8/3 Fearrington Farmers' Market Newsletter

Perry-winkle Farms' potato season continues, we have now dug our tenth and final variety. The German Butterballs look great, this is a long-time favorite of ours so be sure to pick up some of those this week. As a refresher, we have one variety with red skin and pink flesh, six varieties with golden flesh, and three with white centers (there are only a few Chieftains left). We will have coolers full of arugula and basil. In the flower department, we will have bunches of celosias, bunches of lisianthus, and some sunflowers too. There will be a bucket of colorful zinnias, more gladiolus, and a rack full of mixed bouquets in two different sizes. You can also look forward to a good supply of eggs from Michael's pastured hens. We want to repeat that we need your used egg cartons. Please bring your gently used 12 packs (ours or grocery store ones).
Thank you! With gratitude,
Mike Perry and Cathy Jones
Growing for our neighbors since 1991 (✓=)

Twelve Oaks Farm will be at the market this Tuesday with dill pickles, pickled banana peppers, pickled watermelon rind. (=)

Eco Farm will have big beef and pink girl tomatoes, sun gold tomatoes, delicious banana peppers perfect for stuffing with chèvre cheese that you can find at the market, beautiful purple onions, regular garlic as well as the milder elephant garlic, green bell peppers, jalapeños, yellow, yellow and green (zephyr), patty pan and zucchini summer squash, delicata, butternut, and spaghetti squash, okra, sunflower bouquets, cantaloupe, and blueberries! Eco Farms stand has been moved from its original location and is now happily relocated across the field between the Cheese Louise stand and the Perry winkle farm stand! (✓)

Four Oaks Farm will have shelled black-eyed peas cherry tomatoes red potatoes buttercup squash delicata squash sunflowers and flower arrangements. See y'all Tuesday.

Beechcrest Farm is a magical, mystical place at the raw edge of life. I was driving a noisy tractor in a pasture this week and a bunch of cattle emerged from the woods where they laze in the shade to stand right in front of me with a sense of entitlement. “Come on people! This tractor’s bigger than y’all!” They got a nice life, but I know something they don’t. And then I buried in the manure pile an old hen who had died when she opened an eye in terror. On top of the manure pile thrives a dense jungle of high grasses. We are mindful participants in this cycle of death and life.
This week at the market we have a sale on two-pound packages of ground beef, $10 instead of $14. Our meat is frozen so you can stock up on it if you want. If you have questions meanwhile or want to make a special order, you can contact me at berkadens@gmail.com

Turtle Rock Gardens will be at the market this week with beautiful long-lasting bouquets! They will feature sunflowers and lisianthus. We will also have some easy-to-dry gomphrena bunches, and maybe even some dahlia bunches. We’ll have garlic braids as well. We’re so excited to be in our new spot in the circle this week! Find us between Grand Hope and Screech Owl Greenhouse. (=)

T5-Farm is in full-on pepper season! Sweet, hot, and in-between. Along with slicing and cherry tomatoes! Butternut and acorn squash, cucumbers, green, red, yellow, and purple sweet peppers, poblanos, jalapeños, and shishitos. Squash and zucchini, eggplant (large and Fairy Tale). Plenty of eggs! Lots of beef! (Steaks, roasts, ground beef, short ribs, brisket, shank, bones) It’s a great time to grill out! Pork! (Bacon, chops, roasts, spare ribs, maple breakfast links, mild breakfast links, hot or mild extra sage breakfast, breakfast patties, chorizo, andouille, sweet or hot Italian, kielbasa, ground pork). Whole chickens and cuts. Please text special orders to Randy Thompson at 336-264-0981 (=)

In Good Heart Farms', Ben will be back at the market this week with all sorts of summertime goodness! Here's what he'll have this week at the market: lettuce, sweet potato greens, celery, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, huckleberry gold potatoes, Kennebec potatoes, purple majesty potatoes, German butterball potatoes, purple and sweet yellow onions, shallots, garlic, basil, summer savory, mint, tarragon, sage, thyme, oregano, and possibly blueberries and apples. (✓= P)

Barking Bedlie is in its full swing of Catnip season. We'll have more packages of nip for our kitty customers. (=)

Chatham Extension Master Gardeners volunteers (EMGVs) will be at the market on the first and third Tuesday of each month. Talk to an EMG to get gardening advice, find out about the EMG Program and other Extension offerings, and pick up soil testing supplies. Extension Master Gardeners are local gardeners who volunteer their time and expertise to support Chatham County’s N.C. Cooperative Extension. EMGVs receive intensive training on a wide range of gardening topics and are prepared to answer your gardening questions with research-based, unbiased information from the land-grant university system. Types of gardening questions EMGVs can assist with include:

- What is wrong with my plants and what can I do about it?
- What or when should I plant?
- What is this weed or plant?
- What is that in my soil?
- What is this insect that I found on my plant?
- When should I prune?

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