It’s the Last Week!

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