How is October half over? It's been a very fun (and bustlingly busy!) Autumn! We love seeing you visit the Market each week. What has been your favorite Market Memory from this season so far?
While we are not wishing time away from our Regular Season, we are working on our Winter Market schedule. Stay tuned for more info.
Are you excited for another week of our October Sweepstakes? This week, the prize for this week is a GIANT PUMPKIN! Make sure to come to the Market this weekend to fill out an entry form for a chance to win.
We're still asking for YOUR apple recipes to share on the blog, newsletter and Facebook. So PLEASE email us (wcgrowersmarket.blog@gmail.com) and you might be our next featured recipe!
This week's featured apple recipe: Apple Slaw! The perfect side companion to your pork dishes (think Pulled Pork for tailgates!)
More to come in the next few weeks - so stay tuned!
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| This cutie winked and smiled at Ellen through all of last week's marke |
Ellen April will be back at the market this week with their luxurious soaps and body products. They'll have their limited edition pumpkin soap. It's going fast, so grab it while you can. Once it's gone it won't be back until next year.
Farmer Ike's Pick of the Week: Winecrisp!
It is a complex, crunchy, sweet, and rock-hard apple with a fruity sweet flavor and a beautiful dusky red skin.
When we planted this new variety, it was simply known as Co-op 31 (the poor nameless thing). We only planted one tree, just to try it out. With the first apple, came our “Wow!”....so we planted a lot more of them. We couldn't let them remain nameless, however, so we dubbed them “Emperor” (we are challenged in the naming department, but that's what we came up with). A few years later, the breeder named them “Winecrisp”, which of course is an infinitely better and much more appropriate name; why didn't we think of that?
Farmer Ike says of Winecrisp: “It is just a damned fine apple!” So try one (or three or more) this week, and see why!
Available this week:
- Cauliflower (white and orange varieties)
- Broccoli
- Winter squash (many varieties to choose from!)
- Radishes (regular & daikon varieties)
- Turnips
- Cabbage (red & green varieties)
- Cucumbers
- Bell peppers (red, orange & green varieties)
- Beans (green & yellow varieties)
- Potatoes (red & white varieties – available in half peck baskets too!),
- Onions (red, yellow & white varieties)
Only 6 weeks till Thanksgiving! Lots of fresh great-tasting turkeys available! Pasture-raised, all-natural, no harmful additives, just plain countryside goodness! Come to the market to place your order and ask questions and to take home some farm-fresh eggs and meats.
There is still time remaining this season for planting!
Fall is the ideal time for planting perennials and shrubs because the warm soil, increased rainfall and cooler temperatures allow for the plant’s roots to become well-established before the ground freezes. Because its roots are already established in your garden, a perennial or shrub that is planted in the Fall will grow more vigorously in the following Spring than a perennial or shrub that is newly planted in the Spring.
Be sure to take advantage of our low clearance prices on good quality perennials and shrubs, to get a head start on your garden next year! We will have 58 varieties to choose from this weekend.
Some of our best bargains this week include:
$6 each – Aquilegia, Gaillardia ‘Goblin’, Nepeta (catmint), Penstemon, Polemonium, Salvia & Siberian Iris ‘Polly Dodge’
$8 each –Daylilies (3qt pots), Geraniums, Heucherella ‘Gold Zebra’, Hosta ‘London Fog’, Iris ‘Double Standard’, Iris ‘Golden Edge’, Rudbeckia & Stachys 'Hummelo'
$10 each –Coreopsis ‘Big Bang Redshift’, Gaillardia ‘Dazzler, Hosta ‘June’, Hydrangea ‘Blue Bunny’ & Miscanthus 'Purpurascens'
$12 each –Double Knock Out Roses & Panicum ‘Shenandoah’ (ornamental grass)
$15 each – Calycanthus (Sweet Shrub), Cytisus 'Moonlight' (Scotch Broom), Echinacea ‘Pink Poodle’ & Hydrangeas(assorted varieties)
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Other Vendors for this week include:
Lizzie's Kitchen
Maple Hill Farm
Elkdale Greenhouse
Oakshade Cheese
Queens Farms
Windy Acres
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