Week 7: June 27, 2009
Weather: 86 degrees and sunny
Arugula
Basil
Beets (Chiogga, golden and red)
Blackberries
Blueberries
Broccoli
Cabbage
Cantaloupe
Carrots
Cilantro
Collard Greens
Corn (silver queen and silver queen)
Cucumber (lemon, long green, pickler)
Dandelion Greens
Eggplant (Italian, white, Japanese)
Escarole
Fennel
Garlic
Kohlrabi
Lettuce (Oak Leaf, Butter Head, Frisee)
Lima Beans
Nectarines (Yellow)
Okra
Onions (red, white, yellow sweet, k-bob)
Parsley
Peaches (June Prince, Fire Prince, Harvester)
Peas (Pinkeye Purple Hull, lady, field)
Peppermint
Peppers (Bell, Purple Bell, Marconi, jalapeno, cow horn hot, cubanelle, Sweet Banana, Sweet Cayenne, Mohawk, chocolate bell, yellow bell, Serrano, Gypsy)
Plums
Potatoes (New, Yukon gold)
Radishes
Rosemary
Sage
Salad Mix
Shallots
Squash (butternut, zephyr, patty pan sunburst)
Squash Blossoms
String Beans (yellow wax, purple bush beans, pole beans, October, burgundy, Dragon’s Tongue, Rattlesnake)
Sweet Potatoes (white, orange)
Swiss Chard
Tomatoes (Persimmon, Cherokee Purple, Ava Purple Ball, Sand Mountain, Sungold, Striped German, black plum, grape, cherry, Bloody Butcher, and green)
Turnips (and greens)
Watermelon (Sugar Baby and Sugar Doll)
Zucchini (8-ball)
Tomatoes and peaches are the stars of the market this week. “Tomatoes are about as good as they get right now,” says David Snow, the proprietor of Snow’s Bend Farm. Warm days are contributing to a bounty of heirloom varieties. Clear-seed peaches are coming in.
Dan is the producer of ‘Ham Sandwich. Read about his cooking adventures as Skip on The Gourmetro and learn about him on aisle-9.net. Sarah was the on-scene reporter and greatly contributed to this report.
