Last Week's Trip to the Solvang Farmer's Market

Tomatoes are appearing at the Solvang Farmer's Market. Strawberries are abundant. It's exciting to have more than turnips and potatoes to choose from during these warm early summer days. We purchased most of the week's groceries from Finley Farms, per usual. We bought strawberries prompting our daughter to dream of baking a strawberry rhubarb crisp. I wasn't sure if anyone would have rhubarb and made no promises. Our luck, Marcie (of Marcie's Pies) had a few bunches of rhubarb for sale. We bought all three.

List of Today's Purchases:

To save room in the crispers,
slice fennel tops off before storing.

From Finley Farms

• 5 heads of lettuce
• 8 fennel
• 2 leeks
• Tons of carrots
• 9 white turnips
• 3 onions
• Pickling cucumbers (thumb-sized cucumbers, great to eat as snack, no need to pickle)
• Slicing cucumbers (the usual)
• 9 beets
• radishes

From Garden of... Yes and YesYes Nursery:

• Blue potatoes
• Golden potatoes
• Zucchini

Simply slice in half, douse in olive oil, sprinkle with
salt and pepper and grill!

From a Goleta farmer:
The joyous gentleman who runs this stand, is fun to talk football with. He's a USC Trojan fan so our daughter, a Stanford fan, loves to razz him. He has young people help him out and we like supporting that, too.

• 2 stalks celery
• One carton of Brussel sprouts

Not sure what to do with some of these vegetables? Check out our Recipes. Or, simply ask by commenting on this blog!

 From Creekside Apple Ranch, Home of Solvang Pie Company:

• 2  loaves of rustic wheat bread 
• 1 loaf of olive bread
• The pasta was sold out by the time we arrived :(

Next up: Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp with a little help from author/homesteader Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter Camille!