Boulder Farmer’s Market 5/2
Fresh asparagus from the Boulder Farmer's Market
On Saturday, Steph, Jake and I braved the dreary, overcast and slightly rainy weather to head to our first Boulder Farmer’s Market of the season. We’ve had some trouble growing our seeds this year (more in other posts) so we were hoping to get some small plants to immediately transplant into our garden plot. We didn’t find anything that we were looking for that wasn’t super expensive, such as Kale plants $2 for small seedlings vs. $0.88 full grown and organic at the store, doesn’t seem like it’s worth the money for all that effort. We did however find 5-6 week old tomato plants and couldn’t help ourselves. Last year we lost most of our container plants to disease so we’re going overboard this year to ensure we have enough fresh tomatoes. We bought a Black Krill and a Sweet Tangerine.
The Black Krill should be a large odd looking purple/black tomato that’s tasty and the Sweet Tangerine is a large yellow tomato that was the favorite of the lady selling them. We still have 16 tomato seedlings we’re growing from seeds which we’ll post about sometime soon, but none of our tomatoes are purple or yellow types so we’re excited. We also ran into our friends Brent and Andrea at the stand, but unfortunately it was our last stop and we were freezing so we couldn’t stay long. Sorry guys, but it was still great to see you!
The thing that got us up in the morning, really the ultimate hope for the Spring farmer’s market, is fresh asparagus. We bought a 1lb bunch (for a whopping $9, ouch) and scurried home to cook it up. If you’ve never had fresh asparagus it’s well worth the treat. The stuff you get in the store is tough and doesn’t have as nice of a flavor as fresh organic asparagus. Our favorite way to prepare asparagus is to roast it in the oven. We’ll share the recipe in a post later this week. In the meantime it’s the season for fresh asparagus so go find some!
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May 5th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Great to be seen. It was too short, but we also got hooked into the tomato stand. We love the farmer who runs it and see him every year. We wound up with six plants – the black krim (think there was something subliminal after talking to you about it), brandywine, brandy boy (a non-heirloom, but we couldn't resist the hardier brandywine), sweet tangerine, sun golds and a shady lady. 55 days til the first fruits!
May 5th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Sounds like you got some good ones, you will have to let us know how all of your varieties turn out.
May 5th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Hey Brent, that sounds like a pretty good selection, man it's making me hungry already. Did you already plant your Tomatoes outside? Ours are still sitting on the kitchen table, but we're hoping to get some walls of water and get them in the ground this week.
May 5th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Yes, we planted. The water walls are up so we feel reasonably comfortable planting this early. We planted on the 10th of May last year and it worked out. What's a few days?
May 6th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Wow- the asparagus looks delicious! Do you know how many more weeks it will be at the Farmer's Market? I really want to get some!
May 6th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
The Farmer's Market usually has it til the end of May. I think if you go to their website they have a list of which vegetables and fruits are in season when.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
yummmm – I love asparagus – please do post the recipe!
July 13th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Louisville, CO Farmer’s Market | Becoming Green says:[...] two pounds of apricots all for $45, which seemed like a steal to us. It was much cheaper than the $9 asapargus we bought early in the [...]
February 6th, 2010 at 3:32 am
YUM!!! Just made these and took my first bite. Nice! Had my two kiddos help me make them. YUM YUM YUM! I have a cooking recipe site as well and I