The ever-changing Farmer's Market

It's amazing what a few weeks can do for summer produce. A few weeks back, the most we could get from the local veggies were lettuce, spinach and a few scallions. Everything else was shipped here from somewhere else (although those were some tasty damn apricots.)

A week later we have rhubarb, chard, and the very beginning of peas and strawberries (the berries were $5 a pint, so we didn't buy any....that's why they're not pictured here.)

Now it's almost too hot for spinach, and the lettuce looks all wilty and sad. The asparagus is also finished (these were shipped from Washington), but we've got onions, beets, zuccini, radishes, herbs, more peas, kohlrabi (not shown), berries and tiny baby potatoes.

Every week we go on either Saturday or Sunday morning to buy the weeks' produce. We base our menus on what we can find, and supplement the veggies with a co-op run. After breakfast, one of us washes everything we've purchased in Veggie-Wash and dries them on the table before they move to the frig. It's amazing how much gunk is on the produce...and this is just after the lettuce....

We need to be better about washing the produce that comes from the grocery store...that has even more wax, dirt, fingergerms and god knows what else on it after living in trucks and boxes for weeks.