To Market, to market

Posted by Jennifer

What’s available now:

Broccoli, cabbage--red and green, cauliflower, potatoes, plums,

peaches, melons, apples

Still available:

Strawberries, currants, raspberries, gooseberries, cherries--sweet and

sour, greens from chards to lettuces, beets, carrots, onions, garlic,

summer squash, tomatoes…

In other words, if you want to try a hundred mile diet, this is the

moment to do it. My Monday night dinner consisted of Scotch Mountain

Meats blade steak marinated into tenderness, red and blue crushed

potatoes with a drizzle of non-local olive oil, purple beans, and

gooseberry fool for dessert.

Farmers markets are usually not the place to save money. All those

mounds of fresh fruits and vegetables are just too seductive , the

allure of duck eggs, the siren call of dry-cured bacon conspire

against me. However, Bosco Farms with a stand at Liberty Village,

Sick Kids, Borden-Bloor and others, offers a choice of five

vegetables, typically in quart baskets, for $10.00. They usually will

throw in a few extras, too. For my $10.00 at Sick Kids on Tuesday, I

came home with a bunch of red onions, three eggplants, two types of

cauliflower, and a cabbage. It is a great way to stock up on produce

staples.

The Bosco Farms Haul