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There’s no new growers to announce this week, but the market is still growing! Several growers will be coming on board in the next few weeks with flowers, veggies, lamb meat, and wool. Our customer list has swelled to nearly 350 people, and we were just three shy of hitting 100 orders last week.

We’ve got quite a few new products this week. We’ve got feta crumbles from Split Creek Farm, new bedding plants from Jan’s Garden, lots of fresh herbs from a variety of growers, more squash and zucchini, and more. There are a few items leaving us this week, including broccoli and asparagus. The seasons are shifting, and we’ll be seeing less and less of the cool weather crops and mpre and more of the summer goodies. Alice Mills let me know that she ate her first cherry tomatoes today. Of course she keeps the first ones of the season for her own house, but it won’t be long now before there are enough to share!

I’ve got a veggie growing for the first time, and I didn’t know what season to expect a harvest. It’s called a “winged pea” or “asparagus pea”. It is a legume, and grows low to the ground instead of climbing. I got the seeds from Seed Savers Exchange, who said only “This legume is not related to either asparagus or peas. Mentioned as early as 1734 by Philip Miller, one of the earliest garden writers. The pods are best when eaten small and are good steamed or added to other vegetables. Thrives in poor soil. Beautiful purple flowers. Plants are low growing and spread laterally along the ground.” I planted them as early as I could and have been watching them ever since. They’re spread out in little clumps, about ten inches across, and they have just begun blooming. They really are beautiful flowers, looking like tiny little pea blossoms and a crimson so deep they’re almost black. I’m taking the blossoms as a good sign that maybe they’ll produce even in this heat, and I’ll have a few to share with you.

We are doing dairy runs every week now, and this week we’ll head out to Split Creek for goat milk, cheese, and fudge, and to Milky Way Farm for milk, cream, and buttermilk.

Thanks for all your support, and welcome all the new members! We’ll keep adjusting Thursday afternoons to get your orders to you as quickly as we can. We’ve completely overtaken Gosford Wine’s storeroom and are spreading out into the back parking lot. It all adds up to a lot of food, and it’s food that has been grown right here and not shipped in from California, Chile, or China. Thank you for helping make it all happen! We’ll see you at Gosford Wine this Thursday from 4:30pm to 7pm.