Get out your best canvas sacks, review your tactics for identifying “the best” bunch of Japanese Turnip Rapini and clear your palate for some tasting. Tomorrow, Wed, 5/20 from 3 – 7 pm in the Wallingford Center parking lot, it’s the 2009 inaugural Wallingford Farmer’s Market
Local farmers will be selling their produce, cheeses, meats and (we hope) honeys.
Admittedly, it’s not as wondrous as the Sunday Farmer’s Market in Ballard, but it’s right here, in Wallingford, and it’s local produce, so you should go buy it and eat it.
What, you don’t know what to get? Well, nominally there is an offical “What’s Fresh Now” page on their blog, but closer inspection reveals claims that the following items are “fresh”: blueberries (frozen), dried fruit, and dried beans. It can leave the hungry locavore hungry.
We do have some assistance to offer. If you’ve got an iPhone, go grab Locavore from the App Store ($3.99). It’s a handy little app that will tell you exactly what’s in season right now in your area.
Plus, it provides links to Epicurious recipes that use those ingredients, all from your iPhone. Best of all, the app itself is local! The author is Buster McLeod, of Robot Co-op and the late, sorta great McLeod Residence.
Or go across the street to QFC and get yourself a package of Lunchables. See if we care.
Love the links, and am so sorry to be going out of town this week and thus having to miss the market opening day. But please remember that the frozen blueberries were probably grown by Siddhu farms in Puyallup (maybe better bought in the fall, but great to add to smoothies or hot cereals), and the dried beans are probably from Stony Plains Farm in Tenino, and the dried fruit is also from another Washington farm (Rama or Pippitone). It’s all local — but it’s just been winter, and we don’t really grow anything here then. Locavores, take comfort — or move to California or Mexico!