is our last market of the regular season. Stock up on all your favorite fall produce–apples and winter squash keep well in a basement, as do potatoes and cured storage onions. This is also a LAMB week!
Gary Bye has been selling 50lb. burlap sacks of his great local potatoes (reds and golds) for $20. While that might seem like a lot of spuds, it’s about right for even a small family for all those holiday meals and warm winter soups.
Conventionally grown potatoes are often aerial-sprayed with herbicides to kill off the foliage before the potatoes are harvested, meaning the produce is sitting in chemical-soaked soil. Local potatoes grown on a smaller scale (even those that are not certified organic), tend to have a much lighter chemical load.
Pumpkins have been selling for the bargain price of a buck or two, and there are a few melons left. Carrots and beets will also keep a good long time in your refrigerator’s crisper drawers once their green tops are removed.
Bob from Dakota Harvest is bringing some great new lamb and beef products–new flavors of brats, lamb breakfast links, and beef sticks with no MSG.
This Saturday, after Thursday’s final market, is the Vermillion Area Farmers Market Harvest Dinner from 6-7:30pm at the Extension Hall (4-H Building). The cost is $5, or you can bring a dish to share made primarily with local ingredients.
And where can you pick up those ingredients?
The Vermillion Area Farmers Market
Thursdays, 3-7pm
Clay County Fairgrounds
Corner of Cherry & High Streets
Vermillion, South Dakota
Categories: EVENTS
Tagged: Buy Fresh Buy Local, local food, Vermillion Area Farmers Market
Vendors in this next-to-last week of our regular season will be bringing all sorts of great local products–pumpkins and long-keeping winter squashes, potatoes, leeks, a few of the last melons, parsnips, onions, ornamental corn, beets, and more!
Have you decorated for fall yet? Buy local pumpkins and gourds and support your local farmers. We’re got great prices and nice variety, too.
See you there!
Vermillion Area Farmers Market
Thursdays, 3-7pm
Clay County Fairgrounds
Corner of Cherry & High Streets
Vermillion, South Dakota
Categories: EVENTS
Tagged: Buy Fresh Buy Local, local food, Vermillion Area Farmers Market
From south of Irene, Ruckus Ridge Farms will be attending our market for the first time today! They’ll be bringing a variety of great produce such as leeks, potatoes, onions, beets, daikon radish, acorn and Lakota squash.
They’ll also have sweet and hot peppers, ornamental and popcorn, horseradish, birdhouse gourds for you crafters, plus jade plants to bring some green indoors for the winter months, and possibly some basil as well.
Other vendors have been bringing loads of squash and pumpkins, plus melons and peppers, savory root crops, jams and jellies, and baked goods. Everyone’s favorite market baker, Red Wagon Bread, will be back with his awe-inspiring sourdough loaves and chocolate chip cookies.
Flying Tomato Farms will have a couple new items in limited supply this week: “Rubine” heirloom purple Brussels sprouts and heirloom “Large Prague” celeriac with their tasty tops. I’ll also have sweet and hot peppers, leeks, and maybe a few greens as well.
See you at the market!
Vermillion Area Farmers Market
Thursdays, 3-7pm
Clay County Fairgrounds
Corner of Cherry & High Streets
Vermillion, South Dakota
Categories: EVENTS
Tagged: Buy Frush Buy Local, local food, Vermillion Area Farmers Market
We’ve been seeing all kinds of variety lately from our produce vendors at the market–the pumpkins and squash look great this year!
There are still a few tomatoes coming in as well–so pick up some of those last fruits of summer today. We’ve also had a few vendors with late sweet corn–that won’t last much longer, so pick up some ears for roasting, boiling, or freezing.
Vermillion Public Library will be holding its last storytime of the season right after school lets out–so get down to the market with the kiddos and do your shopping while they listen to a book from 3:30-3:45pm.
What a great fall day it is for something warm and inviting from the oven or stovetop–squash soup, stuffed peppers, or a hot n’ hearty casserole. Pick up your ingredients at the market and support local farmers!
See you there!
Vermillion Area Farmers Market
Thursdays, 3-7pm
Clay County Fairgrounds
Corner of Cherry & High Streets
Vermillion, South Dakota
Categories: EVENTS
Tagged: local food, Vermillion Area Farmers Market
