~~Good Morning!  Hope you had a great Thanksgiving and are ready to get back to less fattening foods 🙂 What about Greens (kale, collards, mustards, and more); easy to chop and add to casseroles and stirfries of leftover meals…leftovers are always the best!  We can help you get back on the ‘wagon’ with our luscious Lacinato Kale (maybe a few bags of our other baby kales too), heirloom collards and a few mustard greens (we need to replant more mustards).  We’ll also have a few more bags of young spinach, more good-sized, perfect cucumbers, Sungold Cherry tomatoes (I love ’em in my breakfast wraps) and a few of our now famous, larger, heirloom tomatoes (only a few ready though). To spice everything up, we’ll have our green onions, cilantro, arugula and whatever herbs we can find out there.  Fresh tumeric root is excellent to lightly grate on your food, and oh so healthy! Those darn lettuces are sooooo slow this year; a couple of cloudy days and they stop growing, so I think one more week for the first small harvest of lettuces. We still have a few sweet, pink pomellos–AND–a couple pints of our organic strawberries (well, everything is organic, but I feel that I need to reiterate that sometimes, with all of the resellers at the market)! Something is already after our small row of strawberries and it isn’t raccoons or opossums, it’s a darn armadillo!  It’s digging up some of my herbs in the front bed too; living in a burrow next to the house. Problem is we haven’t had a dog down here full time since we lost the last one to the highway, and you can’t trap armadillos the same way as the other critters….Armadillo: Possum on the Half-shell yuk.

~~We wolfed down a yummy fish dip and mango salsa (both available at vendors near us) while waiting to eat the big meal yesterday. If we snack it’s not going to be junk food, so we’ll have more of Karen’s satisfying Super Nutra-loaf, Seasonal Pestos, and Herbal/Moringa Teas…always good to have on hand during the holiday season. Don’t forget, if you have a SNAP card you will get up to $40 to match in tokens until December 31st (after that I guess it will be back to $20 matching tokens–which is still great). I love seeing customers spend their tokens at the market on healthy stuff instead of grocery store junk food. Most of our items are eligible for the Green tokens that may be harder to spend with other vendors–but we’ll take cash, cards (square) and sometimes trade for our stuff.  See you at the Market (come early for very limited items)!

~~For our complete availability list (except for last minute items) check the bottom of this email.