Market Pictures

Here are some pictures from the farmers market today.

Valley City Farmers Market

We are the second table from the left

 

 

 

One of our tables at the market

First Farmers Market of the Year Pics

Here are some pictures from Saturday's farmers market at Valley City.

 Our bagged lettuce and greens salad mixes.

This week our mixes included our Just Lettuce Mix, Spicy Salad Mix, Lettuce and Greens Mix, 

and our Ark of Taste Mix.  We also had spinach, mixed kale, mixed mustard greens and a couple of other

individual bagged lettuce varieties.

 Mixed varieties mustard greens bunches and mixed varieties kale bunches.

 

Picture of our table at the market.

We should have available at the next market:

Radishes

Turnips

Red, White, and Yellow Scallion Bunches

Garlic Scapes

Mixed Mustard Green Bunches

Mixed Kale Bunches

Swiss Chard Bunches

Yellow and Green Snow Peas

Beet Bunches

Bagged Salad Mixes:

~Just Lettuce Mix~

~Spicy Salad Mix~

~Lettuce and Greens Mix~

~Ark of Taste Mix~

Bagged Spinach

Bagged Mustard Greens

Bagged Kale

Peanut Butter Dog Treats

White Sandwich Bread

What We Should Have Available This Year

I just thought I would make a list of what we should have available this year and about when you can expect them to show up on our table at the market.

What We Should Have Available For the First Market
Saturday June 9th at Valley City Farmers Market
~Mixed Kale Bunches
~Bagged Salad Mixes (including Just Lettuce Mix, Spicy Salad Mix, Lettuce and Greens Salad Mix, A Little Bit of Everything Mix, and maybe some others)
~Mustard Green Bunches
~Red, Yellow, and White Scallions
~Radishes
~Bagged Mustard Greens
and some other vegetables and also breads.

Coming Soon!

~Red and White Kohlrabi 

~Beets (Many different varieties, including common red, orange, dark red, oblong, and some with rings inside)

~Yellow and common green Peas

~Turnips

~Rats Tail Radish – a radish that does not have an edible root instead the seed pod is eaten

~Cauliflower, Broccoli, and Cabbage (different varieties and colors)

~Swiss Chard, Collards, and Kale Bunches

~Yellow, Red and White Onions

~Basil Bunches (around a dozen different varieties of basils, just some include: lemon basil, cinnamon basil, purple basil, blue spice basil- which is my personal favorite, anise basil and of course your common sweet basil)

Coming in Early to Mid July

~Sweet Peppers (green, yellow, purple, chocolate, orange, and red bell peppers, banana peppers, mini bell peppers, paprika peppers and many more)

~Hot Peppers (many different varieties, we are growing some new very hot peppers this year, including the hottest pepper in the world)

~Summer Squash and Zucchini (many, many varieties, including your common zucchini and yellow squash, yellow, white and green patty pan squash, yellow, dark green, and light green round zucchinis, and many more)

~Garlic

~Potatoes (many different varieties and colors including: Blue Potatoes- yes they are actually blue inside, La Ratte Potatoes- fingerling potatoes, Irish Cobbler Potatoes- a white potato, Bintje Potatoes- a yellow potato, Sangre Potatoes- a red skinned white flesh potato, Russet Potatoes, Yukon Gold Potatoes, and Mountain Rose Potatoes- a red inside and out potato)  *Some varieties may be available later than other varieties, since they all have different maturity times.

~Okra (many different varieties including: your common green okra, smooth non ribbed okra, a long light green okra, red, and a green and red okra, plus a couple other varieties also)

Coming in Late July Early August

~Beans (Many different colors including:  common green, yellow, purple, and striped)

~Eggplant (Many different varieties and colors, long skinny, round, small varieties, white, purple, green, striped, and many more)

~Heirloom Tomatoes (So many varieties I could not possibly name them all, there are about a dozen different cherry tomatoes varieties, including yellow, pink, green, brown, purple, orange, and striped tomatoes, plus red purple, black and yellow pear tomatoes, we also will have slicing tomatoes of many different colors, paste and roma tomatoes, and a couple different varieties of stuffing tomatoes)

~Common and White Sweet Potatoes

Coming this Fall

~Pumpkins and Winter Squash (So many different varieties I could not possibly name them all, I guess you will just have to wait and check them all out in the fall;)

~Popcorn Corn

~Leeks

~Gourds

Some New Things For This Year

~Shallots

~Rutabaga

~Dry Beans

~Celery (common green, red, cutting- smaller and thinner than common celery, and rooted celery or celeriac)

~Cucumbers (a couple of new different varieties including a lemon cucumber)

*All availability times are approximate some things may be available earlier and some later.  Every year is different, depends on the weather, growing conditions, and when things get planted.

Farm Pictures

 A row of potatoes, just starting to come up nice (there are 3 rows total).

 

Some very pretty Mountain Rose Potato plants. 

 

 Six and a half rows of heirloom tomatoes, all different colors of cherries, slicers, and paste tomatoes.

Valley City Farmers Market Beginning Soon!

Just wanted to let everyone know that the first Valley City Farmers Market of the year is going to be on Saturday June 9th, starting at 9a.m. to 12p.m.  It will be located at it's normal location at Liverpool Township Depot, 6615 Center Road in Valley City, Ohio.

I can not believe that market time is almost here, time just flies.  Anyhow for the first market I should have available a variety of my salad mixes, mustard green bunches, kale bunches, radishes, scallions, and maybe some beets, turnips, kohlrabi, peas and possibly some other things.  Of course I plan to have some kinds of bread available, not sure exactly what yet.  I also hope to make some dog treats, and maybe some other new surprises.  I will be sure to post here what exactly we will have available before the market starts.

Pictures - Cold Crops Planted

Here are a couple pictures of some of what I have planted so far.

To the far left (in the above picture) I have a bunch of stuff that I started by seed, including peas, turnips, beets, radishes, and carrots, there is also a row of onions.  The row that is almost in the middle of the picture are cabbage, broccoli and some cauliflower plants.  Under the row cover I have mustard greens and kale.  I covered them with the row cover to protect the plants from bugs and deer.  Then to the far right you can see some of my garlic.

What I planted from seed was kind of slow coming up for a while, since I planted it just before we had some cold weather.  Luckily it was cold but not wet if the ground would have been wet the seeds probably would have rotted, but they are coming up good now, so hopefully I should be alright.

I have all my lettuces planted elsewhere at home, once everything gets bigger and picture worthy I will post a picture of my lettuce area.

Grey Treefrog

So I did a little searching online and I believe the frog below that I posted a picture of is a grey treefrog.  I guess these guys are the largest treefrogs in Ohio.  They are also able to change colors to many different shades of  grey, brown, green and black.

Here is a good site with a bunch of info on these guys:
Cleveland Museum of Natural History Site - Grey Treefrogs