September 22: Vashon Farmers Market Fresh Sheet
What’s Fresh at Your Vashon Farmers Market tomorrow!
by Rebecca Wittman, Market Manager
Take a look at the bounty, beauty and general awesomeness of locally grown produce and island created artwork.
The weather is with us, so come on down to the Vashon Farmers Market this Saturday!
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September 21, 2012
Here’s food for thought from Rebecca, our market Manager.
Last week’s Food For Thought elicited many “yeah, I can feel it, too” comments about the turning of the season. But Rob Peterson, of Plum Forest Farm (pictured below), sent me a wonderful note pointing out the irony behind that transition – which is that, while our bodies register the change, a walk down the aisle at the Market Pavilion tells a different story. Fall might be knocking on the calendar’s door, but the output from the farms says it’s still very much summer. With hot houses, which most farms have in addition to their open acreage, Rob points out that farmers are still reaching the peak of summer production.
In Rob’s poetic words, “the farms and gardens are cranking out more sugar than ever before, in many 
delicious forms. The season may be turning towards fall, but the farm output is still in crescendo mode.” Peppers, those heat-insistent darlings, are here in ripe, glorious abundance. Vine-ripened tomatoes abound, looking like a red-orange-yellow color wheel gone wild. Sweet corn is just now coming on strong. Nothing about the market says summer is over – and the weather this weekend is only too happy to play along, with another late weekend of warmth promised on the heels of the longest stretch of (truly) rainless days in decades.
The rain will return soon enough, but for now we are only too happy to soak up the positive energy of all that warm weather, and the miraculous bounty that has come from it. Kudos to all our talented farmers, eliciting delicious crescendos from a symphony of crops grown in all kinds of venues. Their careful orchestrations make it possible for us to eat locally grown – and ripened – foods throughout a longer stretch of the year, which keeps us from turning our eye toward foods grown thousands of miles away ( and produced in less than ideal ways.)
I join Rob in hoping our market customers continue getting the message that the bounty is “rolling in” this time of year. Here’s that message in cyber form – come find it for yourself in Mother’s Nature’s colorful, three dimensional brilliance tomorrow at the market!
Here’s what on offer this week at YOUR ever-bountiful Vashon Farmers Market:
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