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| Yes, we still have beautiful hanging baskets! |
We’re in for another busy week at the market. Today
we work with the kindergarten and middle school to plant the Kids Community
Garden.
This year it’s going to be a potato patch. Since it’s hard to gather a
gardening crew when school is out and someone has decided to steal most of our
tomato cages and stakes, we’re putting in a crop that grows underground and
will need virtually no maintenance. The kids still get the pleasure of planting
and the joy of discovery during harvest without all the hard work in between. Plus
it seems unlikely that anyone will bother to steal the potatoes!
Thursday we welcome a “new” food vendor –
Apple Road Farm. If that name sounds familiar it’s because they sometimes sell
honey at the market and Mende does pie making classes at the market kitchen
every year. She has signed on to do the Thursday lunch and to sell baked goods
at the market. Her menu tomorrow is rosemary garlic pork loin, roast potato
medley, skillet-fried green beans and dessert for $6. Doesn’t that sound tasty?
Baked goods she’s planning to bring include
cookies, cupcakes, an assortment of yeast breads, muffins and possibly a few
pies.
The Hairy Vetch String Band plays tomorrow.
University of Missouri Extension nutrition educators are demonstrating a veggie
stir fry using lemongrass. Lemongrass is used in Thai cooking to add flavor and aroma. The Lee Family Farm is selling lemongrass plants so you can harvest your
own.
With Braker, E & O and Fairhaven all
coming tomorrow we should have a “Saturday” selection of hanging baskets and
plants. The produce has been rolling in lately and we’re really starting to
look like a farmers market in all its glory.
Saturday will be busy with breakfast
benefiting the Ronald McDonald House. Their volunteer landscaping team serves
the breakfast and uses the profits to landscape the House each year.
The Granny Chicks will perform.
“Clickety Clack – We’re Reading Down the Track”
is running from 9 to noon. The featured book is The Lost Crown of Sodor, a
Thomas the Tank Engine book. The free streetcar ride pulls out every 20 minutes.
Reservations can be made on the market’s Facebook page or you can just show up
and wait for a seat. There will be a Thomas model train set running in the
pavilion, as well as a children’s craft table.
Fresh Ground Seed Library, a master gardener
project, will be at the market for the last time this year giving away free
flower and vegetable seeds.
We’ll have all our usual growers and other
vendors Saturday as well as Tami Fredrickson’s grandpa Jim Oxley with his delightful
hand sewn dresses for little girls. His timing is great. I have an order for
sun dresses from my soon-to-be 7-year-old granddaughter. She’s growing like a
weed and needs a new supply.
I don’t have the details on the Tuesday market
yet, but you can be sure it will include a meal and music and loads of fresh
produce, beautiful flowers, baked goods and other lovely choices.
We’re making plans for summer. School will be
out next week which means we start our Free Kids Meal a week from Saturday.
Fun, fun, fun!!!
See you at the market.
