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| Carlos plays a medley from Wizard of Oz |
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| Headhouse Farmer's Market, Old City, Philadelphia |
It was a perfect weekend to visit several local farmers’ markets. One purpose of this blog is to encourage cooking. Cooking your meals is the keystone to good health. Everything is in your control not somebody from a chain restaurant watching the bottom line from a corporate desk with a view from high a top a large city. Good meals need a good cook and a good cook needs good ingredients. And good ingredients deserve respect. A farmers’ market is the only place to go and buy good local straight from the farmer (or the farmer's daughter working the stand) ingredients. Yes, it cost a bit more but cheap food is a plague on society (more on that later). Buy quality, and eat quality so to BE quality. It is YOUR Health, so why be penny wise and dollar foolish. Pay the Farmer now or pay the Hospital later.
Headhouse Farmers' Market is in Old City, Philadelphia a block from South street on 2nd and Lombard. Local sustainable farming is the rule here for agriculture, dairy and meat. A win-win-win. Merchants such as Hillacres Pride sell cheese, raw milk and grass fed beef; Savoie Organics has heirloom produce, and greens; and Philly Fair Trade Roasters- damn good Nicaraguan medium roast just to name one they offer. This was my first visit and I'll be back every Sunday.
Moorestown farmer's Market. located on an old farm (how perfect) on Centerton Rd, Moorestown, NJ is my "go to" every Saturday farmers' market. Smaller in size then some but loaded with top notch merchants like Artemis Farm for the very best eggs and grass fed pork, veal and beef produced a proper farmer who respects the connection of Farm and Kitchen. Hunter's Farm for vegetables and produce, Spinella Farm for dandelion, mixed greens, fresh asparagus, and the best green beans on the planet- they better save me some. And I'm leaving out a few that I will make mention in future posts.
You will also has find live music, cooking Demonstration by some of the best chefs in the area, hand crafted soap, flowers and craft merchants and cooked food round out the market. Moorestown is power packed.
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| Hillacres Pride Raw Milk |
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| Garlic Scape, use like scallions, taste like garlic. Makes a nice pesto with almonds. |
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Tatsoi - use like Spinach- Blooming Glen Farm. Headhouse, F-M
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Many exotic greens like Tatsoi are now being grown locally thanks to the effects of sustainable farmers working outside the supermarket system |
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| Memorial weekend shoppers @ Headhouse F-M |
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| Sea of purple tipped Asparagus at the Moorestown Farmers' Market |
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| Hunter Farms @ Moorestown F-M |
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(l) Red Radish and (r) French Breakfast Radish
The French like to dip the radish in butter for breakfast- can't argue with that ! |
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| Baby carrots |
All photographs taken by Michael Plunkett and are not to be re-posted copyrighted 2011- MP
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