The Market is Open with New Names (but familiar faces)!

Good Morning Market,

Spring has sprung and we’re well on our way to local food bliss. With each week the market selection expands with more delicious food from more of our old farmer friends. We’ve got some of both this week, including:

• Plenty of pasture-raised chicken and woodland-raised pork from Grass Roots Farmers’ Cooperative. Grass Roots is a newly formed cooperative of sustainable Arkansas meat producers, including our old friends at Falling Sky Farm. These growers got together to share the business side of farming – like accounting, purchasing, and processing – so that they can focus on being farmers. I’m excited about the expanded possibilities this cooperative can bring!

• We’ve also got leeks from Weal and Woe Farm, the recently re-located Bee in My Bonnet Farm from Katie Beaton and Andy Olson. Moving farms sounds like quite the chore, so I’ll make some potato leek soup in their honor!

• Freshly-sprouted microgreens from Food For Thought Farm. These tiny greens are packed with nutrients and flavor, and he’s got ’em in arugula, french salad, mung bean, and sunflower. A great, crunchy addition to salads, sandwiches, or stir-frys!

• Wonderful duck eggs from Bluebird Hill Berry Farm. I love poaching duck eggs and putting them on top of just about everything…salads, pizza, sandwiches, stir-frys…what isn’t better with an egg on it? They’re somehow buttery, soft, with the most delicious and bright yolks you’ll ever try.

• Lots of exciting new listings from Maison Terre Natural Products, including micro greens, pecan trees, and a sack o’ taters. This 7-gallon bag comes ready with soil and ’tater plant, just place on your deck and harvest in Autumn!

Happy eating!

- Alex Handfinger
Director of Operations

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