Market News

Hello!
Somebody forgot to list the Zephyr Yellow Squash on the Market on Sunday. They are up there now. There are plenty of great options still available.

The Market will remain open until Tuesday evening for you to place an order for this week.

Here is some information on how Fresh Harvest works.
*Orders can be placed without receiving the Sunday email. I try to open the Market between 7 and 8pm on Sunday. Sometimes I run a little late. Just go to the website: http://freshharvest.locallygrown.net/welcome to see if the Market is open.
*If you see an item as Sold Out, write in the Comment section at check out that you would like that item if more becomes available. We’ll try our best to add it to your order.
*PayPal payments have to be manually added to your account. There will be a delay to crediting your account due to me needing to take time to do the bookkeeping. I also have to go to each account with cash or check payments. These are sometimes delayed by procrastination or being busy. You can still place an order even though it may cause your account to be “overdrawn”. There is no penalty for going into the minus column. Sometimes I’m a little slow in getting to the bank to make deposits, but it eventually happens.
• If you recruit a new customer to Fresh Harvest and they open an account with a $50 deposit, we will credit your account $10 for each new customer who signs up. They will need to tell me your name, so that I can credit your account. Word of mouth has been our best advertising. Any help that you can provide is greatly appreciated.
• Every week, we leave orders at the church for customers who cannot arrive at Trinity before 6pm. This has worked well for those who have difficulty with the 4-6pm window. Please let me know if you need me to leave your order at the church.
• The bag that you receive each week is to be brought back with your next order. We have been negligent in telling new customers how this works. Don’t feel bad if you return multiple bags, it happens all the time.
• We’re into reusing and recycling. Our clean egg cartons, honey jars, paper and plastic bags, berry containers are some of the items that we can reuse. If we can’t reuse the returned items, we’ll recycle them.
• We do guarantee everything that we sell. If you ever have a problem, please let us know and we will credit your account.
• If there are other products or growers that you think should be a part of Fresh Harvest, please let me know.

Thanks for your support, and I will see you on Wednesday!

If you need to text me, my number is 615-838-0428.

John

Recipes

Mashed Potato Acorn Squash
Mashed Potato Acorn is so named b/c you can cook and then cream the inside flesh and it resembles “mashed potatoes”. Great for those on low carb diets. You can of course also bake these and eat anyway you want to cook a traditional acorn squash, it has ghost white skin and off white flesh.

Market News

Hello!
We have lots of watermelons this week, fruitarians rejoice!. The Hershbergers have an heirloom variety called Rattlesnake which apparently gets to be a very large watermelon. We tried a $7 melon (Large) and it was very sweet with very few seeds. Abraham weighs his watermelons to determine the price for each one. This week he has 7 different sizes. Since I list all of Abe’s items on the Market page, it challenges me to come up with different names for the various sizes of melons. It starts out pretty easy with small, medium, etc., but with 3 sizes bigger than Jumbo, I had to search for synonyms. I settled on Colossal, Mammoth and Gargantuan. It was a tough call on what to call the biggest melon, but I went with Gargantuan. My melons on the other hand are small to very small Sugar Baby, smaller than a soccer ball. If you ever get an under or over ripe melon, please let me know and I’ll credit you.

Rocky Glade Farm (Jim & Julie Vaughn) is back this week with lots of peppers as well as broccoli, cabbage, kale and other delights. Rocky Glade has an interesting new item called Mashed Potato Acorn Squash (See their description in Recipes). The Vaughn’s sons Dylem and Caleb have listed eggs from their chickens.

Pig and Leaf Farm has some beautiful bouquets this week featuring dahlias. Last week, they had some lovely eucalyptus in the bouquets which brought back memories of my flower growing days. I don’t think that I could ever get the darn eucalyptus seeds to germinate. They also have lettuce mix in 5 ounce bags.

The Hershbergers have 80 lbs. of heirloom tomatoes this week. Think about when winter comes and there are no local tomatoes until summer.

I am setting up in a different location at Trinity. There’s a big tree diagonally across from where I’ve been setting up, near Sharondale. It’s flat and has more shade.

Lots of fine items from Wedge Oak and Bear Creek Farms.

Dozen Bakery cookies and breads, eggs, granola, honey, and coffee are all in abundance.

You have until Tuesday night to place your order.
Thanks for your support, and I will see you on Wednesday!

If you need to text me, my number is 615-838-0428.

John

Recipes

Mashed Potato Acorn Squash
Mashed Potato Acorn is so named b/c you can cook and then cream the inside flesh and it resembles “mashed potatoes”. Great for those on low carb diets. You can of course also bake these and eat anyway you want to cook a traditional acorn squash, it has ghost white skin and off white flesh.