Clark Park Market report, 1/5
Saturday, January 05, 2008
On this first Saturday of 2008, I made it to the Clark Park farmers’ market for the first time in close to a month. I was impressed by the continuing availability of apples, cabbage, and kale, among other things, but I was trying to limit my purchases. I bought carrots, onions, and spicy beef sticks from Landisdale Farm, lentils from Margerum’s, apples (Gold Rush and Northern Gold) from Keystone Farm, and spinach from a farm whose name I didn’t see and forgot to ask (oops!).
I also stopped to consider the very nice looking chicken and chicken products (eggs, sausage [turkey or chicken with pork casing], and quarts of soup) from Mountain View Poultry Farm. If I’m feeling brave enough in two weeks, when they’ll be back—they alternate between Clark Park and a market in Phoenixville—I think I’ll buy a whole chicken. (I’m comfortable cooking pieces of chicken, or tofu or seitan, but I’ve yet to do more than watch the cooking of an entire bird.)
