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Hello Farm Friends,
One word...strawberries! We have fresh, certified organic strawberries for you! They are early this year! We also have lots of other favorites, such as arugula, garlic scapes, spinach and kale (see list below). No rain forecasted until end of market. So, come out with family and friends and get your fresh, flavorful and nutritious veggies!
What we'll have at market tomorrow (photos below):
- Strawberries (New!): Just-picked from our farm. These are not your grocery store strawberries. They are sweet and ripe. The only certified organic strawberries in St. Mary's County!
- Beets (New!; limited quantity): first beets of the season
- Arugula: We have plenty of baby, spring arugula with a mild kick.
- Rainbow Chard: Beautiful, glossy leaves and colorful stems. They have just as many nutrients as kale, and you can eat the sweet, crunchy stems when sauteed! Try sauteed with golden raisins (or chopped sweet onion) and lightly toasted pine nuts.
- Curly Kale: This is the kale you are most familiar with that you can use in soups or simply sauteed. Also very easy to use in a kale salad. Just remove stems, cut/tear into bite size pieces, massage with a little olive oil, and then add your favorite dressing. It's that simple.
- Lacinato Kale: Also known as "Dino" or "Tuscan" kale. Very tasty alternative to the traditional curly kale. It makes great kale chips and salads.
- Garlic Scapes: Try these delicious, garlicky green shoots sautéed with scrambled eggs, veggies or as the best pesto ever! They're like garlicky, scallions. We'll have copies of the pesto recipe at market or find at: www.sassafrascreekfarm.com/recipe
- Leeks: fresh, mild, distinctively-flavored leeks! Wonderful with sauteed vegetables, with scrambled eggs and with fish.
- Radishes, French Breakfast and Red varieties: Beautiful, crisp and tasty! Of course great on a salad, but try eating them with a little salt and butter, as they do in France, Germany and Eastern European as an appetizer. It may sound unusual, but the flavors really compliment each other.
- Salad Mix (limited quantity): Convenient, delicious and ready to eat salad. Perfect blend of red and green butter heads and oakleafs.
- Spinach: delicious, salad size, tender spinach. Great raw or cooked.
We take cash, credit and debit cards.
The market has additional vegetable vendors, as well as beef, pork, chicken, eggs, and baked goods.
So, we hope to see you, your friends and family members on Saturday (BAE parking lot, 9am - 1pm). We've missed you and hope that you are all doing well.
Photos of the Week:
Fresh Organic Strawberries
Arugula
Rainbow Chard
Spinach
Leeks
Thank you,
David & Jennifer Paulk
Sassafras Creek Farm
Certified by Quality Certification Services (QCS)
Greetings Farm Friends,
It was so great to see so many of you last week at the first market of the season! It will be another lovely spring day at tomorrow's market and we have plenty of very fresh, organic veggies just for you! Photos below.
What we'll have at market tomorrow:
- Arugula: We have plenty of baby, spring arugula with a mild kick.
- Rainbow Chard: Beautiful, glossy leaves and colorful stems. They have just as many nutrients as kale, and you can eat the sweet, crunchy stems when sauteed! Try sauteed with golden raisins (or chopped sweet onion) and lightly toasted pine nuts.
- Curly Kale: This is the kale you are most familiar with that you can use in soups or simply sauteed. Also very easy to use in a kale salad. Just remove stems, cut/tear into bite size pieces, massage with a little olive oil, and then add your favorite dressing. It's that simple.
- Lacinato Kale: Also known as "Dino" or "Tuscan" kale. Very tasty alternative to the traditional curly kale. It makes great kale chips and salads.
- Leeks: fresh, mild, distinctively-flavored leeks! Wonderful with sauteed vegetables, with scrambled eggs and with fish.
- Little Gem Green Head Lettuce: delicious, crisp, butter heads.
- Radishes, French Breakfast: Beautiful, crisp and tasty! Of course great on a salad, but try eating them with a little salt and butter, as they do in France, Germany and Eastern European as an appetizer. It may sound unusual, but the flavors really compliment each other.
- Salad Mix: Convenient, delicious and ready to eat salad. Perfect blend of red and green butter heads and oakleafs.
- Spinach: delicious, salad size, tender spinach. Great raw or cooked.
- Hakurei Turnips: White, sweet and crunchy Japanese variety of turnips. Wonderful raw in salads or simply sauteed or steamed, along with, of course, the tasty turnip greens.
We take cash, credit and debit cards.
The market has additional vegetable vendors, as well as beef, pork, chicken, eggs, and baked goods.
So, we hope to see you, your friends and family members on Saturday (BAE parking lot, 9am - 1pm). We've missed you and hope that you are all doing well.
Photos of the Week:
French Breakfast Radishes
Lacinato Kale
Arugula
Thank you,
David & Jennifer Paulk
Sassafras Creek Farm
Certified by Quality Certification Services (QCS)
Greetings Farm Friends,
It will be a lovely spring morning for the first market of the season! We have lots of fresh crisp, flavorful greens that you are craving! We're really looking forward to seeing you all and can't wait to catch up!
What we'll have at market tomorrow:
- Rainbow Chard: Beautiful, glossy leaves and colorful stems. They have just as many nutrients as kale, and you can eat the sweet, crunchy stems when sauteed! Try sauteed with golden raisins (or chopped sweet onion) and lightly toasted pine nuts for a Mediterranean twist.
- Curly Kale: This is the kale you are most familiar with that you can use in soups or simply sauteed, or make kale chips. Also very easy to use in a kale salad. Just remove stems, cut/tear into bite size pieces, massage with a little olive oil, and then add your favorite dressing. It's that simple.
- Lacinato Kale: Also known as "Dino" or "Tuscan" kale. Very tasty alternative to the traditional curly kale. It makes great kale chips and salads.
- Lettuce, Little Gem Green & Red: Regional chefs demand it! Tasty buttery, but crisp head lettuce that holds your dressing in little nooks and crannies for maximum flavor.
- Radishes, Red & French Breakfast: Beautiful, crisp and tasty! Of course, great on a salad, but try eating them with a little salt and butter, as they do in France, Germany and Eastern Europe as an appetizer. It may sound unusual, but the flavors really compliment each other.
- Salad Mix: Convenient, delicious blend of red and green lettuce.
- Spinach: Super tasty spinach that is ready to eat raw, steamed, sauteed, or juiced. Tomorrow's spinach will have some larger leaves and is great for cooking or juicing, but certainly can be eaten raw, if chopped or torn into smaller bite sizes as you would do head lettuce.
- Hakurei Turnips: White, sweet and crunchy Japanese variety of turnips. Especially mild, sweet and tender right now with this mild spring. Wonderful raw in salads or simply sauteed or steamed, along with, of course, the tasty turnip greens. Really recommend eating the turnips raw.
We take cash, credit, debit cards.
The market has additional vegetable vendors, as well as beef, pork, chicken, eggs, beer, hard cider and baked goods.
So, we hope to see you, your friends and family members on Saturday (BAE Systems parking lot, at Rte 235 and Town Creek Drive, 9am - 1pm). We've missed you and hope that you are all doing well.
Photo of the Week:
Sweet, Crisp Hakurei Turnips!
Thank you,
David & Jennifer Paulk
Sassafras Creek Farm
Certified by Quality Certification Services (QCS)
Hello Farm Friends!
The 2019 California ("BAE") Farmers Market officially OPENS a week from today ----- Saturday, 20 April (9 am - 1 pm)!!!
We will have plenty of cool season, certified organic vegetables to welcome you back to eating fresh from our farm. Look for our Friday evening email letting you know what we'll have at market the next day.
In addition, the market has some new vendors to check out including new bakers and a brewery!
So, we hope to see you, your friends and family at the Saturday California Farmers Market this year! We've missed you and can't wait to see you and catch up. We hope that you are all doing very well.
Thank you,
David & Jennifer Paulk
Sassafras Creek Farm
Certified by Quality Certification Services (QCS)
Hello Farm Friends,
Tomorrow is the last market of this 2018 season AND we have a lot of what you need for your Thanksgiving dinners! We have frost-kissed and; therefore, sweeter, freshly-harvested Spinach, Carrots, Salad Mix, Kale, Arugula, Beets, Sweet Potatoes, Irish Potatoes and much more. Please see the complete list and Photos of the Week below. Check out sassafrascreekfarm.com/recipe for simple recipes.
It has been such a great season! We are happy to say that we have met many new customers this year who have discovered our market and stand. We are also grateful to all of our wonderful, loyal customers who have been buying our vegetables over the years. We have grown to know you and your families and will miss seeing you all each week. Thank you so much!!
You can continue to follow our farm happenings over the winter at our Web site (sassafrascreekfarm.com), Facebook page, and at Instagram. You can continue to find our produce at the The Good Earth Natural Foods Store in Leonardtown and Chesapeake's Bounty Stand in St. Leonard until the market starts again at the end of April.
What we'll have at market tomorrow:
- Salad Mix (Back!): Fresh-harvested variety of green and red salad greens. Ready for your Thanksgiving table.
- Spinach (New!): Delicious, versatile green that is great as a salad or sauteed.
- Green Peppers (New!): Beautiful, glossy green and crisp, savory peppers that are wonderful in any vegetable dish, and especially great for stuffing! They will keep for 2 weeks in your fridge!
- French Breakfast Radishes (New!): Such pretty pink and white radishes that are more mild because of the cold weather, but still have a slight kick.
- Arugula: We have your favorite spicy green! Wonderful as a bed for grilled salmon, drizzled with a sesame-ginger dressing or as a bed for roasted beets, goat cheese and walnuts!
- Beets, Red: Delicious on a bed of arugula with goat cheese and a drizzle of raspberry-walnut dressing. Either roast with skin on and then rub off skins once cool, or peel, slice and boil until fork tender. Serve warm with a little butter or cool on a salad.
- Broccolini (limited quantity): Tastes like broccoli, but more mild and delicious. Cook just like you would broccoli.
- Cabbage (green and few small red): Not too big, fresh, crisp and slightly sweet!
- Celery: Farm fresh celery is such a treat compared to store-bought. It is so much sweeter and aromatic. It will make a difference in your stuffing, roasts, and soups.
- Carrots: We have plenty of freshly-harvested, sweet carrot bunches and topped in 2-lb bags! Perfect for roasting, soups and stews!
- Jerusalem Artichokes (a.k.a, Sunchokes): And yes! We have Jerusalem Artichokes. They are really good roasted and taste like fresh artichoke hearts. If you like artichokes, you'll like sunchokes.
- Kale, Two kinds!: We have both traditional curly kale and Italian Lacinato Kale. Wonderful sauteed, in soups or eat raw in a salad or add to your smoothie for a nutritious boost!
- Leeks: Beautiful bunches of leeks. Their mild onion, but distinctive flavor is key to a number of dishes, especially in potato-leek soup or with fish. See recipes on our Web site!
- Lettuce, Little Gem (red & green): tasty smallish head lettuce. Mix a head of read and head of green for a colorful, delicious salad. They are like a crisp bibb lettuce.
- Lettuce, Romaine: freshly-harvested, crisp romaine.
- Superstar Sweet Onions: white, sweet and crisp like a vidalia or walla walla. Great raw, roasted, sauteed or used in soups (think mirepoix).
- Sweet Bell Peppers: Large and Small bells...perfect for sauteing and stuffing!
- Oranos (orange) Sweet Peppers: Sweet, orange and crisp peppers. Great raw, sauteed or grilled! They freeze really well! Think about putting some up for the winter. Ask us about it at our stand.
- Potatoes, Mt. Rose, Butterball, Blue, Carola & Desiree: Five delicious varieties with different flavors and cooking qualities. Cut in quarters, toss with a little olive oil and bake at 350 degrees F until fork tender, longer if you want them to crisp up. Sprinkle with sea salt for a tasty, easy, nutritious side dish.
- Radicchio: Yes, we have radicchio! If you've never tried it, now's your chance. Recommend roasting olive oil rubbed leaves, then just salt and eat as a side dish or cut up and toss with pasta.
- Radishes, lollipop (and french breakfast, see above): pretty colorful and tasty with a mild kick due to our cooler weather.
- Sweet Potatoes, Beauregard: Yes, we have the first traditional sweet potatoes of the season...just in time for the start of fall! You can eat these baked, roasted or mashed...and at any time of the day! PLUS, they are so good for you.
- Sweet Potatoes, Murasaki: Purple (white inside), Japanese sweet potatoes have a lovely vanilla/hazelnut flavor and even though they don't get as sweet as the orange ones, that just means they are even more versatile in using them as you would Irish potatoes.
We take cash, checks, credit, debit and SNAP and eWIC cards, and FMNP coupons. The market has additional vegetable vendors, as well as beef, pork, chicken, eggs, baked goods and booze.
So, we hope to see you, your friends and family members on Saturday (BAE parking lot, 9am - 1pm).
Photos of the Week:
Freshly-Harvested Sweet Carrots!
Sweet Potatoes!
Crisp French Breakfast Radishes!
Fresh Spinach!
Fresh Leeks!
Thank you,
David & Jennifer Paulk
Sassafras Creek Farm
Certified by Quality Certification Services (QCS)
Hello Farm Friends,
We have a wide variety of delicious vegetables for you tomorrow including celery, lots of sweet green beans, carrots, chard, kale and more! See the long list below of fresh, certified organic veggies grown just for you! It should be a bit nippy, but sunny (hallelujah!). So, swing by the market and stock up on veggies for the week! To help you plan your visit, please go to sassafrascreekfarm.com/recipe for easy, simple recipes for all of our produce. We so appreciate your support and love to see you and hear how you are doing! Only 2 more markets before the end of the California Farmers Market season (and start of the holiday season)!
What we'll have at market tomorrow:
- Celery (New!): Farm fresh celery is such a treat compared to store-bought. It is so much sweeter and aromatic. It will make a difference in your stuffing, roasts, and soups.
- Rainbow Chard (Back!): We have delicious rainbow chard! Saute like you would kale, with some sweet onion and enjoy!
- Arugula: We have your favorite spicy green! Wonderful as a bed for grilled salmon, drizzled with a sesame-ginger dressing or as a bed for roasted beets, goat cheese and walnuts!
- Broccolini: Tastes like broccoli, but more mild and delicious. Cook just like you would broccoli.
- Beets (Red & Chioggia): Delicious on a bed of arugula with goat cheese and a drizzle of raspberry-walnut dressing. Either roast with skin on and then rub off skins once cool, or peel, slice and boil until fork tender. Serve warm with a little butter or cool on a salad.
- Cabbage: Not too big, fresh, crisp and slightly sweet!
- Carrots: We have plenty of freshly-harvested, sweet carrot bunches and topped in 2-lb bags! Perfect for roasting, soups and stews!
- Green Beans: We have the most at this market than we've had yet of this special late planting of green beans; kissed by frost and so sweet and crisp tender!
- Jerusalem Artichokes (a.k.a, Sunchokes): And yes! We have Jerusalem Artichokes. They are really good roasted and taste like fresh artichoke hearts. If you like artichokes, you'll like sunchokes.
- Kale, Two kinds!: We have both traditional curly kale and Italian Lacinato Kale. Wonderful sauteed, in soups or eat raw in a salad or add to your smoothie for a nutritious boost!
- Leeks: Beautiful bunches of leeks. Their mild onion, but distinctive flavor is key to a number of dishes, especially in potato-leek soup or with fish. See recipes on our Web site!
- Lettuce, Little Gem (red & green): tasty smallish head lettuce. Mix a head of read and head of green for a colorful, delicious salad. They are like a crisp bibb lettuce.
- Lettuce, Romaine: plenty of freshly-harvested, crisp romaine.
- Superstar Sweet Onions: white, sweet and crisp like a vidalia or walla walla. Great raw, roasted, sauteed or used in soups (think mirepoix).
- Sweet Bell Peppers: Large and Small bells...perfect for sauteing and stuffing!
- Oranos (orange) Sweet Peppers: Sweet, orange and crisp peppers. Great raw, sauteed or grilled! They freeze really well! Think about putting some up for the winter. Ask us about it at our stand.
- Potatoes, Mt. Rose, Butterball, Blue, Carola & Desiree: Five delicious varieties with different flavors and cooking qualities. Cut in quarters, toss with a little olive oil and bake at 350 degrees F until fork tender, longer if you want them to crisp up. Sprinkle with sea salt for a tasty, easy, nutritious side dish.
- Radicchio: Yes, we have radicchio! If you've never tried it, now's your chance. Recommend roasting olive oil rubbed leaves, then just salt and eat as a side dish or cut up and toss with pasta.
- Radishes, lollipop: pretty colorful and tasty with a mild kick due to our cooler weather.
- Sweet Potatoes, Beauregard: Yes, we have the first traditional sweet potatoes of the season...just in time for the start of fall! You can eat these baked, roasted or mashed...and at any time of the day! PLUS, they are so good for you.
- Sweet Potatoes, Murasaki: Purple (white inside), Japanese sweet potatoes have a lovely vanilla/hazelnut flavor and even though they don't get as sweet as the orange ones, that just means they are even more versatile in using them as you would Irish potatoes.
We take cash, checks, credit, debit and SNAP and eWIC cards, and FMNP coupons. The market has additional vegetable vendors, as well as beef, pork, chicken, eggs, baked goods and booze.
So, we hope to see you, your friends and family members on Saturday (BAE parking lot, 9am - 1pm).
Photos of the Week:
Frost-sweetened Green Beans!
Freshly-Harvested Sweet Carrots!
Sweet Potatoes!
Fresh Leeks!
Super Sweet Oranos Peppers!
Thank you,
David & Jennifer Paulk
Sassafras Creek Farm
Certified by Quality Certification Services (QCS)
Hello Farm Friends,
The bounty of fall is here! We have a much wider variety of delicious vegetables, plus, they have been "frost-kissed." The frost makes them sweeter and tastier! See the long list below of fresh, certified organic veggies grown just for you!
So, swing by the market and stock up on fresh, certified organic veggies for the week! To help you plan,visit sassafrascreekfarm.com/recipe for easy, simple recipes for all of our produce. We so appreciate your support and love to see you and hear how you are doing! Only 3 more markets before the end of the California Farmers Market (and start of the holiday season)!
What we'll have at market tomorrow:
- Salad Mix is Back! :-)
- Leeks (New!): Beautiful bunches of leeks. Their mild onion, but distinctive flavor is key to a number of dishes, especially in potato-leek soup or with fish. See recipes on our Web site!
- Red Onions: Last of the season!
- Arugula: We have your favorite spicy green! Wonderful as a bed for grilled salmon, drizzled with a sesame-ginger dressing or as a bed for roasted beets, goat cheese and walnuts!
- Broccolini: Tastes like broccoli, but more mild and delicious. Cook just like you would broccoli.
- Beets (Red & Chioggia): Delicious on a bed of arugula with goat cheese and a drizzle of raspberry-walnut dressing. Either roast with skin on and then rub off skins once cool, or peel, slice and boil until fork tender. Serve warm with a little butter or cool on a salad.
- Cabbages: Not too big, fresh, crisp and slightly sweet!
- Carrots: We have plenty of freshly-harvested, sweet carrot bunches and topped in 2-lb bags! Perfect for roasting, soups and stews!
- Green Beans: Special late planting of green beans; kissed by frost and of so sweet and tender!
- Jerusalem Artichokes (a.k.a, Sunchokes): And yes! We have Jerusalem Artichokes. They are really good roasted and taste like fresh artichoke hearts. If you like artichokes, you'll like sunchokes.
- Kale, Two kinds!: We have both traditional curly kale and Italian Lacinato Kale. Wonderful sauteed, in soups or eat raw in a salad or add to your smoothie for a nutritious boost!
- Lettuce, Romaine: plenty of freshly-harvested, crisp romaine.
- Superstar Sweet Onions: white, sweet and crisp like a vidalia or walla walla.
- Sweet Bell Peppers: Large and Small bells...perfect for sauteing and stuffing!
- Oranos (orange) Sweet Peppers: Sweet, orange and crisp peppers. Great raw, sauteed or grilled! They freeze really well! Think about putting some up for the winter. Ask us about it at our stand.
- Potatoes, Mt. Rose, Butterball, Blue, Carola & Desiree: Five delicious varieties with different flavors and cooking qualities. Cut in quarters, toss with a little olive oil and bake at 350 degrees F until fork tender, longer if you want them to crisp up. Sprinkle with sea salt for a tasty, easy, nutritious side dish.
- Radicchio: Yes, we have radicchio! If you've never tried it, now's your chance. Recommend roasting olive oil rubbed leaves, then just salt and eat as a side dish or cut up and toss with pasta.
- Sweet Potatoes, Beauregard: Yes, we have the first traditional sweet potatoes of the season...just in time for the start of fall! You can eat these baked, roasted or mashed...and at any time of the day! PLUS, they are so good for you.
- Sweet Potatoes, Murasaki: Purple (white inside), Japanese sweet potatoes have a lovely vanilla/hazelnut flavor and even though they don't get as sweet as the orange ones, that just means they are even more versatile in using them as you would Irish potatoes.
- Radishes, Ostergruss: These are long and look like red carrots! Super crisp and tasty with a kick!
- Radishes, Red round (limited quantity): first harvest of a new planting.
- Fresh Turmeric (still have a little bit left): The queen of natural anti-inflammatory foods is here! Bright orange and tasty grated into salads or added to vegetable dishes. Key ingredient in curries. Add to smoothies for an anti-inflammatory bonus. Delicious grated on eggs in the morning.
- Turnips, Japanese Hakurei: These are not your parents' turnips! They are crisp, white, and slightly sweet. Even better raw, than cooked! Simply saute diced turnips with greens and sweet onions! See recipes on our website.
We take cash, checks, credit, debit and SNAP and eWIC cards, and FMNP coupons. The market has additional vegetable vendors, as well as beef, pork, chicken, eggs, baked goods and booze.
So, we hope to see you, your friends and family members on Saturday (BAE parking lot, 9am - 1pm).
Photos of the Week:
Fresh Leeks!
Frost-sweetened Green Beans!
Freshly-Harvested Sweet Carrots!
Beautiful Radicchio!
Sweet Potatoes!
Super Sweet Oranos Peppers!
Thank you,
David & Jennifer Paulk
Sassafras Creek Farm
Certified by Quality Certification Services (QCS)
Hello Farm Friends,
Fall is definitely here! We've had several frosty nights that have sweetened up our veggies, such as kale, carrots, green beans and more! The fall means a much wider variety of delicious vegetables. We have 6 new vegetables for you to try (see below)! Please don't be deterred by the weather...it may be sprinkling when you come to market (44% chance), but chance of rain decreases throughout the day.
Swing by the market and stock up on fresh, certified organic veggies for the week! To help you plan,visit sassafrascreekfarm.com/recipe for easy, simple recipes for all of our produce. We so appreciate your support and love to see you and hear how you are doing! Only 4 more markets before the end of the California Farmers Market (and start of the holiday season)!
What we'll have at market tomorrow:
- Green Beans (New!): Special late planting of green beans; kissed by frost and of so sweet and tender!
- Broccolini (New!; limited quantity): Tastes like broccoli, but more mild and delicious. Cook just like you would broccoli.
- Cabbage (New!): Fresh, crisp and slightly sweet!
- Carrots (More!): We have plenty of freshly-harvested, sweet carrot bunches and topped in 2-lb bags! Perfect for roasting, soups and stews!
- Little Gem Lettuce (New!): small red and small green heads of Little Gem lettuce. A petite, more delicate romaine!
- Radicchio (New!): Yes, we have radicchio! If you've never tried it, now's your chance. Recommend roasting olive oil rubbed leaves, then just salt and eat as a side dish or cut up and toss with pasta.
- Jerusalem Artichokes (a.k.a, Sunchokes; New!): And yes! We have Jerusalem Artichokes. They are really good roasted and taste like fresh artichoke hearts. If you like artichokes, you'll like sunchokes.
- Arugula: We have your favorite spicy green! Wonderful as a bed for grilled salmon, drizzled with a sesame-ginger dressing or as a bed for roasted beets, goat cheese and walnuts!
- Beets (Red & Chioggia): Delicious on a bed of arugula with goat cheese and a drizzle of raspberry-walnut dressing. Either roast with skin on and then rub off skins once cool, or peel, slice and boil until fork tender. Serve warm with a little butter or cool on a salad.
- Rainbow Chard: Chard is delicious simply sauteed, leaves and stocks, with sweet onions or garlic! Toss in some raisins and pine nuts for a healthy Mediterranean twist.
- Kale, Two kinds!: We have both traditional curly kale and Italian Lacinato Kale. Wonderful sauteed, in soups or eat raw in a salad or add to your smoothie for a nutritious boost!
- Lettuce, Romaine: plenty of freshly-harvested, crisp romaine.
- Superstar Sweet Onions: white, sweet and crisp like a vidalia or walla walla.
- Sweet Bell Peppers: LARGE and Small bells...perfect for sauteing and stuffing!
- Oranos (orange) Sweet Peppers: Sweet, orange and crisp peppers. Great raw, sauteed or grilled! They freeze really well! Think about putting some up for the winter. Ask us about it at our stand.
- Potatoes, Mt. Rose, Butterball, Blue, Carola & Desiree: Five delicious varieties with different flavors and cooking qualities. Cut in quarters, toss with a little olive oil and bake at 350 degrees F until fork tender, longer if you want them to crisp up. Sprinkle with sea salt for a tasty, easy, nutritious side dish.
- Sweet Potatoes, Beauregard: Yes, we have the first traditional sweet potatoes of the season...just in time for the start of fall! You can eat these baked, roasted or mashed...and at any time of the day! PLUS, they are so good for you.
- Sweet Potatoes, Murasaki: Purple (white inside), Japanese sweet potatoes have a lovely vanilla/hazelnut flavor and even though they don't get as sweet as the orange ones, that just means they are even more versatile in using them as you would Irish potatoes.
- Radishes, Ostergruss: These are long and look like red carrots! Super crisp and tasty with a kick!
- Fresh Turmeric: The queen of natural anti-inflammatory foods is here! Bright orange and tasty grated into salads or added to vegetable dishes. Key ingredient in curries. Add to smoothies for an anti-inflammatory bonus. Delicious grated on eggs in the morning.
- Turnips, Japanese Hakurei: These are not your parents' turnips! They are crisp, white, and slightly sweet. Even better raw, than cooked! Simply saute diced turnips with greens and sweet onions! See recipes on our website.
We take cash, checks, credit, debit and SNAP and eWIC cards, and FMNP coupons. The market has additional vegetable vendors, as well as beef, pork, chicken, eggs, baked goods and booze.
So, we hope to see you, your friends and family members on Saturday (BAE parking lot, 9am - 1pm).
Photos of the Week:
Frost-sweetened Green Beans!
Freshly-Harvested Sweet Carrots!
Beautiful Radicchio!
Sweet Potatoes!
Super Sweet Oranos Peppers!
Thank you,
David & Jennifer Paulk
Sassafras Creek Farm
Certified by Quality Certification Services (QCS)
Hello Farm Friends,
The nip of fall is in the air! This means it's time for the bounty of cool season veggies. Tomorrow, you'll see carrots, more greens, radishes and lettuce, and much more. Consider "putting up" sweet Oranos peppers for the winter by freezing them! They freeze really well! Just ask at our stand.
Swing by the market and stock up on fresh, certified organic veggies for the week! To help you plan,visit sassafrascreekfarm.com/recipe for easy, simple recipes for all of our produce. We so appreciate your support and love to see you and hear how you are doing! Only 5 more markets before the end of the California Farmers Market (and start of the holiday season)!
What we'll have at market tomorrow:
- Carrots (New!): We have plenty of freshly-harvested, sweet carrots in 2-lb bags! Perfect for roasting, soups and stews!
- Salad Mix (Back!): Need I say more?! [Okay, well, it's delicious, fresh, ready to eat and keeps in your fridge much longer than store-bought!]
- Arugula: We have your favorite spicy green! Wonderful as a bed for grilled salmon, drizzled with a sesame-ginger dressing or as a bed for roasted beets, goat cheese and walnuts!
- Beets (Red & Chioggia): Delicious on a bed of arugula with goat cheese and a drizzle of raspberry-walnut dressing. Either roast with skin on and then rub off skins once cool, or peel, slice and boil until fork tender. Serve warm with a little butter or cool on a salad.
- Rainbow Chard: Chard is delicious simply sauteed, leaves and stocks, with sweet onions or garlic! Toss in some raisins and pine nuts for a healthy Mediterranean twist.
- Fresh Baby Ginger: what you've all been asking for is finally here! Freshly-harvest ginger has no tough skin. It is baby pink and crisp-tender. It doesn't need to be peeled before grating. Naturally sweet and aromatic. Simply grate and add to any vegetable, fish, fruit dish. Make herbal tea! It freezes really well, so none goes to waste. Sassafras Creek Farm Recipes.
- Kale, Two kinds!: We have both traditional curly kale and Italian Lacinato Kale. Wonderful sauteed, in soups or eat raw in a salad or add to your smoothie for a nutritious boost!
- Lettuce, Romaine and Greenleaf: plenty of freshly-harvested, crisp romaine and frilly, delicious greenleaf.
- Onions, Red: Freshly-harvested sweet red onions. Delicious raw on a burger or sautéed in any dish.
- Sweet Bell Peppers: LARGE and Small bells...perfect for sauteing and stuffing!
- Oranos (orange) Sweet Peppers: Sweet, orange and crisp peppers. Great raw, sauteed or grilled! They freeze really well! Think about putting some up for the winter. Ask us about it at our stand.
- Potatoes, Mt. Rose, Butterball, Blue, Carola & Desiree: Five delicious varieties with different flavors and cooking qualities. Cut in quarters, toss with a little olive oil and bake at 350 degrees F until fork tender, longer if you want them to crisp up. Sprinkle with sea salt for a tasty, easy, nutritious side dish.
- Sweet Potatoes, Beauregard: Yes, we have the first traditional sweet potatoes of the season...just in time for the start of fall! You can eat these baked, roasted or mashed...and at any time of the day! PLUS, they are so good for you.
- Sweet Potatoes, Murasaki: Purple (white inside), Japanese sweet potatoes have a lovely vanilla/hazelnut flavor and even though they don't get as sweet as the orange ones, that just means they are even more versatile in using them as you would Irish potatoes.
- Radishes, Ostergruss: These are long and look like red carrots! Super crisp and tasty!
- Fresh Turmeric: The queen of natural anti-inflammatory foods is here! Bright orange and tasty grated into salads or added to vegetable dishes. Key ingredient in curries. Add to smoothies for an anti-inflammatory bonus. Delicious grated on eggs in the morning.
- Turnips, Japanese Hakurei: These are not your parents' turnips! They are crisp, white, and slightly sweet. Even better raw, than cooked! Simply saute diced turnips with greens and sweet onions! See recipes on our website.
We take cash, checks, credit, debit and SNAP and eWIC cards, and FMNP coupons. The market has additional vegetable vendors, as well as beef, pork, chicken, eggs, baked goods and booze.
So, we hope to see you, your friends and family members on Saturday (BAE parking lot, 9am - 1pm).
Photos of the Week:
Freshly-Harvested Carrots!
Fresh, Salad Mix!
Freshly-Harvested Baby Ginger!
Sweet Potatoes!
Super Sweet Oranos Peppers!
Thank you,
David & Jennifer Paulk
Sassafras Creek Farm
Certified by Quality Certification Services (QCS)
Hello Farm Friends,
Now it's really starting to feel like fall with these cooler temperatures that favor cool season crops. You'll see tomorrow more greens, radishes and lettuce, and much more. Consider "putting up" sweet Oranos peppers for the winter by freezing them! They freeze really well! Just ask at our stand.
What a beautiful day to swing by the market and meet friends and family to stock up on fresh, certified organic veggies for the week! To help you plan,visit sassafrascreekfarm.com/recipe for easy recipes using all of our produce. We so appreciate your support and love to see you and hear how you are doing! Only 6 more markets before the end of the California Farmers Market (and start of the holiday season)!
What we'll have at market tomorrow:
- Potatoes, Butterball (New!): delicious, waxy potatoes, which means they are great for soups, mashed potatoes or simply boiling and eating with a little butter..
- Radishes, Ostergruss (New!): These are long and look like red carrots! Super crisp and tasty!
- Sweet Potatoes, Murasaki (New!): Purple (white inside), Japanese sweet potatoes have a lovely vanilla/hazelnut flavor and even though they don't get as sweet as the orange ones, that just means they are even more versatile in using them as you would Irish potatoes.
- Arugula: We have your favorite spicy green! Wonderful as a bed for grilled salmon, drizzled with a sesame-ginger dressing or as a bed for roasted beets, goat cheese and walnuts!
- Beets (Red & Chioggia): Delicious on a bed of arugula with goat cheese and a drizzle of raspberry-walnut dressing. Either roast with skin on and then rub off skins once cool, or peel, slice and boil until fork tender. Serve warm with a little butter or cool on a salad.
- Rainbow Chard: Chard is delicious simply sauteed, leaves and stocks, with sweet onions or garlic! Toss in some raisins and pine nuts for a healthy Mediterranean twist.
- Garlic: Last of the season garlic! We'll have for only a few more markets.
- Fresh Baby Ginger: what you've all been asking for is finally here! Freshly-harvest ginger has no tough skin. It is baby pink and crisp-tender. It doesn't need to be peeled before grating. Naturally sweet and aromatic. Simply grate and add to any vegetable, fish, fruit dish. Make herbal tea! It freezes really well, so none goes to waste. Sassafras Creek Farm Recipes.
- Kale, Two kinds!: We have both traditional curly kale and Italian Lacinato Kale. Wonderful sauteed, in soups or eat raw in a salad or add to your smoothie for a nutritious boost!
- Lettuce, Romaine: plenty of freshly-harvested, crisp romaine!
- Onions, Red: Freshly-harvested sweet red onions. Delicious raw on a burger or sautéed in any dish.
- Superstar Sweet Onions: Delicious, freshly-harvested sweet onions, like Vidalia onions! Wonderful raw or cooked. These are the amazingly sweet onions you've enjoyed from our stand for years now.
- Sweet Bell Peppers: LARGE bells...perfect for the grill!
- Oranos (orange) Sweet Peppers: Sweet, orange and crisp peppers. Great raw, sauteed or grilled! They freeze really well! Think about putting some up for the winter. Ask us about it at our stand.
- Potatoes, Mt. Rose, Butterball (New!), Blue, Carola & Desiree: Five delicious varieties with different flavors and cooking qualities. Cut in quarters, toss with a little olive oil and bake at 350 degrees F until fork tender, longer if you want them to crisp up. Sprinkle with sea salt for a tasty, easy, nutritious side dish.
- Sweet Potatoes, Beauregard: Yes, we have the first sweet potatoes of the season...just in time for the start of fall! You can eat these baked, roasted or mashed...and at any time of the day! PLUS, they are so good for you.
- Radishes, Red: love these fresh, crunchy and spicy radishes!
- Tomatoes, Red Slicers (limited quantity): Last of the Season!
- Fresh Turmeric: The queen of natural anti-inflammatory foods is here! Bright orange and tasty grated into salads or added to vegetable dishes. Key ingredient in curries. Add to smoothies for an anti-inflammatory bonus. Delicious grated on eggs in the morning.
- Turnips, Japanese Hakurei: These are not your parents' turnips! They are crisp, white, and slightly sweet. Even better raw, than cooked! Simply saute diced turnips with greens and sweet onions! See recipes on our website.
We take cash, checks, credit, debit and SNAP and eWIC cards, and FMNP coupons. The market has additional vegetable vendors, as well as beef, pork, chicken, eggs, baked goods and booze.
So, we hope to see you, your friends and family members on Saturday (BAE parking lot, 9am - 1pm).
Photos of the Week:
Gorgeous, Crisp Romaine!
Fresh Lacinato Kale!
Freshly-Harvested Baby Ginger!
Sweet Potatoes!
Super Sweet Oranos Peppers!
Thank you,
David & Jennifer Paulk
Sassafras Creek Farm
Certified by Quality Certification Services (QCS)
