Market News
Sunday, July 20, 2008
11 am – 4 pm
Rain or Shine
What‘s New This Week . . .
Plenty at the Market!
Lake Forest Park READS 2008
Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100 Mile Diet
by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon
Meet Plenty authors Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon at the Lake Forest Park Farmers Market, Sunday, July 20, 3 pm.- Join your neighbors in reading about one couple‘s year–long experience eating only foods originating within a 100 mile radius of Vancouver, B.C. Come hear the authors at Third Place Books for a book reading and discussion. Copies of the book are available at the Lake Forest Park Library and Third Place Books.
- Sample Market Food from our Farmers Market
4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
- The authors of Plenty, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon, will visit the Lake Forest Park Farmers Market. Hear their story and thoughts on how to shop the Market to sustain your goal of eating locally.
J.B. MacKinnon will spontaneously prepare food from the market with sous chefs Heidi and Dylan Stockman, vendors from GreenGo Foods, our Market‘s new fast and healthy food vendors.
Samples of kitchen creations will be available for a $15.00 suggested free will offering. The money will be used to support the Market Bucks Program which gives coupons to local families and individuals in need of assistance. You'll get to watch chefs in action as they spontaneously create delectable dishes from fresh produce gathered from your own farmers market. You will also go home with a packet of recipes from the guest chefs. Bonus! The Stockmans will share the secret to making the fabulous grilled polenta we‘ve enjoyed this summer!
- Author Book Reading
Third Place Books
5:30 pm
- Come hear the authors at Third Place Books for a book reading and discussion. Lake Forest Park READS is sponsored by the City of Lake Forest Park‘s Library Advisory Committee, Friends of the Lake Forest Park Library, Third Place Books, and Friends of Third Place Commons.
Plenty of Farmers and Producers
Sidhu Farms will bring lettuce, raspberries, rhubarb, broccoli and their sweet, plump blueberries. Stop by Sua Yang Farm for basil, green onions, lettuce, rhubarb and mint. Plenty of fruit at Tiny‘s Organic, including Giant Summit and Sunfire nectarines, Flavorosa pluots, Snow-kist peaches, there could be Rainier cherries, but they‘re almost gone.
21 Acres/Growing Washington has beautiful beets: sweet Goldens, candy-striped chioggia and earthy Red Ace, plus Sugar Snap peas and their snappy salad mixes. Look for potatoes at Twin Rivers Farm, they have Red Chieftans, Katahdin, Yukon Gold and English Almond potatoes. Liven things up with their Deep Purple spuds! Dwayne also has English cucumbers and Sweet Cluster tomatoes.
Plenty of berries from Youngquist Farm and Hayton Farm. Raspberries are new this week. Welcome back, Martin Family Orchards, from Cashmere/Orondo. They return to our Market this week.
Visit Garden Treasures and get fresh ginger, baby bok choy, leeks and d'Avignon radishes, those slender French beauties that start out red and fade to white at the ends. Full Circle has beets, collards and chard, as well as Lacinato (aka “dinosaur”) kale and green kale. They‘ve got lots of salad greens like escarole, red leaf and romaine lettuces. You‘ll also find savoy, red and green cabbages there. Colorful fish tacos, anyone? (Nobody seems to know how Dinosaur kale got its nickname; we just hope it inspires children to try a helping.)
At Family Pepper and Produce, get your yellow, green and Mexican zucchini, stringbeans, cucumbers, green tomatoes, cherries, apricots and Super Chili Peppers (Capsicum annuum). The chilis are a toasty 40,000 – 50,000 Scoville units (Habaneros are in the 300,000 range, poblanos are 1,000 to 2,000 units). Want to know more? Visit www.ushotstuff.com/Heat.Scale.htm.
If you are looking for okra, Bautista Farms has it. They also have eggplant and chickpeas, the dried plants hanging from their canopy. The peas just pop out of their husks and make a nice snack. Look there for carrots, Italian garlic, Walla Walla Sweets, summer squashes and (can it be?) candy sweet corn!
ACMA Orchards will have cherries, cukes, cabbage, Bing and Rainier cherries. Watch (out?) for Flaming Fury nectarines, this week or next.
Yeng Garden will bring dill and carrots with their flowers this week.
Plenty of Prepared Foods
Take home La Pasta‘s Lemon Pepper pasta, or gnocchi made with potato flour. They make fresh sauces that compliment the pasta you choose. Presto! Dinner! One–stop shopping!
Los Agaves now has soft tacos. Take home a dozen of their banana-leaf wrapped tamales for an easy meal.
Plenty of Eggs and Dairy
Nature‘s perfect food should be fresh, fresh, fresh and additive–free. Get organic eggs from Blue Cottage Jams at the Market.
Preorder milk from Golden Glen Creamery for delivery on Sunday! Call (360) 766-MILK Monday through Friday to place your order. Milk supply is limited, so call early in the week if you can. Try their other dairy products from the sample case at their stall: Goudas and flavored cheddars, including jalapeno, chive & onion, dill & garlic.
Try a sample of River Valley Cheese chevres, apricot & almond, fig & almond and spicy, savory sundried tomato, basil and garlic. Great addition to a salad meal or appetizer tray.
Plenty of Fish and Shellfish
Wilson Fish will bring just-caught wild salmon and halibut to the Market. Don‘t forget their smoked salmon, low salt and plenty tasty. Their catch comes from LaPush.
Get the freshest oysters and clams from Quilcene Bay, brought to our Market by Quil Bay Quality Seafood. Keep their shellfish in the sturdy mesh bags while they cook. They bring a little ridgepole week that usually contains a teeny sand crab or two. It‘s fun to watch little kids watching the crabs.
Plenty of Spreads, Soups and More
Laura at Frawg & Turtle tells us that theirs is the official BBQ sauce of the Everett Aquasox! Blue Cottage Jam just cooked up a batch of Marionberry Jam, try a sample of their Apricot/Raspberry Jam, too. Paula‘s Pepper Jelly will be gone this week, back next.
Need a marinade? Soup? An interesting spread to bring along to a dinner party?
Robert‘s Bistro Style products are made by a chef from recipes he served to happy diners in his restaurant. Robert rhymes with Colbert (Steven) in case you were wondering.
Plenty of Plants and Flowers
Yeng Garden will feature lovely, papery godetia blossoms in this week‘s flower bouquets. At Maika‘s Garden, the flower arrangements will feature crocosmia, pineapple thistle and dahlias.
Grow your own herbs! Harmony Garden has dill, and different types of basil: sweet, large leaf, cinnamon and blue spice, ready to grow in your kitchen garden. C & G Plants has lots of plants for shady areas in your yard.
Get hardy fuschias, salvia, monarda (bee balm), and Russian sage at Annabel‘s Garden.
Forget Your Bag?
Pick up a reusable, sturdy green Commons Farmer‘s Market grocery tote. Get yours at the Information Booth and at many vendor stalls for $2.00. They work everywhere goods are sold, just remember to bring them with you on Sundays. Hint: Put your “green” bags in your car's front seat or your bike basket on Market Sundays.
Market Bucks/EBT Cards/Vouchers
If you receive Market Bucks this season, you're in luck! Market Bucks can be used like cash to purchase any food item from any vendor at the Lake Forest Park Farmers Market. Food items include a variety of fresh, local food products such as vegetables, fruit, cheese and other dairy products, meats and fish.
No identification is needed to use your bucks. (No cash back or refunds, please). Don't delay! They‘re valid at the Lake Forest Park Commons Farmers Market only, through 12/31/2008.
In addition to Market Bucks, the Lake Forest Park Commons Farmers Market vendors also accept cash (there are two ATM machines at the Market), and Senior and WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Checks. To use an EBT card, come to the Friends Information table at the front entrance to the Market.
To find out about eligibility for yourself, or for a friend or relative, contact the
Center for Human Services at
206.440.7300, or Hopelink at 425.869.6000.
Both have offices in Shoreline.
You can also call one of these toll-free numbers for information:
- Food Stamps: 1-888-436-6392
- Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program Vouchers: 206-448-3110
- WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program Checks: 1-800-841-1410
If you don‘t get your FreshMail
If you don't get FreshMail by noon on Friday, please e-mail
freshmail @ thirdplacecommons.org
and we‘ll send it along, pronto.
A note to vendors . . .
If you‘d like us to tell the world about what will be in your stall, you can send email to FreshMail @ thirdplacecommons.org, or drop by the Friends of Third Place Commons Information Table at the front of the market and let us know what‘s up. Deadline for inclusion in Fresh-Mail is Thursday at noon. Don‘t be shy — stop by!
More . . .
You'll find the Market in the lower level of the Lake Forest Park Towne Center parking lot at 17171 Bothell Way NE at the intersection of SR522 and HWY 104 (Ballinger and Bothell Way). Nearby Sunday Bus Routes: 331 and 522. We're right off the Burke Gilman Trail at Lake Forest Park. There are two ATM machines on site.
The Market‘s Information Table is located at the front entrance to the Market (in front of Washington Mutual.) If you lose something at the Market, ask there if it has been turned in. After 4pmitems will be stored at Lake Forest Park City Hall. Call (206)368-5440 or drop by to reclaim your item.
Please watch for traffic and keep an eye on little ones crossing from the Market to the main parking lot.
People bring dogs to the Market. If your dog barks at or reacts to other animals or children, please be kind and leave the dog at home. As required in Lake Forest Park, dogs must be leashed and under control at all times.
Thanks to our 2008 sponsors!
Northwest Hospital and Medical Center
Third Place Books
King County Metro
The City of Lake Forest Park
Great Harvest Bread Co
Onnuri Church
Windermere Realty, Lake Forest Park
Puget Sound Energy Foundation
Dinners Ready! •
DropZone Expediters
A Better Day Salon and Retail Center
ESA/Adolfson •
Burney Brothers BBQ •
LFP Curves
Diamond in the Mall
Dansing Marketing Group •
Friends of the Lake Forest Park Library
Lake Forest Park Garden Club and
Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park
Shoreline/LFP Arts Council •
Gordon Welch Jewelry
Washington Mutual
Blue Cottage Jams •
Shoreline Community College •
Shoreline Bank.
Please support our sponsors and thank them for
supporting your community gathering places!
