Oregon City Farmers Market

Local ingredients by the Forkful!

Oregon City Farmers Market — Thu, 24 May 2012 22:49:19 +0000

MORE Strawberries this week! The berry season has begun….Rick Steffens Farms, Leones Farms and now Parsons Farms with their field grown berries will be back in the Market for the season starting this weekend…just look at Cliff Parsons with those BIG tasty berries!
Lovely local carrots, asparagus, beets, broccoli, onions, potatoes, chard, spinach, kale, peas, shallots…even some of the first zucchini! BUT get there early for the pick of the crop:) Fava Beans are ready right now, wash, toss in olive oil and BBQ or sautee, season with sea salt and eat the tender pods whole or simply suck the beans out…delicious ‘with a little Chianti’ (and what film is THAT from…?!) Find the Favas and Chianti bottle (hopefully NOT the mask!) at Pitkin-Winterrowd Farms booth, along with Tom’s homemade Bath, Kitchen and Gardeners Soap made from his farm crops. This week he also has dried beans to add to that ham hock for soup.
Apart from the vegetables and berries the Market will be well stocked with protein!…tons of farm fresh eggs, goats milk chevre, wild fish (including Chinook Salmon, Red Rock fish, Steamer Clams…and a special on Anchovies) and locally-raised meats. Sweet Home Farms will be offering lots of delicious pork—bone-in shoulder roasts, shoulder steaks, loin roasts, bacon, sausage, and ground pork. For people who are planning to bbq this weekend, they’ll have Hungarian, Andouilles, Polish, and Beef Wieners. No MSG, no Nitrites, 100% grassfed beef. Hansen Family Farms will have their pastured pork and beef, and PLENTY of eggs…… Healthy Happy Homegrown goodness!
This weeks Master Gardener Workshop (10am-10.30am) will be on Growing Blueberries…and Three Brothers will be selling plants too….blueberries are one of the most nutritious foods you can grow, delicious and easy to add into a great variety of foods and super easy to freeze and keep through the cold months for those smoothies, muffins!
Back this week is Curds on the Way with their cheese, bread and vinegar-making kits…beautifully produced, packaged and easy steps to follow…or register for one of Gayle’s fabulous workshops.
POP Club Kids listen up! The Oregon City Lions Club is coming Saturday with the new monthly LIONS STRIDES program. You can now “Stride” with the Oregon City Lions at the Farmers Market each month. The Lions Club will provide the POP Club activity on the fourth Saturday of each month, starting this weekend. Take a one mile, 30-minute walk, starting at the Farmers Market , looping through Hillendale Park and returning to the Market. Walks are scheduled to start at 10:00am, 11:00am, 12:00 noon and 1:00pm. In order to register for a walk, please arrive 30 minutes before the scheduled walk start time. “Stride” with the Lions for diabetes awareness!…kids can even bring their parents along too:)
Jesse Young is playing music from 10-1pm, Savory et Sweet and the Tamale House will be cooking some great food, The Fresh Start Cart is making coffee and smoothies, Kings Raven Winery has wine for you….and the little blue and white stripped truck has Organic Ice-Cream…vanilla and chocolate!
All this AND a sunny day forecast (again!!)…happy l-o-n-g weekend everyone, stock up!!!!

Sweet Peas, cucumbers and strawberries!

Oregon City Farmers Market — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:51:33 +0000

Love this time of year when all the old favorites start showing up…and I don’t mean the customers!:) This week we’ll see fragrant Sweet Peas, the first Cucumbers (English and American) , and MORE local hot-house Strawberries AND this is the market for the VERY popular annual Tomato-Growing Workshop at 10-10.30 by OSU Master Gardener Sherry Holley! Come and hear the tips, guidelines and solutions to growing the best fruits this summer, bring a notebook, there will be scoop you’ll want to write down…PLUS the Master Food Preservers will be there to help you to Spring Into Canning! Talk with them , gather a check list and ideas , get inspired to preserve your OWN food this summer. They’ll be giving out Ball Canning Guides and Wilco’s Preserving Supplies flyer…did you know our local Wilco store is stocking all kinds of great “householding” merchandise now? ..and there is much more arriving this summer!
Dry market day forecast (again,wow!), all the usual vendors, but OUT this week is the Underground Worm Connection as is C and K Flowers, both back next market. IN is Blossom Vinegars and Mickleberry Gardens ..who are offering a special sampler,so you get to try a little bit of everything at a discount! This package includes a soothing salve, all 3 honey therapies, and a honey propolis throat spray, for only $30.00. Stop by their booth to try all their products, and chat about how wonderful local honeybee products are for your health!
The Market will have TONS of good-looking veggie and herb plants and with the moderating temperatures next week , this weekend will be a great planting time.
Sunset Woodworking will have GARDEN BEDS ready for you take take home and start food growing. Their kits are super easy to put together and only require a hammer (or even a rock!) for assembly.They also have Potting Benches to save your back, and the garden essentials….chicken coops, you will have happy layers in these! Thinking of adding hazelnut shells to your landscaping to ward off slugs? You’ll get one pair of good garden gloves with each 5 bag purchase….and don’t forget to bring your tools and knives to be sharpened!
Have you tried the new tamales yet? Had a crepe lately? Did you know we now have coffee and smoothies…and organic ice-cream? Had a glass of wine while listening to music? Beautiful Flute is playing 10am-1pm this Saturday…Andean Music, nice on a sunny day:)
286 kids are already signed up for summer season of the 2012 POP Club (in just 2 markets!). This Saturday they will be planting beans to take home, sprout and pop straight into the ground or a large pot. Next week the Oregon City Lions Club is coming to have fun with the kids with their Lions Strides Program…every 4th Saturday through the summer.
We have lots planned for you this summer season, mark your calendars now for Green Fair, June 16th, 80+ vendors that day, with workshops, raffle items and tons of fun!
Don’t forget your bag…see ya!

Give MOM some Market love this weekend!

Oregon City Farmers Market — Thu, 10 May 2012 22:07:55 +0000

It’s going to be a beautiful day and a beautiful Market this Saturday! We are kicking off the first of the Master Gardener Workshops (30 mins) at 10am…this week it’s “Starting Your Vegetable Garden” (bring your notebooks!) …PERFECT! as we will have a great selection of plants to choose from. 50 vendors this week selling the first spring veggies , fruit and much more. We’ll have asparagus., spinach, chard, kale, collards, lovely beets, sweet sweet carrots, radishes..crisp, juicy and mild at this time of year, little cauliflowers, broccoli, shallots, green onions, onions, cauliflower, parsley, cilantro, kholrabbi, both red and white….and OREGON strawberries! Plus lots of sugar-pod peas..just right for a spring salad …in fact that’s what OSU Nutritionist Kelly Streit is making this Saturday at 11am…a delicious Spring Garden Salad…for the KIDS! They will be invited to help her chop and mix and then everyone can share a heavenly taste of spring.
And for Mothers Day…..bring her some market love! Fresh Flowers, Hanging Baskets, Cheese, Vinegar and Bread-Making Kits, Preserves (Jalepeno Jam, Lemon Curd, and some Pastries…why not?) Caramels, Soaps, Lotions, Candles, Plants for her garden, Bird Houses and Feeders, Garden Beds, Adirrondak Chairs and Benches, Bat Houses (the GREEN way to get rid of mosquitos!), Mason Bee Hives…or why not put together a Basket of Market Goodies,or purchase a Bag of Market Tokens for her (we have the bag). Sir Sharp-A-Lot suggests having all her Kitchen Knives and Garden Clippers Sharpened…but then he would!
Back in the Market this week….Papardelles Pasta..we missed them this Winter….but they will be here this Saturday with an AMAZING selection of handmade pasta! Back too is Sunset Woodworking with garden beds, chicken coops and lots of gift ideas for mom’s garden. He Sells These Shells has offered FREE Gardening Gloves when you purchase 5 bags of landscaping shells.Three Brothers will be back too with lots of blueberry, apple and fig plants and an assortment of new ones.
If you missed the new gluten-free bakery last week, Melissa with Terrapin Bakery is bringing Strawberry Lemonade cupacakes, Focaccia, & double chocolate chip cookies amongst many other items! La Provence is bringing more this week (as they keep selling out!)…and Big Foot Bread will be back up to production this week with a good selection also. Hansen Family Farms and Sweet Home Farms will have a good variety of meats..it’s BBQ time!! Yeah! Wild Oregon has checked in and they will be bringing troll-caught CHINOOK salmon, Red Snapper,Ling Cod,Shrimp and RAZOR CLAMS…nice. If you have not tried their marinated anchovies…well, you just haven’t lived:)Try some on a bed of fresh spring greens, with soft creamy chevre and just cooked baby beets with warm crusty bread!
It’s going to be HOT so make sure you taste the heavenly ORGANIC ice-cream from the Little Sweet Cart…what a treat! And for a late breakfast or lunch Savory et Sweet will be using fresh market asparagus, strawberries and rhubarb in the Saturday menu! And since the weather will be summery ~ their popular Limeade with basil-cucumber & blackberry returns! The Tamale House will have tasty Mexican food…and you can sip a cool glass of white wine while you listen to Succotash…a (market fave) 4 piece band, always fun..playing 10am-1pm.
We post lots of info. on our Facebook Page..you can even LIKE us To check who will be at the Market each week, go the 2012/13 Vendors Page on our web site and simply click on the map!
See you Saturday…for a glorious day at the Market…….OK and bring Mom if you’d like!

Main Market opening THIS Saturday!

Oregon City Farmers Market — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:13:03 +0000

Have WE got a fab market for YOU this 2012 summer…lots of new and returning vendors, we’re bigger than ever, 48 vendors this week more coming next week! To celebrate our main season opening OSU Forestry will be giving away tree seedlings! …and Can We Talk Vegetables….? TONS of them this Saturday including: Asparagus…(much sweeter when picked fresh close to home)…PEAS!!! (sugar pod and shelling) spinach, chard, kale, collards,beets, carrots, shallots, green onions, onions, cauliflower, parsley, cilantro, kholrabbi, both red and white….and even strawberries! These have been grown inside hoop houses, under plastic, so yes they are local:) We are welcoming Rick Stefens and RJ farms who have kept us in vegetables all winter, now they join the main market this year. In addition Profarm, Maryhill, Green Acres Farm, Leones Farm…all have produce this week, bring your big shopping bags!

The first PEAS are here!

Pitkin Winterrowd Farm (new) will have dried beans, cover-crop (so you can get your soil ready this spring), homemade “gardeners” soap and herb plants, as will Spring Creek Nursery…veggie plants too. Hansen Family Farm will have tons of open-pollinated and heirloom veggie starts, as will Family Table Farm, Irie Acres (new) and Maggy’s Farm (know as previously as the English Garden,)…lots to choose from! Plan your vegetable garden and bring a list. Ten Oaks Nursery will have perennial plants and shrubs(Three Brothers Nursery starts back next week ) S and K Nursery will have their beautiful hanging baskets starting this week..C and K Flowers and Hilltree Farm will have plenty of gorgeous fresh spring flowers…..think Mother’s Day!
Sweet Home Farms will have lots of different meats as will Hansen Family Farms. Taste some of Olympic Provisions cured meats … salumi, sausage and bacon. There will be loads of eggs in the Market this season…look out for the EGGS signs at vendor’s booths.
Wild Oregon Seafood is bringing….Chinook Salmon (troll caught), Crab, Shrimp, snapper and sole. Robin will also have smoked chinook and tuna…yum! Alsea Acres will have her goats chevre all summer…perfect for adding to salads, platters with cured meats, or sprinkled over roasted veggies, including asparagus…..hmmm!
La Provence is back with European-style breads and pastries, Big Foot Bread is back with wholegrain breads, foccacias, and much more, (including BIG news!) …and we welcome a gluten-free bakery this summer , Terrapin Bakery- cakes, cookies and breads! Grams Caramels are back with their excellent treats…this week they are sampling their Coffee Caramels which are made with freshly-brewed French-pressed coffee. The flavor is absolutely heaven! Mountain Meadow from Colton are back…stock up with their beautiful golden local honey..we’ve missed them all winter! Mickleberry Gardens will be selling their honey and herbal remedies at the summer market, but check with them for the dates. Curds On the Way are back with their cheese, vinegar and bread-making kits…,what a GREAT idea for Mother’s Day!
We’ll have bottles of Kombucha again (yeah..they’re back!), fruity vinegars from Blossom, preserves, pickled asparagus, lavendar products (new), goats milk soap and lotions. For the garden we have new crafts vendors bringing chairs, planters, bat houses, decorative recycled wooden items and much more…Sunset with the garden beds will be back next week. He Sells These shells will have bags of shells for landscaping and bring your dull knives and tools for Sir Sharp-a-Lot…The Underground Worm Connection will be back for the season NEXT week.
On the food scene…. we have ICE Cream…organic(!) from the cute little blue and white truck, and the fab. Savory et Sweet cart is back with wonderful crepes, hot chocholates and lemonades and NEW this year ..the Tamale House will be cooking up the BEST tamales, four types : cheese and jalapeño; pork cooked in a traditional red sauce; chicken prepared with a traditional mild green sauce; and a very tasty barbecue pork and fresh-made chile rellenos! Also new this season is The Smoothie Cart…with hot coffee and fresh fruit smoothies. Let’s not forget Kings Raven Winery…with their local wines, you can purchase wine by the glass too, to enjoy with your food while you listen to live music!
PLEASE help us spread the word….. WE’RE OPEN!…. weekly now for the summer starting this week, May 5th, with a GREAT selection this year.
Kids….your POP Club (Power Of Produce) is back…thanks to Clackamas County Soil and Water Conservation District! We are starting registration again this spring. Sign your Passport to Health, get a new RED shopping bag, a new POP Club button and the little drawstring muslin bag with $2 in wooden tokens to buy fresh produce and food plants…start your own little garden this spring! The POP Club Fun this Saturday will be decorating a pot and planting sunflower seeds….thanks to our new POP sponsor Citizens Bank, stop by and say hi to them on Molalla. See you all Saturday.
We open at 9am, on the parking lot of Clacklamas Counbty’s Public Services Building 2051, Kaen Rd, Oregon City. EASY parking, debit and Oregon Trail accepted….find us and LIKE us on Facebook:) Questions? call 503 734-0192.

Last “winter” market…going out with a bang!

Oregon City Farmers Market — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:28:50 +0000

Ending the “Winter” market with glorious weather AND the Seed and Plant Swap Earth Day Celebration! Bring your extra seeds, plants, pots, tools, catalogs…any thing “gardeny” and share with fellow customers, take something home for yourself! Master Gardeners and seed-saving enthusiasts will be on hand to assist with any questions. Grow more this year… more veggies and fruit, more herbs and flowers. If you have room plant a fruit or nut tree….grow your pantry this summer! Also this Saturday…The Cat in the Hat will be helping kids to plant seeds, the Underground Worm Connection will have a vermicomposting demo…. even a baby goat will be visiting us!
The POP Club is going strong, so bring the kids (5-12) for their $2 in wooden tokens…they can use them to buy produce and food plants….we’ll have balloon-twisting too:)
Looking to decorate your front porch for spring? S and K Nursery are back for the season with their B.E A.U.T.I.F.U.L hanging baskets. Bring your garden tools + knives, Sir Sharp-A-Lot is coming with his state-of-the art machine…get ready now for BBQ and gardening season, it’s coming…yeah!
All the usual suspects will be set up on 8th St this Saturday for a really BIG winter/spring market. We’ll have fresh produce, meats, eggs, cheese, breads and pastries, including gluten-free(!), preserves, pickles, wines, fresh fish, caramels, fruit vinegars, honey and honey remedies (personally tried one last week…it worked like a charm, I’m stocking up!), hummus and pita chips, fresh cut flowers, soaps and lotions, ceramics…and more.
Last time we are down on 8th St until the Wednesday Market opens June 6th(3pm-7pm). The NEXT Market will be opening day of the main market season, Saturday May 5th 9am-2pm, on “the Hill”…2051, Kaen Rd, off Beavercreek Rd…and DO WE have a summer market planned for you!
See you Saturday….and thanks for all your support through the Winter, we’ve had a blast, hope you have too!

Spring, Easter, Garden…and Good Food!

Oregon City Farmers Market — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:42:42 +0000

All things “Spring, Easter, Garden” at this Saturday’s Market! In celebration of National Public Health Week, we’ll have veggie plants to give a way, one per person, so long as they last, thanks to Clackamas County , Vermicomposting Demo, a RAFFLE for a 6′X4′ raised garden bed (thanks to Sunset Woodworking), Master Gardeners, tool and knife-sharpening (Sir Sharp-a-Lot is back), chicken coops and LIVE hens -both bantam and full size, hazelnut shells for landscaping and free squirrel food (!)…and Three Brothers Nursery will be back for the season.
You’ll see the first asparagus from Rick Steffens plus spinach, kale, cabbage, onions, potatoes, shallots, miner’s lettuce and lovely colorful radishes. Family Table Farm will have a selection of root veggies and onion starts.
For your Easter Table…Sweet Home Farms will have old-fashioned sugar-cured hams and tender legs of lamb for Easter. They will have other cuts of lamb too, if that’s what you’re looking for… AND cuts of other meat. Olympic Provisions will also have hams, smaller in size, plus their artisnal salumi, fresh sausages and other dry-cured products…using only fresh local, organic pork!
Eggs will be everywhere, Sweet Home Farms, Food Forest Farms and Christensen Farms will all have farm fresh hen and duck eggs….Christensen Farms will also have goose eggs and Food Forest will have “blown” ones for decorating too. Spindles and Fiber will have “bird-seed” eggs…perfect for hanging on the tree for the birds, resting in little nests of fiber!
Fill up YOUR Easter Basket at the Market…we’ll have fresh baked breads, pastries (including Lemon Curd, for those Easter treats), preserves, local wines, goats chevre, hummus, plus delicious local, hand-made caramels….all GOOD things for your Easter Table! Plus goat’s milk soup and lotions from Daisy Fed and Goldenwood, and do try a sample of Mickleberry Gardens wonderful honey and herbal remedies and salves.

Bring the kids (5-12) ...the Market's POP Club gives them $2 every market day to shop for fresh produce...here's Emily choosing her own veggies!

So…after the Oregon City Egg Hunt (10am at Rivercrest Park) bring the kids down to 8th St (park up on the bluff and ride the Elevator!), pick up some free veggie plants, enter the free raffle, cluck at the chickens, have a tasty bite from Savory et Sweet’s food cart and listen to the great sounds of the one and only Beckerheads…playing 10am-2pm…bring your dancing shoes, we’re gonna rock at the Market this Saturday!
(Plenty of parking along Railroad Ave and in Busch’s parking lot at the side of the Market…cheers:)

Extra Market THIS Saturday!

Oregon City Farmers Market — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:42:31 +0000

Yes, couldn’t resist the opportunity slip an extra Market in March THIS weekend…especially when new veggies are arriving every week now! Rick Steffen’s Farm will have the first of the over-wintered Cauliflower…small and tight, just steam and add butter…delicious! Or prepare as they do in England (Cook the greens too!): make a white sauce, add lots of strong cheddar and bits of good crispy bacon, pour over the steamed cauliflower..yum. Rick is also sending the first few bunches of Asparagus…but get to the market early , they won’t last long:) In addition he’ll have spinach, kale, cabbage, onions, potatoes, shallots, miner’s lettuce and lovely colorful radishes, crisp and mild at this time of year.

Spring radishes...the best!

Family Table Farm will have turnips, parsnips,rutabagas and beets….all perfect for tossing in olive oil and garlic and roasting.
Having dug out of the surprise heavy snowfall last week, Sweet Home Farms will take time away from all the lambing, kidding and calving and be at the Market this Saturday with (amongst many other things) 3 BIG Hangar Steaks, 1.5lbs each…grab ‘em while you can, as there is only one cut per animal! They will also have ox-tail again too, they make a good hearty stew, easy to prepare then walk away and wait for the kitchen to smell delicious!http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/calling-all-cooks/oxtail-stew-recipe/index.html
Gran Mary will have Starts of arugula, Bright Lights chard, Walla Walla onions, parsley, chives, purple globe artichoke, cardoon, cilantro, mints, cat grass and herb and veggie seeds. And please note…all you POP Club parents she’ll have seeds and veggie starts for POP club members for $1.00 (GREAT buy) which the kids can buy with their tokens!
Diana’s Delights is back this week with fab. preserves…jams, lemon curd, chutneys, reishes…and the best tasting pastries, ask for a sample! Back also is Daisy Fed Goat’s Milk Soap and they’ll have their Oatmeal Honey soap restocked….try their body butters too, while you there…amber/musk is a personal fave:)
Gram’s Caramels will have samples of original flavor caramels and Raspberry Liqueur caramels. Sauce and Jarbucks Caramels are also available this Saturday. Stop by to sign up for a FREE Easter Bag of caramels to be given away April 7th, and don’t forget to have your caramel card stamped! Have I mentioned that their Salted Caramels with a glass of red wine is taste of heaven..?!
Haven’t tried them already?…pick up a jar of Duker’s Dills – HOT Pickles and HOT Pickle Relish! If anyone needs pickles for Easter celebrations-they will need to buy this Saturday as Dukers will not be able to attend the 4/7 Market. So….what to do with the leftover hardboiled Easter Eggs?- make pickled eggs using Duker’s Dills – Hot Pickle brine! AND make deviled eggs using Duker’s Dills – Hot Pickle Relish!! No waste:)
Just in good time for the Easter Holidays coming up soon Spindles and Fiber have created THE cutest Easter Baskets….life-size bird-seed “Eggs” resting in a nest of their sheep’s wool and other fibers (to help the birds with the real nesting !)….different and useful:) Leave outside to not only feed the birds but help them with building their nests too…a good educational tool for the kids…..

Darris Dietz (Ceramics) and La Provence Bakery are both out this Saturday, but will be back for the 7th April Market. ALSO at the April 7th market, we will have tons of fab. veggie starts to give out, plus Three Brothers Nursery will be back, as will Sir Sharp-a-Lot (so bring your tools!) the Master Gardeners and the Underground Worm Connection…worms, castings and juice for your garden and plant starts! April 21st Market is our first SEEDY SATURDAY SEED SWAP…so look out your extra seeds (and plant divisions, pots, extra tools etc) and bring to the last Winter Market to share with others…pick up some interesting seeds for yourself.
Come to the Market this Saturday for breakfast or lunch, have a glass of wine, hot chocolate and listen to some live tunes!…..don’t forget that apart from their delicious soups and crepes Savory et Sweet regularly have vegan and gluten-free offerings….something for everyone, freshly made from seasonal produce and market products, hot chocolate too:)

So…Tips for Shopping at the Market for all you newbies:
-Do a lap around the market before you buy
-Compare prices and be strategic
-Get to know farmers, they appreciate long term relationships…and so will you!
-Learn what’s in season…books and seed catologs.. and buy seasonally
-Don’t be afraid to ask about prices if it doesn’t work for you, or if you want to buy in bulk, but please don’t haggle, farmers work hard long hours!
Parking tips…drive along Main St , if you don’t find a parking spot just turn left, and left again on Railroad Ave and park EASILY behind Busch’s furniture store, at the side of the Market site. They kindly allow our customers to use their parking lot…pop in while you’re downtown and see what they have to offer….good quality and local, friendly shopping!

See you Saturday…..bring the kids to experience the Power Of Produce with our POP Club! Ages 5-12 get $2 to shop for fresh produce or food plants!
Cheers:)

St Patrick’s Day and spring greens!

Oregon City Farmers Market — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:12:46 +0000

Looking more and more like spring at the Market now. The first daffs made an entrance last market, tomorrow we may even have the first tulips! C&K Flowers from Molalla have called and are ready to return to the Market for the whole season with their lovely flower bouquets. Farmer Rich Stefens will have the first spring radishes, bright and crisp and mild, they go great with cheese or in a salad with freshly boiled farm eggs. See the story about how Rick manages to grow produce all winter on the Market’s Facebook page ,
In addition to Radishes, you find (Rick is usually at the farm , Art will be helping you ) spinach, kale, onions, broccoli rabe (the little sweet spring shoots from the main plant…just saute in olive oil, garlic with a squeeze of lemon juice) turnip greens (real tasty at this time of year)parsnips, shallots,several varieties of potatoes. Also this week they will have Miners Lettuce, the first spring greens to put on growth in March. This small leafed plant can be eaten raw in salads or boiled like spinach. Early settlers and Indians collected and ate it….and they knew what was good for them as a spring tonic!

Family Table Farm Kale, Chard, Beets, Turnips, Rutabegas and Parsnips. For planting season they will have Walla Walla and Copra Onion starts and Lincoln Leek starts for transplants….and talking of planting Gran Mary is back with early veggies and herbs for sale, including parsley, chives, cilantro, mint, cat grass, Walla Walla onions, scallions, Bright Lights chard, arugula, beets and containers of snow peas. She is also bring (for the kids) sugar snap pea starts for the POP club for $1.00 and also some POP Club seeds for $1.00!!

Also for the garden,He Sells These Shells, who sells hazelnut shells for landscaping and slug-control (!) will be offering anyone buying at least 4 bags of shells a free 4 pound bag of squirrel food (regularly $5).
Sunset Woodworking is back this spring with their full line of raised bed kits, plus potting benches…and coming soon, chicken coops! Plus planters, cute birdhouses (made from cowboy boots) and other quirky stuff for your garden.

Food Forest has emailed to say their ducks and chickens are laying in full spring force…they will have lots of duck and chicken eggs. If people haven’t tried duck eggs, now is the time. For this week only, they will be selling duck eggs for the same price as chicken eggs….great cooked just the same as chicken eggs and are GREAT for baking!…and for interest for the kids they will be showing some goose eggs too. Plus
they’ll have their Kurobuta (Berkshire) pork. Cooks Illustrated ranked Berkshire pork #1 in their taste tests, describing the meat as ” juicy, smoky, and intensely porky! http://www.cooksillustrated.com/tastetests/overview.asp?docid=30466

Christensen Farm is bringing lots of chicken, duck and goose eggs too. A few of the eggs will be a lovely dark olive green, and some will be a rich mahogany in color….who needs to dye eggs? In addition they have new feathers and skins, and the typical assortment of Shetland roving for spinning or other crafts. Cindy will also have Jerusalem artichokes and Swiss Chard. If you are looking for started pullets or laying ducks she can fill you in where there is an upcoming sale on Saturday 3/31/12!

Nancy of Alsea Acre Goat Cheese spent all last weekend handing out samples and selling cheese at the Willamette Valley Vineyard Wine Cheese and Pear Festival. She made a special item for the festival that flew off the table. This has inspired Nancy to make a few more for this Saturdays Oregon City Market. Stop by and ask David to show you the “special”. It’s temptingly colorful and delicious and only available from Alsea Acre!

Mickleberry Gardens will be featuring products made with Propolis,a sticky, resinous substance the worker bees collect from plants. They have an alcohol-based propolis tincture made with propolis from Oregon bees and Immunity Boosting Honey Therapy, Throat and Cough Honey Therapy, and Honey Propolis Throat Spray. Honeybees use propolis to reinforce the structural integrity of the hive, reduce vibration inside the hive, and to make the hive more defensible by sealing alternate entrances. The bees also use propolis as their medicine: it works to help keep viral, bacterial, and fungal infections from spreading inside the hive. It’s highly anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal, and anti-oxidant!A few drops of propolis tincture taken during cold and flu season is a common remedy for boosting the immune system. Propolis is also traditionally known as a beneficial treatment for toothaches and mouth sores, and can be useful to topically treat fungal conditions such as athlete’s foot. Stop by and chat with them about good old-fashioned remedies..healthy bodies, healthy planet!

It’s St Patricks Day..don’t you know!…and Our Favorite Foods will be offering Duker’s Dills – Hot Pickles and Duker’s Dills – Hot Relish.WooHoo!!!Great St Patty’s Day combo — Pickles ….and Beer!!!
And on the subject of Ireland…Gram’s Caramels will have tastings of the wonderful, creamy and even fragrant Bailey’s Irish Cream caramels! Many more flavors are bagged for you or for gifts, not to mention ‘Jarbucks’ ready to go for just one dollar!

Our good friends at Savory et Sweet have a great St. Pat’s menu for you! A cream of potato/cauliflower soup
pureed with green super greens like spinach, watercress & arugula. Served with a dollup of gold butter…wow! Chris is even having a contest on their fb page (and on the Market’s too!) to help name the soup ~ winner gets a free serving! (Cream of Leprechaun, hahaha)They will also have a Finian’s Rainbow crepe!!! (Chris’s fav movie) It was inspired by Bill’s (Nature’s Choice) awesome wild spring violets. The inside of the crepe will have ingredients from all colors of the rainbow!! I can’t wait…

So, wearing green ..or not…come out and shop local this weekend.. rain, showers, or shine we’ll be set up on 8th St and waiting to see you:)
Cheers!

Daffodils are here!

Oregon City Farmers Market — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:34:17 +0000

Almost time for tulips...but yes to Daffs!

Spring is in the air…it’s March after all…green tips are pushing through the soil in the fields and in the gardens, trees and shrubs are budding out too. March is a great month for the Farmers Market as we have an EXTRA one on the 31st ! Make sure you pick up a bookmark at the Info. Booth with all the scheduled dates of the markets in March and April….we have 5 more “Winter” markets before we open on top of the hill at the County site May 5th.!

31/2" pots of veggies will be given out to all who come to market April 7th

Mark your calenders: April is Gardening Month at the Market. We kick off on April 7th with a FREE Veggie Plant Give-a-Way! Thanks to Clackamas County (Health and Human Services) in celebration of National Public Health Week, we will have 1,000 (WOW!) spring veggie plants to give out, including kale, chard, lettuce, arugula.This is to help you start your veggie garden off …AND on April 21st we’ll be holding the first Seedy Saturday Seed Swap at the OC Market! Bring seeds, plants, pots, tools…and take something home, encourage you neighbors to plant a garden this spring!…Flyers available at the Info. Booth about these events.
So , back to this weeks market…25 vendors, lots of veggies (Daffodils TOO!) from Family Table and Rick Stefen farms, including kale (2 colors) cabbages, Brussel sprouts , potatoes, onions, leeks, Swiss chard, turnips, parsnips, rutabagas, red beets. Kiyokawa Orchards will be bringing 20 different apple varieties and 5 different pear varieties also….this is their last week, so stock up on fruit!

Buy local...and in season!

Market Recipe Idea: Tis’ the season of hearty soups.. purchase soup bones from Sweethome Farms, boil up with herbs, garlic, root veggies and lentils…add a dollop of fresh spring chevre! …available at Alsea Acre Goat Cheese.
Sweet Home Farms raise heirloom cattle ( Belted-Galloway, originally from Scotland) and will have ground beef this week that is naturally VERY lean and tasty. Plus they will also have Pork Belly …uncured for you to make you OWN bacon! Not up to making your own ?! Then try Olympic Provisions’, they not only sell fab. salami, but sausage and bacon too.

Diana's Delights, all local ingredients, made by hand in a licensed kitchen.

Back on the tables at Diana’s Delights is the new ,popular Jalapeno Jam. (Serve with cream cheese and crackers as an appetizer, or with roasted lamb or pork). The chickens are laying well and the delicious Lemon Curd is BRIGHT yellow with goodness! Serve with scones, on muffins , crusty bread, with crepes or stirred into Greek yoghurt and be prepared to be in heaven! Not familiar with this marvelous concoction….ask Diana for a sample, you’ll be back for more!
Gram’s Caramels will feature samples of the new Pistachio Caramels. These locally hand-made old-fashioned caramels have hand-cut pistachio nuts folded into the mixture right before it’s poured into the pan. Also Jarbucks, caramel sauce and many other flavors will be available. Don’t forget to bring your caramel card or have the crew stamp it with your purchase!

Fresh bread and pastries from Annie at La Provence Bakery!

Kings Raven winery will have wine-by the glass and bottles to sell too…a glass of red with a salted Gram’s caramel is a pretty good way to finish off a meal:)
Back this week : Mickleberry Gardens…honey and honey-infused health products, Sunset Woodworking (planters, potting benches and more), OUT is Daisy Fed (back next market). We are keeping our fingers crossed for fresh fish, Robin (Wild Oregon) is at the coast today and will let me know later….check our facebook page for updates.
Remember we have plenty of customer parking in Busch’s Furniture Store parking lot (accessed off Railroad ave) or you can park up on the bluff and take a ride down on the Elevator…fun for the kids and great views from the deck up top!

POP kids off to conquer the Market!

The Kids POP Club program is going strong…kids get $2 each time they have their Passport to Health stamped…and a shopping bag and button when they join:)
Great hot food by Savory et Sweet, hot chocolate too with whipped cream. Live music by Nick Petersen. Hot coffee just across the street at the Caufield House Cafe. We open at 10am, on 8th St at Main…bring a friend…see you then!

Showers…and smiles this Saturday!

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A beautiful day and happy customers at the Feb 4th Market!

This IS Winter after all…but how wonderful to have an open-air food market where one can chat with a farmer, buy good food …all within a quick jog to a warm cafe or the parking lot! Don’t let the weather put YOU off this weekend! 25+ vendors will be set up on 8th St at Main for the 8th Winter market this season…my, how time flies:)

Steamed, roasted or grated , Brussels are delicious and pack a punch of nutrition!

Thanks to Rick Stefens Farms and Family Table Farms we STILL have a good mix of veggies including carrots (last week for these till spring), kale (2 colors) cabbages, Brussel sprouts (including some interesting red ones!), potatoes, onions, leeks, Swiss chard, turnips, parsnips, rutabagas, red beets. Kiyokawa Orchards will be bringing 20 different apple varieties and 5 different pear varieties also.
Sweet Home Farms will have the usual selection of wonderful pasture-raised meats, sausages etc. ….and not forgetting soup bones! They will also have a ton of just-laid farm eggs, with firm golden-orange yolks and lots of flavor…have a farm egg and you won’t go back to the factory-produced eggs!

Ugandan exchange students helping out at Food Forest Farm!

Food Forest Farms will have cuts of their kurobuta pork, Welsh ducklings (TIP: all are delicious glazed with Diana’s Delights Marmalade or Radish Relish) and pasture-raised geese. Also…some fresh mustard greens and kale, plus dried catnip for the cat-lovers of the crowd.
Alsea Acre Alpine Goat Farm will have the first “Spring” Goat Cheese. Recipe ideas….. soft fresh goat cheese is a great counterpoint to the more robust flavors of winter veggies, so sprinkle some over still- warm roasted veggies to melt. Roasted squash or squash soup is wonderful with a dollop of half melted chevre, and a sprinkle of coarse salt and herbs. Sauteed kale with shallots and shitakes comes alive with a garnish of feta. Both available at Alsea Acre Goat Cheese booth this Saturday!

Beautiful, natural colors of Christensen Farm's wool roving.

Christensen farm will have lovely brown and khaki colored eggs along with duck eggs that will be at the market this Saturday. (Blow and decorate some for Easter!) There will be some new feathers for crafts and fly tying along with assorted Shetland roving for spinning or knitting. Expect some Jerusalem artichokes and maybe some fresh Swiss chard and herbs.

Connie (Blossom Vinegars) do try the drinking vinegars!

Blossom Vinegars is back with their marvellous Drinking Vinegars! Mango Habanero, Loganberry Beet, Wildflower Honey Cherry, Ginger Apple Pear and Dark Cherry…for use in “mocktails” and “cocktails.” For the mocktail – simply add to sparkling water; for cocktails – they’ll have recipes and will give that out with a purchase….try one, they are heavenly! Some people are using them for sauces and dressings – a more intense/sweeter version of the vinegar line.

Delicious, nutritious, gluten-free, frozen.... SouperNatural soups are perfect for a busy week-day evening!

SouperNatural will have their range of frozen all-natural locally made soups, including roasted Vegetable -Vegan, Potato-Bacon-Cheddar (yummm!) and Caramelized Oninon..a french onion soup pureed with heavy cream and sherry. They will have a large variety of flavors as well as their Vodka Cream Sauce and Marinara Sauce!!
Daisy Fed goats milk-based products have restocked all of their Whipped Body Butters and in response to tons of requests, now offer Body Butters in both 3 ounce and 1.5 ounces sizes (the perfect size to travel with). Something new is the Romance Product line.This includes a heavenly massage oil called Love Potion, a lusciously decadent Massage Bar, and divinely luxuriant Bath Melts, all with new unique scent blends.Get a whiff this Saturday!

For your shopping convenience: Out this week are: Sunset Woodworking, Mickleberry Gardens and Wild Oregon. In is Goldenwood Soaps.

Goats Cheese, Radish Relish crepe...oh my!

Savory et Sweet are all excited about a new crepe this Saturday using fresh goats cheese and Diana’s Delight’s Radish Relish…Chris will also be making hot soup, which will warm you up with a slice of La Provence’s bread….and as always, Hot Chocolate with whipped cream…yum!

The POP Club is still going strong…$2 for every kid (5-12) to shop for fresh fruits and veggies. $5 matching tokens for Oregon Trail customers...plus Growing solar will be on hand to advise you about a unique offer to Clackamas County residents…save money with the sun! Live music, good eats and treats, friendly faces…and bracing fresh air (!), what a way to start the weekend:)
The nice folks at Busch’s Home Furnishings are letting our customers park in their lot every market day this winter….or you could park on the bluff and ride the elevator! Cheers.