Crab, truffles..and farm-fresh vegetables!
Happy New Year…we’re back!!! With a bigger winter market, a great mix of vendors, terrific hot food, good coffee…and this Saturday fab live music too! Eating seasonally with local ingredients in January is possible! Soups, stews and casseroles, using meats , root veggies, and wild mushrooms, a slice of cheese and a sip of red wine! Come to the market bring your shopping bag, let the market foods inspire you and go home with a full bag and ideas for a seasonal dish or two.
With approx. 35 vendors each winter market day and 55+ vendors during the summer, you’ll find us year-round on the parking lot at 2051 Kaen Rd, off Beavercreek Rd. Plenty of close parking too! During the winter we run every other Saturday through April, 10am-2pm. In May our regular weekly schedule starts up, through October, 9am-2pm.
Fresh local produce..coming to a table near you!
Four local farms this week are bringing spinach, kale, radish, carrots, onions, miners lettuce, collards, turnips (purple top turnips fresh from the field are wonderful as an hors d’ oeuvre with balsamic vinegar or for those on a raw food diet) mizuna, arugula, broccoli, leeks, mustards and salad mix, hard and soft-neck garlic….and plenty of cabbage! This over-looked vegetable is packed full of nutrition, and after a freeze, is sweeter with just a hint of pepper. Crisp and juicy in a slaw it’s also wonderful cooked on the stove top, tossed in oil with a clove of Pitkin Winterrowd Farms hardneck garlic. For first time this season farmer Tom will have large bulbs of long storage softneck garlic too. All the farmers will have a medley of squash including butternut, delicata and acorn. Try making sauerkraut this winter, with sweet, juicy winter cabbages it’s super easy, once you’ve found the right jar or crock to pack it in you’ll be making it all the time: http://nourishedkitchen.com/homemade-sauerkraut/
Fresh Crab, Salmon and more from Wild Oregon this Saturday.
Fresh seafood from Wild Robin will include Dungeness crab, petrale sole, rock fish, steelhead, mussels and steamer clams. Plus crab cakes and smoked albacore tuna and chinook in cans. Natures Wild Harvest will have wild oregon white truffles and wild black trumpet mushrooms! As well as dried mushroom powders, perfect for flavoring stews, casseroles and soups, and other wild-foraged foods. All this plus baked goods, cheese, eggs, meats, wines (as well as Kings Raven Winery we welcome this week Forest Edge Winery…another from Oregon City!), artisan foods, nuts, honey, plus dog treats, skin care and crafts.
Double Up Food Bucks will match SNAP card purchases with up to $10 each market day~!
Run out of cash? You can buy market tokens at the Info Booth with a debit card or a SNAP card. Starting this week, buy $10 with your SNAP card and get $10 in Double-Up Food Bucks coupons…….good for fresh produce! The POP Club gives kids (ages 5-12) a shopping bag when they sign up and $2 EVERY time they come to market to buy fresh produce.
We run rain or shine but if you are concerned about the weather, call 503 734-0192 or LIKE us on Facebook and check the up-to-date Market posts! More than likely , no matter what the weather, you’ll find us open……we’re in Oregon right?