June 2024: Farmers Market Summer Season Begins! 🛍
Farmers Market Season 🥕 Gifts from the Farm 🍓 Recipe Share 🥒 Earth Stewardship
Farmers Market Season Begins!
If you’re reading this on June 1 then, today is the first day of the summer farmers market season! 🎉🎉🎉
Every Saturday, you’ll find our market table at the Lewiston Artisan Farmers Market from 9am-1pm in Academy Park.
All of our produce is harvested 24-48 hours before the market, so it is fresh, fresh, fresh to give you the longest storage potential.
Stop by and see us this month for these pesticide-free produce options (and more!) ⤵️
Lettuce and Salad Mixes
Microgreens - pea tendrils, sunflower, arugula, and more!
Radishes
Salad Turnips
Snap Peas
Beets
Garlic Scapes
Fresh Herbs - chives, sage, thyme, mint, and more!
We’ll also have Eden Valley Creamery’s organic cheese wedges & cheese curds, rustic Italian bread, our organic sourdough granola, and pizza crust.
Stop out to see us in Academy Park from 9am-1pm on Saturdays!
Gifts from the Farm
The end of the school year is quickly approaching & you know you need to get your child’s teacher a gift.
As the wife of a teacher, I can attest that they don’t need another coffee mug filled with candies or a Tim Hortons gift card.
What they’d like instead is something unique, thoughtful, and of value - just like them!
Why not say thank you to your teacher with a gift set of our Fruit & Herb Jams?!
🍓 Each gift set includes 3-8oz jars of our locally made jam.
🍑 Inside are recipes for scones, biscuits, pancakes, pop tarts to enjoy alongside the jam.
🍏 And the gift boxes are wrapped in colored twine and include a gift tag, so you don’t even have to wrap it!
➡️ Stop by our table at every Saturday in June at the Lewiston Artisan Farmers Market from 9am-1pm in Academy Park to pick out your teacher gift.
Recipe Share
For the first few weeks of June, you’ll find Salad Turnips at our market table.
Salad Turnips, (aka: Hakurei or Japanese Turnips) are a sweet, mild, tender turnip that can be eaten raw or cooked. Peeling is not necessary. When they are cooked they are sweet and buttery.
And their greens can be eaten too - they have a mild sweetness.
Braised Salad Turnips with Balsamic Glaze (20 minutes)
Ingredients:
2-3 T butter
1 bunch salad turnips, greens removed and saved for another use, roots trimmed and quartered or cut into bite sized chunks depending on size
2-3 T water
2-3 T balsamic vinegar
1 T sugar or 2 teaspoons maple syrup
salt and pepper to taste
minced fresh herb like parsley, scallions, etc. (optional)
Directions:
Melt butter in pan and add turnips to coat. Add water and bring to simmer.
Reduce heat to maintain slow simmer, cover and cook until tender, about 7-10 minutes.
Uncover pan and add vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper. Increase heat to medium-high while stirring frequently until sauce starts to form a glaze on the turnips.
Earth Stewardship
Creating a habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects is something that is critical for our farm - after all, we need pollinators to pollinate many of our crops so we can enjoy their fruits and beneficial insects keep pest insects at bay!
Around our crop areas, we grow hairy vetch, a cover crop attracting bees and other insects when in flower. We have “pollinator patches” of yarrow, anise hyssop, and other perennial flowers to attract butterflies, lacewings, ladybugs, dragonflies, and other beneficial insects.
To keep pest insects at bay and your vegetables well-pollinated, provide a diverse array of blooms and foliage that attract them to your yard or garden. To help beneficial insects stick around for the season, provide a bowl or birdbath with fresh water and don't spray unnecessary insecticides.
Below is a list of pollinator and beneficial insect plants that you can welcome into your yard:
Perennials: Common Milkweed; Lavender; Echinacea; Sage; Yarrow; Anise Hyssop; Bee Balm; Swamp Milkweed
Annuals: Borage; Zinnia; Calendula; Sunflower; Nasturtium; Dill; Fennel; Parsley; Marigold; Cosmos; Feverfew
We created a video listing out plants to bring pollinators to your yard, so check it out!
This month at the Lewiston Artisan Farmers Market, we’re offering our Pollinator Pack which includes 2 seedlings each of:
Yarrow - great for honey and native bees
Anise Hyssop - loved by hummingbirds and butterflies
Bee Balm - a native supporting beneficial insects
Each of the seedlings are perennials - meaning you they’ll grow back year after year in your garden.
Stop by our market table every Saturday starting June 1, 9am-1pm in Academy Park, located on Center Street next to Tops, in the village of Lewiston.
