Think elderberry extract. Very good for your immune system.

Good to see that your cages worked. Lot of effort to stymie the little varmints. 😃

It's a beautiful, cool morning here at the Farmers Market. Stop in at your local Farmers Market for some fresh, healthy, nutritious, and locally grown food. Support growers in your area.

The Hopi Blue corn is coming along nicely, and the pollinators are really working over the sunflowers. 🌱🍜 #farmtotable #farmfreshfood #growyourown #healthyfood #lifeonthefarm

Last of the sweet corn for the summer. We couldn't even eat all that I had picked so we'll process what left and add it to what's already in the freezer. 🍜🌱 #farmtotable #farmfreshfood #healthyfood #growyourown

Bodacious was a really good variety in its day, but sweet corn breeding has advanced immensely since then. We grow only varieties from the Illinois Foundation Seed Reserve program. Anything from that program is vastly superior to what was once great varieties. They are expensive, but worth it.🌱🍜

The support from the community was overwhelming. So many first time (now) customers showed up as a result of the dust up, that came home with many empty coolers, and many ,what will now be regular customers. It was overwhelming and restored my faith in mankind. Thanks to all! 🍜🌱 #farmtotable

For those of you who read my last post, just wanted to update you. After all the drama of last week's social media event, this was our first market, since the rebranding. To our pleasant surprise, we had a record day for the summer. We were too busy from the start to even make a post.

Someone who doesn't know the particulars and can't come back to cause me problems. But how low can you be to cause innocent people such peril to their livelihoods? SMH. Sorry for the rant and thanks for bearing with me.

So we'll see what next Saturday brings, when we open with a new name. I know people deal with grief differently and I have to give this woman some measure of grace for her situation, but damn, this is the second time she has spanked us in the kidneys. I guess I just needed to vent to

Pleasantly helpful. Our response has been all hands on deck, vendors volunteering to do everything and any, volunteers coming out of the woodwork to help, it has been a whirlwind for those involved. But I have to say that we have handled this remarkable quickly and effectively.

I spent Sunday morning,along with staff, and other vendors trying to tamp down bad PR. By Sunday afternoon we had a new name and socials up and running. Community support was rather heartening. Met as a group Monday evening and had new not for profit structure in works. City media has been

Shortly, former vendors, customers, assorted food influencers around the city, and a few rather pointed, outspoken wives of vendors started a tidal wave of shit directly back at her followed by the social going dark again. As head of the vendor board,

Left the page up long enough to get tongues wagging and shut down socials. Only the restart them Sunday morning at 6AM and go on a narcissistic rant of how wonderful she was and how she did everything and how the market was going to die without her.

And we have operated there finishing our 2nd summer and 1 winter. She reneged on the transfer and tried to extort $5K for rights to websites and socials. Last week she gave them ultimatum of cash or shutdown by end of September. Then she posted on socials that we were ceasing to exist.

After continued pressure from vendors for info, she went to our new summer site to tell them that they weren't going to have a market, that she was just abandoning us to die without even the decency of putting us in an abandoned baby box. That guy convinced her to let him have us.

Haven't posted for a while. The former owner of our farmers market lost her husband in a car crash a couple of years ago and basically checked out. About a year and a half ago, she went radio silent before the quickly approaching summer market season.

I really avoid ANYTHING political. But I have to say that .I agree with you on this. It is wrong, regardless which side does it.

You realize that those solar panels have to go into a hazardous waste site when they're done. And the rain running off them is contaminating the soil underneath. Ask yourself this: Do I really want to eat lamb that has been grazing on toxic ground? 🌱🍜

We normally grow Health Kick paste tomatoes, but our starts failed and we could find any bedding plants locally so we grew San Marzano on the recommendation of our fellow vendors at the Farmers Market. We'll see how they process and taste.🍜🌱

Those are beautiful!

Now, the paste tomatoes are starting to ripen. We'll need between 50 and 60 quarts of spaghetti sauce, 70 to 80 pints of salsa, about 20 pints of pizza sauce, and a bunch of whole tomatoes and tomato sauce. It never seems to end this time of year, but it's all worth it the rest of the year. 🌱🍜

Anytime 😀

Yeah, I'm with you. Although I do like them breaded. That's better than any candy.🍜🌱😍

Even though they look similar, they process very differently. There are very few facilities in North America that can run spelt (and even fewer who can do it well) and emmer and einkorn are even more difficult than spelt. 🌱🍜

I've done it for a couple of customers in the US who had their own production contracted, but it is not a large item for anyone that I deal with. And apparently not that many people who have the equipment are very good at removing the hull on einkorn or emmer.

We had a local grower raise some about 10 years ago, but it just did not do well enough to be economically viable. Like spelt and emmer, it has a hull that must be mechanically removed to access the actual grain kernel. We specialize in spelt and have that equipment. 🍜🌱

Finishing up sweet corn processing for the season. 236 ears today. Pack them into 1 quart bags, ave 1 lb, 10 oz per bag. With what we've already done, today's batch makes a total of 61 bags now in the freezer. Green beans are done along with broccoli. Tomatoes yet to come.🌱🍜 #growyourown

Spaghetti Squash for supper tonight. First one of the season. Won't be the last!🍜🌱 #growyourown #farmtotable #healthyfood #farmtofork

Many years ago, we used to clean corn for Kirin and Saporro, in Japan.. And about once a month, we would get a case of beer from Kirin and Sapporo, not the domestic stuff, but the realstuff from Japan. My guys wouldn't drink it, which just left more for me. Turns out that they did that for others to